Hi,

No - it's doing absolutely nothing at all.  I did a tail -f on the file
but it hasn't changed since almost an hour ago.

Last timestamp on the file is Jun 6 12:12, anyway.

Oh dear...

:(

-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martineau AT zmanda DOT com] 
Sent: 09 June 2008 14:37
To: Johan Booysen
Cc: Amanda user's group
Subject: Re: Amanda 2.5.0 spanning

Is it adding new lines to changer.debug?
If yes, then something is buggy, try to kill the script: kill 11652

Jean-Louis

Johan Booysen wrote:
> 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
>