I discovered today that my tape drive was dirty and did not realize it. What happened was the drive sent a scsi error to the kernel/OS and somehow the root (/), home (/home), and holding disk area recognized by AMANDA was changed from rw access to ro access. I believe this change was made by AMANDA itself. This happened while AMANDA was backing up.
I had to reboot the machine to place the ro filesystems back to rw as they should be. I then repeated the attempted backup and the failure occurred again exactly the same way (so it was repeatable). This is when I suspected the dirty tape drive. I cleaned the drive and the problem went away. The backups now work like they should (and have for years). This is the first time I have seen this. The drive got dirty due to a different person changing the tapes did not realize they should also clean the drive occasionally. I also have new higher-capacity tapes so that the same number of tapes will get the driver dirtier quicker. Does the switch from rw to ro by AMANDA make sense ?? Is this a "feature" ? This is first I have heard of this. -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Windmills can't even produce enough energy to manufacture a windmill." -Ann Coulter, 03/01/07.
