Good day all. I'm a fairly new amanda user, I used the 15 minute backup
guide for my setup. During the first week my backups seemed to have gone
off without a hitch as indicated by the backup reports. Now beginning on
Monday I've been getting failed backup reports, as follows:
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No 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: a new tape.
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
epsilon.bleh.com /var/www lev 1 STRANGE
STATISTICS:
Total Full Incr.
-------- -------- --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00
Run Time (hrs:min) 0:02
Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:01 0:00 0:01
Output Size (meg) 79.9 0.0 79.9
Original Size (meg) 919.2 0.0 919.2
Avg Compressed Size (%) 8.7 -- 8.7 (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Dumped 3 0 3 (1:3)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 1110.8 -- 1110.8
Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00
Tape Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Tape Used (%) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Filesystems Taped 0 0 0
Chunks Taped 0 0 0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) -- -- --
FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
/-- epsilon.bleh.com /var/www lev 1 STRANGE
sendbackup: start [epsilon.bleh.com:/var/www level 1]
sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f... -
sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
sendbackup: info end
? gtar: ./cacti/log/cacti.log: file changed as we read it
| Total bytes written: 946503680 (903MiB, 14MiB/s)
sendbackup: size 924320
sendbackup: end
\--------
DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-MB OUT-MB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
-------------------------- -------------------------------------
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epsilon.bleh /etc/nagios 1 0 0 10.0 0:01 1.3 N/A N/A
epsilon.bleh /var/www 1 903 75 8.3 1:08 1132.5 N/A N/A
gamma.bleh.com /websites 1 17 5 28.1 0:05 979.1 N/A N/A
(brought to you by Amanda version 2.5.0p2)
I'm starting to think that I might have ran too many testing backups
after the implementation and might have thrown the vtape usage off
course if it's technically possible. I ran amflush daily as amanda and
there were no results from it, the report I got said the same thing. I'm
also concerned with the strange dump failure for cacti, due to its
nature and the fact that it is configured to spread the load out evenly
it is probably constantly writing data to the rra files, so I need to
make sure I'm getting reliable dumps. Any additional insight in my
paltry problems would help as I will be spending the day researching it
on my end. Thanks!
