okay I've got to a point where I know its not amanda's fault but someone here should be able to help.
where doing Daily backups to DDS3 tapes with a block size of 4096, which seem to work sometimes. more often than if I use a block size of 0. and where doing Monthly backups to DDS4 tapes with a block size of 4096, and they completely fail with the error messages below. any ideas. ----- Forwarded message from backup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 00:16:54 +1100 > From: backup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MonthlySet1 AMANDA VERIFY REPORT FOR MonthlySet103 MonthlySet104 >MonthlySet105 MonthlySet101 MonthlySet102 > > Tapes: MonthlySet103 MonthlySet104 MonthlySet105 MonthlySet101 MonthlySet102 > Errors found: > MonthlySet103 (sobek.tsa._sobek.20020205.0): > amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset > amrestore: 0: restoring sobek.tsa._sobek.20020205.0 > /bin/tar: Skipping to next header > /bin/tar: Skipping to next header > /bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > 64+0 records in > 64+0 records out