All, Thanks to the help of this list, I have just recently configured Amanda and run my first backups. However, I'm experiencing problems with amverify and amrecover. The morning after the first backups ran, I tried to run amverify on the first tape of the run. Here's the report I got back from amverify (ran for at least an hour):
Tapes: linuxman11 Errors found: linuxman11 (linuxman._mnt_share_Angela.20011023.0): amrestore: 0: skipping start of tape: date 20011023 label linuxman11 amrestore: 1: restoring linuxman._mnt_share_Angela.20011023.0 amrestore: read error: Input/output error /bin/tar: Unexpected EOF in archive /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now 64+0 records in 64+0 records out linuxman11 (): amrestore: error reading file header: Input/output error ** No header 0+0 records in 0+0 records out linuxman11 (): amrestore: error reading file header: Input/output error ** No header 0+0 records in 0+0 records out linuxman11 (): amrestore: error reading file header: Input/output error ** No header 0+0 records in 0+0 records out linuxman11 (): amrestore: error reading file header: Input/output error ** No header 0+0 records in 0+0 records out linuxman11 (): amrestore: error reading file header: Input/output error ** No header 0+0 records in 0+0 records out amtape: could not load slot 2: Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes amtape: could not load slot 2: Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes amverify linuxman Tue Oct 23 17:34:44 MST 2001 Loading 1 slot... Using device /dev/nst0 Volume linuxman11, Date 20011023 ** Error detected (linuxman._mnt_share_Angela.20011023.0) amrestore: 0: skipping start of tape: date 20011023 label linuxman11 amrestore: 1: restoring linuxman._mnt_share_Angela.20011023.0 amrestore: read error: Input/output error /bin/tar: Unexpected EOF in archive /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now 64+0 records in 64+0 records out ** Error detected () amrestore: error reading file header: Input/output error ** No header 0+0 records in 0+0 records out ** Error detected () amrestore: error reading file header: Input/output error ** No header 0+0 records in 0+0 records out ** Error detected () amrestore: error reading file header: Input/output error ** No header 0+0 records in 0+0 records out ** Error detected () amrestore: error reading file header: Input/output error ** No header 0+0 records in 0+0 records out ** Error detected () amrestore: error reading file header: Input/output error ** No header 0+0 records in 0+0 records out Too many errors. Loading next slot... ** Error loading slot next amtape: could not load slot 2: Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes Advancing past the last tape... ** Error advancing after last slot amtape: could not load slot 2: Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes After it finished, the tape drive was flashing an error and requested a cleaning. I cleaned the drive and let amdump run last night. Everything completed successfully, so I tried amverify on todays tape. This time the machine locked up solid...no mouse, no keyboard, nothing. I also tried to run amrecover. Everything worked great up until I tried to do the actual extract. I loaded the tape and amrecover began rewinding/seeking the drive, but then just seemed to hang. I rebooted. Anyone have any idea as to where I should begin looking for the problem? Drive issue, SCSI problem? I know it's not actual errors on the tape since I CAN recover the data manually using mt, dd, and tar. I also know the index for each disklist entry is correct since I manually g unzipped them and amrecover requested the correct tape for the file I requested. Thanks for the help. Mike
