I've set up amanda successfully, with a tape in the drive (labelled
with amlabel). amcheck was passed. When I tried to run amdump straight
(/usr/local/sbin/amdump Daily), the email report below was delivered.
What have I done wrong? Is there any other info needed to help me out?
Thanks,
tom
###begin email report:
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [no tape online].
Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
Run amflush to flush them to tape.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape.
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
localhost /home lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump]
STATISTICS:
Total Full Daily
-------- -------- --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00
Run Time (hrs:min) 0:00
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) 0:00 0:00 0:00
Tape Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Tape Used (%) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Filesystems Taped 0 0 0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) -- -- --
NOTES:
planner: Adding new disk localhost:/home.
DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
localhost /home 0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
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