Hi!
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 10:18 +0100, Mark Adams wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Debian lenny, Amanda 2.6.1p1-2
>
> I'm backing up a single 1.9T xfs filesystem to an LTO4 drive with
> changer. The backup seems to complete correctly and recovering files
> that are on the first tape complete correctly.
>
> However, when trying to retrieve and files that are on the 2nd tape, the
> tape is loaded correctly by the changer (after first spooling through
> the first tape, as a side note is there a way to skip this?) then after
> some time the following error is shown
You would not be able to skip the first tape if this is where the backup
image begins
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> Extractor child exited with status 2
>
> How can I find out what the "previous errors" were?
You need to look in the debug log for the backup application you are
using on the client in /var/log/amanda/client/<config>/.
For amgtar, it will be amgtar.<datestamp>.debug
Cheers,
Paul
>
> In the amrecover log I also see
>
> 1271275442.543746: amrecover: security_stream_close(0xd89180)
> 1271275520.583556: amrecover: security_stream_close(0xd99f30)
>
> My tape and dump config is as follows
>
> define tapetype LTO4 {
> comment "HP LTO4"
> length 804191104 kbytes
> filemark 0 kbytes
> speed 90511 kps
> blocksize 32 kbytes
> }
>
> define dumptype upbackup {
> program "GNUTAR"
> compress server custom
> server_custom_compress "/usr/bin/pigz"
> tape_splitsize 80Gb
> split_diskbuffer "/tapehold/"
> fallback_splitsize 10Gb
> comment "UPBACKUP"
> index
> priority high
> auth "bsd"
> }
>
> Help would be very much appreciated!
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
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Paul Yeatman
Technical Support Engineer
Zmanda, Inc.
http://www.zmanda.com
