tape problem

2001-10-11 Thread Robert Dale
ds of tests can I perform? with AMANDA? Any other suggestions? BTW, Since it seems AMANDA uses 32k blocks on the tape, I am going to change block size from 0 (which excrix recommends for some reason) to 32k. Thanks for any info. -- Robert Dale Digital Mission LLC

Re: archives at yahoogroups

2001-09-27 Thread Robert Dale
search and browse the archives, I'm indifferent. Otherwise, I like Mailman and would suggest to move the list/archives to sf.net. -- Robert Dale Digital Mission LLC

Re: recovery problems

2001-09-26 Thread Robert Dale
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, John R. Jackson wrote: > > I'm having some serious issues with restoring from backups using AMANDA > >2.4.2p2 (upgraded from 2.4.1p1 which had the same problems) on Linux 2.2.16 > >with an Ecrix tape drive using VXA-17 tapes. > > > >amrecover and amrestore both cause these k

Re: recovery problems

2001-09-26 Thread Robert Dale
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, John R. Jackson wrote: > Ummm, application level software (like Amanda) cannot *cause* hardware > errors. All it does are simple read and fsf calls. Right. But the way in which it does is different from mt/dd and obviously causes some adverse behavior to make the kernel pr

recovery problems

2001-09-25 Thread Robert Dale
Any ideas? -- Robert Dale Digital Mission LLC