Paul Bijnens said: > Kurt Yoder wrote: > >> My amdump log file is quite long, so here's the part that seems >> most >> relevant: > > ... > > It seems it is the taper writer that is somehow crashing, without > telling anybody. Do you find a core file in the amanda home dir > or in /tmp/amanda ?
Nope [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/amanda# find / -name core /dev/core /proc/sys/net/core /old/dev/core > Just a wild guess: is the tapecapacity < 26Gbyte? You're still > running > version 2.4.2p2 and I remember somewhere someone changed something > so that a file that fails twice while taping, is not a candidate > anymore > (avoiding that one file is tried on each tape and trashes all tapes > in the loader). Tape and drive capacity is 40 GB uncompressed. So what would be wrong with the dump image? Should I try manually uncompressing that image and seeing what's on it? > If you're brave, upgrade to 2.4.4p1 (or the latest 2.4.4 snapshot > from > http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda ) and if the problem > persists, recompile amanda with TAPER_DEBUG=1. I'd like to avoid that if at all possible... -- Kurt Yoder Sport & Health network administrator