Re: feature request: mt offl after amdump

2014-07-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.07.2014 14:33, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 03.07.2014 14:27, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: >> Stefan, >> >> If you have 3.3.5 >> >> $ man amanda.conf >>eject-volume bool >>Default: no. Set to yes if you want the volume to be ejected >> after >>Amanda wro

Re: feature request: mt offl after amdump

2014-07-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.07.2014 14:52, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: > Read download.php, it tell how to use svn or git. > Follow the link for the development branch in the table, it tell you how > to checkout. ... sorry, my fault, didn't scroll enough. Thanks, Stefan

Re: feature request: mt offl after amdump

2014-07-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 07/03/2014 08:33 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 03.07.2014 14:27, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: Stefan, If you have 3.3.5 $ man amanda.conf eject-volume bool Default: no. Set to yes if you want the volume to be ejected after Amanda wrote data to it. It wo

Re: feature request: mt offl after amdump

2014-07-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.07.2014 14:27, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: > Stefan, > > If you have 3.3.5 > > $ man amanda.conf >eject-volume bool >Default: no. Set to yes if you want the volume to be ejected > after >Amanda wrote data to it. It works only with some changer and >

Re: feature request: mt offl after amdump

2014-07-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Stefan, If you have 3.3.5 $ man amanda.conf eject-volume bool Default: no. Set to yes if you want the volume to be ejected after Amanda wrote data to it. It works only with some changer and device. Add the following to amanda.conf: eject-volume yes I

Re: feature request: mt offl after amdump

2014-07-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 02.07.2014 22:12, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 02.07.2014 22:10, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: >> Better news, it's already in 3.3.1 >> Check for the eject-volume setting. > > pardon? I have 3.3.5 here already. > > Looking fwd! JL, pls provide me what to checkout with svn. I can't find

Re: feature request: mt offl after amdump

2014-07-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 02.07.2014 22:10, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: > Better news, it's already in 3.3.1 > Check for the eject-volume setting. pardon? I have 3.3.5 here already. Looking fwd!

Re: feature request: mt offl after amdump

2014-07-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Better news, it's already in 3.3.1 Check for the eject-volume setting. Jean-Louis On 07/02/2014 03:58 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 02.07.2014 21:56, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: Stefan, This feature is already committed for the next major release (3.4). Wow, I love to hear that! I as

Re: feature request: mt offl after amdump

2014-07-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 02.07.2014 21:56, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: > Stefan, > > This feature is already committed for the next major release (3.4). Wow, I love to hear that! I assume you could provide a link to the commit? I'd like to see what you implemented (and maybe comment on that :-) ). Thanks, regards

Re: feature request: mt offl after amdump

2014-07-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
: It is rather easy to do a "mt -f /dev/st0 offl" after a successful amdump, if there is only one tape-device. I currently use 2 LTO-2 drives with: tpchanger "chg-multi:{/dev/nst0,/dev/nst1}" so it isn't predictable which of the 2 drives gets used in a particular run o

Re: feature request: mt offl after amdump

2014-07-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 29.06.2014 23:27, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > I am currently rewriting my cronjobs to systemd-units and -timers ... > and I do that as well for the daily run of amdump. > > Works fine so far. > > my question: > > It is rather easy to do a "mt -f /

feature request: mt offl after amdump

2014-06-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I am currently rewriting my cronjobs to systemd-units and -timers ... and I do that as well for the daily run of amdump. Works fine so far. my question: It is rather easy to do a "mt -f /dev/st0 offl" after a successful amdump, if there is only one tape-device. I currently use 2 LT

Re: FreeBSD mt versus Linux mt

2006-03-13 Thread stan
machine. > > > >Looking at the script that is run on the FreebSD machine I see that I do a > >"nt comp off" to make certain that compression is off on the tape drive, > >before I start the Amanda run. > > > >I'm building the replacement machine

Re: FreeBSD mt versus Linux mt

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
t comp off" to make certain that compression is off on the tape drive, before I start the Amanda run. I'm building the replacement machine on an Ubuntu Linux machine, and looking at the man page for mt it does not seem to support this command. What are people with Linux hosts using

Re: FreeBSD mt versus Linux mt

2006-03-12 Thread stan
ding a replacement machine. > > > >Looking at the script that is run on the FreebSD machine I see that I > > do a "nt comp off" to make certain that compression is off on the > > tape drive, before I start the Amanda run. > > > >I'm building the replaceme

Re: FreeBSD mt versus Linux mt

2006-03-12 Thread stan
ng the replacement machine on an Ubuntu Linux machine, and looking > > at the man page for mt it does not seem to support this command. > > > > What are people with Linux hosts using to accomplish making certain that the > > tape drive is in uncompressed mode? I'm usi

