This is using amanda-server 1:2.5.2p1-1, on Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS, Hungry Hippo, so this may be a known issue. (Yes, I know, upgrade. I tried. http://localhost/~ccurley/crcweb/blog/archives/2010/05/26/ludicrous_lynx_not_fit_for_fit-pc_1/index.html)
I had the disk that holds my vtapes die this morning during the overnight backups. I was able to recover from that, and flushed the holding disk successfully. Just to be paranoid (paranoids live longer), I also ran amrecover on the dump that was being copied to "tape" at the time the drive failed. It was successful. Also, a list of the files in the virtual tape suggests that it is there. However, amverify came up with some interesting results. For the dump in question, it reports "Spanning chunk part X is missing!" where X is two to nine. For most other dumps, it reports "all parts found". I also get, e.g.: Skipped /bin/tar check on partial dump chaffee.localdomain._var.20100614.1.1 That dump has two files, 00008-chaffee.localdomain._var.1 and 00008.chaffee.localdomain._var.1 The tape split size is 1 GB. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
