> Please try the following patch. It will not fix anything, but will log
> the exit code of all the processes driver starts, in particular, the
> messed up dumpers. Actually, it will only log them if they indicate some
> kind of failure, but I'd be surprised if they are going away cleanly.
> The messages will go to the E-mail report and also to the tail end
> of amdump.1. Please post the last 30 or so lines of amdump.1 when you
> get the next failure.
Patch Server and Clients, or just the Server?
> >... If you go to the end of the file at the point where it starts
> >doing the first of the backups that failed, for some reason it starts
> >backing directly to tape. ...
>
> Huh? I don't see that in the log you sent. All the commands I see
> are FILE-DUMP. Which file are you talking about (what "start at" from
> the first line)? Or what makes you think it was direct to tape?
The lines I was referring to were these and they start at line 888:
driver: dumping ns3-backnet.inherent.com:/var directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for ns3-backnet.inherent.com:/var.
driver: dumping anomaly1-backnet.inherent.com:/ directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for anomaly1-backnet.inherent.com:/.
driver: dumping anomaly1-backnet.inherent.com:/var directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for anomaly1-backnet.inherent.com:/var.
driver: dumping localhost:/data1 directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for localhost:/data1.
driver: dumping flood-backnet.inherent.com:/ directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for flood-backnet.inherent.com:/.
driver: dumping anomaly1-backnet.inherent.com:/var/spool directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for anomaly1-backnet.inherent.com:/var/spool.
driver: dumping flood-backnet.inherent.com:/var directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for flood-backnet.inherent.com:/var.
driver: dumping wind.inherent.com:/ directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for wind.inherent.com:/.
driver: dumping twister-backnet.inherent.com:/usr directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for twister-backnet.inherent.com:/usr.
driver: dumping ice-backnet.inherent.com:/ directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for ice-backnet.inherent.com:/.
driver: dumping ns3-backnet.inherent.com:/usr directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for ns3-backnet.inherent.com:/usr.
driver: dumping darkwing.inherent.com:/usr directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for darkwing.inherent.com:/usr.
driver: dumping ivanova-backnet.inherent.com:/usr directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for ivanova-backnet.inherent.com:/usr.
driver: dumping twister-backnet.inherent.com:/export/home directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for twister-backnet.inherent.com:/export/home.
driver: dumping localhost:/usr directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for localhost:/usr.
driver: dumping flood-backnet.inherent.com:/usr directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for flood-backnet.inherent.com:/usr.
driver: dumping flood-backnet.inherent.com:/data2 directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for flood-backnet.inherent.com:/data2.
driver: dumping wind.inherent.com:/export/home directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for wind.inherent.com:/export/home.
driver: dumping anomaly1-backnet.inherent.com:/usr directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for anomaly1-backnet.inherent.com:/usr.
driver: dumping flood-backnet.inherent.com:/home directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for flood-backnet.inherent.com:/home.
driver: dumping twister-backnet.inherent.com:/export/home0 directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for twister-backnet.inherent.com:/export/home0.
driver: dumping s20.inherent.com:/export/home directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for s20.inherent.com:/export/home.
driver: dumping s20.inherent.com:/export/home0 directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for s20.inherent.com:/export/home0.
driver: dumping anomaly1-backnet.inherent.com:/home directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for anomaly1-backnet.inherent.com:/home.
driver: dumping ivanova-backnet.inherent.com:/home directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for ivanova-backnet.inherent.com:/home.
driver: dumping ice-backnet.inherent.com:/export/home directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for ice-backnet.inherent.com:/export/home.
driver: dumping ivanova-backnet.inherent.com:/var directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for ivanova-backnet.inherent.com:/var.
driver: dumping ns3-backnet.inherent.com:/ directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for ns3-backnet.inherent.com:/.
driver: dumping s20.inherent.com:/usr directly to tape
driver: no idle dumpers for s20.inherent.com:/usr.
driver: state time 881.111 free kps: 8000 space: 22993444 taper: idle
idle-dumpers: 4 qlen tapeq: 0 runq: 0 roomq: 0 wakeup: 86400 driver-idle:
no-dumpers
driver: interface-state time 881.111 if : free 3000 if ETH0: free 4000 if
LOCAL: free 1000
driver: hdisk-state time 881.111 hdisk 0: free 22993444 dumpers 0
driver: QUITTING time 881.111 telling children to quit
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Mark A. Holm - Director of Network Engineering & Operations
Inherent.com, Inc.
2140 SW Jefferson St. Phone: (503) 224-6751
Suite 200 extension 236
Portland, OR 97201 Fax: (503) 224-8872
<http://www.inherent.com> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
