I have been getting this problem for quite some time now. Even my repeated
attempts failed to resolve this problem. I still have close to 4 to 5 backup
dumps created by amanda in my holding space [which failed across various
weeks]. I try to run amflush, it just sits there doing nothing [happly
eating away my CPU time]. Tape drive shows no indication that it is running
[lights don't blink]. But when I try to access tape device from outside [mt
status] -- it says "device is busy".

I don't really know what is happening. I tried running amflush several
times, but still does not work, the only thing which happens is amanda keeps
asking for new tapes without actually writing anything on to it!

Any anyone give me any pointers?

Thanks!
Rohit



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Postaremczak Bernd" <Bernd.Postaremczak AT SMS-Eumuco DOT de>
To: <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 8:53 PM
Subject: Problem with amflush


> Hello,
>
> my storage with amanda this night failed because there was a time-problem
> with two concurrent jobs. The dumps are there where they should be (in the
> dump-directory). Now I will run amflush, but it doesn't seem to work. The
> Process has maximum CPU-Usage, but there is no writing on tape.
>
> I have no idea where I can begin to search.
>
> The logfiles don't say anything for errors. amstatus says, that the dumper
> will work (see output below), but the process runs about 1 hour. Normally
> the writing to tape goes only 13 minutes, so he should hav been finished
> now.
>
> -bash-2.05b$ amstatus levap03-do
> Using /var/log/amanda/levap03-do/amflush
>
>
> SUMMARY          part     real estimated
>                           size      size
> partition       :   0
> estimated       :   0                  0k
> flush           :   0        0k
> failed          :   0                  0k           (  0.00%)
> wait for dumping:   0                  0k           (  0.00%)
> dumping to tape :   0                  0k           (  0.00%)
> dumping         :   0        0k        0k (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
> dumped          :   0        0k        0k (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
> wait for writing:   0        0k        0k (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
> wait to flush   :   0        0k        0k (100.00%) (  0.00%)
> writing to tape :   0        0k        0k (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
> failed to tape  :   0        0k        0k (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
> taped           :   0        0k        0k (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
> all dumpers active
> taper idle
>
> Or is there a misunderstanding in my point of view of working amflush?
>
> Best regards
>
> Bernd