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ERROR: no tape online

2002-09-26 21:07:23
Subject: ERROR: no tape online
From: John Koenig <jfkoenig AT vipb DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 17:43:57 -0700
I need some suggestions from the community... I am trying to debug a
problem however I am not sure how/where to look for more clues. 
I am open to any and all comments anyone has time to express.
... and thanks!!

The issue is when amdump is run, something weird happens
with the tape causing AMANDA to go into degraded mode... leaving the
backups on the holding disk.

I have an AIT2 tape media robot (Compaq SSL2020) driven by
the software called Media Robot Utility v1.5

I have been performing the role of the changer glue manually whenever I
run actual backups... The AMANDA configuration is not configured as a 
tape changer at present. 

This last run had a problem... Here is some information about it:

        ### ### ###

Initially I ran the amcheck to remind myself of what tape was next...

$ amcheck DailySet2
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
Holding disk /net/redeye/holding/amanda: 177292000 KB disk space available, 
that's plenty
ERROR: /dev/ntape/tape0: no tape online
       (expecting tape DailySet2-10 or a new tape)
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Server check took 119.557 seconds

        ### ### ###


        Cool.. that's slot 9!

$ robot load slot 9
LOADING SLOT 9 into DRIVE 0 using ROBOT /dev/changer/mc0.


        ### ### ###


$ nohup amdump DailySet2 &

        output of amdump sent via e-mail and presented below...


        ### ### ###

$ robot unload slot 9
ROBOT /dev/changer/mc0 is not responding: I/O error.  


        Hmmmm....... not good...
        ${?} = 64 but Compaq does not 
        provide the damn info. F*ckers.


        ### ### ###

$ robot unload slot 9
UNLOAD DRIVE 0 into SLOT 9 using ROBOT /dev/changer/mc0.


        tape successfully unloaded

=============================================

Output of amdump:


*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [no tape online].
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: DailySet2-10.


STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Daily
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:25
Run Time (hrs:min)         0:33
Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:08       0:00       0:08
Output Size (meg)         447.3        0.0      447.3
Original Size (meg)       832.6        0.0      832.6
Avg Compressed Size (%)    53.7        --        53.7   (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Dumped           19          0         19   (1:18 2:1)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)       975.5        --       975.5

Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
Tape Size (meg)             0.0        0.0        0.0
Tape Used (%)               0.0        0.0        0.0
Filesystems Taped             0          0          0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)     --         --         -- 


NOTES:
  planner: Incremental of redeye:/net/adder/scratch1 bumped to level 2.
  planner: Full dump of redeye:/net/adder/scratch2 promoted from 11 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of bum:/net/bum/srv promoted from 11 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of redeye:/var/amanda promoted from 11 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of redeye:/net/redeye/home1 promoted from 11 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of phish:/usr/local promoted from 11 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of redeye:/net/redeye/lapb1 promoted from 11 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of phish:/home/phish promoted from 11 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of ringley:/net/ringley/camb1 promoted from 11 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of ringley:/net/ringley/tamu1 promoted from 11 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of redeye:/etc promoted from 11 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of ringley:/etc promoted from 11 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of bum:/etc promoted from 11 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of anabelle:/etc promoted from 11 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of redeye:/usr/local_redeye/etc promoted from 11 days 
ahead.
  planner: Full dump of phish:/etc promoted from 11 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of bum:/var/yp promoted from 11 days ahead.


DUMP SUMMARY:
                                                                 DUMPER STATS   
                  TAPER STATS   
HOSTNAME   DISK                              L    ORIG-KB     OUT-KB   COMP% 
MMM:SS     KB/s   MMM:SS     KB/s
---------------------------------------------- 
--------------------------------------------- -----------------
anabelle  /etc                               1         60         32    53.3   
0:01     59.4     N/A      N/A 
anabelle  /net/anabelle/scratch1             1     174750     166304    95.2   
1:15   2211.5     N/A      N/A 
bum       /etc                               1         50         32    64.0   
0:00    120.0     N/A      N/A 
bum       /net/bum/srv                       1      25900       3424    13.2   
0:10    351.1     N/A      N/A 
bum       /var/yp                            1         10         32   320.0   
0:00    300.6     N/A      N/A 
phish     /etc                               1        170         32    18.8   
0:00    262.1     N/A      N/A 
phish     /home/phish                        1         80         32    40.0   
0:00    244.5     N/A      N/A 
phish     /usr/local                         1       1000         96     9.6   
0:01    145.2     N/A      N/A 
redeye    /etc                               1         70         32    45.7   
0:00    120.0     N/A      N/A 
redeye    /net/adder/scratch1                2      62900       8608    13.7   
3:17     43.6     N/A      N/A 
redeye    /net/adder/scratch2                1     161070      40512    25.2   
0:26   1536.8     N/A      N/A 
redeye    /net/redeye/home1                  1       1850        192    10.4   
0:09     21.1     N/A      N/A 
redeye    /net/redeye/lapb1                  1        350         64    18.3   
0:03     21.8     N/A      N/A 
redeye    /net/redeye/lbpb1                  1     419480     236352    56.3   
2:25   1634.2     N/A      N/A 
redeye    /usr/local_redeye/etc              1         50         32    64.0   
0:00    222.9     N/A      N/A 
redeye    /var/amanda                        1       4690       2208    47.1   
0:01   1548.6     N/A      N/A 
ringley   /etc                               1         60         32    53.3   
0:00    230.8     N/A      N/A 
ringley   /net/ringley/camb1                 1         10         32   320.0   
0:00    100.5     N/A      N/A 
ringley   /net/ringley/tamu1                 1         10         32   320.0   
0:00    780.2     N/A      N/A 

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