Erik van der Meulen wrote:
>
> Could someone please help me with a little advice on the interpretation
> of the attached Amanda log? I have been receiving this error for the
> second day in a row now.
> The line:
>
> souterrain sda3 lev 2 FAILED [out of tape]
>
> made me think that my backup volume was larger than my tape.
> But the total output size seems to be only 182M (on a DDS2 drive).
182 MB were stored on the holding disk. Nothing was transferred to the
tape drive.
> taper: tape AVONDEL04 kb 0 fm 0 writing filemark: Input/output error
> In fact, this has happened a few times in the past, and made me replace
> the particular tape. But because it now is the second consecutive time,
> I would like to know what is going on.
You might try "mt weof 5" or "mt erase" but I suggest to kick off that
tape, too.
