Problem with changer

2006-05-08 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Hello, I'm getting an error while running chg-zd-mtx: " cannot determine first slot" Does anyone have any ideia. Best regards, Luis

Problem with Changer

2004-01-19 Thread Thomas Corell
Hello, I have a Tandberg LTO2 Superloader attached on an Adaptec 39160D and the chg-scsi returns: amtape: could not load slot Can't: read MTE status Example: $amtape CAPCom update amtape: scanning all 16 slots in tape-changer rack: slot 0: date 20031211 label CAPCom01 amtape: could not load slot C

problem with changer

2001-07-26 Thread Ignacio Tripodi
Hi, I'm an amanda newbie running it on a Solaris 8 server with a Sun STORedge L9 tape drive and controller (that's actually a Quantum DLT 8000 tape drive coupled with HP Changer robotics). The problem I have is with the tape changer, it seems that amcheck, amtape and other programs don't under

Re: Problem with changer

2006-05-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 10:41:24AM +0200, Luis Rodrigues wrote: > Hello, > > I'm getting an error while running chg-zd-mtx: " cannot determine first > slot" > Does anyone have any ideia. > what have you done to get to this point? I have to assume you have installed some version of amanda. have

Re: Problem with changer

2006-05-08 Thread Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
2006/5/8, Luis Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm getting an error while running chg-zd-mtx: " cannot determine first slot" Does anyone have any ideia. When it happened to me, it was caused by incorrect permissions and user:group for /dev/sg1 the generic SCSI device file for the changer. I ha

Re: Problem with changer

2006-05-09 Thread Stefan MARTEL
Quoting Salvatore Enrico Indiogine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have the same problem as Luis when i run amcheck Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /amanda/amandahold/test: 14245792 kB disk space available, using 14245792 kB amcheck-server: could not get changer

Re: Problem with changer

2006-05-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:33:01AM +0200, Stefan MARTEL wrote: > Quoting Salvatore Enrico Indiogine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have the same problem as Luis when i run amcheck > Amanda Tape Server Host Check > - > Holding disk /amanda/amandahold/test: 14245792 kB disk s

Re: Problem with changer

2006-05-09 Thread Stefan MARTEL
Quoting Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Thanks for your answer I had done all this manip but i still have a problem, now in the /tmp/amanda/chg-zd-mtx.***.debug i have this message : hg-zd-mtx: debug 1 pid 13467 ruid 1002 euid 1002: start at Tue May 9 16:39:54 2006 16:39:54 Using config fi

Re: Problem with changer

2006-05-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 04:47:10PM +0200, Stefan MARTEL wrote: > Quoting Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Thanks for your answer > > I had done all this manip but i still have a problem, now in the > /tmp/amanda/chg-zd-mtx.***.debug i have this message : > > hg-zd-mtx: debug 1 pid 13467 ruid

Re: Problem with changer

2006-05-09 Thread Ian Turner
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 11:06, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > My autoloader is on /dev/st0 and tape are defined on /dev/nst0 > > I don't think so. > st0 and nst0 are the "same" device handled differenly on close. The changer is probably on /dev/sg0 or /dev/sg1. -- Wiki for Amanda documentation: http://wi

RE: Problem with changer

2006-05-09 Thread Paul Haldane
> From: Ian Turner > Sent: 09 May 2006 16:54 > > On Tuesday 09 May 2006 11:06, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > My autoloader is on /dev/st0 and tape are defined on /dev/nst0 > > > > I don't think so. > > st0 and nst0 are the "same" device handled differenly on close. > > The changer is probably on /dev/

Re: Problem with changer

2006-05-10 Thread Stefan MARTEL
Quoting Ian Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tuesday 09 May 2006 11:06, Jon LaBadie wrote: > My autoloader is on /dev/st0 and tape are defined on /dev/nst0 I don't think so. st0 and nst0 are the "same" device handled differenly on close. The changer is probably on /dev/sg0 or /dev/sg1. -- Wiki

Re: Problem with changer

2006-05-10 Thread Stefan MARTEL
Quoting Ian Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tuesday 09 May 2006 11:06, Jon LaBadie wrote: > My autoloader is on /dev/st0 and tape are defined on /dev/nst0 I don't think so. st0 and nst0 are the "same" device handled differenly on close. The changer is probably on /dev/sg0 or /dev/sg1. -- Wiki

RE: Problem with changer

2006-05-10 Thread Stefan MARTEL
Quoting Paul Haldane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: From: Ian Turner Sent: 09 May 2006 16:54 On Tuesday 09 May 2006 11:06, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > My autoloader is on /dev/st0 and tape are defined on /dev/nst0 > > I don't think so. > st0 and nst0 are the "same" device handled differenly on close. The cha

Re: Problem with changer

2006-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:04:30AM +0200, Stefan MARTEL wrote: > Quoting Ian Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >On Tuesday 09 May 2006 11:06, Jon LaBadie wrote: > >>> My autoloader is on /dev/st0 and tape are defined on /dev/nst0 > >> > >>I don't think so. > >>st0 and nst0 are the "same" device hand

Re: Problem with changer

2006-05-10 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Jon LaBadie schrieb: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:04:30AM +0200, Stefan MARTEL wrote: Quoting Ian Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tuesday 09 May 2006 11:06, Jon LaBadie wrote: My autoloader is on /dev/st0 and tape are defined on /dev/nst0 I don't think so. st0 and nst0 are the "same" device han

