Dear Sirs.
I run into problems with AMANDA backing up a large disk array (250 GB).
I use 'gnutar' as dumping tool defined by GTAR within amanda in the hope
that AMANDA is capable to spread a big backup image over several tapes
like TAR does this when used without AMANDA (multi volume facility).
status message, so it doens't think the tape drive is ready, and asks you to
:>insert a tape.
:>
:>Next steps would be to find out what AMANDA is invoking with $MT, and find
:>out if you have an mt command like mine, and how to bring the two closer
:>together.
:>
:>Sorry
ng during amcheck?
:>
:>Could you post everything that amcheck returns up (and including) the insert
:>message? This might give a clue about why it is deciding to reject that tape
:>and ask for another one.
:>
:>
:>
:>-Original Message-
:>From: Hartmann, O. [mailto:[EMAIL
insert the tape in the drive, wait for it to settle
:>down (it's an EXB-8505, they take a while) and hit enter. Solid as a rock.
:>
:>The only other thing that comes to mind is to make sure that the amanda user
:>has read and write permissions on the changerfile.
:>
:>Good Luck
Dear Sirs.
I already set up a HP SureStore 6x40i changer based tape device
backing up our main server, now I tried to install on a secondary
machine with a simple HP DAT drive a second piece of amanda, but
without success.
I followed the steps described in the really confusing manuals and
other
Dear Sirs.
For our 250 GBytes RAID array backup on a FBSD 4.3 Server we use
AMANDA 2.4.2p1. The tape changer is a HP SureStore 40x6i, which has
a 6 cartridges magazine.
I configured AMANDA that way to use the first time 8 magazines, each
holding 5 tapes and one cleaning tape. For all filesystems
Dear Sirs.
I installed amanda 2.4.2p1 and I use HP's SureStore 40x6i
autoloader as backup system.
For all backuped filesystems I wih to use gnutar - and use it
with success - on drives with a capacity less than one
tape's capacity!
Each cartridges is labeled with an individual label, and counts
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