On 2007-08-01 14:08, Michael D Schleif wrote:
Please, ANY ideas ???amanda is version 2.5.1p1-2.1 , running on debian: # uname -a Linux erda 2.6.18-4-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 11:36:53 CEST 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux Trying to setup a VXA-2 manual load tape drive with amanda. Same tape that I used earlier today with amtapetype, and successfully got a tapetype definition. Now, I want to label this same tape, and perform the first backup. # sudo -u backup amlabel -f DailySet1 backup.001 rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape (Invalid argument) rewinding, writing label backup.001, checking label amlabel: not an amanda tape (Invalid argument) What do you think?
Seems that, when reading something from the tape some syscall used returns "Invalid argument". Pure guesses: - Is your tapedevice in the amanda.conf set to a real device? - Did you modify the config paramater "--with-maxtapeblocksize=..." from something other than the default value 32, which results in some weird or invalid bufferlength for such a device? (Also when using fixed blocks in the tapedevice, Amanda's buffer should be at least as large as those fixed blocks; I prefer variable blocks for tapes.) -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology Services Tel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************************************************** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, ^^, * * F6, quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * init 0, kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***********************************************************************
