On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.hesk...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
Sure - add 'debug taper 9' to amanda.conf. But the taper doesn't have anything to chat about - the driver never asks it to do anything after starting it up. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com