On Thursday 25 July 2002 17:44, Keith Nasman wrote: >On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Thursday 25 July 2002 15:40, Keith Nasman wrote: >> >[root@presto DailySet1]# su amanda -c "amlabel DailySet1 >> > DailySet113" rewinding, reading label, reading label: Cannot >> > allocate memory rewinding, writing label DailySet113, checking >> > label, done. >> > >> >I assume that the tape got labeled correctly. Can anyone >> > enlighten me on the memory error? >> >> Hummm, not brand new tapes? Maybe a tape that was used with >> another backup util, probably proprietary? > >These are not brand new tapes. Leftovers from ArcServe for NT. > >> What it sounds like is that when amanda tried to read the >> initial header from the tape, its encountering a totally >> humungous value the tapes block size and can't allocate that >> much memory. >> >> My best guess... >> >> Anyway, dd can retrieve the tape label with this pair of >> commands: #>mt -f /dev/tape_device rewind >> #>dd if = /dev/tape_device count = 1 >> which should disgorge the first block of 512 bytes to the >> screen, showing you the label as written. > >Hmmm, this is what I get. > >[root@presto amanda]# mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind >[root@presto amanda]# dd if=/dev/nst0 count=1 >dd: reading `/dev/nst0': Cannot allocate memory >0+0 records in >0+0 records out > Odd indeed, this is what you should have gotten provided the tape was rewound.
[root@coyote root]# dd if=/dev/st0 bs=512 count=1 AMANDA: TAPESTART DATE 20020725 TAPE DailySet1-11 1+0 records in 1+0 records out >yet, I get this output from amcheck > >[root@presto amanda]# su amanda -c "amcheck DailySet1" >Amanda Tape Server Host Check >----------------------------- >Holding disk /var/tmp: 127389 KB disk space available, that's > plenty NOTE: skipping tape-writable test >Tape DailySet114 label ok > > > >so it looks like the tape label is fine. That it does indeed, so I'm scratching my aging head as it doesn't make 100% sense. Any other guesses I'd make ATM would be a very poor version of a (S)WAG. > ><shrug> >Keith -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.08% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
