--On Wednesday, January 15, 2003 16:35:59 -0500 Raymond Keckler <kecklerr AT homes 
DOT com> wrote:

Ok the gnutar directory was never created. That is why it failed. Is
there documention besides the man pages on Amanda? My backup was success
full but it still had an error on it.
Why does it give me a tape error?
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*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [new tape not found in rack].
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: a new tape.

It looks like Amanda was expecting a new tape but one wasn't available,
so your backups are sitting in your holding disk waiting top be flushed.
Perhaps your tapecycle, runspercycle, and dumpcycle don't match up with
what you think you are scheduling if you think the correctly-labeled tape
was in the drive.

Frank

STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Daily
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:00
Run Time (hrs:min)         0:09
Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:04       0:00       0:04
Output Size (meg)         422.6        0.0      422.6
Original Size (meg)       433.2        0.0      433.2
Avg Compressed Size (%)    97.5        --        97.5   (level:#disks
...)
Filesystems Dumped            1          0          1   (1:1)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)      1632.9        --      1632.9

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)     --         --         --


DUMP SUMMARY:
                                     DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS
KB/s
-------------------------- ---------------------------------
------------
emailbkup    /home       1  443630 432760  97.5   4:251632.9   N/A   N/A

(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.3)
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does anybody now why

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 14:09, Jon LaBadie wrote:

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:26:21PM -0500, Raymond Keckler wrote:
> I have Redhat 8.0 with Exabyte220  I switched from the chg-multi to
> chg-zd-mtx. I can load tapes and unload tapes. I can label them and
> inventory them. But I can write to the tapes. Attached is the amdump
> debug file.

Good start, what does amcheck give you?


> I am not sure what this means
>
> >>>>
> /home 0 SIZE -1
> /home 1 SIZE -1
> >>>>

I believe your server asked the client for the
estimated backup size of /home at level 0 and level 1.
However the server did not get back valid results.

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Raymond Keckler <kecklerr AT homes DOT com>
Homes.com

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