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

[Michael Belanger]

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?


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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