--On Friday, September 16, 2005 01:09:16 -0400 "Lengyel, Florian" <FLengyel AT 
gc.cuny DOT edu> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org on behalf of Jon LaBadie
> Sent: Fri 9/16/2005 12:34 AM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Re: Wait for dumping
> 
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:51:31PM -0400, Lengyel, Florian wrote:
>> A check of the log shows that the taper is complaining that a new tape
>> isn't in the rack! But there are plenty of tapes (30)...
>> 
>> [amanda@amanda Daily]$ more log.20050915.4
>> START driver date 20050915
>> DISK planner cml10 /home/moodle
>> DISK planner m254.gc.cuny.edu /home/m254/dmulcahey/
>> START planner date 20050915
>> WARNING driver WARNING: /var/tmp/amanda: 10485760 KB requested, but
> only 7812680
>>  KB available.
>> INFO planner Adding new disk cml10:/home/moodle.
>> INFO planner Adding new disk m254.gc.cuny.edu:/home/m254/dmulcahey/.
>> FINISH planner date 20050915
>> STATS driver startup time 0.477
>> ERROR taper no-tape [new tape not found in rack]
> 
> Do disklist entries other than this new one backup correctly
> during the same amdump run?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Are those 30 tapes labeled with the amlabel command?
> 
> Yes. Nothing changed. They were amlabeled a few months ago.
> 
> Are they labeled with a string that matches that specified in
> amanda.conf?
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> How many of those 30 have been used at least once by amanda?
> 
> All of them.
> 
> What is your tapecycle value?  Is it greater than 30?
> 
> tapecycle 30 tapes  
> 
> So not greater than 30.
> 
> What does amcheck say about the tape it expects to use?
> 
> It says the following:
> 
> [amanda@amanda ~]$ amcheck Daily
> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> -----------------------------
> WARNING: holding disk /var/tmp/amanda: only 7813184 KB free (10485760 KB
> requested)
> amcheck-server: slot 11: tape_rdlabel: tape open: /dev/nst0:
> Input/output error

Looks like you got an error trying to read the tape label from the tape
your changer thinks came from slot 11.
> 
> amcheck-server: fatal slot 11: Unloading Data Transfer Element into
> Storage Element 11...mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes

Your changer also barfed trying to unload the tape to put back into slot 11.
Since it was a fatal error it quit looking, so..
> ERROR: new tape not found in rack

because it couldn't get the next tape (since the changer script died).

Perhaps I missed it since I'm jumping in mid-thread, but are you using real
tapes or vtapes (using the FILE driver)?  If it is real tapes, check your
changer to verify that there is a tape in the drive and your changer can
move it properly (using mtx or whatever tools you have available) and check
your system logs for more descriptive SCSI errors.

Frank

>        (expecting a new tape)
> NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
> NOTE: info dir /var/lib/amanda/Daily/curinfo/cml10: does not exist
> NOTE: index dir /var/lib/amanda/Daily/index/cml10: does not exist
> NOTE: info dir
> /var/lib/amanda/Daily/curinfo/m254.gc.cuny.edu/_home_m254_dmulcahey_:
> does not exist
> NOTE: index dir
> /var/lib/amanda/Daily/index/m254.gc.cuny.edu/_home_m254_dmulcahey_: does
> not exist
> Server check took 423.496 seconds
> 
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> --------------------------------
> Client check: 2 hosts checked in 0.089 seconds, 0 problems found
> 
> (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4p3)
> 
> 
> --
> Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
>  JG Computing
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> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> FL 
> 



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