From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 18 14:51:07 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA04188 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 14:51:07 -0700 Received: from luke.pmr.com (luke.pmr.com [199.98.84.132]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA04183 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 14:51:00 -0700 Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.pmr.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA17573 for freebsd-ports@freefall.cdrom.com; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 16:50:58 -0500 From: Bob Willcox Message-Id: <199509182150.QAA17573@luke.pmr.com> Subject: Using amanda from ports To: freebsd-ports@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Ports) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 16:50:58 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1294 Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am having trouble getting amanda configured and running here. I have an Exabyte 8200 tape drive connected to an NCR 53C810 based adapter and am running -stable as of 9/9. The problem I'm having is getting amanda to label a tape (via amlabel). It always complains thusly: #amlabel pmr VOL001 rewinding, writing label VOL001amlabel: rewinding tape: Input/output error an amcheck evokes the following response: #amcheck pmr Amanda Tape Server Host Check ----------------------------- /usr8/amanda/work: 906638 KB disk space available, that's plenty. ERROR: /dev/nrst1: not an amanda tape. (expecting a new tape) NOTE: skipping tape-writeable test. Server check took 37.242 seconds. Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check -------------------------------- WARNING: obiwan: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 1 hosts checked in 30.066 seconds, 1 problems found. (brought to you by Amanda 2.2.6) As expected, it is not happy with the tape :-( Can any of you amanda users/experts tell me what I'm doing wrong, or have forgotten to do?? Oh yeah, the tape drive and tape being used work fine with dump, tar, etc. Thanks, -- Bob Willcox bob@luke.pmr.com (or obiwan%bob@uunet.uu.net) Austin, TX