1AMDEVCHECK(8) System Administration Commands AMDEVCHECK(8)
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6 amdevcheck - Validate an Amanda device and volume.
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9 amdevcheck [--label] [-properties list] [-o configoption...] config
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13 Amdevcheck provides a way to check that a particular Amanda device is
14 accessible, whether or not it contains a volume, and whether or not
15 that volume is labeled. Some devices can't distinguish between all of
16 these cases; a missing volume and an unlabeled volume might generate
17 the same error code, for example. In those cases, this tool reports all
18 possible causes of the error. Optionally this tools lists the
19 properties for the device.
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21 See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda. See amanda-
22 devices(7) for more information on devices.
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26 Amanda configuration to use. Note that amdevcheck ignores any tape
27 changer configuration.
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30 Amanda device to use. This option overrides any tapedev
31 configuration specified in the configuration file.
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34 Get the device's label. If this option is given, the usual check
35 output is omitted, and the label of the loaded volume is printed to
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39 List device properties. If this option is given, the usual check
40 output is omitted, and property values are printed to stdout, one
41 per line, as a property name, followed by '=', followed by the
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45 properties to display. If it is omitted, all supported properties
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49 See the "CONFIGURATION OVERRIDE" section in amanda(8).
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52 amdevcheck exit with code 0 if the device is working of if it get an
53 expected error, look at the MESSAGE line for the error. It exit with
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56 Amdevcheck returns one or more of the following lines. If multiple
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58 messages apply. This situation can occur when working with hardware or
59 operating systems which cannot distinguish, for example, between a
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63 A tape is ready.
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66 A device error has occurred.
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69 The device is busy.
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72 No tape is loaded in the drive.
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75 The tape in the drive is unlabeled.
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78 A volume error has occurred.
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84 amanda(8), amanda-devices(7)
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86 The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/
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89 Ian Turner <ian@zmanda.com>
90 Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)
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