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Two things that [Arkeia] doesn't do by default: Have a facility to 'write over whatever tape is in the drive', and eject the tape when it's finished.

So, in the Advanced Options of your Periodic Backup, set the pre-backup command to

 arkc -tape -recycle -D name=[[`arkc -drive -read -D \
 name=__drivename | sed -e 's/tpname=//g'`]

Substitue '__drivename' for the name of the drive that you configured in Arkeia.

And in the post-backup command:

 mt -f /dev/st0 eject

If you don't specifity __-f /dev/st0__, mt(1) will use __/dev/tape__, so you could just
 ln -s /dev/st0 /dev/tape

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!Help! I get W00800015 "server is a type 1 machine" / '1'! You are limited to '0' standard machine(s)

You get emailled/see backup logs like this:

 I00800060 Start of total backup: Savepack "Daily Backup", Drivepack "DAT", Pool "Tapes"
 I00800080 Owner is "root"
 I00800020 Adding savepack "Daily Backup"
 W00800015 server is a type 1 machine
 E00800017 '1'! You are limited to '0' standard machine(s)
 E00800090 Cannot start backup
 I00800024 "0" files, "1" MB, compressed at "1.0", "1" seconds, "60" MB/mn
 I00800025 End of backup

Your machine still is a type 2 ("cheap" machine, see [here|http://www.knox-software.com/lic_types.html?p=1]) but the hostname has changed.

What this probably means instead of __hostname__ returning your short name, it now returns your FQDN.

This is often caused by changing the order of your line in /etc/hosts:

 10.1.2.3 server.local.domain server

If you get these errors, change the order of the entries in that line:

 10.1.2.3 server server.local.domain

And all should come right.  Figured out with help from [here|http://www.arkeia.com/archives_indexed/2002/12/msg00094.html] and [here|http://support.arkeia.com/cgi-bin/arkeia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=ihEQ4JQg&p_lva=&p_faqid=71&p_created=952135013&p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1yZXRpcmUmcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT0zJnBfcHJvZF9sdmwxPX5hbnl_JnBfcHJvZF9sdmwyPX5hbnl_JnBfc29ydF9ieT1kZmx0JnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li=].

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''As a sidenote on the above suggestion: I have had some success altering the way arkeia aliases each machine without modifying the host file.  Our host files is set with FQDN first followed by alias/shortnames.  Just executing''

 root# ./arkmvhost --host fqdn.company.com --newhost shortname

''and then''

 root# ./arkboot -start

''to restart arkeia has cleared up most issues.  With the exception of those where we have found errors in the host file itself.'' %%% —JacobMajors

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/opt/arkeia/bin/arkchklic -h

arkchklic is helpful when trying to diagnose license issues
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Last edited on Saturday, July 29, 2006 10:38:21 am by AristotlePagaltzis
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