Thank you very much for the help. Much appreciated.
Greg -- Greg Dickie just a guy 514-983-5400 > On Oct 23, 2017, at 22:30, Nathan Stratton Treadway <natha...@ontko.com> > wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 19:54:59 -0400, Greg Dickie wrote: >> Hi Nathan, >> >> Amanda 3.4.5 on centos 7. > > Okay, good. > >> Using this:define interactivity inter_tty_email { >> plugin "tty_email" >> property "mailto" "i...@xxx.com" >> property "resend-delay" "10" >> property "check-file" "/tmp/email_input" >> property "check-file-delay" "10" >> } >> >> >> So I guess it will resend every 10 seconds. oops. >> so that answers the first question, thanks. > > Yep :) > >> Now what does that email mean? The entire email is below: >> >> >> >> Error reading Amanda header: Error reading 2097152 bytes from /dev/nst0: >> Input/output error >> >> Insert a new volume in flexstorii >> or write the name of a new changer in '/tmp/email_input' >> or write 'abort' in the file to abort the scan. >> >> (Waiting for the file to be created.) > > The error message in the first paragraph of the email is the hint > answering your "b) what the cause is and how to avoid it?" question. > > I don't use actual tape drives with Amanda 3.4.x (so I don't have > first-hand experience with this situation), but I believe the error > message simply means that Amanda can't read a label label from the tape > in the drive in question, either because their is no tape inserted or > because the tape that's there is bad. > > If at this point you put a valid tape in the drive (or cause the changer > to advance to a valid tape), Amanda should detect that after a few > seconds and proceed with the backup run. > > (If you are sure there is actually a valid tape in the drive [i.e. > amcheck is happy with that same tape before the run starts], then you > need to figure out why Amanda can't see it -- but you will need to look > somewhere other than this email message for clues to help track down > that sort of problem. For example, it may be some sort of changer > configuration problem....) > > > If you can't find a valid volume and want to abort the run, you can do > something like > echo "abort" > /tmp/email_input > then make sure /tmp/email_input is readable by the Amanda process. > > > Alternatively, if you just want Amanda to give up the run if it hits > this sort of problem (and skip the emails entirely), then you can > disable the "interactity inter_tty_email" line in amanda.conf.... > > > Nathan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Nathan Stratton Treadway - natha...@ontko.com - Mid-Atlantic region > Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ > GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 > Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239