Any syslog or OS console messages?
There wasn't for a while but when I tried to erase the tape again I did see
some messages in dmesg that pointed me to either the drive or the tape. I was
using a density code of 0x84 (35G Uncompressed with 0 byte/variable block
size) and the messages indicated
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:43:13 -0600 (CST), Lonny Selinger said:
Any syslog or OS console messages?
There wasn't for a while but when I tried to erase the tape again I did see
some messages in dmesg that pointed me to either the drive or the tape. I was
using a density code of 0x84 (35G
I'm using a DLT7000 drive and DLT IV tapes (35/70) and basically decided to
start fresh and start my backups for real after testing and getting things
working.
I toasted the database tables etc, and re-labled a couple of tapes:
1) mt -f /dev/nst0 status (verify density)
# mt -f /dev/nst0 status
It'd help if you told us what the errors are that you are seeing. You
may be having other issues not related to your tapes or your drive.
Jason
Lonny Selinger wrote:
I'm using a DLT7000 drive and DLT IV tapes (35/70) and basically decided to
start fresh and start my backups for real after
It'd help if you told us what the errors are that you are seeing. You
may be having other issues not related to your tapes or your drive.
Sorry I thought I included enough of the error or what was being reported.
Here is the full output:
25-Mar 19:45 amanda-sd: Job Sexy.2007-03-25_19.42.13
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Lonny Selinger wrote:
2.5 hours later I relabeled as lited above. Result ... after some backups
again it went to 9.3G and error'd out again. What could I possibly be
missing?
Are there other files I should remove when starting from scratch or is there
another way to
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Lonny Selinger wrote:
Given the media is new, the problem could also be a tape dropped in
transit - in which case spooling it to the end and back (retensioning) may
solve your problem.
I'll give this a shot and see what happens :) ... DLT tapes are a single
It'd help if you told us what the errors are that you are seeing. You
may be having other issues not related to your tapes or your drive.
Ok this time I kept bconsole open when I retried everything and this is what I
got:
26-Mar 11:11 amanda-dir: No prior Full backup Job record found.
26-Mar
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:44:01 -0600 (CST), Lonny Selinger said:
It'd help if you told us what the errors are that you are seeing. You
may be having other issues not related to your tapes or your drive.
Ok this time I kept bconsole open when I retried everything and this is what I
got:
