Amanda-Users

Re: Too many taper retries

2002-09-12 11:49:16
Subject: Re: Too many taper retries
From: Gene Heskett <gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net>
To: "Alvin Ko" <alvinko AT ae-server DOT com>, <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:22:24 -0400
On Tuesday 28 April 2020 05:33, Gene Heskett wrote:

I just noted that my clock was foobar, set for something in april 
2020!  As I have a daily rdate, is there any way to ascertain that 
the rdate request to the server returns a sane result before it 
blindly resets everything?  It happened yesterday morning on cron 
executing my setibatch -uploads script which includes this rdate 
command as it finishes up.

Sort of embarrasing that I missed it for nearly 2 days.

>On Wednesday 11 September 2002 23:03, Alvin Ko wrote:
>>I used amanda 2.4.2p2 with a DDS-3 tape drive to do a full backup
>> of my Linux last night. In the amanda.conf file, I used
>> chg-manual as the changer with 3 tapes. My /export/home folder
>> has 23GB data. I had labeled three tapes (Tape-01, Tape-02,
>> Tape-03) and then start the backup. 3 hours later, she asked me
>> to insert backup tape into slot 1. When amdump completed, I got
>> the following report.
>>---
>>These dumps were to tapes Tape-01, Tape-02, Tape-03.
>>The next 3 tapes Amanda expects to used are: a new tape, a new
>> tape, a new tape.
>>
>>FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>>  localhost  /export/home lev 0 FAILED [too many taper retries]
>>...
>>NOTES:
>>  planner: Adding new disk localhost:/boot.
>>  planner: Adding new disk localhost:/usr.
>>  planner: Adding new disk localhost:/.
>>  planner: Adding new disk localhost:/export/home.
>>  planner: Adding new disk localhost:/home.
>>  planner: Adding new disk localhost:/var.
>>  planner: Adding new disk localhost:/opt.
>>  taper: tape Tape-01 kb 12013824 fm 7 writing file: No space
>> left on device taper: retrying localhost:/export/home.0 on new
>> tape: [writing file: No space left on device]
>>  taper: tape Tape-02 kb 12004832 fm 1 writing file: No space
>> left on device taper: retrying localhost:/export/home.0 on new
>> tape: [writing file: No space left on device]
>>  taper: tape Tape-03 kb 0 fm 0 [OK]
>>  driver: Could not rmdir /mnt/hdc1/20020911: Directory not empty
>>---
>>She could not backup my /export/home folder into multiple tapes.
>> Anybody knows why?
>>
>>Best Regards,
>>
>>Alvin K. T. Ko
>
>How big is /export/home?  If its bigger than your DDS3 tape, you
>will have to break that entry up into even smaller pieces.
>
>Basicly, amanda cannot span more than one tape with a single
>filesystem, and probably never will.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M
Athlon1600XP@1400mhz  512M
99.15% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly

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