strange problems and no errors

[Ryan Williams]

I have a server that just all of the sudden stoped backing up the /home/ partition every night.   Here is all of the information that I get from the email notification.   FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:   webe3.inte hda6 lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed] It does not appear that the tape is being filled every night. It is not even coming close to being filled.     I took a look arount /tmp on the server and here is what I get.     amandad.debug looks like this, none of the other files seem to have anything pertinant in them:   amandad: debug 1 pid 28246 ruid 501 euid 501 start time Thu Nov  1 16:01:56 2001 amandad: version 2.4.2 amandad: build: VERSION="Amanda-2.4.2" amandad:        BUILT_DATE="Wed Feb 7 01:16:06 EST 2001" amandad:        BUILT_MACH="Linux webm6.im1.net 2.2.12-20ensim #1 Thu Dec 14 06:22:21 EST 2000 i686 unknown" amandad:        CC="gcc" amandad: paths: bindir="/usr/local/bin" sbindir="/usr/local/sbin" amandad:        libexecdir="/usr/local/libexec" mandir="/usr/local/man" amandad:        AMANDA_TMPDIR="/tmp/amanda" AMANDA_DBGDIR="/tmp/amanda" amandad:        CONFIG_DIR="/usr/local/etc/amanda" DEV_PREFIX="/dev/" amandad:        RDEV_PREFIX="/dev/" DUMP="/sbin/dump" amandad:        RESTORE="/sbin/restore" GNUTAR="/usr/bin/gtar" amandad:        COMPRESS_PATH="/usr/bin/gzip" amandad:        UNCOMPRESS_PATH="/usr/bin/gzip" MAILER="/usr/bin/Mail" amandad:        listed_incr_dir="/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists" amandad: defs:  DEFAULT_SERVER="webm6.im1.net" DEFAULT_CONFIG="DailySet1" amandad:        DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="webm6.im1.net" amandad:        DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE="/dev/null" HAVE_MMAP HAVE_SYSVSHM amandad:        LOCKING=POSIX_FCNTL SETPGRP_VOID DEBUG_CODE BSD_SECURITY amandad:        USE_AMANDAHOSTS CLIENT_LOGIN="amanda" FORCE_USERID HAVE_GZIP amandad:        COMPRESS_SUFFIX=".gz" COMPRESS_FAST_OPT="--fast" amandad:        COMPRESS_BEST_OPT="--best" UNCOMPRESS_OPT="-dc" got packet: -------- Amanda 2.4 REQ HANDLE 00B-00170808 SEQ 1004648411 SECURITY USER amanda SERVICE selfcheck OPTIONS ; DUMP hda6 0 OPTIONS |;bsd-auth;srvcomp-fast;index; DUMP hda1 0 OPTIONS |;bsd-auth;srvcomp-fast;index; --------   sending ack: ---- Amanda 2.4 ACK HANDLE 00B-00170808 SEQ 1004648411 ----   bsd security: remote host web21.internal user amanda local user amanda amandahosts security check passed amandad: running service "/usr/local/libexec/selfcheck" amandad: sending REP packet: ---- Amanda 2.4 REP HANDLE 00B-00170808 SEQ 1004648411 OPTIONS ; OK hda6 OK hda1 OK /sbin/dump executable OK /sbin/restore executable OK /etc/dumpdates read/writable OK /dev/null read/writable OK /tmp/amanda has more than 64 KB available. OK /tmp/amanda has more than 64 KB available. OK /etc has more than 64 KB available. ----   amandad: got packet: ---- Amanda 2.4 ACK HANDLE 00B-00170808 SEQ 1004648411 ----   amandad: pid 28246 finish time Thu Nov  1 16:01:57 2001       If more information is needed to understand this problem just tell me where to look.   Regards,   Ryan Williams