On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:04:10PM -0000, dwtrusty wrote:
> Thanks for the tips.
> 
> All the low-level commands seem to be in order.  
> 
> I can use ammt, mt, amtape, mtx successfully.  I can use tar to write
> to the tape, and read the contents back.  Amcheck shows no errors.
> 
> I'm using version 2.4.3.
> 
> What else should I check?

Confirm it is repeatable.

I just had an odd one I don't expect to repeat.
Amanda used the same tape (tape8) 2 days in a row.
I think it happened because I was playing with a new Solaris feature
called "live upgrade" and I suspect the old tapelist got put back
after the first use of tape8.  I don't think I will ever track
down the actual cause.  But I'm out one days dumps.

If it is repeatable, then time to delve into the reports/logs/debug files.

You might try a test dump with only a few entries in your disklist.
Comment out most with a '#" sign and see if it still fails.  That will
also give you fewer/smaller files to look through.

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