On Wed April 16 2003 11:49, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 09:56:58AM -0400, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:
>> [Jon, hope you don't mind my taking this back on the list.]
>>
>> Still no joy in Mudville; my backup to Amanda struck out again
>> last night.
>
>Hope someone else can chime in.
>
>> Here's three sections from the Amanda email report:
>> These dumps were to tape Outside-16.
>> *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: No space left on
>> device]]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
>> Run amflush to flush them to tape.
>> The next tape Amanda expects to use is: Outside-17.
>>
>> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>>   www        /var/www lev 0 FAILED [disk /var/www offline on
>> www?] www        /var/www/main/htdocs lev 0 FAILED [disk
>> /var/www/main/htdocs offline on www?] real       sda4 lev 0
>> FAILED [out of tape]
>>   real       sda4 lev 0 FAILED ["data write: Connection reset by
>> peer"] real       sda4 lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]
>>
>> NOTES:
>>   planner: Adding new disk www:/var/www/main/htdocs.
>>   planner: Adding new disk www:/var/www.
>>   planner: Last full dump of real:sda4 on tape  overwritten in 1
>> run. planner: Dump too big for tape: full dump of real:sda2
>> delayed. taper: tape Outside-16 kb 10170272 fm 9 writing file:
>> No space left on device
>
>                           ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>A dds3 tape running into EOT at 10.1GB??
>Sounds like you may be doing software and hardware compression.

It sure walks and quacks like that duck Jon.

Kevin, post the output of 'tapeinfo -f /dev/yourdevice' please

>> If I follow your thoughts correctly, my problem might be caused
>> by my host 'real' which fills up the tape before the 'www' dumps
>> can begin. I'll try to break down 'real' into smaller chunks and
>> see if this makes a difference. Although I'm still doubtful, as
>> the www partitions seem to fail in the estimate section of the
>> amdump.1 log:
>
>That has only been a part of your problems.
>Should not cause the "offline" messages.
>
>> Thanks for letting me know about not needing to change the disk
>> partition from its '/dev/sd??' designation to it's mount point.
>> I didn't know this. I'll reconfigure and kick off a backup right
>> away. Now I'm really starting to sweat; don't have a full backup
>> of my main web section anywhere.
>
>I believe it depends on the ability to determine the mountpoint
> from /etc/?fstab or some such mechanism.

But I'm beginning to wonder if by some chance he has a circular 
linkage someplace?  Is that even possible?

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