Stefan,

> Good to hear. What size did scratch have?
> Much nicer device-name now, BTW, maybe this was the problem ... Do you
> use this one (the corresponding non-rewinding device) in amanda.conf
> as well ?? 

I'll have to try to pull it again, I seem to have subsequently 
overwritten it with a zero length file.

> BC> I then tried to re-write the label with dd
> 
> BC> samar 170# dd of=/dev/sdlt2 obs=32k if=./scratch 
> BC> 64+0 records in
> BC> 1+0 records out
> 
> Ok, I see, you had a bs=512 (0.5k) when you read and wrote the same
> file with bs=32k (64 times bigger now).
> 
> BC> Actually the xfsrestore file is a link to the executable in the /usr/sbin
> BC> directory. It does make sense, after a fashion (why not a link for the
> BC> xfsdump executable as well).
> 
> >> >samar 126# which xfsrestore
> >> >/sbin/xfsrestore
> >> >samar 127# which xfsdump
> >> >/usr/sbin/xfsdump
> 
> As long as AMANDA actually USES it this is OK, yes.

I had intended (and forgot) to write, that I checked the amdump log
file and that the paths and names of the programs are correct.

> I am looking forward to the results ...

yah, me too.

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