Sorry. reflex reaction from using pine too long. I'll keep it on the list.
I've attached the amidxtaped*.debug log. robin On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 at 12:36pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > Please keep this on list, so that others can help out. > > > Well, I just let it run another backup cycle (and because I couldn't find > > the logs anymore). I did a run of amrecover which failed. I've attached > > the log that was generated. > > The amidxtaped*debug log would also be rather useful. > > > I then attempted to use amadmin/mt/dd/gtar to see what I can read. The > > tapes appear to be all empty and I get my usual "error reading file > > header". This is getting beyond perplexing. > > What does the mail report look like? And try an 'mt status' on the tape > after the next backup, to see what file it's at. > >
amidxtaped: debug 1 pid 14403 ruid 666 euid 666: start at Wed Feb 19 12:18:36 2003 amidxtaped: version 2.4.3b4 amidxtaped: time 0.000: > SECURITY USER root amidxtaped: time 0.000: bsd security: remote host blah user root local user amanda amidxtaped: time 0.000: amandahosts security check passed amidxtaped: time 0.000: > 6 amidxtaped: time 0.000: amrestore_nargs=6 amidxtaped: time 0.000: > -h amidxtaped: time 0.000: > -p amidxtaped: time 0.000: > /dev/nst0 amidxtaped: time 0.000: > ^host1$ amidxtaped: time 0.000: > ^/var$ amidxtaped: time 0.000: > 20030219 amidxtaped: time 0.000: Ready to execv amrestore with: path = /opt/amanda_vxa/sbin/amrestore argv[0] = "amrestore" argv[1] = "-h" argv[2] = "-p" argv[3] = "/dev/nst0" argv[4] = "^host1$" argv[5] = "^/var$" argv[6] = "20030219" amrestore: 0: skipping start of tape: date 20030219 label tape-08 amrestore: error reading file header: Input/output error amidxtaped: time 218.944: amrestore terminated normally with status: 2 amidxtaped: time 218.944: rewinding tape ... amidxtaped: time 231.254: done amidxtaped: time 231.254: pid 14403 finish time Wed Feb 19 12:22:27 2003
