Harry Mbang wrote:

Do I need to specify the DT-2400 like that, and in addition to the
PT-25.  I ask because the DT-2400 is a tape cartridge and I thought only
the drive's specifications were needed.  Do I understand that you do not
have a separate tapelist?  Thanks for the response.

euh no. I had never heard of a PT-25 nor a DT-2400, so I was assuming
you had two tape drives.

But reading your first mail again, the "tapelist" is not the same
as the "tapetype".
The "tapelist" file is where amanda keeps the labels (and use dates) of
the tapes you labeled.
I vaguely remember there was a little bug in amanda, that if the
tapelist file contains an empty line ("ls -l" shows size 1 instead of 0)
then it triggered some error.
Make sure the tapelist file is size 0 (or non-existant) when you label
your very first tape.  And of course the user amanda should be able to
write into the file and the directory containing that file
(~amanda/TheConfig/tapelist  probably).

Harry.

-----Original Message-----

From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 11:44 AM

To: Harry Mbang
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: Need A sample Tapelist file

Harry Mbang wrote:

   Could someone please send me an example of a tapelist file or

point

me to where I can find such.  I have installed Amanda several times on

a

Pentium 4 (HP VL 420) running Suse 8.1 Professional, but each time the

tapelist (what I understand to be one of the three main configuration files along with amanda.conf and disklist) is not created. I am using

a

There only two main configuration files (those two).

For the syntax see "man amanda", sectino "TAPETYPE".
In short: add the directives to amanda.conf:

    define tapetype PT-25 {
        length 1206 mbytes
        filemark    0 kbytes
        speed   179 kps
    }

    define tapetype DT-2400 {
        ...
    }

You could also use the "includefile" directive of amanda.conf
and make a separate tapelist file with the above contents.
Then add the line:
    includefile "/the/path/to/your/tapelistfile"
instead in the amanda.conf file.

PowerTape (PT-25) with the following specs:

{

 length 1206 mbytes

 filemark    0 kbytes

 speed   179 kps

}

and a DT-2400 Cartridge.

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