- 1. Testing Tape Drive (score: 1)
- Author: Josiah Ritchie <jritchie AT bible DOT edu>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 09:34:23 -0500
- I'd like to run an new tape drive through its paces to make sure it is working full before I start trying to learn AMANDA on it. What are some commands that i can use to write, read and generally get
- /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2003-12/msg00031.html (11,236 bytes)
- 2. Re: Testing Tape Drive (score: 1)
- Author: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 10:08:33 -0500
- Unless that is a changer you pretty much have it. Write some write a tar archive to the tape and be sure you can recover it. Then write multiple archives to the tape using the "no rewind" version of
- /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2003-12/msg00033.html (12,109 bytes)
- 3. Re: Testing Tape Drive (score: 1)
- Author: Josiah Ritchie <jritchie AT bible DOT edu>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 12:35:06 -0500
- Jon LaBadie scripted :: It isn't a changer so I can skip the mtx curve. :-) I'll probably need to get into that later though cause I'll eventually need one. I can't play around on this server too muc
- /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2003-12/msg00036.html (11,765 bytes)
- 4. Re: Testing Tape Drive (score: 1)
- Author: Frank Smith <fsmith AT hoovers DOT com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 12:41:23 -0600
- Also make sure you can then mt -f /dev/st0 rewind tar -xf /dev/st0 (first make sure you are using GNU tar and are in a temp directory so you don't clobber your /etc) As Jon pointed out, you need to m
- /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2003-12/msg00039.html (13,325 bytes)
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