Amanda-Users

Re: I/O error when writing to tape

2003-06-19 04:24:49
Subject: Re: I/O error when writing to tape
From: Martin Hepworth <martinh AT solid-state-logic DOT com>
To: Toralf Lund <toralf AT procaptura DOT com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 09:16:54 +0100
Toralf

anything in the /var/log/messages file (oe where ever the file lives).

what tape info (device etc) are you using in the amanda.conf and do you use the same one when doing other dumps? Have you tried dd -ing to the device etc..



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Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic Ltd
+44 (0)1865 842300

Toralf Lund wrote:
Just got

*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: I/O error]].

during a backup run. - Must be something wrong with the tape or tape drive, I thought, but it turns out that 1. I get this error for various different tapes when trying to amflush the dump to them.
2. I can write other dumps to the same tapes.

Any idea what may cause this kind of thing to happen? I'm using the 20030516 snapshot, and holding disk is


# ls -lh
total 17G
-rw------- 1 amanda disk 1.0G Jun 17 00:48 fileserv._scanner2_nijos.0 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 1.0G Jun 17 01:08 fileserv._scanner2_nijos.0.1 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 1.0G Jun 17 01:28 fileserv._scanner2_nijos.0.2 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 918M Jun 17 01:45 fileserv._scanner2_nijos.0.3 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 1.0G Jun 17 00:10 fileserv._scanner3_SMA.0 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 1.0G Jun 17 00:34 fileserv._scanner3_SMA.0.1 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 438M Jun 17 00:46 fileserv._scanner3_SMA.0.2 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 1.0G Jun 16 23:57 fileserv._u_people.0 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 1.0G Jun 17 00:49 fileserv._u_people.0.1 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 1.0G Jun 17 01:22 fileserv._u_people.0.2 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 1.0G Jun 17 01:49 fileserv._u_people.0.3 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 1.0G Jun 17 02:22 fileserv._u_people.0.4 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 1.0G Jun 17 03:09 fileserv._u_people.0.5 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 314M Jun 17 03:24 fileserv._u_people.0.6 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 1.0G Jun 16 23:40 rogaland._usr_work.0 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 1.0G Jun 16 23:51 rogaland._usr_work.0.1 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 1.0G Jun 17 00:02 rogaland._usr_work.0.2 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 529M Jun 17 00:10 rogaland._usr_work.0.3






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