Re: amrestore problems after replacing tape drive

2003-01-17 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi again. Quick summary of the thread: Replaced the tape drive in backup server. After that, got problems with amrestore: The backup ran for the first time tonight. The output that amdump sent me after the backup looked entirely normal, and also I could restore some files from the tape with

Re: amrestore problems after replacing tape drive

2003-01-17 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, AFAIK you'll have to rewind the tape explicitly between amdump and amverify, as neither amdump nor amverify do that for you. Christoph Toomas Aas schrieb: Hi again. Quick summary of the thread: Replaced the tape drive in backup server. After that, got problems with amrestore: The

Re: amrestore problems after replacing tape drive

2003-01-17 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! Christoph Scheeder wrote: AFAIK you'll have to rewind the tape explicitly between amdump and amverify, as neither amdump nor amverify do that for you. Christoph I tried running mt rewind and then amverify from command line. Still the same errors... -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: amrestore problems after replacing tape drive

2003-01-17 Thread Chris Karakas
Toomas Aas wrote: Hi again. amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset amrestore: 0: reached end of information ** No header 0+0 in 0+0 out Whenever (very seldomly)I get the not at start of tape error, I ran the vtblc program that lists the contents of the

Re: amrestore problems after replacing tape drive

2003-01-16 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! Yesterday, I wrote about my problems after replacing the tape drive: The backup ran for the first time tonight. The output that amdump sent me after the backup looked entirely normal, and also I could restore some files from the tape with amrecover. However, amverify is not happy (see

amrestore problems after replacing tape drive

2003-01-15 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! Please CC: any possible replies to me. I sent subscribe request a couple of hours ago, but nothing seems to have happened yet. I'm running Amanda 2.4.3b4 on FreeBSD 4.7. And yes, I understand that 'b' means beta. Yesterday I replaced the tape drive in the backup server. The old drive