I changed chg-manual so it contains "lastslot=2", and tested the drive with amtape, and it seemed load tapes ok. So last night I ran an amdump, and this morning amstatus says:
server:/what/ever 0 132181049k writing to tape (94371840k done) (23:43:17), waiting for a new tape So I pop in the new tape, but writing to tape doesn't resume. If I manually use amtape now, it still seems to load tapes ok, but still writing to tape doesn't resume: -sh-3.2$ amtape daily slot next Insert tape into slot 2 and press return amtape: changed to slot 2 on tape:/dev/nst0 -sh-3.2$ amtape daily current amtape: scanning current slot in tape-changer rack: slot 2: time X label daily-2 The only thing in the log files I can see that seems relevant is in amtape.20080620105825.debug: 1213955906.014687: amtape: changer: got exit: 1 str: <none> /usr/libexec/amanda/chg-manual: illegal slot: nextclear 1213955906.014749: amtape: critical (fatal): could not load slot <none>: /usr/libexec/amanda/chg-manual: illegal slot: nextclear Please help. Johan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johan Booysen Sent: 18 June 2008 16:16 To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Amanda 2.6.0 spanning Dear all, I've now installed the newest version of Amanda, and have completed a full backup to test tape spanning. However, as soon as Amanda ran out of space on the first tape, it "failed". The email report contains: FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY: server /what/ever lev 0 FAILED "No new tape." server /what/ever lev 0 FAILED [too many taper retries] /var/log/amanda/server/daily/taper.20080617210001.debug contains: 1213795301.960369: taper: putresult: 26 REQUEST-NEW-TAPE 1213795301.961442: taper: getcmd: NEW-TAPE 1213795308.760033: taper: changer_query: changer return was 1 1 1213795308.760072: taper: changer_query: searchable = 0 1213795308.760085: taper: changer_find: looking for NULL changer is searchable = 0 1213795309.008124: taper: putresult: 19 NO-NEW-TAPE 1213795309.008194: taper: putresult: 4 PARTIAL 1213795309.008550: taper: getcmd: FILE-WRITE 00-00025 /holding/disk/20080617210001/server._what_ever.0 server /what/ever 0 20080617210001 1073741824 1213795310.483950: taper: putresult: 26 REQUEST-NEW-TAPE 1213795310.484806: taper: getcmd: NEW-TAPE 1213795310.996988: taper: changer_query: changer return was 1 1 1213795310.997023: taper: changer_query: searchable = 0 1213795310.997036: taper: changer_find: looking for NULL changer is searchable = 0 1213795311.586995: taper: putresult: 19 NO-NEW-TAPE 1213795311.587116: taper: putresult: 10 FAILED 1213795311.587564: taper: getcmd: QUIT 1213795311.587581: taper: putresult: 2 QUITTING /var/log/amanda/changer.debug contains lots of these: -> status tape:/dev/nst0 Exit -> 1 1 1 args -> -info -> status tape:/dev/nst0 Exit -> 1 1 1 args -> -slot current -> status tape:/dev/nst0 Exit -> 1 tape:/dev/nst0 args -> -info -> status tape:/dev/nst0 Exit -> 1 1 1 args -> -slot current -> status tape:/dev/nst0 Exit -> 1 tape:/dev/nst0 Again, my amanda.conf is pretty much standard, except for: dumpcycle 0 runtapes 2 tpchanger "chg-manual" tapedev "tape:/dev/nst0" changerfile "/etc/amanda/daily/changer.conf" changerdev "/dev/null" chg-manual contains: firstslot=1 lastslot=1 I've "exercised" the tape device using the amtape command, and it seemed ok to me although I wasn't entirely sure what results to expect. Can anyone maybe see a reason why it failed to span? I'll do another test using lastslot=2 in chg-manual, but wanted to ask in the meantime. Thanks very much. Johan