On Tuesday 22 February 2005 11:05, Paul Bijnens wrote: >Thomas Løjmann Jørgensen wrote: >> How do I rewind the tape?
Ppphhhhttt! ROTFLMAO! Classic. Love it Paul. Even yur speel chekur is borked. Damn, now I've got to clean green tea out of the monitor and keyboard again, I should never, ever read my mail and try to drink anything at the same time. >I used a pencil: find a hexagonal pencil, stick it in the left >whole, and now carefully rewind the tape by turning the pencil > around. When you get used to it, you can rewind a 125m tape in less > than a day. > >If you happen to use virtual tapes, then you need a virtual > hexagonal pencil. Rewinding virtually does not take as much time, > luckily. > >There are devices where you put in the tape, and that device rewinds >the tape automatically. (I'm still amazed how small the pencils are >they use inside.) Such devices do work on Linux too, and you have > to issue silly werds like: "who am i", or "mt -t /dev/st0 rewind". > >Restoring with amrecover can be slow when needing to skip over all >the junk in the beginning of the tape, so I used to position the >tape just before the image to extract. For that you need to "fast >skip forward" the tape. With a pencil I could fast-skip-forward a >tape in less than 6 hours. But I'm a veteran. Practice helps here. > >Another option is to tell Amanda to rewind the tape and to > fast-skip- forward the tape. Amanda also needs silly commands > like, >"vi amanda.conf", "jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj", "kkkk", > "o", "amrecover_do_fsf yes", "ZZ". And that ZZ means you can now > sleep a little while Amanda does all the heavy rewinding and > forward again. > >Being good in rewinding and fast-skip-forward, I'm not as good in >verifying if I am doing this with the correct tape. That's why > Amanda checks that too. The only language Amanda understands are > again very cryptic, but that's how life is with Amanda: I always > start with "vi amanda.conf", > "jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjkkko", > "amrecover_check_label yes", "ZZ". > >Now, people say that all these words are explained in the man. > But, Amanda being a woman, I tried to be polite and say "woman > amanda", but I'm completely ignored and get yelled at "command not > found". I gues that's what you got in reply too, isn't it? Never > mind. Amanda still keeps doing her job as told. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.