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endfx
April 30th, 2007, 08:47 PM
Is there a way to use amanda to check the integrity of a tape?
I ask because one of my servers failed the backup. The log file shows:

WARNING driver going into degraded mode because of tape error.
FAIL taper server1 /data/source1 20070422 0 [input: Can't read data: : Input/output error]

So basically, the dumps were sent to the backup server and are sitting on the holding disks (I realize amflush will send them to a tape).
All I get from the above error is that there is something wrong with the tape. Is there any command I can use to see if it was actually the tape.
I need to know if I should remove that tape from our tape cycles.

Thanks.

Sachin
May 7th, 2007, 09:23 PM
Hi,

You can use amverify, or amverifyrun if the suspected tape was from the last run of backup .

For more details, run 'man amverify'

Thanks,
Sachin