>I have not formatted the tape or ever succesfully mounted the tape drive to
>/backup (which is where I want it).
Ummm, I'm guessing you've probably also not used tapes with Unix much,
either :-).
Tapes do not need to be formatted like disks, i.e. there is nothing like
mkfs/newfs involved. Also, they are not mounted like disks. You always
just access them via their /dev entry.
>I have set the following parameters in amanda.conf
> tapedev "/dev/st0"
As you noted, this must be what's called a "no-rewind" device name.
What that means is when the program does a close, the tape stays put.
The alternative, "rewind", will rewind the drive whenever the program
does a close (which is one of the more useless things ever invented).
The usual OS convention for "no-rewind" is to have an 'n' in the name,
so I suggest you look around for something like "/dev/nst0" (or the 'n'
may be someplace else in the name).
Once you have that, you need to make sure the drive is working at all.
Load a tape in it and do:
mt -f /dev/whatever rewind
Once you get to the point that this succeeds, you can start trying to
get Amanda working, i.e. try the amlabel again.
> localhost sdb1 nocomp-root
Please don't use "localhost". That will bite you eventually. Always use
fully qualified host names.
>And since I am sure someone has the answer to this one and as soon as I get
>past it I will run into something else. what is a good resource to help walk
>me through the setup process?
Have you read "the chapter":
htpp://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html
>Michael Blood
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
