On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 at 5:27pm, Chris Dahn wrote > > Ah ha -- that's the problem. It's not that you're actually running out of > > tape. The problem is that the system is encountering an I/O error while > > trying to write to the tape. Amanda is just reporting to you what the > > system told it. She's then going into degraded mode, which is why you're > > seeing level 1 dumps. > > Well, I have successfully erased the tape. This leads me to believe that it > isn't a hardware problem, otherwise that wouldn't have completed > successfully, right? I'm not terribly sharp on exactly what happens when the > tape is erased, but I would imagine it involves a lot of I/O to the tape.
Actually, I don't think it involves any I/O -- the process is completely internal to the drive. > So, it could be the tape itself, but this would be the second tape that it > failed on, or it could be the drive has suddenly gone batty. But, once > again, I successfully erased the tape, so it would seem both tape and drive > are in working condition. I think your next step is to dump *lots* of data by hand to the tape (or a couple of tapes). Forget about amanda, and just dump whole tapes worth of data with your backup tool of choice (dump or tar, preferable). See how that goes. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
