On Wednesday 23 December 2020 16:50:40 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 23 December 2020 12:27:57 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 08:11:25 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > amstatus: bad status on taper SHM-WRITE (dumper): 20 at > > > /usr/local/share/perl/5.24.1/Amanda/Status.pm line 929, <$fd> line > > > 3411. > > screwed up again last night. But my script fixed it so its still a good backup. The original complaint was the Chromium had done some cache cleaning while the backup was running.
That sort of "file removed before we read it" was NOT a show stopper a year ago. Whats been changed since? > > [...] > > > > > But that log was overwritten by the flush.sh I did trying to > > > complete the backup on vtape-30, so is gone forever. But vtape-31 > > > was not > > > > In Amanda 3.5, the "/var/log/amanda/<CONFIG>/amdump" path is > > actually just a symlink pointing to the currently-active amdump file > > among the multiple timestamped files (amdump.YYYYMMDDhhmmss), so the > > original log file should still be out there. > > > > It will be interesting to compare the contents of the logs from > > working and non-working runs. So: > > > > 1) what's the timestamp for the run that generated this error? > > > > 2) what does > > $ grep SHM-WRITE amdump.202012[12]* > > show (when run from within the correct .../log/amanda/... > > directory)? > > > > (The idea being to grep through all the amdump.* files from the > > past 13 days, just as a quick way to hit both good and bad runs.) > > > > 3) is there any correlation between the runs where amstatus returns > > this error and other interesting messages appearing in the Amanda > > Mail Report for those runs? > > You may want to fine tune that, its several hundred hits. Of very long > lines. 200 + chars in many of them. Errors do not appear to stand out > in all that noise. > > > 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 > > Copyright 2019 by Maurice E. Heskett > Cheers, Gene Heskett Copyright 2019 by Maurice E. Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
