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> >Lately I've been having severe problems with amflush. ...
>
> What version of Amanda?
2.4.2p1
>
> >*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: Bad file descriptor]].
>
> Did you run this in the background (without the -f flag)? Do you have
> an amflush.NN file in the amanda.conf directory? What's in it?
>
Yes, I ran it in the background. No, there's no amflush.NN file.
> If you used -f, it would have put the same information to your screen.
> If you still have that, or get it again, that might be useful.
>
Sorry, I should have gone ahead and pasted the full report. I put it at
the bottom of this message.
> Did you run amcheck before amflush? You might want to do that, too.
>
Yes, and it did not report anything unusual.
> Any chance the tape is write protected?
Not a chance.
>
> >--Daniel
>
> John R. Jackson
The dumps were flushed to tape daily15.
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: Bad file descriptor]].
Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
Run amflush again to flush them to tape.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: daily1.
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
antonio / lev 1 FAILED [out of tape]
antonio /home lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
oberon /home lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
antonio //hermia/inetpub lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
prospero /home lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
antonio //hermia/cvs_working lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
antonio //omega/checkout lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
antonio //quince/inetpub lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
fulgencio / lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
theseus / lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
antonio //quince/CVSWorking lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
fulgencio /usr lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
STATISTICS:
Total Full Daily
-------- -------- --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00
Run Time (hrs:min) 1:49
Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00
Output Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Original Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- --
Filesystems Dumped 0 0 0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s) -- -- --
Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:34 0:34 0:01
Tape Size (meg) 5133.1 5101.7 31.4
Tape Used (%) 26.3 26.1 0.2 (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Taped 16 7 9 (1:9)
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 2566.4 2592.5 973.1
NOTES:
taper: tape daily15 kb 16869696 fm 17 writing file: No space left on
device
amflush: /usr/local/etc/amanda/dumps/20010427/antonio._.1: taper error,
leaving file on disk
amflush: /usr/local/etc/amanda/dumps/20010427/antonio._home.0: taper
error, leaving file on disk
amflush: /usr/local/etc/amanda/dumps/20010427/oberon._home.0: taper
error, leaving file on disk
amflush: /usr/local/etc/amanda/dumps/20010427/antonio.__hermia_inetpub.0: taper
error, leaving file on disk
amflush: /usr/local/etc/amanda/dumps/20010427/prospero._home.0: taper
error, leaving file on disk
amflush: /usr/local/etc/amanda/dumps/20010427/antonio.__hermia_cvs__working.0: taper
error, leaving file on disk
amflush: /usr/local/etc/amanda/dumps/20010427/antonio.__omega_checkout.0: taper
error, leaving file on disk
amflush: /usr/local/etc/amanda/dumps/20010427/antonio.__quince_inetpub.0: taper
error, leaving file on disk
amflush: /usr/local/etc/amanda/dumps/20010427/fulgencio._.0: taper
error, leaving file on disk
amflush: /usr/local/etc/amanda/dumps/20010427/theseus._.0: taper error,
leaving file on disk
amflush: /usr/local/etc/amanda/dumps/20010427/antonio.__quince_CVSWorking.0: taper
error, leaving file on disk
amflush: /usr/local/etc/amanda/dumps/20010427/fulgencio._usr.0: taper
error, leaving file on disk
amflush: Could not rmdir /usr/local/etc/amanda/dumps/20010427. Check
for cruft.
DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
antonio / 1 FAILED ---------------------------------------
antonio -/CSEreader 0 N/A 2688 -- N/A N/A 0:03 917.4
antonio -r/HEreader 1 N/A 768 -- N/A N/A 0:01 820.9
antonio -vs_working 0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
antonio -ia/inetpub 0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
antonio -a/checkout 0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
antonio -CVSWorking 0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
antonio -ce/inetpub 0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
antonio /home 0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
benvolio / 1 N/A 6048 -- N/A N/A 0:041622.3
benvolio /usr 0 N/A 850112 -- N/A N/A 5:322561.0
flute / 1 N/A 832 -- N/A N/A 0:02 376.3
flute /home 1 N/A 64 -- N/A N/A 0:02 35.1
fulgencio / 0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
fulgencio /usr 0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
juliet / 1 N/A 13440 -- N/A N/A 0:062235.8
juliet /usr 1 N/A 384 -- N/A N/A 0:11 34.0
oberon / NO FILE TO FLUSH -----------------------------
oberon /home 0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
portia / 0 N/A 900608 -- N/A N/A 5:462601.4
portia /home 1 N/A 96 -- N/A N/A 0:02 54.1
prospero / 1 N/A 10432 -- N/A N/A 0:042473.8
prospero /home 0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
romeo / 0 N/A 272480 -- N/A N/A 1:442632.1
romeo /usr 0 N/A 804192 -- N/A N/A 5:082608.5
theseus / 0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
theseus /home 0 N/A 1984 -- N/A N/A 0:021148.2
titania / 0 83629902392096 28.6 N/A N/A 15:202598.7
titania /home 1 N/A 64 -- N/A N/A 0:01 63.3
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