Re: Problem with changer

2006-05-10 Thread Stefan MARTEL
Quoting Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:04:30AM +0200, Stefan MARTEL wrote: Quoting Ian Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >On Tuesday 09 May 2006 11:06, Jon LaBadie wrote: >>> My autoloader is on /dev/st0 and tape are defined on /dev/nst0 >> >>I don't think so. >>st0 and

Re: Problem with changer

2006-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:50:29PM +0200, Stefan MARTEL wrote: > > (Sorry for my english but i'am french ;-) There's your problem :) -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (

Re: Problem with changer

2006-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:50:29PM +0200, Stefan MARTEL wrote: > > > > # tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 > > Product Type: Tape Drive > > Vendor ID: 'HP ' > > Product ID: 'C1557A ' ... > > > > # tapeinfo -f /dev/sg1 > > Product Type: Medium Changer > > Vendor ID: 'HP ' > > Product I

Re: Problem with Changer

2004-01-19 Thread tobias . bluhm
Thomas Corell: >I'm running Linux with a 1.6.1 kernel, and amanda 2.4.4p2. Do you mean kernel 2.6.1? If so, that's somewhat out on the bleeding edge and it's still gonna have some kinks in it. Can you drop it back to a 2.4 kernel & test? -

Re: Problem with Changer

2004-01-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 19 January 2004 12:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Thomas Corell: >>I'm running Linux with a 1.6.1 kernel, and amanda 2.4.4p2. > >Do you mean kernel 2.6.1? If so, that's somewhat out on the bleeding >edge and it's still gonna have some kinks in it. Can you drop it >back to a 2.4 kernel & te

Re: Problem with Changer

2004-01-19 Thread tobias . bluhm
Gene Heskett : >On Monday 19 January 2004 12:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Thomas Corell: >>>I'm running Linux with a 1.6.1 kernel, and amanda 2.4.4p2. >> >>Do you mean kernel 2.6.1? If so, that's somewhat out on the bleeding >>edge and it's still gonna have some kinks in it. Can you drop it >>ba

Re: Problem with Changer

2004-01-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 19 January 2004 14:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Gene Heskett : >>On Monday 19 January 2004 12:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>Thomas Corell: I'm running Linux with a 1.6.1 kernel, and amanda 2.4.4p2. >>> >>>Do you mean kernel 2.6.1? If so, that's somewhat out on the >>> bleeding edge

Re: Problem with Changer

2004-01-20 Thread Thomas Corell
Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 19 January 2004 14:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gene Heskett : On Monday 19 January 2004 12:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Corell: I'm running Linux with a 1.6.1 kernel, and amanda 2.4.4p2. Do you mean kernel 2.6.1? If so, that's somewhat out on the bleeding e

Re: problem with changer

2001-07-26 Thread John R. Jackson
>Hi, I'm an amanda newbie running it on ... What version of Amanda? >amcheck-server: slot : could not read result from >"/usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx" What happens if you do this (as the Amanda user): cd /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx -reset /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx -slot 4 Depen

Re: problem with changer

2001-07-27 Thread Ignacio Tripodi
> What version of Amanda? Version 2.4.2p2 > What happens if you do this (as the Amanda user): > > cd > /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx -reset > /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx -slot 4 Doesn't work either... :( I've been doing some debugging following the chg-zd-mtx script line by line, an

Re: problem with changer

2001-07-27 Thread Ignacio Tripodi
First of all, thanks for answering. > I used chg-scsi-solaris.conf: I didn't have that file. Where should it be created, in the same directory as amanda.conf? After creating this file with the correct paths and modifying my amanda.conf file it gave me the following error: amcheck-server: coul

Re: problem with changer

2001-07-27 Thread John R. Jackson
>> What happens if you do this (as the Amanda user): >>... >Doesn't work either... :( I didn't figure it would :-). I wanted to see the output to try and figure out why not. However, sounds like you've already worked things out. >I've been doing some debugging following the chg-zd-mtx script

Re: problem with changer

2001-07-31 Thread Ignacio Tripodi
>> I guess I should have a >> list of all my labels and a barcode code for each label, but I don't >> know how to generate that or if I have to do it manually. > > First, zap that file to zero length (cp /dev/null ...). Then, I > **think** > you should be able to do "amtape update" (as the Aman

amrecover problem with changer

2003-03-20 Thread Stephen Walton
I am trying a test amrestore of some files after amanda has run for a bit on a RedHat 8.0 system with an HP DDS-3 6-tape changer. The backups are fine, as are the automatic tape changes; I can get at all of my backups manually with dd and tar. However, amrestore is not happy. The details: I'm

Re: amrecover problem with changer

2003-03-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 05:30:14PM -0800, Stephen Walton wrote: > I am trying a test amrestore of some files after amanda has run for a > bit on a RedHat 8.0 system with an HP DDS-3 6-tape changer. The backups > are fine, as are the automatic tape changes; I can get at all of my > backups manuall

Re: amrecover problem with changer

2003-03-21 Thread Eric . Doutreleau
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 05:30:14PM -0800, Stephen Walton wrote: > > I am trying a test amrestore of some files after amanda has run for a > > bit on a RedHat 8.0 system with an HP DDS-3 6-tape changer. The backups > > are fine, as are the automatic tape