Thanks Dustin and Jon. I've given it a good clean and will see what happens tonight.
Unfortunately Amanda has been working so well for us (i.e. it never breaks) that I haven't had the opportunity to learn how to troubleshoot it... :) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dustin J. Mitchell Sent: 16 February 2009 16:05 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Interpreting Amanda errors On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Jon LaBadie <[email protected]> wrote: > If size of backup is definitely not the issue, what about > the age of the tapes. You have been using amanda for > several years. Might the tapes be getting old and failing? > Alternatively, might a tape head cleaning be due? I.e. > something that mechanically or electrically might be > causing intermittant failures? I'm sorry, Jon's absolutely right. Apparently I didn't see the last paragraph in the original post. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
