This morning:
amanda@marlin:~/daily$ amcheck -s -otaperscan=taper_lexical daily
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
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NOTE: Holding disk '/amanda3': 253538304 KB disk space available, using
148680704 KB
WARNING: holding disk '/amanda4': only 104853504 KB free, using nothing
WARNING: Not enough free space specified in amanda.conf
NOTE: Holding disk '/amanda5': 613318656 KB disk space available, using
508461056 KB
ERROR: amcheck-device terminated with signal 11
Server check took 1.505 seconds
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amanda@marlin:~/daily$ amcheck -s -otaperscan=taper_traditional daily
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
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NOTE: Holding disk '/amanda3': 253538304 KB disk space available, using
148680704 KB
WARNING: holding disk '/amanda4': only 104853504 KB free, using nothing
WARNING: Not enough free space specified in amanda.conf
NOTE: Holding disk '/amanda5': 613318656 KB disk space available, using
508461056 KB
Searching for label 'Bio-Research-002':label 'Bio-Research-002' not
recognized or not found
slot 15: volume 'Bio-Research-003'
Will write to volume 'Bio-Research-003' in slot 15.
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Server check took 19.306 seconds
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amanda@marlin:~/daily$
I'll look at logs and post those if I see anything.
On 10/11/20 12:58 AM, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 23:50:17 -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
Wow!
amanda@marlin:~/daily$ amcheck -s -otaperscan=taper_traditional daily
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
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NOTE: Holding disk '/amanda3': 913514496 KB disk space available, using
808656896 KB
NOTE: Holding disk '/amanda4': 158228480 KB disk space available, using
53370880 KB
NOTE: Holding disk '/amanda5': 1636618240 KB disk space available, using
1531760640 KB
Searching for label 'Bio-Research-002':label 'Bio-Research-002' not
recognized or not found
slot 13:slot 13 not in use-slots (14-36)
slot 14: volume 'Bio-Research-013' is still active and cannot be overwritten
slot 15: volume 'Bio-Research-003'
Will write to volume 'Bio-Research-003' in slot 15.
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Server check took 175.512 seconds
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amanda@marlin:~/daily$
That worked! Interestingly, doing an `amcheck -s daily` after that
fails just as before. The amanda.conf uses taper_oldest.
Okay, this lends support to the theory that the crash is actually
happening in "scan" operation, rather than in some later part of the
amcheck-driver/taper process.
(Were there any error/warning messages written to the amcheck-device log
file for that run?)
So, maybe if I temporarily go to the different algorithm, it will
work. Right now the backups are already running and dumping to
Yeah, it might well work, and if so -- and if you don't care which
tape(s) are used next -- then simply switching to taper_traditional
would probably be the easiest approach to getting new dumps actually
written to tape....
If the order the tapes are used does matter to you, I think it should
probably be possible to fix the bug in taper_oldest (oldest.pm) to get
it working (but I'm not really sure how much debugging effort it will
involve...).
If you are interested to attempt that, the next thing I would check is
to see what happens with -otaperscan=taper_lexical (assuming that is also
defined in your amanda.conf). The "lexical" and "oldest" algorithms
both use the tape-drive inventory (while "traditional" does not), so
that test will help narrow the problem down to just "oldest" or to the
tape-inventory part of the code....
Nathan
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