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Re: The "new tape" problem

2008-01-31 13:20:39
Subject: Re: The "new tape" problem
From: FL <lengyel AT gmail DOT com>
To: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:11:43 -0500


On Jan 31, 2008 12:52 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin AT zmanda DOT com> wrote:
On Jan 31, 2008 12:41 PM, FL <lengyel AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Ok, then I have another problem--possibly timeouts with the tape changer.
> My exabyte 224 LTO3 library has a bizarre problem (verified numerous times):
> connecting the ethernet port to a 100mb/sec switch causes the unit to time
> out.

Sounds like a (very weird) grounding or termination problem to me.

Dustin

--
Storage Software Engineer
http://www.zmanda.com


That could be--I could try another terminator. As for removing and relabeling
Daily08, amanda claims that Daily08 is not in the tapelist

Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
Holding disk /var/lib/amanda/holdingdisk: 60199272 KB disk space available, that's plenty
amcheck-server: slot 7: date 20071215 label Daily07 (active tape)
amcheck-server: slot 8: date 20071205 label Daily08 (Not in tapelist)
amcheck-server: slot 9: date 20071206 label Daily09 (active tape)
amcheck-server: slot 10: date 20071207 label Daily10 (active tape)
amcheck-server: fatal slot 11: mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes
ERROR: new tape not found in rack
       (expecting a new tape)
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Server check took 587.029 seconds

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
Client check: 4 hosts checked in 10.083 seconds, 0 problems found

(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4p3)





A subsequent amcheck Daily resulted in this

Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
Holding disk /var/lib/amanda/holdingdisk: 60199208 KB disk space available, that's plenty
amcheck-server: slot 10: date 20071207 label Daily10 (active tape)
amcheck-server: fatal slot 11: mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes
ERROR: new tape not found in rack
       (expecting a new tape)
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Server check took 115.114 seconds

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
Client check: 4 hosts checked in 10.059 seconds, 0 problems found

(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4p3)

The mtx failure happens during amcheck but apparently not during amdump...

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