On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 at 3:05pm, Dave Sherohman wrote > > 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)?
If *some* stuff got to the tape, then it's an active volume and amanda won't let you over-write it. You'd have to 'amrmtape' it and then re'amlabel' it. This is *exactly* the reason it's good to have your tapecycle > runspercycle. > *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. Could be. Or the SCSI adapter. Or the terminater. Or the cables. Also, when was the last time you sacrificed a goat to the chain, and what color was it? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