Re: FreeBSD mt versus Linux mt

2006-03-12 Thread Gene Heskett
machine I see that I > do a "nt comp off" to make certain that compression is off on the > tape drive, before I start the Amanda run. > >I'm building the replacement machine on an Ubuntu Linux machine, and > looking at the man page for mt it does not seem to support this &g

Re: FreeBSD mt versus Linux mt

2006-03-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
he FreebSD machine I see that I do a > "nt comp off" to make certain that compression is off on the tape drive, > before I start the Amanda run. > > I'm building the replacement machine on an Ubuntu Linux machine, and looking > at the man page for mt it does not seem

FreeBSD mt versus Linux mt

2006-03-12 Thread stan
hat compression is off on the tape drive, before I start the Amanda run. I'm building the replacement machine on an Ubuntu Linux machine, and looking at the man page for mt it does not seem to support this command. What are people with Linux hosts using to accomplish making certain that

AIX and mt rewind

2004-06-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
In amverify, line 373-375: 373 until $MT $MTF $DEVICE rewind; do 374 sleep 3 375 done which after expanding the vars, results to something like, on e.g. linux: 373 until mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind; do 374 sleep 3 375 done The problem with this

Re: mt commands at amdump startup

2002-11-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 16 November 2002 16:46, Marius Sorteberg wrote: >Hi, > >Thanks for your replys! > >> >how about having the cron entry NOT run amdump directly, but do >> > a 2 line shell script, mt, then amdump. > >I guess this is what I'm going for, if it&#x

Re: mt commands at amdump startup

2002-11-16 Thread Marius Sorteberg
Hi, Thanks for your replys! > >how about having the cron entry NOT run amdump directly, but do a > > 2 line shell script, mt, then amdump. > I guess this is what I'm going for, if it's not possible to give an "mt" command to amdump in amanda.conf. > T

Re: mt commands at amdump startup

2002-11-16 Thread Galen Johnson
with "mt comp off" on FreeBSD, and works well on my hardware. The tapedevice is external, in it's own case (the backup server is 1U). The "mt " command is lost after a reboot, or a powercycle on the tapedevice. A small script, run by cron would solve this, but is it &quo

Re: mt commands at amdump startup

2002-11-16 Thread Gene Heskett
ftware compression, and therefore whish >> to disable hardware compression. This is done with "mt comp off" >> on FreeBSD, and works well on my hardware. The tapedevice is >> external, in it's own case (the backup server is 1U). >> >> The "mt "

Re: mt commands at amdump startup

2002-11-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 16 November 2002 13:18, Marius Sorteberg wrote: >Hi list, > >I use Amanda2.4.3 on FreeBSD 4.7, compiled from ports. >My tapedevice is a DLT 15/30. > >I recently switched to software compression, and therefore whish > to disable hardware compression. This is done wi

Re: mt commands at amdump startup

2002-11-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 06:18:22PM +, Marius Sorteberg wrote: > Hi list, > > I use Amanda2.4.3 on FreeBSD 4.7, compiled from ports. > My tapedevice is a DLT 15/30. > > I recently switched to software compression, and therefore whish to disable > hardware compression.

mt commands at amdump startup

2002-11-16 Thread Marius Sorteberg
Hi list, I use Amanda2.4.3 on FreeBSD 4.7, compiled from ports. My tapedevice is a DLT 15/30. I recently switched to software compression, and therefore whish to disable hardware compression. This is done with "mt comp off" on FreeBSD, and works well on my hardware. The tapedevice i

Re: mt rewind strangness

2002-08-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:10:07AM -0500, Frank Smith wrote: > --On Tuesday, August 27, 2002 10:28:02 -0400 Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >Has anyone else noted this behavior? > >"mt rewind" returns (completes) before tape is rewound >

Re: mt rewind strangness

2002-08-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 27 August 2002 10:28, Jon LaBadie wrote: >Has anyone else noted this behavior? > "mt rewind" returns (completes) before tape is rewound Talking to yourself again Jon? :-) > >Specifically, > >When I issue an "mt rewind" from a shell command li

Re: mt rewind strangness

2002-08-27 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, August 27, 2002 10:28:02 -0400 Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone else noted this behavior? > "mt rewind" returns (completes) before tape is rewound Yes, it seems to be fairly a common behavior of tape drives. Back in the days when I had

mt rewind strangness

2002-08-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
Has anyone else noted this behavior? "mt rewind" returns (completes) before tape is rewound Specifically, When I issue an "mt rewind" from a shell command line, the tape begins to rewind (lights on drive blinking) and after about 10 seconds the mt command complete

Re: a bit off topic (mt command)

2002-07-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 05:31, Paul Bijnens wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 22 July 2002 16:25, Eduardo Ceva wrote: >>>Hi, wich command of mt writes to the tape??? thanks a lot!!! >>> >>>ceva >> >> AFAIK, no command from mt except a re

Re: a bit off topic (mt command)

