On Wednesday 12 February 2003 19:23, Michael Robbert wrote:
>Here is an update on the problem that I sent yesterday. I had
> entered my DDS4backup into cron and last night the backup
> actually worked, sort of. It looks like it wrote to the tape in
> slot one, which I labeled DDS4backup01, but the report says that
> it was labeled DDS4backup05. Below you'll find the results of
> todays amcheck, all tapes appear to be labeled DDS4backup05, but
> that is not how I labeled them. I am guessing that tonights
> backup will fail because it can't seem to find another tape.
>A second question I have is about the number of slots to put into
> my changer.conf. I am using the first 5 slots for backup tapes
> and slot 6 is always a cleaning tape. If I configure lastslot=5
> and cleanslot=6 then "amtape DDS4backup clean" gives the
> following error: amtape: device 0 not clean: Slot 6 is out of
> range (1 - 5) If I then change lastslot=6 then I get the problem
> that you'll notice below. Amanda will cycle through the cleaning
> tape thinking that it is a normal tape. I am using
> tpchanger=chg-zd-mtx in my amanda.conf.
>
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>Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:04:15 -0700
From: Amanda user <amanda AT fractal.Mines DOT EDU>
>To: amanda AT fractal.Mines DOT EDU, mrobbert AT mines DOT edu
>Subject: DDS4backup AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX BEFORE RUN, IF POSSIBLE
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>       tests=DOUBLE_CAPSWORD,USER_IN_WHITELIST
>       version=2.31
>
>Amanda Tape Server Host Check
>-----------------------------
>Holding disk /holding/amanda: 6128768 KB disk space available,
> using 6026368 KB Holding disk /storage/amanda: 40446788 KB disk
> space available, using 40344388 KB 
> amcheck-server: slot 2: date 20030212 label DDS4backup05 (active tape)
> amcheck-server: slot 3: date 20030212 label DDS4backup05 (active tape)
> amcheck-server: slot 4: date 20030212 label DDS4backup05 (active tape)
> amcheck-server: slot 5: date 20030212 label DDS4backup05 (active tape)
> amcheck-server: fatal slot 6: Cleaning Cartridge Installed and Ejected

Gaack! Either its not advancing the magazine, or you've labeled all tapes
alike. If the latter, I'm fairly certain that amlabel would have had a
litter of kittens over that.

Which is it?

> ERROR: new tape not found in rack
>       (expecting a new tape)
>NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
>NOTE: info dir /var/lib/amanda/DDS4backup/curinfo/ito/_usr_local:
> does not exist NOTE: index dir
> /var/lib/amanda/DDS4backup/index/ito/_usr_local: does not exist
> NOTE: info dir /var/lib/amanda/DDS4backup/curinfo/ito/_u1: does
> not exist NOTE: index dir
> /var/lib/amanda/DDS4backup/index/ito/_u1: does not exist Server
> check took 254.892 seconds
>
>Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
>--------------------------------
>Client check: 1 host checked in 0.510 seconds, 0 problems found

This settles it.

Its not advancing the tape then, and it obviously read all that
from the drives buffers. So something is amiss in the changer
script setup.  This amount of tape checking should have taken a time
measured in minutes, not just fractions of a second.

-- 
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