On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 06:04:51PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 at 1:57pm, Lorrie Wood wrote
>
> > no problem there. I tried to run amflush, though, and it failed on
> > several filesystems. I am guessing it's a failure of the files on the
> > holding disk instead of the tape (as the tape does have good data!).
>
> Don't be so sure...
But I do restores from amanda stuff all the time -- the last two
I/O errors were in flush reports, not dump reports. Hm.
> taper ran into an "Input/output error" trying to put those disk images
> onto tape. In reality, taper is just telling you what the OS told it.
> Check your system logs for related messages -- they should tell you what
> type of Input/output error occurred.
I don't see it in the logs of either the server or the client.
Moreover, an error *reading* data would seem to point to the dump file,
wouldn't it?
> I've seen old tape drives/tapes/combos thereof which will write random
> amounts of data (sometimes a whole night's worth, sometimes not) before
> giving such errors.
But it backs up (and restores!) consistently -- the only problem
is whenit has to dump to disk, and I have to flush from disk. I care
about this, as I'll soon be doing some large dumps on Friday nights, which
will have to be held there until I get in Monday morning, and, well,
they won't be any good to me if they're corrupt...
-- Lorrie
