Re: tape out of space??
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 at 8:32am, Rebecca Pakish wrote Hi all I have been using amanda 2.4.2p2 on my 7.2 RH server for quite some time now backing up both linux and solaris clients. Today something strange happened... a tape that has been in rotation and working properly all of sudden ran out of space? *snip* As you can see my tape size was cut in half all of a sudden. I haven't made any changes to the configuration or drive... Maybe it's just a media error...but I wanted to throw it out here just in case. Look in /var/log/messages (or the output of 'dmesg') -- there's probably an entry from the tape driver letting you know what the error was. E.g., when this happens with my Eliant 820, I get: Apr 11 03:12:57 chaos kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x2ba, Deferred st09:00: sense key Medium Error Apr 11 03:12:57 chaos kernel: Additional sense indicates Excessive write errors Apr 11 03:12:57 chaos kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sense key Medium Error Apr 11 03:12:57 chaos kernel: Additional sense indicates Excessive write errors Apr 11 03:12:57 chaos kernel: st0: Error on write filemark. On my drive, this just means that the drive needs to be cleaned. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
RE: tape out of space??
Look in /var/log/messages (or the output of 'dmesg') -- there's probably an entry from the tape driver letting you know what the error was. E.g., when this happens with my Eliant 820, I get: Nothing in messages that's telling me anything about my tape drive... On my drive, this just means that the drive needs to be cleaned. I was going to give it a good cleaning because it happens with my sun DAT drive sometimes (dumps failing when the drive is dirty); but never with this Seagate (until now??). We'll see what happens. Thanks! rap
RE: tape out of space??
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 at 8:57am, Rebecca Pakish wrote Look in /var/log/messages (or the output of 'dmesg') -- there's probably an entry from the tape driver letting you know what the error was. E.g., when this happens with my Eliant 820, I get: Nothing in messages that's telling me anything about my tape drive... What about the SCSI bus? Any sort of messages at approximately the time of the error? On my drive, this just means that the drive needs to be cleaned. I was going to give it a good cleaning because it happens with my sun DAT drive sometimes (dumps failing when the drive is dirty); but never with this Seagate (until now??). We'll see what happens. Thanks! What sort of drive? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
RE: tape out of space??
What about the SCSI bus? Any sort of messages at approximately the time of the error? No errors at all actually...I see the session opening and closing for amanda...and that's it. What sort of drive? It's a Seagate 12/24 DAT...nothing fancy...I'm pushing it to it's limits right now backing up 11GB...trying to get the $$ for a DLT drive. rap
