Yes, they are the last lines in changer.debug.  Unfortunately no times
or dates are recorded.

I can't really see if the tape drive is writing anything.  Usually it
has a little light on it that flickers when there's activity, but now
it's just shining all the time and that's no good.

Is there anywhere else I can check to see if the job is actively and
running?  Or whether the tape drive is actually writing something?

What is strange is that mt -f /dev/nst0 status reports:

SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x49 (Quantum SDLT320).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
 BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN

But I'm sure that while writing it usually comes back with:

/dev/nst0: Device or resource busy

So, alas, I don't think it's doing anything.

Any other suggestions at all?

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martineau AT zmanda DOT com] 
Sent: 09 June 2008 13:25
To: Johan Booysen
Cc: Amanda user's group
Subject: Re: Amanda 2.5.0 spanning

Johan Booysen wrote:
> Ok, on Thurday night at 21:00 I kicked off a backup job that should
span
> over 2 tapes.  I wasn't in the office on Friday, but this morning the
> first tape was ejected, and amstatus tells me the following:
>
> server:/whatever/clients  0127494663k writing to tape (9:43:32)
>
> I believe then that amanda wrote stuff to tape until 09:43 on Friday
> morning, and then filled up the first tape, ejected it, and has been
> patiently waiting for the second tape.  Or will it have timed out by
> now?
>
> So I inserted the second tape this morning, and nothing seems to be
> happening at all.  It certainly does not appear to be writing anything
> to the second tape...
>
> What's the best way of seeing what amanda's doing now?
>
> I've tried the following:
>
> Amcheck skips the tape check, and tells me that amdump or amflush is
> running.
>
> Changer.debug contains lots of these (lots and lots):
>   -> rewind /dev/nst0
>   /dev/nst0 rewind failed: Input/output error
>   -> status /dev/nst0
>   /dev/nst0 status failed: Input/output error
>   -> loaded <>
>   
chg-manual check regularly if you put a tape in the drive, if you put a 
valid tape in the driver then it should succeed, are they the latest 
lines of the files?

Maybe try another tape.

Jean-Louis