Yes, they are the last lines in changer.debug. Unfortunately no times or dates are recorded.
I can't really see if the tape drive is writing anything. Usually it has a little light on it that flickers when there's activity, but now it's just shining all the time and that's no good. Is there anywhere else I can check to see if the job is actively and running? Or whether the tape drive is actually writing something? What is strange is that mt -f /dev/nst0 status reports: SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x49 (Quantum SDLT320). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (41010000): BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN But I'm sure that while writing it usually comes back with: /dev/nst0: Device or resource busy So, alas, I don't think it's doing anything. Any other suggestions at all? Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 June 2008 13:25 To: Johan Booysen Cc: Amanda user's group Subject: Re: Amanda 2.5.0 spanning Johan Booysen wrote: > Ok, on Thurday night at 21:00 I kicked off a backup job that should span > over 2 tapes. I wasn't in the office on Friday, but this morning the > first tape was ejected, and amstatus tells me the following: > > server:/whatever/clients 0127494663k writing to tape (9:43:32) > > I believe then that amanda wrote stuff to tape until 09:43 on Friday > morning, and then filled up the first tape, ejected it, and has been > patiently waiting for the second tape. Or will it have timed out by > now? > > So I inserted the second tape this morning, and nothing seems to be > happening at all. It certainly does not appear to be writing anything > to the second tape... > > What's the best way of seeing what amanda's doing now? > > I've tried the following: > > Amcheck skips the tape check, and tells me that amdump or amflush is > running. > > Changer.debug contains lots of these (lots and lots): > -> rewind /dev/nst0 > /dev/nst0 rewind failed: Input/output error > -> status /dev/nst0 > /dev/nst0 status failed: Input/output error > -> loaded <> > chg-manual check regularly if you put a tape in the drive, if you put a valid tape in the driver then it should succeed, are they the latest lines of the files? Maybe try another tape. Jean-Louis
