Thanks for the reply. I labeled the tapes when I created a vtape test envirement. when I run amlabel I get the message : amlabel: label Backup-012 already on a tape.
my amanda.conf file is configured as this : tpchanger "chg-disk" # the tape-changer glue script tapedev "file://space/vtapes/Backup/slots" # the no-rewind tape device to be used #tapetype "HP Ultrium 3-SCSI" #changerfile "/etc/amanda/Backup/changer" #changerfile "/etc/amanda/Backup/changer-status" changerfile "/etc/amanda/Backup/changer.conf" changerdev "/dev/null" when I change tapedev to "dev/nst0'' I get error message (amlabel: could not load slot "current": Virtual-tape directory dev/nst0 does not exist.) This the output of scsi device in proc/scsi: sh-3.2$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: HP Model: Ultrium 3-SCSI Rev: D22D Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 when I run amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 it gives me the following: sh-3.2$ amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 Applying heuristic check for compression. Wrote random (uncompressible) data at 55408002.0983607 bytes/sec Wrote fixed (compressible) data at 96568232.2285714 bytes/sec Compression: enabled Writing one file to fill the volume. Wrote 406934781952 bytes at 56706 kb/sec Writing smaller files (4069326848 bytes) to determine filemark. define tapetype unknown-tapetype { comment "Created by amtapetype; compression enabled" length 397397248 kbytes filemark 792 kbytes speed 56706 kps blocksize 32 kbytes Please let me know if you need any more info. Thanks for the help +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by adaro...@curry.edu via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------