On Friday 08 August 2003 09:01, Nate Cosgrove wrote: >When I try to use amlabel to set up tapes for my backup set, I get > the following: Command: >sudo -u amanda amlabel -f DailySet1 DailySet100 >Output: >rewinding, reading label, reading label: Input/output error >rewinding, writing label DailySet100, checking label >amlabel: no label found, are you sure /dev/st0 is non-rewinding? > >I am using amanda version 2.4.2 on a redhat 8 box with kernel > version 2.4.18-14. > >The tape device is on /dev/st0
First /dev/st0 IS a rewinding device. This does _not_ work with anything amanda related. Use /dev/nst0 instead which will leave the tape sitting at the end of the written data when the access path is closed. This is a requirement to be able to use amanda. Rewinding of the tape must be under amandas control. >The physical hardware is a Seagate STD224000N (Scorpion 24) DDS-3 > single-tape drive. > http://www.seagate.com/support/tape/specs/dds/std22400.html > >I have already determined that the problem is not with user > permissions for the user amanda. I have already tried backing up > files using tar as the user amanda with success. > >Although the purpose may be complete overkill, I am simply trying to > back up one local directory at this stage. > >I am not sure if I defined the tapetype for the seagate drive > correctly. > >I attached the amand.conf and disklist files (gzipped). Unforch, without saveing them and unpacking them by hand, I cannot look at the gzipped file with kmail. Thats probably a mis-config of the Ark utility here, but plain text would be prefered for such attachments. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
