Re: I'm missing somethings obvious in amdump

[John R. Jackson]

>I've set up amanda successfully, with a tape in the drive (labelled
>with amlabel). amcheck was passed.  ...

Did it say it was happy with the tape?

>When I tried to run amdump straight ...
>*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [no tape online].

That says Amanda does not think the tape is in the drive and ready.
Are you sure it was still there?

What happens if you do an "mt -f /dev/whatever rewind" right before
the amdump?

>tom

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]