On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 06:47:15AM -0700, abrantes wrote: > > I'm trying to configure Amanda in my system (actualy with ARCServe 9), but > I'm having some dificulties with amtapetype. My system is: > > Hardware: Dell PowerEdge 1600SC > OS: SuSE Linux Enterprise 8 (32 bits) > Tape Device: Dell Power Vault 110T DLT VS 80 > Amanda: 2.5.2-20070525 > > When I use tapetype, I'm getting the follow error message: > > $ amtapetype -o -e 40g -f /dev/nst0 -t "DELL_POWERVAULT_110T_DLT_VS_80" > Estimate phase 1...amtapetype: could not write any data in this pass: > Invalid argument
First thing to ask is can you do anything with your tape drive outside of amanda? Can you check status with mt, write to it with dd and/or tar, rewind it with mt, recover what you wrote? > > Amchek is OK: > > $ amcheck diario ... > not an amanda tape (Read 0 bytes) > (expecting a new tape) Even a failing tapedrive might give this info (read 0 bytes). -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
