Hello, We are upgrading our backup system to Amanda.
To learn how to use Amanda without disturbing our current system we have set it up on a separate PC. As the PC does not have a tape drive we configured Amanda for tapeless back up. We are running red hat 7.1, it had an older version of Amanda pre-installed. We downloaded Amanda 243b2 which should have the tapeio support required for tapeless operation build in. I have configured Amanda as per Clinton Hogge's how-to. I do get these "slot is empty" errors persistently when I run amcheck and amlabel. As I wasn't sure that the files in the defined in changer.conf should be pre-created I ran the system with tape0n files, tape0n directories and an empty directory in /var/amandadumps. In each case I got the same error message. It seems to me that I would have a config error or permissions problem. I looked in the changer.debug file and it listed a failed rewind operation. I understood from a previous listing or comment that the tapeless operation dummies the rewind so this may not have been the problem. Any ideas? Does Amanda 243b2 support the tapeless tapeio code? I listed the error messages below. Thanks Gus ============================================================== From amcheck: Amanda Tape Server Host Check ----------------------------- Holding disk /tmp/AmandaHold: 1420644 KB disk space available, that's plenty amcheck-server: slot 1: chg-multi: slot is empty ... =============================================================== From amlabel: amlabel: could not load slot "1": chg-multi: slot is empty =============================================================== From changer.debug MT -> /usr/sbin/ammt -f Note: setting posteject to a default of "true" -> rewind file:/var/amandadumps/tape07 file:/var/amandadumps/tape07 rewind failed: Not a directory Exit -> 7 chg-multi: slot is emptyArgs -> -slot next ================================================================
