>I do incrementals Monday through Thursday and a full backup every Friday. My
>incrementals work fine, unelss I'm using the tape labeled Daily-004. When thi
>s tape is in I always get a tape error.
Amanda cannot cause tape errors. It is only reporting to you what the
OS told it. Since it seems to happen with a specific tape, that would
seem to indicate that tape is bad.
Replacing it as you did is the obvious first attempt. Since that also did
not work (if I understand correctly), note that the file system it failed
to get to tape was much larger than the others, which may have kicked
streaming in more or may have triggered some kind of I/O conflict on your
system bus's (e.g. between the holding disk and tape drive) or any number
of other things. Welcome to the dark world of debugging hardware faults.
There were some postings just a few days ago about this as well.
Basically it's like any debugging problem. Keep shifting one thing (piece
of hardware) at a time around until the problem changes or goes away.
The last thing you shifted is your likely suspect.
Of course, if it goes away, leaving it alone is sometimes the wisest
choice :-).
>2) It claims it put everything to holding disk, yet all I can find are two par
>titions. Why would this happen - amcheck reports it has enough disk space?
What do you mean you found two partitions? Only one didn't make it to
tape, according to what you posted. And the text of that message had
been cleaned up to better indicate what really happened, something like:
Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
Also, there is a bug, fixed in the current CVS sources, that causes
the image being written to tape when an error happens to be removed
from the holding disk (it may be slightly more complicated than that).
So that may be coming into play here as well.
When amcheck says there is enough holding disk space, all it is saying
is that the amount of space is equal to or larger than the "use" value
you have in your holding disk definition. It has nothing to do with
whether there is enough space to hold the images of an upcoming amdump
run since nobody knows that until planner is run.
>Nicci
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
