amflush fails with 'taper: FATAL Can't locate auto/Amanda/Device/Device/swig_volume.al'

2012-01-19 Thread Neil Carter
Greetings: My system is ALL 3.3.0 (brand new) and has been working for the past few weeks. I keep adding additional clients, etc, but am now pretty well ready to go live. Yesterday, I ran another test backup, but received errors indicating the tape drive wasn't ready (strange enough), but

Re: amflush fails with 'taper: FATAL Can't locate auto/Amanda/Device/Device/swig_volume.al'

2012-01-19 Thread Brian Cuttler
Neil, I'd had a variety of tape errors, one of the linux boxes will occasionally drop the driver for the robot on the floor. My most recent problem was timeouts to the LTO5 in my G2 juke attached to a Solaris x86 box. The answers very and you have to run the checklist, the linux box, you unload

Re: amflush fails with 'taper: FATAL Can't locate auto/Amanda/Device/Device/swig_volume.al'

2012-01-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
neil, Can you post the changer state file. Run the following command and post the result: amtape CONFIG inventory amtape CONFIG update Try a new amflush or amdump. Jean-Louis On 01/19/2012 11:24 AM, Neil Carter wrote: Greetings: My system is ALL 3.3.0 (brand new) and has been working for

Re: amflush fails with 'taper: FATAL Can't locate auto/Amanda/Device/Device/swig_volume.al'

2012-01-19 Thread Neil Carter
Greetings: Attached are the changer.conf file, the results of the two commands you requested, and the eMailed result from another attempted amflush. Thanks! Neil On 2012.01.19 10:51 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: neil, Can you post the changer state file. Run the following command and

Re: amflush fails with 'taper: FATAL Can't locate auto/Amanda/Device/Device/swig_volume.al'

2012-01-19 Thread Neil Carter
Greetings: GOT IT!! I found the following in the taper.20120119111247.debug file: Thu Jan 19 11:12:48 2012: taper: SL24: polling 'tape:/dev/nst0' to see if it's ready *_Thu Jan 19 11:12:50 2012: taper: Empty amanda header: buflen=32768 lsize=32768 buf='' Thu Jan 19 11:12:50 2012: taper:

amflush fails

2006-08-24 Thread Charles Stroom
Hi all, last day's dump of Amanda (version 2.5.1b1) failed and files were left over in the holding disk. So I tried to do an amflush which also fails, nearly immediately. Below is some more info: logfile amflush.1: amflush: start at Thu Aug 24 13:02:54 CEST 2006 amflush: datestamp

Re: amflush fails

2006-08-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 01:17:14PM +0200, Charles Stroom wrote: Hi all, last day's dump of Amanda (version 2.5.1b1) failed and files were left over in the holding disk. So I tried to do an amflush which also fails, nearly immediately. Below is some more info: logfile amflush.1:

Re: amflush fails

2006-08-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Charles, It's a bug 2.5.1b1. Upgrade to 2.5.1b2, latest cvs or latest snapshot from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda We are close of a stable 2.5.1 release. Jean-Louis Charles Stroom wrote: Hi all, last day's dump of Amanda (version 2.5.1b1) failed and files were left over in

Re: amflush fails

2006-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 24 August 2006 10:29, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Charles, It's a bug 2.5.1b1. Upgrade to 2.5.1b2, latest cvs or latest snapshot from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda We are close of a stable 2.5.1 release. Jean-Louis Jean-Louis: Is it safe to try last nights snapshot?

Re: amflush fails

2006-08-24 Thread Charles Stroom
Thanks. As I have a Suse specific RPM installation, I might prefer to wait until 2.5.1 is made available in RPM. To John LaBadie: yes, there were dumps! ls /work-2/amanda/dumps/20060824110501 . corrente.localnet._usr.0 ..

Re: amflush fails

2006-08-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 06:16:03PM +0200, Charles Stroom wrote: Thanks. As I have a Suse specific RPM installation, I might prefer to wait until 2.5.1 is made available in RPM. To John LaBadie: yes, there were dumps! My question was moot once JLM noted it was a know and fixed defect.