--On Sunday, August 29, 2004 09:08:24 +0200 Reidar Nordin <reidar AT tedk DOT 
com> wrote:

> I am running amanda in a redhat based network. I am backing up to disk
> instead of to tape because I had to many errors with the tapes.
> When I first started to back up to tape it worked fine but after a while
> i started getting error messages for just one server.
> I am backing up 7 servers and they all work fine except for one of them,
> the server that gives me the error is (awe), I get this error message
> after every run (the disk is not full):
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> These dumps were to tape backup09.
> *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: short write]].
> Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
> Run amflush to flush them to tape.
> The next tape Amanda expects to use is: backup010.
> 
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>   awe        /home lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]

Your 'tape' is full.  It doesn't necessarily mean the disk
is full, it could be that your backups exceed your tape length.
Look farther down in your report for the taper line and see if it
wrote as many bytes as you specified for the length in your tapetype.
If so, either increase your tape length (since you're really writing
to a file instead of to a tape) or increase runtapes to write to
multiple 'tapes'.

>   awe        /home lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]

I'm guessing you're not using a holding disk.  While it's not as
necessary using the file driver, it would allow multiple dumps to
occur in parallel, which can shorten your backup window (using a
different disk is recommended to lessen I/O contention)

Frank

>   awe        /home lev 0 FAILED ["data write: Broken pipe"]
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> /-- awe        /home lev 0 FAILED ["data write: Broken pipe"]
> sendbackup: start [awe:/home level 0]
> sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
> sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f... -
> sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
> sendbackup: info end
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> Anyone got a clue ???? 
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