On Sunday, September 19, 2010 06:30:06 pm Dustin J. Mitchell did opine: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > One thing that catches my eye, in the taper.log, it is searching for: > > [ama...@coyote Daily]$ cat taper.20100919052724.debug > > Sun Sep 19 05:27:24 2010: taper: pid 5083 ruid 501 euid 501 version > > 3.2.0alpha.svn.3416: start at Sun Sep 19 05:27:24 2010 Sun Sep 19 > > 05:27:24 2010: taper: pid 5083 ruid 501 euid 501 version > > 3.2.0alpha.svn.3416: rename at Sun Sep 19 05:27:24 2010 Sun Sep 19 > > 05:27:24 2010: taper: Amanda::Taper::Scan::traditional stage 1: > > search for oldest reusable volume Sun Sep 19 05:27:24 2010: taper: > > Amanda::Taper::Scan::traditional oldest reusable volume is > > 'Dailys-21' Sun Sep 19 05:27:24 2010: taper: > > Amanda::Taper::Scan::traditional stage 1: searching oldest reusable > > volume 'Dailys-21' Sun Sep 19 05:27:24 2010: taper: > > Amanda::Taper::Scan::traditional result: 'Dailys-21' on > > file:/amandatapes/Dailys/drive0 slot 21, mode 2 Sun Sep 19 05:27:24 > > 2010: taper: pid 5083 finish time Sun Sep 19 05:27:24 2010 > > [ama...@coyote Daily]$ > > > > Where is that spurious '/drive0' coming from in the file:string? > > False alarm - that's how the new changer works, and also explains why > you were not seeing the data/ link updated.
I see. Then it must have been on the 8/29 day shift when I changed the chg-disk in my amanda.conf, because those files are dated 8/29 roughly coincident with the shortly after midnight run time. > So the driver didn't even *try* to write anything to tape in the run > for which you just pasted a debug log. Any idea why? > > Dustin Your guess is as good as mine, there simply isn't anything to indicate the failure, or a hint of a reason in the logs I've grepped. All I know at this point is that I have to back up to about svn3341 just to get amflush to work. The current 3419? taps the drive, once for a read that may be the tape header file, and once about 2 seconds later for a very quick write which might be the status file, then exits silently in another second or so even when amflush is run with the -f option. I think it might help if taper was made a lot more chatty. Is there a debug level option I could pass to it? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) When it comes to helping you, some people stop at nothing.
