On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 at 2:24pm, Brad Groshok wrote > > > [2:22pm chip]# dd if=/dev/rmt/0bn of=image1 bs=32k skip=1 > > dd: cannot skip past end-of-file > > > > I'm doing everything possible to not tell myself there is nothing on this > > tape. I admit I didn't run verify, but amanda reports from when it was > > working reported everything normal, took several hours to backup stuff (as > > expected) > > Are you sure the tape drive is actually working? Are there any error > messages in the system logs? Can you read another tape with it? If you > do 'mt rewind; mt eod', does it take as long as you think it should? > > Something very odd is going on here.
I just bought a 5 pack of tapes to prove that very thing I've not run it through an amanda backup yet, but did a simple ufsdump, ufsrestore with a couple small files, seemed to do it fine. The mt rewind only takes a few seconds, (aka I suspect its at the start already. Even after a couple of the dd commands, the mt rewind only takes (3-5 seocnds) I never thought of trying mt eod. Will try that when I'm beside the drive. Brad
