On 2007-08-01 14:08, Michael D Schleif wrote:

Please, ANY ideas ???


amanda is version 2.5.1p1-2.1 , running on debian:

# uname -a
Linux erda 2.6.18-4-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 11:36:53 CEST 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Trying to setup a VXA-2 manual load tape drive with amanda.

Same tape that I used earlier today with amtapetype, and successfully
got a tapetype definition.

Now, I want to label this same tape, and perform the first backup.

    # sudo -u backup amlabel -f DailySet1 backup.001
    rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape (Invalid argument)
    rewinding, writing label backup.001, checking label
    amlabel: not an amanda tape (Invalid argument)


What do you think?

Seems that, when reading something from the tape
some syscall used returns "Invalid argument".

Pure guesses:

- Is your tapedevice in the amanda.conf set to a real device?

- Did you modify the config paramater "--with-maxtapeblocksize=..." from
something other than the default value 32, which results in some
weird or invalid bufferlength for such a device?  (Also when using
fixed blocks in the tapedevice, Amanda's buffer should be at least as
large as those fixed blocks; I prefer variable blocks for tapes.)


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