Yes, My guess would be the taper is just sitting there waiting for data.
Here is the debug output. It is fairly short. The uninitialized value of data_path is what led me to believe that the send-cmd was bad. Sun Sep 12 10:28:44 2010: taper: pid 4465 ruid 601 euid 601 version 3.1.2: start at Sun Sep 12 10:28:44 2010 Sun Sep 12 10:28:44 2010: taper: pid 4465 ruid 601 euid 601 version 3.1.2: rename at Sun Sep 12 10:28:44 2010 Sun Sep 12 10:28:44 2010: taper: Amanda::Changer::compat initialized with script /usr/local/libexec/amanda/chg-disk, temporary directory /usr/local/etc/amanda/daily Sun Sep 12 10:28:44 2010: taper: Amanda::Taper::Scan::traditional stage 1: search for oldest reusable volume Sun Sep 12 10:28:44 2010: taper: Amanda::Taper::Scan::traditional no oldest reusable volume Sun Sep 12 10:28:44 2010: taper: Amanda::Taper::Scan::traditional stage 2: scan for any reusable volume Sun Sep 12 10:28:44 2010: taper: Amanda::Changer::compat: invoking /usr/local/libexec/amanda/chg-disk with -info Sun Sep 12 10:28:46 2010: taper: Amanda::Changer::compat: Got response '1 12 1' with exit status 0 Sun Sep 12 10:28:46 2010: taper: Amanda::Changer::compat: invoking /usr/local/libexec/amanda/chg-disk with -slot current Sun Sep 12 10:28:47 2010: taper: Amanda::Changer::compat: Got response '1 file:/amanda/vtl/daily' with exit status 0 Sun Sep 12 10:28:47 2010: taper: Amanda::Taper::Scan::traditional result: 'DAILY-1' on file:/amanda/vtl/daily slot 1, mode 2 Sun Sep 12 10:29:05 2010: taper: warning: Use of uninitialized value $params{"data_path"} in string eq at /usr/local/libexec/amanda/taper line 578. Sun Sep 12 10:29:05 2010: taper: Amanda::Taper::Scribe setting up a transfer with split method none Sun Sep 12 10:29:05 2010: taper: Starting <x...@0x29f792b0 (<xfersourcehold...@0x284ca800> -> <xferdesttapersplit...@0x29a37820>)> Sun Sep 12 10:29:05 2010: taper: Final linkage: <xfersourcehold...@0x284ca800> -(PULL_BUFFER)-> <xferelementg...@0x29a38038> -(PUSH_BUFFER)-> <xferdesttapersplit...@0x29a37820> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 01:56:54PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Stephen Corbesero <corbes...@ptd.net> wrote: > > driver: send-cmd time 22.514 to taper: FILE-WRITE 00-00002 > > /amanda/holding-b/20100912102842/galadriel.corbesero.net._.2 > > galadriel.corbesero.net / 2 20100912102842 0 192 > > It looks like the taper is running. The send-cmd component you quoted > is correct - it's the options for that host. > > What are you seeing that's got you thinking the taper never gets any > data? Can you take a look at the taper debug log and see what you > find? > > Dustin > > -- > Open Source Storage Engineer > http://www.zmanda.com -- Stephen Corbesero It's always darkest Bethlehem, PA 18015 before pitch black. corbes...@ptd.net