Now that this problem is overcome, have I run out of tape? Perhaps I need to split directiories up (200 GB tape_
These dumps were to tape Daily-12. *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No more writable valid tape found]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: Daily-13. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: wilf /home/IOMEGANAS lev 0 FAILED [out of tape] wilf /home/IOMEGANAS lev 0 FAILED [data write: Broken pipe] wilf /home/IOMEGANAS lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed] On 2/21/07, FL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/21/07, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FL schrieb: > > A host check reports no slots available, when there are slots > available. > > What causes this, and what is the remedy? Thanks. > > > > Changer problem: no slots available > > In my case it helped to change the group of the used changer-device: > > # chgrp tape /dev/sg2 > > when the amanda-user is member of the group tape. > > # ll /dev/sg2 > crw-rw---- 1 root tape 21, 2 16. Feb 11:35 /dev/sg2 > > After that you can try > > amanda ~ $ mtx -f /dev/sg2 status > > and amcheck should find slots then. > > The group of the changer-device might be reset after reboot, due to udev > and similar stuff, haven't yet researched how to fix that here. I do it > manually, one could also add this to some boot-script. > > Stefan > > Hi, In fact, that's what I've been doing, and I've added it to a boot script; e.g., modprobe sg chown root.tape /dev/sg2 if [ ! -h /dev/changer ]; then ln -s /dev/sg2 /dev/changer fi (My changer device is also /dev/sg2.) I must look into udev...I may be attempting to change ownership and set the symbolic link at the wrong time... FL
