Brendon Standing wrote:
I am a cpio man, and am used to getting a backup to do what I want it to
(IE flexible, without to many complications).
Well, I'm a cpio man too :-) That's why I switched to amanda, i.e.
flexible, without too many complications.
You do realize that a tape label is just a sequence of bytes (32K by
default) that identifies this tape to amanda. You'll be thankful the
next time you forget your tape in the drive that contained all the
data for your nobelprize project.
However when trying to backup (# amdump CLG), I am receiving the error:
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [tape_rdlabel: tape open: /dev/nsa1: Device
not configured].
This seems to be a hardware problem/configuration.
Are sure the tapedevice is /dev/nsa1 ?
Aaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!
What gives: mt -t /dev/nsa1 status ?
Did you try with a scratch tape (not a tape labelled for amanda?)
find /tmp -depth -print | cpio -ocv /dev/nsa1
(using the familiar cpio way to test things out.)
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