On 28 Jan at 16:24 "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com> wrote in 
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> On Jan 28, 2008 10:58 AM, Tony van der Hoff <tony AT vanderhoff DOT org> 
> wrote:
> > It seems like everyone here is equally baffled :(
>
> In the interests of getting to the bottom of this, do you think you could
> run an 'strace' the amcheck process?  The results will be long, but if you
> can find the place where it calls open() on the tape device, it will be a
> start.  Please feel free to mail the results to me privately for analysis,
> if you prefer.  I'll post the findings back to the list.

Dustin, on the assumption that you received my strace dump, were you able to
make anything out of it. Is there anything else I can do?

Tony - panicking, having not been able to perform a proper backup for over a
week :(

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Tony van der Hoff        | mailto:tony AT vanderhoff DOT org
Buckinghamshire, England