On Thursday 20 May 2004 08:13, Gene Heskett wrote:
>Greetings all;

It did it again this morning.  Somehow when runtapes is >1, it thinks 
the changer has been advanced, but it hasn't.  I believe we have a 
real live bug here.

>I have a bit of a puzzle this morning.  I reset the dumpcycle and
>runspercycle for an extra day, and told it runtapes=2 for last
> nights run as there is about 2.5Gb of new data from grabbing the
> newest fedora core 2 iso's over the last couple of days.  The front
> of the drawer said slot 3 (2 to amanda which uses base zero
> numbering) was loaded, so it had one more tape to go
>
>My amdump wrapper script does an amcheck in order to make sure the
>next tape is available, and emails me if it isn't.
>
>The next tape in the cycle is supposed to be #4, but I got this
> email from amcheck this morning:
>
>amcheck-server: slot 2: date 20040520 label DailySet1-03 (active
> tape) amcheck-server: slot 3: date 20040426 label DailySet1-05
> (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 0: date 20040519 label
> DailySet1-02 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 1: date 20040520
> label DailySet1-03 (active tape) ERROR: label DailySet1-04 or new
> tape not found in rack
>       (expecting tape DailySet1-04 or a new tape)
>
>Ohkay, not noticing that its claiming tape 3 is in 2 slots, I
> reloaded the magazine and issued another call to amcheck, which of
> course returns:
>
>amcheck-server: slot 1: date 20040428 label DailySet1-07 (active
> tape) amcheck-server: slot 2: date 20040429 label DailySet1-08
> (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 3: date 20040430 label
> DailySet1-09 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 0: date 20040427
> label DailySet1-06 (active tape) ERROR: label DailySet1-04 or new
> tape not found in rack
>       (expecting tape DailySet1-04 or a new tape)
>
>Tape 4 *was* in the magazine when it was reloaded for the last
>magazine load.
>
>ow I'm going to reload the magazine with 4,5,6,7, with 4 in slot 1,
> 0 to amanda, and use dd to label it as 4 again to restore the
> missing label, but my question is where did it go in the first
> place?  Is there some gotcha in the runtapes>1 setting?
>
>I'm puzzled.  When I reloaded the magazine so 3,4,5 & 6 were in it,
>amcheck found tape 4 just fine:
>
>amcheck-server: slot 0: date 20040520 label DailySet1-03 (active
> tape) amcheck-server: slot 1: date 20040426 label DailySet1-04
> (exact label match)
>
>At 8 am, its way too early for it to be beer-thirty, but I feel like
> I should be at least one behind :-(  I better go stick my thumb.
> 115, not too sweet.
>
>Other than the drive miss-firing when told to change tapes, I have
> NDI what happened.

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