>*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[closing tape: I/O error]].
First, an "I/O error" means an I/O error. The tape driver either got
a hardware error or didn't like something itself and reported that back
to Amanda. Amanda never says this itself out of the blue. I don't see
how 2 GB boundaries could be involved unless your tape driver is broken.
><server> /online lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
>taper: FATAL syncpipe_get: w: unexpected EOF
The syncpipe_get error is probably fixed in Amanda 2.4.2.
>... It appears as though Amanda thinks the 35GB tape will hold only 2GB.
What makes you think this?
>The manner in which Amanda sequences filesystems for backup means that it
>frequently takes a different number of filesystems (disks ala. amanda) to
>reach the 2GB boundary, and they are not always the same filesystems. But
>the error, if it happens, always occurs if the next file would cross the
>2GB boundary.
Could you elaborate, i.e. with a sample sequence?
>Sid Wood
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
