[lug] Amanda question : amtapetype -f /dev/nst0

[Jason Davis]

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 15:22, Michael Belanger wrote:
> It sounds like you have a problem with either the tape or the drive.
> Check for SCSI errors in your /var/log/messages. 
> 
> The man only listed an example of 'amtapetype -f /dev/null' to generate
> a tapetype definition, is it possible you are not sending the switches
> it needs to complete the task against a real device?
> 

hmm not seeing any errors in messages , i read that amtapetype fills
the tape twice .... so maybe ill give it till tomorrow , if it still has
not finished ill kill it

thanks,
jd


> On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 15:10 -0700, Dean Brissinger wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 14:14 -0700, Jason Davis wrote: 
> > > Hello,
> > >  I am running 
> > > 
> > > amtapetype -f /dev/nst0
> > > 
> > > and its has been going for 3 hours so far ...
> > > is this typical?
> > 
> > For a big library without a supported bar-code reader Amanda will load
> > and read every label on every tape.  This can take a very long time.
> > Not sure if that is what you're up to though.  :-) 
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