Another observation I noticed while examining the backups from 3-4 days ago.
It appears that the first tape does contain data. The only spot that doesn't have data is file 1. The tape header is there, file n >= 2 appear to all contain backups. This would explain why the subsequent tapes may end up empty, because (according to amtoc) it attempts to write that huge file to the 2nd tape to the file 1 marker position which it can't seem to do (it as in amanda? the vxa-1 system? I dunno which...). If I attempt to access file markers greater than 1, I don't have any problems and there are no syslog messages. But if i attempt to access file 1, it keels over and I get messages in syslog. I guess this is why amrestore is crapping out. This is good in the sense that the backups are occurring. But the amanda is setup to dump the smallest filesystems first and then the largest. which means the level 0 dumps for 2-3 file systems aren't happening. Would 2.4.4p1 actually help? I am going to try tarring to a blank tape manually and see what happens. robin
