Hello, guys, I've been asking about the "retry behavior" and how to delay the dumps about couple days ago. Dump delaying conf. command worked (somewhat - as far as dump delaying goes ;) ), but it does not seem to solve the problem - we still have 2 FS failing, because of "No space left", and only 2 tapes actually used (with 4 scheduled).
I checked the amdump file for what was going on and here is the related section of it: -------------------------- driver: dumping host:hercules directly to tape driver: send-cmd time 34444.553 to taper: PORT-WRITE 00-00029 host fffff eff9ffe7f hercules 0 20050901 taper: try_socksize: receive buffer size is 65536 taper: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.33378 driver: result time 34444.553 from taper: PORT 33378 driver: send-cmd time 34444.553 to dumper0: PORT-DUMP 00-00029 33378 host fffffeff9ffe7f hercules NODEVICE 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 GNUTAR [skipped] changer: opening pipe to: /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx -slot current changer: got exit: 0 str: 2 /dev/nst0 taper: slot 2: date 20050901 label weekly2 (active tape) changer: opening pipe to: /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx -slot next changer: got exit: 0 str: 3 /dev/nst0 taper: slot 3: date X label weekly3 (new tape) taper: read label `weekly3' date `X' taper: wrote label `weekly3' date `20050901' dumper: kill index command driver: result time 39992.417 from dumper0: FAILED 00-00029 ["data write: Connection reset by peer"] driver: result time 39992.417 from taper: TRY-AGAIN 00-00029 [writing file: No space left on device] driver: error time 39992.429 serial gen mismatch ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -------------------------- so, AMANDA advanced to the next tape, the taper request to retry was actually made, but "serial gen mismatch" has happend. I searched google for the phrase - and did not find anything helpful about this error. Does anybody know what is this error means and how to deal with it? Also, I'm positive, that we had enough space for holding disk to hold this particuar FS. Why did it start "directly to tape" (log's the very first line)? Thanks.