Paul Bijnens said: > Kurt Yoder wrote: > >> What does "taper: FATAL syncpipe_put: Broken pipe" mean? I've >> tried >> twice to flush a 26 GB dump image to tape, and got this message >> both >> times. > > Any other messages in the file "amdump.*" and the LOG.datestamp.lvl. > file? > There are two tapers, a reader and a writer. Maybe there are some > error messages from one of those.
My amdump log file is quite long, so here's the part that seems most relevant: driver: finished-cmd time 9464.088 dumper0 dumped borneo.shcorp.com:/home/groups/graphics_photos driver: send-cmd time 9464.088 to taper: FILE-WRITE 00-00026 /backups/amandadisk/holding/20030911/borneo.shcorp.com._home_groups_graphics__photos.0 borneo.shcorp.com /home/groups/graphics_photos 0 20030911 driver: state time 9464.088 free kps: 36000 space: 55661264 taper: writing idle-dumpers: 4 qlen tapeq: 0 runq: 0 roomq: 0 wakeup: 86400 driver-idle: not-idle driver: interface-state time 9464.088 if : free 36000 driver: hdisk-state time 9464.088 hdisk 0: free 55661264 dumpers 0 syncpipe_put: Broken pipe taper: pid 6574 finish time Thu Sep 11 03:31:12 2003 driver: result time 10870.550 from taper: dump of driver schedule before start degraded mode: Then here's my amflush log file: driver: send-cmd time 0.000 to taper: START-TAPER 20030911 taper: pid 7964 executable taper version 2.4.2p2 changer: opening pipe to: /usr/lib/amanda/chg-multi -info changer: got exit: 0 str: 1 1 1 changer_query: changer return was 1 1 changer_query: searchable = 0 changer_find: looking for CDS1tape07 changer is searchable = 0 changer: opening pipe to: /usr/lib/amanda/chg-multi -slot current changer: got exit: 0 str: 1 /dev/nst0 taper: slot 1: date 20030811 label CDS1tape07 (exact label match) taper: read label `CDS1tape07' date `20030811' taper: wrote label `CDS1tape07' date `20030911' driver: send-cmd time 11.544 to taper: FILE-WRITE 00-00001 /backups/amandadisk/holding/20030911/borneo.shcorp.com._home_groups_graphics__photos.0 borneo.shcorp.com /home/groups/graphics_photos 0 20030911 syncpipe_put: Broken pipe taper: pid 7965 finish time Thu Sep 11 09:18:40 2003 driver: send-cmd time 44.205 to taper: QUIT writing taper command: Broken pipe and here's my log.20030911.1: START amflush date 20030911 START taper datestamp 20030911 label CDS1tape07 tape 0 FATAL taper syncpipe_put: Broken pipe WARNING amflush /backups/amandadisk/holding/20030911/borneo.shcorp.com._home_groups_graphics__photos.0: taper error, leaving file on disk WARNING amflush Could not rmdir /backups/amandadisk/holding/20030911. Check for cruft. FINISH amflush date 20030911 time 44.205 -- Kurt Yoder Sport & Health network administrator