Amanda-Users

Re: dump to tape failed - how to diagnose?

2003-12-30 14:52:24
Subject: Re: dump to tape failed - how to diagnose?
From: John Dalbec <jpdalbec AT ysu DOT edu>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:50:57 -0500


Jon LaBadie wrote:

On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:04:29AM -0500, John Dalbec wrote:

I can't find anything in /tmp/amanda or /var/log/messages. Am I just not looking in the right places?
Thanks,
John


You are not using any holding disk, is that intentional?

I have two holding disks specified in my config. What are you seeing that makes you conclude that I'm not using any holding disk? I have about 4.5G available on the larger holding disk. Actually the two failed filesystems are too large to fit in the holding disk. Is that part of the problem?

If you mean that I don't have any incremental backups, that is intentional.

Do you mean your /tmp/amanda was empty?

No, I mean that I can't find anything that looks like an error. I see a message "can#t send SCSI commands" but it appears too many times to be the cause of the two failures.

Were you looking at those locations on both the server and the client.

In this case the server is the client.