Amanda-Users

Re: Rewinding tapeless "tapes": why? error?

2003-07-10 17:00:57
Subject: Re: Rewinding tapeless "tapes": why? error?
From: bao <bao AT gibbons DOT com>
To: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:47:26 -0700


Paul Bijnens wrote:


bao wrote:


Recovery works, but rewinding the "tapes" gives unpleasant error messages as follows: DailySet4/data/00001.server._home.1 rewind failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device


rewind with what command? There is a "ammt" that does the right
thing for file driver pseudo tapes.

That is what I used Paul
ammt -f <tape-file> rewind.