Amanda-Users

Re: problems with label of tape in last slot

2005-10-27 04:59:35
Subject: Re: problems with label of tape in last slot
From: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
To: Stefan Herrmann <magic99de AT web DOT de>, Amanda Users List <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:49:02 +0200
Stefan Herrmann wrote:

yes I do have problems:

stefan:/usr/local/amanda/etc/amanda/daily amanda$ amtape daily label daily2
amtape: scanning for tape with label daily2
amtape: slot 3: date X        label daily3 (wrong tape)
amtape: slot 4: date X        label daily4 (wrong tape)
amtape: slot 5: date X        label daily5 (wrong tape)
amtape: slot 6: date X        label daily6 (wrong tape)
amtape: slot 7: date X        label daily7 (wrong tape)
amtape: slot expr:: tape_rdlabel: tape open: syntax error: No such file or directory
amtape: slot 1: date 20051026 label daily1 (wrong tape)
amtape: slot 2: date 20051027 label daily2 (exact label match)
amtape: label daily2 is now loaded.

the tape in slot 8 (daily8) cant be scanned. so if i want to load daily8 there is no match and I cant load the tape :(

Is is there anything different with the last slot?
What is the output of:

$ cd /usr/local/amanda/etc/amanda/daily
$ amgetconf tapecycle
8               # at least that what I expect
$ amgetconf tapedev
file:/some/directory/slots      # use this output in the next cmd
$ ls -la /some/directory/slots/slot[78]
... # any difference between slot 7 and 8??? permissions, filesize etc.


And of course the obvious question: what version of amanda is it?

It seems like the chg-disk somewhere generates a "syntax error" when
loading the last slot with option "-next".
Try this:

$ /usr/local/libexec/chg-disk -slot 7
$ sh -vx /usr/local/libexec/chg-disk -next

Do you get the same syntax error?  If yes, can you post (or mail me)
the output of the "sh -vx ..."?


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