Hi, Jean-Louis Martineau --> amanda-users (2005-06-03 10:10:19 -0400): > Could you try the attached patch.
thanks. After applying it amverify doesn't loop endlessly anymore: [ ... successful checks ... ] Checked host1._opt.20050603.1 ** Error detected (host1._opt.20050603.1) amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset amrestore: 0: restoring host1._opt.20050603.1 gzip: truncated input Error 32 (Broken pipe) offset 10485760+32768, wrote 0 amrestore: pipe reader has quit in middle of file. Level 1 dump of /opt on host1:/dev/rwd0m Label: none 64+0 in 64+0 out [ ... same message six times ... ] Too many errors. Rewinding... Errors found: DAILY02 (host1._opt.20050603.1): amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset amrestore: 0: restoring host1._opt.20050603.1 gzip: truncated input Error 32 (Broken pipe) offset 10485760+32768, wrote 0 amrestore: pipe reader has quit in middle of file. Level 1 dump of /opt on host1:/dev/rwd0m Label: none 64+0 in 64+0 out [ ... same message six times ... ] > If it doesn't work, try the following command: > mt -f <dev> rewind > mt -f <dev> fsf 12 > dd if=<dev> bs=32k count=1 > > Send me the output of the dd command. I'm using the file driver and chg-disk. Would you like to see the first 32k of the dump file in question? Regards, Jukka -- bashian roulette: $ ((RANDOM%6)) || rm -rf ~