Author: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:37:14 -0500
Stefan, Always the simple stuff. Block size (still need to find out how to reset at boot time), SCSI bus length... Confirmed with SGI engineer, with the Narrow device on the bus we are limited to 1.5
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:15:08 -0500
Put the appropriate commands, as you would exec them from a root shell, in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. They'll work as long as there is a loaded tape in the drive during the bootup. What??? Is??? He
Author: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:29:49 -0500
Amanda 2.4.4p1-20030716 SGI/IRIX 6.5.19m mtx 1.3.8 8 Slot jukebox with SDLT 320 (Quantum) gnutar 1.13.25 I suppose this configuration looks familiar to some of you. I was in the process of writing an
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:40:18 -0500
The two things I'd question are: what version of tar? We've found that tar-1.13-19 and 1.13-25. We've had a report of 1.14 not working a week or 2 back up the log. And earlier versions than 1.13-19 w
Author: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <monitor AT oops.co DOT at>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:41:11 +0100
Welcome ;-) And you don't get a file with this command? I once had this behavior on one of my machines, just have to remember ... You could also try to specify the blocksize with the amrestore-option
Author: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:55:37 -0500
Gene, Stefan, * I'm gonna remove a lot of text from the middle of this. dd if=<tape## bs=32k skip=1 | /usr/sbin/gzip -dc | ^Idd if=<tape## bs=32k skip=1 | /usr/sbin/gzip -dc | Confirm, I am using GNU
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:31:36 -0500
Good version Those are commands in the 'mt' arsenal Brian. And there have been known to be platform diffs, so consult the manpages for your version, and, make sure you have the latest version. Mine p