Amanda-Users

Re: Problems with full backups

2003-02-10 22:57:14
Subject: Re: Problems with full backups
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 21:43:30 -0500
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:00:16AM +1000, Bradley Marshall wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 07:28:39AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > >   FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> > >     driver: FATAL driver received unexpected token (2) from taper
> > OS, version, and amanda version would be helpful.  Also, look in your 
> > system logs for any error messages around the time of the failed backups.  
> > Finally, look in the amdump.N file for exactly what taper told driver.
> 
> Linux 2.2.21, Debian 2.2, amanda 2.4.2p2.  There is nothing I can find
> in the system logs about this problem.  The extract from the amdump.N
> looks like:
> 
> changer: opening pipe to: /usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx -slot next
> changer: got exit: 0 str: 2 /dev/nst0
> taper: slot 2: date X        label FullPlugged2003011702 (first labelstr 
> match)
> taper: read label `FullPlugged2003011702' date `X'
> taper: wrote label `FullPlugged2003011702' date `20030208'
> driver: result time 20788.194 from taper: QUITTING 00-00052 [writing file: No 
> space left on device]

Don't think this is hd or mem, but tape.
Looks like the message is coming from "taper".

> driver: driver received unexpected token (2) from taper
> taper: DONE [idle wait: 9003.563 secs]
> taper: writing end marker. [FullPlugged2003011702 OK kb 0 fm 0]

But taper never wrote anything, a total of 0 KB of data written (kb 0),
with a total of 0 files (or filemarks -- fm 0).

Consider why it may not be writing to tape.


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