On Thursday 14 September 2006 07:14, Fabio Corazza wrote:
>Somebody knows why I receive this error when I label a tape?
>
>-sh-3.00$ amlabel mybbookInSite mybbookInSite-10 slot 10
>labeling tape in slot 10 (/dev/nst0):
>rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape (Input/output error)
This is normal for a tape that does not already contain a valid label 1st
block.
>rewinding, writing label mybbookInSite-10, checking label, done.
Generally, if it says it did it, it did it ok.
>After that I see that the tape that was previously on slot 10 is on the
>data transfer element (this is correct, I think). How can I check that
>the tape has been labeled correctly?
Thats something you should be able to do with the 'mtx' utility, which can
cause tapes to be loaded or unloaded and placed back in the rack, usually
by its rack position number.
Once the tape has been loaded and recognized by the drive as shown by an
'mt -f /dev/ice status returning a 'BOT' (begining of tape) status, then:
'dd if=/dev/ice count=1' should spit out the first block to stdout, your
screen. This should contain the tape label amlabel applied followed by
about 32,730 bytes of zeros, so it won't look like 32k on screen. Here's
this mornings vtape equivalent file:
AMANDA: TAPESTART DATE 20060914001000 TAPE Dailys-20
014
The datestamp may be shorter in your version of amanda. There may be other
diffs too as the above is from this mornings vtape, not a real physical
tape.
>Those are the settings in the amanda.conf regarding the tape drive:
>
>runtapes 1
>tpchanger "chg-zd-mtx"
>tapedev "/dev/nst0"
>rawtapedev "/dev/null"
>changerfile "/etc/amanda/mybbookInSite/changer.conf"
>changerdev "/dev/sg2"
>
>And this is the changer.conf:
>
>firstslot=1
>lastslot=16
>autoclean=0
>havereader=1
>offline_before_unload=0
>poll_drive_ready=10
>max_drive_wait=120
>unloadpause=20
>driveslot=0
>
>
>Using Amanda 2.5.1.
>
>
>
>Thanks,
--
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