Hi, Brian,

on Freitag, 01. April 2005 you wrote to amanda-users:

> Anyway - it seems to work and I am able to use amrestore to pull
> a DLE back from tape to disk. For the first time/finally.

I am very happy to hear that, Brian!

>> Did you try a variable block size tape device, ie tps7d4nrnsv

BC> No, I hadn't but as soon as I transmitted the message I realized
BC> that it wasn't an xfsdump problem either.

BC> The DLE I was trying to read used a dump type of TAR rather than DUMP,
BC> once I tried to read the tar file with tar it worked perfectly.

Good.

BC> The second test was to read a second partition, one that was written
BC> with DUMP, with dump as the reading utility, that also worked.

Even better.

BC> Now I just need to put the setblksz in the system boot as we should
BC> be all set. That and repopulate the disklist which I trimmed during
BC> the previous weeks of testing.

Sounds like "minor cleanup-tasks" to me right now.

Do you agree with me when I sum up your whole odyssey as
"hardware-issues" or "scsi-related"?

best regards,
Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at