* Toomas Aas <toomas.aas AT raad.tartu DOT ee> (Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:15:52AM
+0200)
> Hello!
>
> My Amanda server is running 2.4.3b4. Three days ago I upgraded the
> operating system from FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p6 to 4.7-RELEASE-p9. This is
> really just some security patches to sendmail, libc and openssl. Since
> the upgrade Amanda thinks that all the backup tapes that were written
> before the upgrade are "not Amanda tapes".
>
> After I re-label the tape, Amanda agrees to write the backup to it and
> also I can successfully amrestore it later. But it seems that, should
> the need arise to restore from a pre-upgrade tape, I would be in
> trouble because those tapes are 'not Amanda tapes'. I suppose I could
> still read the dump images with dd, though?
>
> Over the last couple of years I've done many OS upgrades on this Amanda
> server and this is the first time I see such problem. Has anyone else
> seen it?
IIRC amanda checks the tapelabel by basically doing
dd if=/dev/tape bs=32k count=1
If you do this manually, what comes back ?
It sounds like some default setting for your tapedevice has changed.
Kind regards,
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