Re: "bad status on taper SHM-WRITE (dumper)" message
Gene Heskett <[email protected]>
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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. > > [...] > > > 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 - [email protected] - 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 -- "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>