2002-07-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 22 July 2002 16:25, Eduardo Ceva wrote: > >>Hi, wich command of mt writes to the tape??? thanks a lot!!! >> >>ceva > > > AFAIK, no command from mt except a rewind (if there is unwritten > data still in the drives buffer) wil

Re: a bit off topic (mt command)

2002-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 July 2002 16:25, Eduardo Ceva wrote: >Hi, wich command of mt writes to the tape??? thanks a lot!!! > >ceva AFAIK, no command from mt except a rewind (if there is unwritten data still in the drives buffer) will cause any data to goto the tape medium. 'mt' is an

Re: a bit off topic (mt command)

2002-07-22 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 at 5:25pm, Eduardo Ceva wrote > Hi, wich command of mt writes to the tape??? thanks a lot!!! There isn't one, really. mt is for tape and tape drive manipulation. If you just want to write to a tape, try dump or tar. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Bi

a bit off topic (mt command)

2002-07-22 Thread Eduardo Ceva
Hi, wich command of mt writes to the tape??? thanks a lot!!!   ceva

mt setblk 0

2002-02-20 Thread rwk
Today my amdump failed due to: *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [reading label: Input/output error]. I got the same error trying to read the first block on the tape using dd. So I tried doing: mt setblk 0 It fixed the problem! My question is: . Does amanda have a means to indicate

Re: Bus reset while loading tape and "mt status"

2002-02-15 Thread John R. Jackson
>How can I prevent this hiccup? > >"Don't do this" : It happens if you are impatient and the tapes are >supposed not to be changed by a "root" person. > >"rmmod st" as a 1 min cron job : This workaround sucks. Option 3: find out who maintains that driver and tell them to fix it. >Johannes Nieß

Bus reset while loading tape and "mt status"

2002-02-15 Thread Johannes Niess
Hi, Sorry for beeing slightly off topic, but I'm sure someone can help me. I use a Seagate Scorpion DAT DDS 4 drive for Amanda backups on a Linux 2.2.20 box. SCSI controller is either a Vortex hardware RAID or from the Adaptec 7xxx family. The drive is working fine unless I issue a "

mt-st and RH72

2002-01-16 Thread R. Bradley Tilley
FYI, RH72 will install AMANDA and all the necessay components _except_ the mt-st package! You have to go back and manually install it.

Re: MT

2000-12-04 Thread Harri Haataja
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Joi Ellis wrote: > On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, John R. Jackson wrote: > [snip] > > >>... mt is missing from my system. Before I > >>reinstalled 2.4.2 the second time, due to it not installing over 2.4.1p1 > >>cleanly the first time, I used turbo

Re: MT

2000-12-02 Thread Joi Ellis
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, John R. Jackson wrote: [snip] >>... mt is missing from my system. Before I >>reinstalled 2.4.2 the second time, due to it not installing over 2.4.1p1 >>cleanly the first time, I used turbopkg to remove 'amanda, amanda-client, >>amanda-server

Re: MT

2000-12-02 Thread John R. Jackson
>... mt is missing from my system. Before I >reinstalled 2.4.2 the second time, due to it not installing over 2.4.1p1 >cleanly the first time, I used turbopkg to remove 'amanda, amanda-client, >amanda-server and taper' all listed under a broader heading of 'System - &

Re: MT

2000-12-02 Thread Jens Bech Madsen
Randolph Cordell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. I'm running TurboLinux 6.0 (workstation). Your response about amverify > not working was right on target - mt is missing from my system. Before I > reinstalled 2.4.2 the second time, due to it not installing over 2.4.1p1

MT

2000-12-02 Thread Randolph Cordell
Hi. I'm running TurboLinux 6.0 (workstation). Your response about amverify not working was right on target - mt is missing from my system. Before I reinstalled 2.4.2 the second time, due to it not installing over 2.4.1p1 cleanly the first time, I used turbopkg to remove 'amanda, ama

Re: "mt status" work-alike for HP-UX?

2000-11-30 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
> >I've checked the FAQ and searched the list archives for this too: > >chg-manual locally fails because "status" is not a valid argument for the > >HP-UX 10.20 "mt" command. ... > > That's very odd. I would think that would cause other pe

Re: "mt status" work-alike for HP-UX?

2000-11-30 Thread John R. Jackson
>I've checked the FAQ and searched the list archives for this too: >chg-manual locally fails because "status" is not a valid argument for the >HP-UX 10.20 "mt" command. ... That's very odd. I would think that would cause other people who I know are using

"mt status" work-alike for HP-UX?

2000-11-28 Thread Stephen Walton
I've checked the FAQ and searched the list archives for this too: chg-manual locally fails because "status" is not a valid argument for the HP-UX 10.20 "mt" command. Is there a workaround? I'm willing to sit and change tapes for the occasional archival full backup.