Re: amtapetype bug - 2.4.4p4 - new tape
2004-11-15 01:25:46
Hi Andreas,
This problem should be fixed in latest snapshot.
Jean-Louis
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:06:01PM +0100, Andreas Sundstrom wrote:
> I might have stumbled on a bug in amtapetype. I believe it's the new
> functionality to check for a amanda label that has introduced it.
>
> This explains it quite well I think:
>
> amanda@zappa:/tmp$ amtapetype -c -e 35g -f /dev/nst1
> amtapetype: /dev/nst1: reading label: Input/output error
> amanda@zappa:/tmp$ amlabel ait ait02
> rewinding, reading label, reading label: Input/output error
> rewinding, writing label ait02, checking label, done.
> amanda@zappa:/tmp$ amrmtape ait ait02
> amrmtape: remove label ait02.
> amrmtape: preserving original database in curinfo.orig.26294 (exported).
> amanda@zappa:/tmp$ amtapetype -c -e 35g -f /dev/nst1
> amtapetype: The tape is an amanda tape, use -o to overwrite the tape
> amanda@zappa:/tmp$ amtapetype -c -e 35g -f /dev/nst1 -o
> Writing 128 Mbyte compresseable data: 42 sec
> Writing 128 Mbyte uncompresseable data: 42 sec
> Estimated time to write 2 * 35840 Mbyte: 23520 sec = 6 h 32 min
> amanda@zappa:/tmp$
>
> I think that this was a new tape, never written to earlier.
>
> Just wanted to file a report so it might be fixed.
>
> /Andreas Sundström
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