Thank you very much for the help.
Much appreciated.
Greg
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> On Oct 23, 2017, at 22:30, Nathan Stratton Treadway <natha...@ontko.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 19:54:59 -0400, Greg Dickie wrote:
>> Hi Nathan,
>>
>> Amanda 3.4.5 on centos 7.
>
> Okay, good.
>
>> Using this:define interactivity inter_tty_email {
>> plugin "tty_email"
>> property "mailto" "i...@xxx.com"
>> property "resend-delay" "10"
>> property "check-file" "/tmp/email_input"
>> property "check-file-delay" "10"
>> }
>>
>>
>> So I guess it will resend every 10 seconds. oops.
>> so that answers the first question, thanks.
>
> Yep :)
>
>> Now what does that email mean? The entire email is below:
>>
>>
>>
>> Error reading Amanda header: Error reading 2097152 bytes from /dev/nst0:
>> Input/output error
>>
>> Insert a new volume in flexstorii
>> or write the name of a new changer in '/tmp/email_input'
>> or write 'abort' in the file to abort the scan.
>>
>> (Waiting for the file to be created.)
>
> The error message in the first paragraph of the email is the hint
> answering your "b) what the cause is and how to avoid it?" question.
>
> I don't use actual tape drives with Amanda 3.4.x (so I don't have
> first-hand experience with this situation), but I believe the error
> message simply means that Amanda can't read a label label from the tape
> in the drive in question, either because their is no tape inserted or
> because the tape that's there is bad.
>
> If at this point you put a valid tape in the drive (or cause the changer
> to advance to a valid tape), Amanda should detect that after a few
> seconds and proceed with the backup run.
>
> (If you are sure there is actually a valid tape in the drive [i.e.
> amcheck is happy with that same tape before the run starts], then you
> need to figure out why Amanda can't see it -- but you will need to look
> somewhere other than this email message for clues to help track down
> that sort of problem. For example, it may be some sort of changer
> configuration problem....)
>
>
> If you can't find a valid volume and want to abort the run, you can do
> something like
> echo "abort" > /tmp/email_input
> then make sure /tmp/email_input is readable by the Amanda process.
>
>
> Alternatively, if you just want Amanda to give up the run if it hits
> this sort of problem (and skip the emails entirely), then you can
> disable the "interactity inter_tty_email" line in amanda.conf....
>
>
> Nathan
>
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