On 2007-08-01 14:08, Michael D Schleif wrote:
Please, ANY ideas ???
amanda is version 2.5.1p1-2.1 , running on debian:
# uname -a
Linux erda 2.6.18-4-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 11:36:53 CEST 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Trying to setup a VXA-2 manual load tape drive with amanda.
Same tape that I used earlier today with amtapetype, and successfully
got a tapetype definition.
Now, I want to label this same tape, and perform the first backup.
# sudo -u backup amlabel -f DailySet1 backup.001
rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape (Invalid argument)
rewinding, writing label backup.001, checking label
amlabel: not an amanda tape (Invalid argument)
What do you think?
Seems that, when reading something from the tape
some syscall used returns "Invalid argument".
Pure guesses:
- Is your tapedevice in the amanda.conf set to a real device?
- Did you modify the config paramater "--with-maxtapeblocksize=..." from
something other than the default value 32, which results in some
weird or invalid bufferlength for such a device? (Also when using
fixed blocks in the tapedevice, Amanda's buffer should be at least as
large as those fixed blocks; I prefer variable blocks for tapes.)
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