Re: missing backup data

2003-07-04 Thread Paul Bijnens
James Williamson wrote: We've got Amanda set up to backup to a Onstream tape driver (SC-30), Are you aware there are two generations of Onstream tape drives? The first generation had firmware problems, which made it unusable. The company went down since, and you cannot get a firware upgrade. The

Re: missing backup data

2003-07-04 Thread James Williamson
Thanks for your help, James Williamson wrote: We've got Amanda set up to backup to a Onstream tape driver (SC-30), Are you aware there are two generations of Onstream tape drives? Yes, I've got the second generation. when we run amdump it reports that it's successully backed up the

Re: missing backup data

2003-07-04 Thread Paul Bijnens
James Williamson wrote: I've been doing some more experimenting / research and it looks like it's a blocksize issue. If I check the status of the drive it reports that the blocksize is 512 bytes. That is a fixed blocksize (as opposed to variable blocksize). 'man amanda' (2.4.3) says the default

missing backup data

2003-07-03 Thread James Williamson
Hi All, We've got Amanda set up to backup to a Onstream tape driver (SC-30), when we run amdump it reports that it's successully backed up the contents of the disklist. However, when it comes to try and restore something on the disklist using amrecover it reports this error: EOF, check