So I know I have to disable the hardware compression but the mt command doesn't fix the issue as it states it's a read-only filesystem and it dosen't make any difference when I run chmod og+w and mt -f /dev/st0 datcompression 0
There are actually two different implementions of mt. One is named "mt-GNU", the other is named "mt-st". You probably need the "mt-st" (for SCSI-devices). Many systems have symlinked mt to mt-st. Make sure you're using the good version. The output "mt --version" should clearly state "mt-st v. 0.7" (or a higher number maybe). (The mt-GNU says: "GNU mt version 2.4.2.91" on one of my systems/)
The "mt-st" does not know the "datcompression" command, but is issued as: "mt -f /dev/st0 compression 0". (At least on my systems.)
I have tried the mailing archives and gooogling but to no avail.
When I run amlabel I also get the folowing> myserver:/usr/sbin # su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amlabel DailySet1 Usage: /usr/sbin/amlabel [-f] <conf> <label> [slot <slot-number>]
The argument after -c should be quoted. And you need to TWO arguments: conf and the label
su amanda -c "/usr/sbin/amlabel DailySet1 YourLabel042"
If not quoted the rest of the args are just passed to the loginshell (to be used like: "su someone -c somecmd ENV=VAR") and not used as args of the "somecmd".
I have checkecd /usr/sbin/amcheck which has permissions that root and
disk own the utility
# -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk 189134 Jul 1 2004 amcheck When I run amcheck command here's my output.
myserever:/usr/sbin # /usr/sbin/amcheck DailySet1 amcheck: running as user "root" instead of "amanda"
Do what the message says: you should run as user amanda, not as user root.
# su - amanda $ whoami amanda $ /usr/sbin/amcheck DailySet1
myserver:/usr/sbin # su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amdump DailySet1 could not open conf file "/etc/amanda/amanda.conf": No such file or directory amgetconf: errors processing config file "/etc/amanda/amanda.conf"
Forgetting the quotes, resulting in an empty config, which amdump
interprets as an empty string to locate the directory containing amanda.conf.
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