On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 07:46:00PM +0200, Alexander Jolk wrote:
> >
> >Typically 'tape' references st0 and 'ntape' references nst0.
> >
> 
> ...and anyway, if you really used the non-rewinding device, the sequence 
> of commands that you posted should have worked.  If you want to get to 
> the bottom of things, try to verify whether indeed /dev/tape rewinds, or 
> not.
> 
> I'd suggest something like
> dd if=/dev/tape bs=32k count=1 | head -2
> (which should give you an amanda tape file header)
> dd if=/dev/tape bs=32k count=1 | file -z -
> (which should tell you that you have a gzip compressed tar archive)
> If this is not the case, you might really use the rewinding device; in 
> that case, try to find out why that's the case.  You really don't want 
> amanda to use the rewinding one.
> 

Gee, file -z, another interesting gnu-specific option of which I did not know.

> Alex
> 
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