On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 at 5:22pm, harald wrote
> i am trying to get my Seagate STT28000A, IDE Streamer to work with amanda.
> In the config file i entered "dev/ht0" for raw device and "dev/nht0" for no
> rewinding device.
> Is my streamer not supported by the Mandrake Kernel 2.4.7?
> Do i have to set up something special in Bios?
> I compiled my own kernel with IDE Tape support as module and i also tried to
> compile it as a kerneldriver.
Can you dump to the device by hand? That will test whether or not it's
working.
> FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
>
> /-- localhost /home lev 0 FAILED [/sbin/dump returned 1]
> sendbackup: start [localhost:/home level 0]
> sendbackup: info BACKUP=/sbin/dump
> sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/sbin/restore -f... -
> sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
> sendbackup: info end
> ? You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory
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Ah ha. You're trying to backup something that isn't a partition. You
can't do that with dump. Configure amanda to use tar instead.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
