Mike Brodbelt wrote:
Peter Mueller wrote:
As I understand it, Amanda interpretes any non-ok result from the tape
device as "out of tape" - as most backup and tape handling software does.
That filesystem has since backed up successfully, so I'm writing it down
to just a glitch in this case. Thanks for the above though, I hadn't
actually realised that out-of-tape was Amanda's catch-all.
Not only amanda, it the OS's catch-all. When writing, the end of a tape
is not noticed when you have a "permanent" write error on that place.
When reading, there could be a difference: a permanent crc check
failure is different than reading not enough bytes. But a broken tape
would be handled exactly the same when reading too.
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