On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau < jmartin...@carbonite.com> wrote:
> Which version of amanda are you using? > 3.3.3 (on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS) > Any other error message in the report? > none What is the setting of max-dle-by-volume? > > amgetconf CONFIG max-dle-by-volume > backup@scriptor:~/campus$ amgetconf campus max-dle-by-volume 1000000000 > post the taper debug file and the amdump.[x] file > There's a lot of stuff to sanitize in those files before posting here, but here are most likely the relevant lines from the taper debug file: Thu Apr 14 22:15:16 2016: thd-0x21e5050: taper: Building type SPLIT_FILE header of 32768-32768 bytes with name='some_client' disk='/path/to/data' dumplevel=1 and blocksize=32768 Thu Apr 14 22:15:16 2016: thd-0x21e5050: taper: warning: Got EIO on /dev/st0, assuming end of tape Thu Apr 14 22:15:16 2016: thd-0x21e5050: taper: Device tape:/dev/st0 error = 'No space left on device' Thu Apr 14 22:15:16 2016: thd-0x21e5050: taper: Device tape:/dev/st0 setting status flag(s): DEVICE_STATUS_VOLUME_ERROR Thu Apr 14 22:15:27 2016: thd-0xf98c00: taper: Will request retry of failed split part. Thu Apr 14 22:15:27 2016: thd-0xf98c00: taper: tape campus-NGH873L4 kb 0 fm 1 [OK] So this is a new Quantum Superloader, I can't imagine the heads are dirty already. Here is the tapetype as suggested by amtapetype: define tapetype LTO-4 { comment "Created by amtapetype; compression enabled" length 794405408 kbytes filemark 1385 kbytes speed 77291 kps blocksize 32 kbytes } The size of this backup job does not exceed 400GB at its largest size. Kind regards, Chris ----------------------- These dumps were to tape campus-NGH873L4. Not using all tapes because 1 tapes filled; runtapes=1 does not allow additional tapes. There are 112130560k of dumps left in the holding disk. They will be flushed on the next run. ... Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00 Tape Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 Tape Used (%) 0.0 0.0 0.0 DLEs Taped 1 0 1 1:1 Parts Taped 1 0 1 1:1 Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 0.0 -- 0.0 USAGE BY TAPE: Label Time Size % DLEs Parts campus-NGH873L4 0:00 32k 0.0 1 1 ------------------------- I'm trying to figure out how a LTO4 tape was filled up by 32k of data.... > or am I missing something here? > > Amanda was doing this last week, so I loaded blank tapes and started the > cycle fresh. > > Here is the contents of tapelist for this backup: > > 20160414221501 campus-NGH873L4 reuse BARCODE:NGH873L4 BLOCKSIZE:32 > 20160413221501 campus-NGH872L4 reuse BARCODE:NGH872L4 BLOCKSIZE:32 > 20160412221501 campus-NGH871L4 reuse BARCODE:NGH871L4 BLOCKSIZE:32 > 20160411221501 campus-NGH870L4 reuse BARCODE:NGH870L4 BLOCKSIZE:32 > 20160408221501 campus-NGH869L4 reuse BARCODE:NGH869L4 BLOCKSIZE:32 > 20160406222549 campus-NGH863L4 reuse BARCODE:NGH863L4 BLOCKSIZE:32 > 0 campus-NGH862L4 reuse BARCODE:NGH862L4 BLOCKSIZE:32 > 0 campus-NGH861L4 reuse BARCODE:NGH861L4 BLOCKSIZE:32 > 0 campus-NGH876L4 reuse BARCODE:NGH876L4 BLOCKSIZE:32 > 0 campus-NGH875L4 reuse BARCODE:NGH875L4 BLOCKSIZE:32 > 0 campus-NGH874L4 reuse BARCODE:NGH874L4 BLOCKSIZE:32 > 0 campus-NGH864L4 reuse BARCODE:NGH864L4 BLOCKSIZE:32 > 0 campus-NGH865L4 reuse BARCODE:NGH865L4 BLOCKSIZE:32 > > > Kind regards, > Chris > > >