Yep, I am set on variable block size. I noticed that amverify doesn't complain when the backups took up one tape but if it took up more than that it'd complain about file offsets.
The tape device is a vxa2 drive with block size set to variable. robin On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hello! > > > Anyone use amverify? > > I guess everyone in their right mind does so :-) > > > When I use it amrestore complains that its not at the head of the tape so > > filemarks maybe offset. > > Excuse the really weird-seeming question, but what tape device are you > using and what is the tape block size set to? I'm running Amanda on FreeBSD 4.7 > using IBM DDS-4 drive and I had the same error as long as the tape blocksize > was set to 1k. When I set it to variable, amverify started to work correctly. > -- > Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ > * MCSE - Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert > -- 8:38am up 3 days, 21:29, 3 users, load average: 2.13, 1.54, 0.99
