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taper: FATAL writer: Syncpipe failure during buffer advance

2007-12-06 05:25:29
Subject: taper: FATAL writer: Syncpipe failure during buffer advance
From: "Tommy Eriksen" <te AT rackhosting DOT com>
To: <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 11:18:51 +0100
Hi,

I had a backupserver crash yesterday (during backups, I believe) and
today, trying to do an amcleanup and amflush, I received the errors
below from amflush:
--- 
*** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!

The dumps were flushed to tape RH03.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: RH04.

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  taper: FATAL Invalid partnum (1) > totalparts (0)
  taper: FATAL writer: Syncpipe failure during buffer advance
---

Also, when trying to do a restore of a file, I get:
sethost xxxx
200 Dump host set to xxxx.
amrecover> setdisk twed0s1a
200 Disk set to twed0s1a.
No index records for disk for specified date
If date correct, notify system administrator

... Any bright ideas? :)

I'm using "harddisk-tapes" on Linux, and the server has been running
without a hiccup for a year.
Version info below (Amanda is installed from debian packages):

backup@bck-b4:~$ amadmin RH version
build: VERSION="Amanda-2.5.1p1"
       BUILT_DATE="Wed Nov 29 02:15:07 CET 2006"
       BUILT_MACH="Linux intrepid 2.6.18-1-686 #1 SMP Fri Sep 29
16:25:40 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux"
       CC="gcc"
       CONFIGURE_COMMAND="'./configure' '--prefix=/usr'
'--bindir=/usr/sbin' '--mandir=/usr/share/man'
'--libexecdir=/usr/lib/amanda' '--enable-shared' '--sysconfdir=/etc'
'--localstatedir=/var/lib'
'--with-gnutar-listdir=/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists'
'--with-index-server=localhost' '--with-user=backup'
'--with-group=backup' '--with-bsd-security' '--with-amandahosts'
'--with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient' '--with-debugging=/var/log/amanda'
'--with-dumperdir=/usr/lib/amanda/dumper.d'
'--with-tcpportrange=50000,50100' '--with-udpportrange=840,860'
'--with-maxtapeblocksize=256' '--with-ssh-security'"
paths: bindir="/usr/sbin" sbindir="/usr/sbin"
       libexecdir="/usr/lib/amanda" mandir="/usr/share/man"
       AMANDA_TMPDIR="/tmp/amanda"
       AMANDA_DBGDIR="/var/log/amanda" CONFIG_DIR="/etc/amanda"
       DEV_PREFIX="/dev/" RDEV_PREFIX="/dev/" DUMP="/sbin/dump"
       RESTORE="/sbin/restore" VDUMP=UNDEF VRESTORE=UNDEF
       XFSDUMP="/sbin/xfsdump" XFSRESTORE="/sbin/xfsrestore"
       VXDUMP=UNDEF VXRESTORE=UNDEF
       SAMBA_CLIENT="/usr/bin/smbclient" GNUTAR="/bin/tar"
       COMPRESS_PATH="/bin/gzip" UNCOMPRESS_PATH="/bin/gzip"
       LPRCMD="/usr/bin/lpr" MAILER="/usr/bin/mail"
       listed_incr_dir="/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists"
defs:  DEFAULT_SERVER="localhost" DEFAULT_CONFIG="DailySet1"
       DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="localhost" HAVE_MMAP HAVE_SYSVSHM
       LOCKING=POSIX_FCNTL SETPGRP_VOID DEBUG_CODE
       AMANDA_DEBUG_DAYS=4 BSD_SECURITY RSH_SECURITY USE_AMANDAHOSTS
       CLIENT_LOGIN="backup" FORCE_USERID HAVE_GZIP
       COMPRESS_SUFFIX=".gz" COMPRESS_FAST_OPT="--fast"
       COMPRESS_BEST_OPT="--best" UNCOMPRESS_OPT="-dc"


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