On Tuesday 22 February 2005 11:05, Paul Bijnens wrote:
>Thomas Løjmann Jørgensen wrote:
>> How do I rewind the tape?

Ppphhhhttt! ROTFLMAO!  Classic.  Love it Paul.  Even yur speel chekur 
is borked.

Damn, now I've got to clean green tea out of the monitor and keyboard 
again, I should never, ever read my mail and try to drink anything at 
the same time.

>I used a pencil: find a hexagonal pencil, stick it in the left
>whole, and now carefully rewind the tape by turning the pencil
> around. When you get used to it, you can rewind a 125m tape in less
> than a day.
>
>If you happen to use virtual tapes, then you need a virtual
> hexagonal pencil.  Rewinding virtually does not take as much time,
> luckily.
>
>There are devices where you put in the tape, and that device rewinds
>the tape automatically. (I'm still amazed how small the pencils are
>they use inside.)  Such devices do work on Linux too, and you have
> to issue silly werds like: "who am i", or "mt -t /dev/st0 rewind".
>
>Restoring with amrecover can be slow when needing to skip over all
>the junk in the beginning of the tape, so I used to position the
>tape just before the image to extract.  For that you need to "fast
>skip forward" the tape.  With a pencil I could fast-skip-forward a
>tape in less than 6 hours.  But I'm a veteran.  Practice helps here.
>
>Another option is to tell Amanda to rewind the tape and to
> fast-skip- forward the tape.  Amanda also needs silly commands
> like,
>"vi amanda.conf", "jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj", "kkkk",
> "o", "amrecover_do_fsf yes", "ZZ".  And that ZZ means you can now
> sleep a little while Amanda does all the heavy rewinding and
> forward again.
>
>Being good in rewinding and fast-skip-forward, I'm not as good in
>verifying if I am doing this with the correct tape.  That's why
> Amanda checks that too.  The only language Amanda understands are
> again very cryptic, but that's how life is with Amanda: I always
> start with "vi amanda.conf",
> "jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjkkko",
> "amrecover_check_label yes", "ZZ".
>
>Now, people say that all these words are explained in the man.  
> But, Amanda being a woman, I tried to be polite and say "woman
> amanda", but I'm completely ignored and get yelled at "command not
> found". I gues that's what you got in reply too, isn't it?  Never
> mind. Amanda still keeps doing her job as told.

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