FW: tape labels

2002-07-22 Thread jane mattley
I am new to Amanda and have just installed and configured as per installation docs I am trying to label my first tape using the following command: amlabel –f DailySet1 DailySet11 But I get the following message: rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape rewinding, writing label DailySet11,

Re: FW: tape labels

2002-07-22 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 at 6:27pm, jane mattley wrote rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape rewinding, writing label DailySet11, checking label amlabel: no label found, are you sire /dev/st0 is non-rewinding My tape device is rewinding but how I specify this in my amanda.conf file? You

Re: FW: tape labels

2002-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 July 2002 13:27, jane mattley wrote: I am new to Amanda and have just installed and configured as per installation docs I am trying to label my first tape using the following command: amlabel –f DailySet1 DailySet11 But I get the following message: rewinding, reading label, not

Re: FW: tape labels

2002-07-22 Thread Mark Cooke
On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 18:27, jane mattley wrote: I am new to Amanda and have just installed and configured as per installation docs I am trying to label my first tape using the following command: amlabel –f DailySet1 DailySet11 looking at this you are already labeling tape number 11 ( I

Re: FW: tape labels

2002-07-22 Thread Scott Sanders
You need to specify the tape device that your O/S considers non-rewinding, such as /dev/st0n - the n usually refers to no rewind. jane mattley wrote: I am new to Amanda and have just installed and configured as per installation docs I am trying to label my first tape using the following

Re: FW: tape labels

2002-07-22 Thread Frank Smith
Amanda needs to use the non-rewinding tape device, in your case probably /dev/nst0. Look for 'tapedev' in your amanda.conf file. Frank --On Monday, July 22, 2002 18:27:43 +0100 jane mattley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to Amanda and have just installed and configured as per installation