On Sep 27, 2006, at 12:15 PM, JB Segal wrote:

Sadly, it's not that easy: (I'm a totally different person having the
same problem.

-sh-3.00$ amcheck smarterliving
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
WARNING: holding disk /backup/smarterliving: only 57203900 kB free
(73400320 kB requested)
slot 12: read label `SL00018', date `20060918'
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Tape SL00018 label ok
Server check took 24.834 seconds

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
Client check: 19 hosts checked in 10.243 seconds, 0 problems found

(brought to you by Amanda 2.5.1)

while my nightly amdump does the same thing Nick's does (and Olivier
Nicole, Steven Backus and a bunch of others:

These dumps were to tapes SL00016, SL00017.
The next 3 tapes Amanda expects to use are: SL00018, SL00019, SL00002.
The next new tape already labelled is: SL000138.

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:

central /home lev 1 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 instead of 32768] mattapan /data1 lev 1 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 instead of 32768] chinatown /boot lev 1 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 instead of 32768] central /home lev 1 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 instead of 32768] central /home lev 1 FAILED [too many dumper retry: "[request failed: timeout waiting for ACK]"] mattapan /data1 lev 1 FAILED [too many dumper retry: "[request failed: timeout waiting for ACK]"] mattapan /data1 lev 1 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 instead of 32768] haymarket / lev 1 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 instead of 32768] chinatown / lev 1 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 instead of 32768] haymarket / lev 1 FAILED [too many dumper retry: "[request failed: timeout waiting for ACK]"]

  chinatown  /boot   lev 1  was successfully retried
  chinatown  /       lev 1  was successfully retried

Just to add a "metoo", I'm suddenly getting these same errors.

Any ideas of what to look for to correct this?

Thanks,
Bruce.