Use of Amanda on Compaq Proliant

[Wannes Vandenbulcke]

Hi,
I'm trying to configure Amanda on a Compaq Proliant ML370 G3 running RedHat 8.0.
The tapedrive I'm using is a Sony AIT 35 LVD.
The first thing that goes wrong is when I try to label the tapes using amlabel.
I always receive the error "No Label found, are you sure /dev/st0 is non-rewinding?" when amlabel tries to verify the writingprocess.
Can anyone give me some directions how to solve this? What have I configured wrong?

TIA
Wannes

[Huc_1 · Accepted solution]

the /dev/st0 is for the rewinding tape
the /dev/nst0 is for the none rewinding tape

to check tape is rewind do

mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
also use the following to check tape
mt -f /dev/st0 status

Hope this helps.

Otherwise, let us know

J-P

[Huc_1]

in the man page of amanda, read the section about

OUTPUT DRIVERS

there is some explaination under there
so in your case
tapedev "/dev/nst0"
in amanda.conf
should do it

I dont have a valid "tested amanda.conf" underhand just using a default one I found in /usr/share/doc/amanda-server-2.4.3/examples/amanda.conf
on a RH 9.0 to try help you out.

Keep us informed of progrss if any ?

J-P

[Wannes Vandenbulcke]

Thanks J-P

I already figured out I had to define the tapedrive to non-rewinding, but I didn't have a clue how to do it.
One more question, how can I do a testrun, a test of my config file? I've read about it somewhere in the man pages, but I don't know where exactly.

TIA

Wannes

[Wannes Vandenbulcke]

Never mind the last question.
The command to run is amcheck, found it in the help section at backupcentral

Will come back here if I have any other problems concerning my amanda config

Wannes

[Wannes Vandenbulcke]

Ok

I'm having trouble getting this straight.
What do I add in my disklist file if I want to do a full backup every weekday, 1 tape per backup?
I'm getting confused from all the different parameters. I'm not sure if I'm configuring everything correctly.
Could anybody help me? I'm new at this.

TIA
Wannes