I checked on the previous postings and looks like a
Linux Kernel thing; When i installed amanda i was
using 2.4.7 and then i upgraded to 2.4.18;
Recompiling didn't help either so i decided to upgrade
to the latest beta version (amanda-2.4.3b3) and looks
like that solved the amlabel problem:
[amanda@linux0107 amanda-2.4.3b3]$ amlabel
NEWBREAK_TAPE NEWBREAK_TAPE01
rewinding, reading label NEWBREAK_TAPE01
rewinding, writing label NEWBREAK_TAPE01, checking
label, done.
[amanda@linux0107 amanda-2.4.3b3]$ eject /dev/st0
Hope this info helps others with the same problem.
--- Jos� Vicente N��ez Zuleta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm running amanda on a Redhat 7.2 server using the
> hard disk as backup repository; Recently we bougth a
> Benchmark DLT1 tape unit and Linux was able to
> detect
> it with no problems (also i created a sepparate
> configuration for the new tape unit). I run the
> tapetype program and got the following setup for the
> tape unit:
>
> define tapetype DLT1 {
> comment "BENCHMARK DLT1 tape unit"
> length 34618 mbytes
> filemark 21 kbytes
> speed 1395 kbytes
> }
>
> (i added this definition to my amanda.conf file; But
> when i try to label the tape i got the following
> error:
>
> [amanda@linux0107 amanda]$ amlabel NEWBREAK_TAPE
> NEWBREAK_TAPE01
> rewinding, reading label, reading label: Value too
> large for defined data type
> rewinding, writing label NEWBREAK_TAPE01, checking
> label
> amlabel: reading label: Value too large for defined
> data type
>
> Here is my amanda build version:
>
> [amanda@linux0107 amanda]$ amadmin NEWBREAK_TAPE
> version
> build: VERSION="Amanda-2.4.3b1"
> BUILT_DATE="Sun Dec 9 10:05:03 EST 2001"
> BUILT_MACH="Linux linux0107 2.4.7-10smp #1
> SMP
> Thu Sep 6 17:09:31 EDT 2001 i686 unknown"
> CC="gcc"
> paths: bindir="/home/amanda/bin"
> sbindir="/home/amanda/sbin"
> libexecdir="/home/amanda/libexec"
> mandir="/home/amanda/man"
> AMANDA_TMPDIR="/tmp/amanda"
> AMANDA_DBGDIR="/tmp/amanda"
> CONFIG_DIR="/home/amanda/etc/amanda"
> DEV_PREFIX="/dev/"
> RDEV_PREFIX="/dev/" DUMP="/sbin/dump"
> RESTORE="/sbin/restore"
> SAMBA_CLIENT="/usr/bin/smbclient"
> GNUTAR="/bin/tar"
> COMPRESS_PATH="/usr/bin/gzip"
> UNCOMPRESS_PATH="/usr/bin/gzip"
> MAILER="/usr/bin/Mail"
>
>
listed_incr_dir="/home/amanda/var/amanda/gnutar-lists"
> defs: DEFAULT_SERVER="linux0107"
> DEFAULT_CONFIG="NEWBREAK"
> DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="linux0107"
> DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE="/dev/null" HAVE_MMAP
> HAVE_SYSVSHM
> LOCKING=POSIX_FCNTL SETPGRP_VOID DEBUG_CODE
> AMANDA_DEBUG_DAYS=4 BSD_SECURITY
> USE_AMANDAHOSTS
> CLIENT_LOGIN="amanda" FORCE_USERID HAVE_GZIP
> COMPRESS_SUFFIX=".gz"
> COMPRESS_FAST_OPT="--fast"
> COMPRESS_BEST_OPT="--best"
> UNCOMPRESS_OPT="-dc"
>
> [amanda@linux0107 amanda]$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
> Vendor: QUANTUM Model: DLT7000 Rev: 391B
> Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI
> revision: 02
>
> I'm using the /dev/nst0 device (no rewind) on my
> amanda.conf configuration.
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> PD: the amanda server is working just fine with the
> disk configuration.
>
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> Newbreak System Administrator
> (http://www.newbreak.com)
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