I've not seen the following error in 2.5 years of minding Amanda backups, nor have I found it in the archives:
*** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY! *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[closing tape: Input/output error]]. *** PERFORMED ALL DUMPS TO HOLDING DISK. THESE DUMPS WERE TO DISK. Flush them onto tape DLT07 or a new tape. Tonight's dumps should go onto 1 tape: DLT08. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: shell da0s1f lev 0 FAILED ["data write: Broken pipe"] shell da0s1f lev 0 FAILED [out of tape] taper: FATAL syncpipe_get: w: unexpected EOF shell da0s1f lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed] I found the following in the server's messages file: Feb 8 07:25:48 storage /kernel: (sa0:bt0:0:1:0): CCB 0xcde9e300 - timed out Feb 8 07:25:50 storage /kernel: (sa0:bt0:0:1:0): CCB 0xcde9e300 - timed out Feb 8 07:25:50 storage /kernel: bt0: No longer in timeout Feb 8 07:25:50 storage /kernel: (sa0:bt0:0:1:0): failed to write terminating filemark(s) Feb 8 07:25:55 storage /kernel: (sa0:bt0:0:1:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM command to clear this state. Now, this sort of looks like a bad tape. Or is the [out of tape] error true? If so, I thought amanda was supposed to be able to figure things so everything fits on a tape. I know I've seen amanda do incs when a full would have been too much for a tape. Regards, --Ruth Anne
