On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
> Before you try working with amdump, you should use amcheck. It does
> a better job of diagnosing problems. Also, if it's not happy, you can
> bet amdump will be even less so.
it seems happy..
gump# su amanda -c "amcheck daily"
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
Holding disk /usr/dumps: 930872 KB disk space available, that's plenty
amcheck-server: slot 1: date 20010816 label DailySet1-001 (active tape)
amcheck-server: fatal slot chio:: /dev/ch0: CHIOMOVE: Invalid argument
ERROR: new tape not found in rack
(expecting a new tape)
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
NOTE: info dir /var/log/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo: does not exist
NOTE: it will be created on the next run
Server check took 56.479 seconds
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
Client check: 1 host checked in 0.891 seconds, 0 problems found
(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.2p2)
again, the error is just wierd, the problem comes when the dumper on the
client machine is called. i'm not sure if there's something i'm doing
wrong or not.
> In your case, use the "-c" option to just do the client checks, since
> that's what's failing. You don't need to waste time doing the server
> checks, in particular the tape ones. I usually use "-cl" which does
> everything but the tape checks.
so far, this has been a slight problem on the host side aswell, since
chg-chio doesn't seem to get how to unmount a tape after it's spooled..
on the client side of things, the debugging output is fairly minor. i'm
wondering if there's something i've really screwed up. i think, after all
this is over, i'm going to write a metric buttload of documentation.
> Here are the FAQ items of interest to what amcheck will probably say:
>
> http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/16.html
> http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/140.html
i've run through each of those.
if you want, i'll provide the output from "User Amanda", that is mailed to
me after each failure.
> Have you gone through all the items they mention?
and then some. i wish this were an obvious problem.
> >should i have an actual device for dumping this?
>
> Huh?
in this case: instead of /home/ using the /dev/ad0s2f. that, or the raw
device itself.
i'm still trying to figure out what's going wrong..
-- jan
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