Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote:

I've been successfully using amanda for over a year now and all of a sudden 
it's all screwed up!
I'm using amanda 2.4.2p2 on a RH7.2 box.
amcheck is happy when it runs daily at 3 pm before I leave:
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
Holding disk /dumps/amanda: 13770716 KB disk space available, that's plenty
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Tape isymmdaily09 label ok
Server check took 10.881 seconds

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
Client check: 3 hosts checked in 0.273 seconds, 0 problems found

(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.2p2)

But that same night when my cron job tried to kick off the backup:
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [rewinding tape: No medium found].
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: isymmdaily09.

And yes, the tape is in the drive. It's still in there now, hasn't been 
touched. This has happened to me almost every day for the last week. So it's 
not just this tape. I've cleaned the drive, turned the drive off, bounced the 
box...all of the little things.

Thoughts?

Rebecca A. Crum Systems Administrator Unterberg & Associates, P.C. (219) 736-5579 ext. 184

Does amcheck see the tape?

can the amanda backup user access the tape drive?

--
Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic Ltd
+44 (0)1865 842300




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