Hi, Axel Haenssen,

on Dienstag, 25. November 2003 at 16:00 you wrote to amanda-users:

AH> Hi Guys,
AH> I am using Amanda since a couple of years on an ADIC and a HP Surestore
AH> Robot and am quite happy with it, actually very happy ;-)

AH> My last project was to put Amanda on two Dell Poweredge servers that
AH> feature a DDS4 Tape backup (just one slot, no robot). So far, so good. I
AH> got Amanda up and running and backing up a fileserver and a Postgresql
AH> Database (with a lot of help from this list).

AH> The Problems that I have are minor but maybe somebody has seen it
AH> before: 
AH> 1. If there is no tape or the wrong tape in the tape drive amcheck just
AH> stalls but doesn't send email saying there is an error (no timeout?).

AH> 2. If I put a tape into the slot and run amcheck manually Amanda spits
AH> out the tape and asks me to put another one in, regardless if it's the
AH> right tape or not.

Seems like your changer-setup does not properly work.

You donŽt need a tape-changer-script if you donŽt use a tape-changer.

>From amanda.conf:

> # Specify tape device and/or tape changer.  If you don't have a tape
> # changer, and you don't want to use more than one tape per run of
> # amdump, just comment out the definition of tpchanger.

Recheck your tapecycle-settings and your tape-labels. Sounds like your
labels donŽt fit.

-- 
best regards,
Stefan

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