Hey, guess what. SUN StorEdge 9 tape jukebox does not
operate properly with 2.4.2p2.

The really good news is updating chg-zd-mtx script with
the one in amanda 2.4.3 fixes all the problems.

Thank you for all the input over the last couple of weeks.



> 
> Hello Amanda users.
> 
> I'm seeing something rather odd in last night's dump attempt,
> the amcheck and the attempted (but failed) flush.
> 
> I'll include extracts of all three messages - but the short
> of it is that some amanda programs see and accept the current
> tape in the drive and others don't.
> 
> FWIW (for what its worth) I'm running Solaris 8, amanda 2.4.2p2,
> a SUN StorEdge 9 tape jukebox (HP made the guts) and a LTO drive.
> 
> Backups have been running ok for about a week and we started the
> second tape cycle with the original 9 tapes (and an uncomfortably
> short tape cycle - but that is another matter).
> 
> From the cron initiated amdump. All dumps succeeded to holding disk.
> 
> *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [label NNEWTON02 or 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: NNEWTON02.
> 
> 
> Output from amcheck. No manual intervention.
> 
> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> -----------------------------
> WARNING: holding disk /amanda/work: only 25871283 KB free (36700160 KB 
> requested)
> amcheck-server: slot cannot: open SCSI device '/dev/scsi/changer/c5t4d0' - 
> Device busy
> amcheck-server: slot 2: date 20030107 label NNEWTON02 (exact label match)
> NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
> Tape NNEWTON02 label ok
> Server check took 75.894 seconds
> 
> Output from amflush.
> 
> *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [label NNEWTON02 or new tape not found in rack].
> Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
> Run amflush again to flush them to tape.
> The next tape Amanda expects to use is: NNEWTON02.
> 
>                                               Any help apreciated,
> 
>                                               Brian
> 
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