On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 06:11:11PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote: > >... I found I had to rewind the tape before running > >amrecover extract. Otherwise I get a "can't read file header" error. > >Is this normal? > > OnStream drives are evil. It's my understanding they cannot do file > marks properly, so what you're seeing is not surprising. There was some > discussion of this recently in this group so you might take a look at > the archives.
Bah. I was considering an Onstream drive, but I do like using Amanda, and I want to get something that works well with it. The problem is that I'm on a university budget (and not a university tech. budget, but a university student newspaper budget :). Other solutions seem to be a lot more expensive than Onstream, so if it really does work OK with Amanda, I'd like to go with it (the SC30e, specifically). On the other hand, if they really are terrible drives, could I get some recommendations? I'd like something about that size (15GB uncompressed), and I could go with either internal IDE or external SCSI (probably better for various reasons). The idea is to get something we can actually buy...I'm not worried about winning any speed competitions, I'd just like to have money left over to fix the printer, and have tapes that will last for a while :) -- --Ray ----------------------------- Sotto la panca la capra crepa sopra la panca la capra campa
