Paul Bijnens said:
> 
> Josh Welch wrote:
>  >
>  > Amcheck gives no erors. However, when I try to do amdump, its
>  > breaking. I've included the email from amanda below. There doesn't
>  > look to be anything particularly interesting in the logs, but I've
>  > pasted the amandad.debug from the client below. I've also pasted my
>  > disklist. I've tried searching through the groups without any success
>  >  and the faq is down right now it appears, so I appreciate any help
>  > you can give me.
>  >
>  > ###### Email from amanda
>  >
>  > *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!
>  >
>  > The next tape Amanda expects to use is: Tape01.
>  >
>  > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>  > driver: FATAL reading result from taper: Connection reset by peer
>  > mplslx1.bu /var RESULTS MISSING
> 
> It seems that you are dumper without holdingdisk, and the dump
> is passing straight to tape.  It's not taper that's crashing,
> but the connection carrying the data was closed by the other end,
> probably due to a problem on the client.
> 
> 
>  > ######amandad.debug
> ...
>  > (null): running service "/usr/lib/amanda/sendsize"
> 
> This the amandad.debug from the estimate phase, and that succeeded fine.
> Nothing else found in /tmp/amanda?  No sendbackup.debug file?
> 

Actually, I am trying to do a backup to disk, using a config I found in the
archives for setting up a "changer" on disk. Gene is of the opinion the RPM
is fubar, so I am going to try and get a compiler working on that box and
build from scratch. I'll let you know how that pans out.

Thanks,
Josh