On Thursday 20 May 2004 08:13, Gene Heskett wrote: >Greetings all; It did it again this morning. Somehow when runtapes is >1, it thinks the changer has been advanced, but it hasn't. I believe we have a real live bug here.
>I have a bit of a puzzle this morning. I reset the dumpcycle and >runspercycle for an extra day, and told it runtapes=2 for last > nights run as there is about 2.5Gb of new data from grabbing the > newest fedora core 2 iso's over the last couple of days. The front > of the drawer said slot 3 (2 to amanda which uses base zero > numbering) was loaded, so it had one more tape to go > >My amdump wrapper script does an amcheck in order to make sure the >next tape is available, and emails me if it isn't. > >The next tape in the cycle is supposed to be #4, but I got this > email from amcheck this morning: > >amcheck-server: slot 2: date 20040520 label DailySet1-03 (active > tape) amcheck-server: slot 3: date 20040426 label DailySet1-05 > (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 0: date 20040519 label > DailySet1-02 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 1: date 20040520 > label DailySet1-03 (active tape) ERROR: label DailySet1-04 or new > tape not found in rack > (expecting tape DailySet1-04 or a new tape) > >Ohkay, not noticing that its claiming tape 3 is in 2 slots, I > reloaded the magazine and issued another call to amcheck, which of > course returns: > >amcheck-server: slot 1: date 20040428 label DailySet1-07 (active > tape) amcheck-server: slot 2: date 20040429 label DailySet1-08 > (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 3: date 20040430 label > DailySet1-09 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 0: date 20040427 > label DailySet1-06 (active tape) ERROR: label DailySet1-04 or new > tape not found in rack > (expecting tape DailySet1-04 or a new tape) > >Tape 4 *was* in the magazine when it was reloaded for the last >magazine load. > >ow I'm going to reload the magazine with 4,5,6,7, with 4 in slot 1, > 0 to amanda, and use dd to label it as 4 again to restore the > missing label, but my question is where did it go in the first > place? Is there some gotcha in the runtapes>1 setting? > >I'm puzzled. When I reloaded the magazine so 3,4,5 & 6 were in it, >amcheck found tape 4 just fine: > >amcheck-server: slot 0: date 20040520 label DailySet1-03 (active > tape) amcheck-server: slot 1: date 20040426 label DailySet1-04 > (exact label match) > >At 8 am, its way too early for it to be beer-thirty, but I feel like > I should be at least one behind :-( I better go stick my thumb. > 115, not too sweet. > >Other than the drive miss-firing when told to change tapes, I have > NDI what happened. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
