Topic: flexbackup "no tape loaded"

[Lars Stea]

I have  installed e-smith 5.6 on a Dell 1550SC server with a Tandberg SLR-7 20/40 streamer. When I run "flexbackup -newtape" it rewinds, erazes and labels the tape but when the backup runs I get a mail that reads: "Backup aborted: No tape loaded" Could this be a hardware or driver issue?

-Lars

[Kelvin]

Hi Lars,

Since you can see the tape working when typing flexbackup -newtape, what do you get when you type :-

/sbin/e-smith/backup

at the server console ?

Kelvin

[Matt West]

I too am experiencing this "No tape loaded" problem and by coincidence am using a Tanberg SLR7 drive.  Any ideas how to fix this?

[Matt West]

I've been trying a few suugestions made in other threads and nothing seems to work.  Yet if I "tar cvf /dev/st0 /etc/*" this works fine and dumps the etc directory to tape.  Also works with nst0.
Any help very much appriciated.

[Lars Stea]

It seems to me like it is the mt command that doesn't work. I removed the lines in /sbin/e-smith/backup that checks if there is a tape and then rewinds it. Remove from and including the first "if" and to and including the "fi". This will remove the if/else function that gives the "no tape loaded" error. The flexbackup command seems to handle the drive well, and it also rewinds and erazes the tape.
It would be nice if someone could do a restore from such a backup, so we can be sure it works as intended.

-Lars