Richard,
Does the test cell's tape drive have the same device name
as your production cell's tape drive? That's the only gotcha
I can think of.
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On Fri, 19 Jul 1996 10:19:24 -0400 Richard J Bouchard wrote:
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> Hi
>
> I have a question about a Exabyte-10e tape stacker unit
>
> I have one installed in a cell on a machine that is running
> AFS3.3B with AFS3.4 Beta running the Buserver, and BUTC and BACKUP
> commands. I have an automated environment which uses these stacker
> for AFS backup (This was setup between TRANSARC and Peter Chan).
> I have built a test cell, to which I FTP'd all the binary, configuration
> and AFS libraries from the existing working cell. When I try to run
> backup in this environment I receive the errors
> Can't open tape
> butm: can't open tape: Device not ready
> but the dump continues and seems to work fine. I have upgraded the
> buserver, BUTC and BACKUP on the test cell to AFS 3.4 5 and I still
> receive the same error. The stacker has the exact same settings as on
> the
> production cell. The production box is a 7011-250 and the test cell is
> a 7009-C10. Can anyone give me some ideas on what I've not set-up
> correctly that would get these errors?? One other thing I seem to notice
> is that if you run it interactively I don't get the error but if I run
> it
> in the background I do. I had turned on tracing in the program and the
> error is coming out from the butc executable.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated
>
> Rick Bouchard
> IBM AIX support
> 1-802-769-4204
>
> --
> Richard J Bouchard
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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