Re: Dilog Libra 8 - experience anyone?

Hi Stefan, /usr/libexec/chg-zd-mtx -info I get none no slots available do you already have labled tapes in your tapelist available? And assigned them to slots via amlabel? If not, chg-zd-mtx won't show any available slots... Currently I access the library via /dev/nst1 (another tapedrive

Re: Dilog Libra 8 - experience anyone?

Kai Zimmer schrieb: Hi Stefan, /usr/libexec/chg-zd-mtx -info I get none no slots available do you already have labled tapes in your tapelist available? And assigned them to slots via amlabel? If not, chg-zd-mtx won't show any available slots... Oh, a very good information ... Sure,

Re: Query about full backups

On Tuesday, 23.01.2007 at 22:01 -0800, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: If the original poster's full backup fits on to a single tape, and backs up in a reasonable period of time, you could just do a full backup every day, perhaps? At the moment, full backup of my data fits on a single tape, but it

amrecover problem

Hi everyone, I have installed amanda. amchack works fine as well as amdump. When I try to restore using amrecover I get : AMRECOVER Version 2.5.1p2. Contacting server on kinshasa ... [request failed: timeout waiting for ACK] In the logs on the client

Re: Dilog Libra 8 - experience anyone?

Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: Kai Zimmer schrieb: Hi Stefan, /usr/libexec/chg-zd-mtx -info I get none no slots available do you already have labled tapes in your tapelist available? And assigned them to slots via amlabel? If not, chg-zd-mtx won't show any available slots... Oh, a

reading MIC on AIT using mtx and micinfo (from SONY)

Does anyone happen to know how to make use of the MIC information on an AIT tape (AIT5) using mtx? I found something called micinfo at http://www.sony.net/Products/storagesolution/documents/download03.html, but it is a lengthy patch to mtx 1.2.11, and I find no updates. A google search for

Re: Dilog Libra 8 - experience anyone?

Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: it should be mtx -f /dev/$changerdev status errm mtx -f $changerdev status to be correct. S

Re: reading MIC on AIT using mtx and micinfo (from SONY)

Chris, From my research on MIC technology about a year ago, it appears the drive will automatically take advantage of the information if you issue an ASF and ASB mt system calls. The MIC information allows the drive to seek directly to the file or block requested, but this feature is

Re: amrecover problem

Axel Seguin wrote: Obviously the client tries to contact the server on port 10080, shouldn't it try to reach the server on port 10082? How can I change that? In ~/.amandahosts on the client I have : server fqdn amanda user on the server amdump Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hi,

Re: Dilog Libra 8 - experience anyone?

device priority use by mtx: the -f argument CHANGER environment variable TAPE environment variable /dev/changer chg-zd-mtx set the TAPE environment variable, mtx use it unless you have the CHANGER variable set. maybe we should set CHANGER too. I don't know why it doesn't use -f, but

Re: Dilog Libra 8 - experience anyone?

Jean-Louis Martineau schrieb: device priority use by mtx: the -f argument CHANGER environment variable TAPE environment variable /dev/changer chg-zd-mtx set the TAPE environment variable, mtx use it unless you have the CHANGER variable set. maybe we should set CHANGER too.

Re: restore errors

Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: googled a bit and found notes about a bug in 2.4.4, but I am unsure if I hit this particular one. Could anyone *please* let me know if this problem would be avoided with a more recent release of Amanda? Thank you, Stefan.