Yes, it will do a read of the entire tape. There is a config file option
called amrecover_do_fsf that if set to true will fsf your tape to the
correct spot if your drive supports it, which is much faster than a linear
read.
I do have that set, and the drive finished up in about 1 hour. It
Hello,
Ok, I have increased tapebufs to 80, I'm not really sure how high to
increase it though. I do have plenty of free ram.
I've increased it to 1024 on my PowerEdge 2850 with 8GB RAM.
Ok wow that's a huge increase. I'll keep trying smaller increments until I
get the error and then
Hello,
I have recently configured Amanda to backup our data. I am now trying to
restore some of the data that I have backed up, and I am having problems
doing so. The client and server are the same machine. I have chg-manual
configured so that the first and last slot are both 1. I am running
Hi Frank,
## This is from the changer.debug
MT - /usr/local/amanda/sbin/ammt -f
DD - /usr/local/amanda/sbin/amdd
Args - -slot next
- rewind /dev/nsa0
/dev/nsa0 rewind failed: Permission denied
Looks like this is your main problem, you don't have permissions to
the tape drive.
