For the past three days I've been seeing this message under the FAILURE AND
STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
taper: FATAL syncpipe_get: r: unexpected EOF
And under the NOTES I see these from the past three day's reports:
taper: tape LinuxDaily05 kb 503109216 fm 34 writing file: Input/output error
driver: Taper protocol error
driver: going into degraded mode because of taper component error.
driver: taper exited with code 1
taper: tape LinuxDaily04 kb 674588192 fm 36 writing file: Input/output error
driver: Taper protocol error
driver: going into degraded mode because of taper component error.
driver: taper exited with code 1
taper: tape LinuxDaily03 kb 6040096 fm 31 writing file: Input/output error
driver: Taper protocol error
driver: going into degraded mode because of taper component error.
driver: taper exited with code 1
I have runtapes set to two and in the past, I've seen AMANDA use the second
tape after the first one experienced I/O errors, however that is no longer
occurring. I haven't seen usage beyond 50% of an LTO-4 so I'm not sure what to
check next. For addition background, there is only one drive in this Dell
PowerVault 124T and it's been cleaned and updated to the latest vendor firmware
recently. The tapes for a daily config are about two years old and get used
once a month. This tapehost also has a monthly config which hasn't written
data to all of the tapes currently in rotation. That is to say that there are
tapes from the monthly config which so far have only been loaded to run
amlabel, not amdump and these brand new tapes appear to be problematic as well.
The last successful monthly job ran on March 4 reporting:
These dumps were to tape MvccMonthly05.
The next 2 tapes Amanda expects to use are: a new tape, a new tape.
The next 2 new tapes already labelled are: MvccMonthly06, MvccMonthly07.
Then on April 1, AMANDA loaded MvccMonthly07 instead of MvccMonthly06 and
failed after writing only 15GB
These dumps were to tape MvccMonthly07.
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No more writable valid tape found].
Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
Run amflush to flush them to tape.
The next 2 tapes Amanda expects to use are: a new tape, a new tape.
The next 2 new tapes already labelled are: MvccMonthly06, MvccMonthly08.
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
bannertree /var lev 2 STRANGE
bannerforms /app lev 2 STRANGE
degreeworks /orabak lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: tape_rdlabel: tape open: /dev/nst0:
Input/output error
amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: read label `MvccMonthly02', date
`20111002'
amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: read label `MvccMonthly03', date
`20111106'
amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: tape_rdlabel: tape open: /dev/nst0:
Input/output error
amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: read label `MvccMonthly04', date
`20111204'
amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: read label `MvccMonthly05', date
`20120304'
amreport: ERROR unexpected log line:
STATISTICS:
Total Full Incr.
-------- -------- --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:02
Run Time (hrs:min) 2:32
Dump Time (hrs:min) 1:54 1:50 0:04
Output Size (meg) 371865.4 356573.5 15291.8
Original Size (meg) 371865.4 356573.5 15291.8
Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- -- (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Dumped 33 2 31 (1:25 2:6)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 55641.1 55499.5 59160.7
Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:14 0:00 0:14
Tape Size (meg) 15293.2 0.0 15293.2
Tape Used (%) 1.9 0.0 1.9 (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Taped 31 0 31 (1:25 2:6)
Chunks Taped 0 0 0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 18293.8 -- 18293.8
USAGE BY TAPE:
Label Time Size % Nb Nc
MvccMonthly07 0:14 15660224K 1.9 31 0
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
bannertree /var lev 2 STRANGE
bannerforms /app lev 2 STRANGE
degreeworks /orabak lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: tape_rdlabel: tape open: /dev/nst0:
Input/output error
amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: read label `MvccMonthly02', date
`20111002'
amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: read label `MvccMonthly03', date
`20111106'
amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: tape_rdlabel: tape open: /dev/nst0:
Input/output error
amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: read label `MvccMonthly04', date
`20111204'
amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: read label `MvccMonthly05', date
`20120304'
amreport: ERROR unexpected log line:
NOTES:
taper: tape MvccMonthly07 kb 23676928 fm 32 writing file: Input/output error
driver: Taper error: [slot 10: read label `MvccMonthly07', date `20120401'
driver: going into degraded mode because of taper component error.
I appreciate any advise that can be given or point me in the right direction.
Pete Nichter
Network and UNIX System Administrator
State University of New York
Information Technology Exchange Center
E-mail: [email protected]
PGP Key ID: 6C4249B7
