On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 at 3:27pm, Brian Sebby wrote > We recently upgraded our Amanda server to a new machine, and migrated from > Amanda 2.4.0 to 2.4.4p2. However, while our old server used to rewind the > tape after the dumps were finished, our backup administrator has discovered > that the new machine does not. > > We're using the same tape drives, and essentially the same configuration > file that we used on the old machine (we just increased the amount of > holding space we have). The OS on the backup server has changed, from > Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 9. The tape devices are still the same though > (/dev/rmt/0n is specified in the amanda.conf file - but I know you're > supposed to list the no-rewind device there.)
You *must* list the no-rewind device, but I'm pretty sure that that one (/dev/rmt/0n) *is* the non-rewinding device. > I've looked through the FAQ-O-MATIC, the Amanda chapter from Curtis Prescott's > book, and Google searches, and I haven't found anything that addresses this. > > Is there an option that I'm missing, or some change between 2.4.0 and 2.4.4p2 > that would have caused this? Would upgrading to 2.4.4p3 help? (I missed > that the newer version was out when it was downloaded.) If nothing else, I > suppose I could just tell it to do an 'mt -f /dev/rmt/0 rewind' when Amanda > finishes, but that seems like a bit of a kludge. AFAIK, amanda has never rewinded the tape when done. But then, I haven't used anything older than 2.4.1. Your "kludge" is exactly what I do, along with backing up the amanda databases onto other systems, in my nightly backup script. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
