Author: Mike Brodbelt <m.brodbelt AT acu.ac DOT uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:21:16 +0000
Hi, I run two configs with Amanda, one that does incremental backups, and one (month end) where all the filesystems get a level 0. In the latter case, I'm getting tape errors as a result of running o
Author: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <monitor AT oops.co DOT at>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:41:08 +0100
Hi, Mike, on Donnerstag, 12. Februar 2004 at 11:21 you wrote to amanda-users: Seems like it is one of those in the AMANDA-FAQ-O-MATIC. Look up http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/100.html.
Author: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:49:42 +0100
Tape driver is a Quantum DLT7000, with DLT IV media. Native capacity should be 35Gb, and I'm running Amanda with host based compression, and compression switched off on the drive. The tapetype defin
Author: Mike Brodbelt <m.brodbelt AT acu.ac DOT uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:31:13 +0000
Not getting anything that explicit :- taper: tape ACU-STD-2 kb 23940992 fm 16 writing file: Input/output error driver: going into degraded mode because of tape error. This is from Amanda version 2.4.
Author: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:38:50 +0100
taper: tape ACU-STD-2 kb 23940992 fm 16 writing file: Input/output error This is really an IO error. Probably due to hardware problems. See in the system logs for more information. (/var/{adm,log}/m
Author: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <monitor AT oops.co DOT at>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:01:39 +0100
Hi, Paul Bijnens, on Donnerstag, 12. Februar 2004 at 12:38 you wrote to amanda-users: Cover the scsi connectors with some blood from the sacrificed animal. Thanks for the laugh, Paul. ;) -- best rega
Author: Mike Brodbelt <m.brodbelt AT acu.ac DOT uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:18:59 +0000
Could it not be due to an attempt to write beyond EOT? I'm reasonably sure the hardware is OK. I do get some errors in the logs, but I'd assumed they were generated due to an attempt to write beyond
If you are refering to the report you showed in your original posting, that was the size of data dumped, not taped. == Dump Time (hrs:min) 6:39 6:39 0:00 == Output Size (meg) 31855.4 31855.4 0.0 == O
Author: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:12:30 -0500 (EST)
23.94 GB is *also* the amount of data that actually went to tape before amanda got the I/O error. You indicated that these "should" be 35GB. The fact that amanda only got 23 out to tape indicated eit
So, it wrote 8.4 GB successfully. Plus it wrote the amanda tape header, a 16th file. Not unless your amanda works differently than the rest of our amandas. :) Or I'm wrong which as this list has show