On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:28:27PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote:
> >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?
I've worked it out: whilst juggling settings I'd accidentally removed
Amanda from the 'disk' group that has access to /dev/hde*, so of
course it wasn't very happy.
Thanks,
tom
