On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:28:17PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 at 12:08pm, Dave Sherohman wrote > > Second, the taper stats read "N/A N/A" for all drives that were dumped. > > This would seem to indicate that nothing was actually written to the > > tape, wouldn't it? And, based on that, am I correct to infer that it > > would be better to amflush last night's dumps onto the same tape instead > > of advancing to the next one as instructed by the report? > > Well, there's either a problem with the tape, the drive, or the system.
OK, I can accept that. And I suppose that, as a result, amflush, even if it completes without incident, may well produce an unusable backup. But, on the off chance that it works, would it be less bad to overwrite last night's tape (since it appears that no device was fully written, I would expect everything to still be on the holding disk) or the next one in the sequence (which would definitely destroy an existing backup volume, but is what the report said to do)? > Look in your system logs -- amanda is just telling you what the OS told > it. There's some issue with your tape drive and/or tapes and/or SCSI > chain and/or ... you get the picture. *sigh* There it is... A dozen lines of complaints from the SCSI driver. Looks like the drive's been timing out and getting reset. I would guess that this is a problem with the drive, since it's had trouble with 3 or 4 different tapes. Thanks.
