by full_backup ... properly loads the right device driver modules,
and the tape driver _starts_ to run. It soon halts, though,
and nothing has been written to tape.
cartis 1 and label_tape (think that's the right name) ran
seemingly successfully.
Once halted after 10 to 15 minutes of waiting, afbackup e-mails
me a message that it was unable to operate the tape drive
(sorry, forget exact wording). full_backup is being run by
root, so permissions should not be an issue.
The ftape home page says that afbackup is supposed to work with
the ftape driver.
'tob' works, but afbackup seems more appropriate for my nascent
home-network.
Any thoughts as to what might be wrong -- would be much appreciated.
I've tried both the current Debian/slink version as well as
downloading & compiling the original source.
-frank
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