Re: Intermittent 'out of tape' errors

[John R. Jackson]

>The problem:  On occasion, intermittently and not always on the same tape,
>both servers will abort the backup almost as soon as it begins with a
>complaint that the tape is full.  ...

Details, please.  What **exactly** did Amanda say?  Did it say it got
an I/O error, for instance?

In any case, this is just Amanda telling you what the OS told it.

>Stephen Walton

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Intermittent 'out of tape' errors

[Stephen Walton]

Hello, all,

Amanda 2.4.2 running on two HP 735 servers running HP-UX 10.20 servers.
I'm using gnutar 1.3.18 with the Amanda-recommended patches.  The tape
drives are an Exabyte 8505XL on one system and an Ecrix VXA-1 on the
other.

The problem:  On occasion, intermittently and not always on the same tape,
both servers will abort the backup almost as soon as it begins with a
complaint that the tape is full.  It seems to happen somewhat more often
with the Exabyte than the Ecrix, but it happens on both.

I searched the list archives for a similar problem, but no luck.  Any
ideas?

-- 
Stephen Walton, Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
California State University, Northridge
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