Hi!
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Dan Wilder wrote:
> If "mt" says there is no tape, there isn't any tape.
> Amanda has nothing to do with it.
Ok.
> -- Or the tape drive isn't connected to the SCSI bus.
> -- Or the power cable isn't plugged in.
It must be connected because the server is up & running since 13 for now:
[root@server /root]# uptime
11:08am up 13 days, 22:08, 3 users, load average: 0.29, 0.17, 0.06
and last succesful backup was on three days ago (on March 24).
So I guess it cannot be those two.
> -- Or the media is defective.
There are only three tapes there and I start using them two weeks ago.
Last time tape 1 was uses was on
Subject: WMW AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR March 20, 2001
These dumps were to tape wmw_tape_1.
Could that tape be defective so soon?
> -- Or the drive needs cleaning.
It is a new drive. Entire system is a new one. There are only 4 weeks
since he was delivered and installed. It is hosted in a seriuos
collocation company from Canada. They have special climatized rooms for
servers, with air conditiones, dust filters, etc, all features.
> -- Or the tape drive is buggy.
Is there any way to check this? I was never using tape drives before in my
life.
> I see that the drive is an OnStream. Haven't there been significant
> problems reported on this list, with those?
I'm a new user of Amanda so I'm not subscribed for a long time. Maybe
another OnStreaem user could tell me.
> For remote backups I prefer to keep a local mirror, using ssh and
> rsync, and back up from that.
There is no remote backup: only I work remotelly, but backup is performed
on the same machine. There is no others machines that I do backup for.
Only for that server from that server.
> When tape drive problems develop, and they usually do sooner or
> later, I'm not depending on all too often ill-trained and overworked
> ISP sysadmins to do my troubleshooting for me.
I am the system administrator of that server, but as I said, I work
remotelly. Peoples on that company can help me but I must told them what
to do first. They already check twice and told me there is a drive in the
tape. This is all I know.
> Another option might be changing colocation providers.
I don't thinks this is related to my problem. Since I'm root for that
server I have to handle this problem somehow, but first I need to figure
out what's really going on.
Thanks,
Radu Filip
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