On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 8:55am, Brian Cuttler wrote

> We seem to have run out of spool area on this system last night

That's only one of your problems...

> I'd have expected either a delay in processing or use of degraded
> mode rather than a failure to backup the partition (degraded is
> direct to tape, right ?)

No -- degraded is when there's no tape and dumps go to the holding disk.

> *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [not an amanda tape].

This is your problem.  Amanda didn't find a tapelabel on the tape, so it 
didn't use the tape at all.  All dumps went to holding disk (to be 
amflushed later), but that ran out.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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