Dear all,

I've now installed the newest version of Amanda, and have completed a
full backup to test tape spanning.  However, as soon as Amanda ran out
of space on the first tape, it "failed".

The email report contains:

FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY:
   server /what/ever lev 0  FAILED "No new tape."
   server /what/ever lev 0  FAILED [too many taper retries]

/var/log/amanda/server/daily/taper.20080617210001.debug contains:

1213795301.960369: taper: putresult: 26 REQUEST-NEW-TAPE
1213795301.961442: taper: getcmd: NEW-TAPE
1213795308.760033: taper: changer_query: changer return was 1 1
1213795308.760072: taper: changer_query: searchable = 0
1213795308.760085: taper: changer_find: looking for NULL changer is
searchable = 0
1213795309.008124: taper: putresult: 19 NO-NEW-TAPE
1213795309.008194: taper: putresult: 4 PARTIAL
1213795309.008550: taper: getcmd: FILE-WRITE 00-00025
/holding/disk/20080617210001/server._what_ever.0 server /what/ever 0
20080617210001 1073741824
1213795310.483950: taper: putresult: 26 REQUEST-NEW-TAPE
1213795310.484806: taper: getcmd: NEW-TAPE
1213795310.996988: taper: changer_query: changer return was 1 1
1213795310.997023: taper: changer_query: searchable = 0
1213795310.997036: taper: changer_find: looking for NULL changer is
searchable = 0
1213795311.586995: taper: putresult: 19 NO-NEW-TAPE
1213795311.587116: taper: putresult: 10 FAILED
1213795311.587564: taper: getcmd: QUIT
1213795311.587581: taper: putresult: 2 QUITTING

/var/log/amanda/changer.debug contains lots of these:

-> status tape:/dev/nst0
Exit -> 1 1 1
args -> -info
-> status tape:/dev/nst0
Exit -> 1 1 1
args -> -slot current
-> status tape:/dev/nst0
Exit -> 1 tape:/dev/nst0
args -> -info
-> status tape:/dev/nst0
Exit -> 1 1 1
args -> -slot current
-> status tape:/dev/nst0
Exit -> 1 tape:/dev/nst0

Again, my amanda.conf is pretty much standard, except for:

dumpcycle 0
runtapes 2
tpchanger "chg-manual"
tapedev "tape:/dev/nst0"
changerfile "/etc/amanda/daily/changer.conf"
changerdev "/dev/null"

chg-manual contains:

firstslot=1
lastslot=1

I've "exercised" the tape device using the amtape command, and it seemed
ok to me although I wasn't entirely sure what results to expect.

Can anyone maybe see a reason why it failed to span?  I'll do another
test using lastslot=2 in chg-manual, but wanted to ask in the meantime.

Thanks very much.

Johan