Le Friday 23 November 2007 08:52:17 Marc Muehlfeld, vous avez écrit : [I think you meant to send this message to the list, so the answer goes there]
> Hi, > > I meanwhile tried to tar a file directly to the tapedev, rewind it and > tried to restore. What I got back was a only totally mixed part of what I > send to tape?! > > I changed the changer library emulation and control mode from "native" to > "Exabyte EZ17", reboot the server and retried. Now it was possible to label > tapes. > > Happy, that everything seams to work, I started a backup of one DLE (60 > files, 9.1 GB). The report told me, it was successfully done. Then I tried > to restore. On my first try it start loading files from tape. But after 30 > minutes of showing nothing (after amrecover restored the last file), I > canceled the operation. I retried a second time. And now after loading the > tape nothing happens. amrecover is showing since 40 minutes: > > Extracting files using tape drive chg-zd-mtx on host nucleus.mr.lfmg.de. > Load tape KAS002 now > Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? y > > > > mt on a second console shows: > # mt -f /dev/nst0 status > mt: /dev/nst0: rmtopen failed: Device or resource busy. > > > The display on the autoloader shows that drive-1 is idle. OK, try again by hand for this tape: * rewind: mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind * show header: dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1 * go to next file: mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1 * show DLE header: dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1 * IF the DLE header is correct (ie, no character substitution), then try and list what's in the archive: dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k|tar t(z? are your archives compressed?)f - -- Francis Galiegue, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Ingénieur système [ATTENTION : CHANGEMENT DE COORDONNÉES !] One2team - 42 Av. Raymond Poincaré - 75116 PARIS CEDEX +33683877875, +33178945552