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You have a [[Rait|RAIT]] setup, and amcheck (and many other commands) return an error like:
{{Troubleshooting Header}}
=Problem=
{{XXX|Dustin|RAIT Device in Device API does not return these errors!}}
You have a [[How To:Set Up RAIT (Redundant Array of Independent Tapes)|RAIT]] setup, and {{man|8|amcheck}} (and many other commands) return an error like:


  $ amcheck test
  $ amcheck test
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  amcheck-server: slot 2: reading label: Numerical argument out of domain
  amcheck-server: slot 2: reading label: Numerical argument out of domain


=Explanation=
The EDOM error (Numerical argument out of domain) points to an XOR sum mismatch when reading a RAIT set.


This means that one of the members of the RAIT does not have the correct label, matching the other members.
That could result when you have a read error on the one of the members of the RAIT set that was not flagged by the individual tape drive.


To find out which member (apart from looking on the handwritten labels on the physical tapes
More frequently however you inserted the wrong tape in one of the drives and one of the members of the RAIT does not have the correct label, matching the other members.
themselves), you must use '''ammt''' and '''amdd''' to extract the first file from each
 
member tape:
=Solution=
To find out which member (apart from looking on the handwritten labels on the physical tapes themselves), you must use [[ammt]] and [[amdd]] to extract the first file from each
member tape.  Let's suppose you have a RAIT setup with chg-multi, and the contents of slot 2 are:
 
  slot 2  rait:{file:/amandatapes/daily/vtape2,/dev/nst0}
 
Then get the label of each member of the RAIT:
    
    
  $ ammt -t file:/amandatapes/daily/vtape2 rewind
  $ ammt -t file:/amandatapes/daily/vtape2 rewind
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In the above example, member 1 (a vtape) has a tape labeled "DAILY-02" in slot 2,
In the above example, member 1 (a vtape) has a tape labeled "DAILY-02" in slot 2,
while the physical tapedrive has a tape labeled "Text-03".
while the physical tapedrive has a tape labeled "Test-03".
You need to find the physical tape labeled "DAILY-02" and insert that in the drive.
You need to find the physical tape labeled "DAILY-02" and insert that in the drive.
If both claim to be same tape, then you could have a hardware fault in one of the drives
resulting the XOR sum mismatch, and the RAIT driver could not rebuild the data from the
other streams.

Latest revision as of 23:11, 30 June 2008

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Problem

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You have a RAIT setup, and amcheck(8) (and many other commands) return an error like: 

$ amcheck test
...
amcheck-server: slot 2: reading label: Numerical argument out of domain

Explanation

The EDOM error (Numerical argument out of domain) points to an XOR sum mismatch when reading a RAIT set.

That could result when you have a read error on the one of the members of the RAIT set that was not flagged by the individual tape drive.

More frequently however you inserted the wrong tape in one of the drives and one of the members of the RAIT does not have the correct label, matching the other members.

Solution

To find out which member (apart from looking on the handwritten labels on the physical tapes themselves), you must use ammt and amdd to extract the first file from each member tape. Let's suppose you have a RAIT setup with chg-multi, and the contents of slot 2 are: 

 slot 2  rait:{file:/amandatapes/daily/vtape2,/dev/nst0}

Then get the label of each member of the RAIT: 

$ ammt -t file:/amandatapes/daily/vtape2 rewind
$ amdd  if=file:/amandatapes/daily/vtape2 bs=32k count=1
AMANDA: TAPESTART DATE X TAPE DAILY-02

1+0 in
1+0 out
$ ammt -t file:/amandatapes/daily/vtape2 rewind

$ ammt -t /dev/nst0 rewind
$ amdd  if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1
AMANDA: TAPESTART DATE X TAPE Test-03

1+0 in
1+0 out
$ ammt -t /dev/nst0 rewind

In the above example, member 1 (a vtape) has a tape labeled "DAILY-02" in slot 2, while the physical tapedrive has a tape labeled "Test-03". You need to find the physical tape labeled "DAILY-02" and insert that in the drive.

If both claim to be same tape, then you could have a hardware fault in one of the drives resulting the XOR sum mismatch, and the RAIT driver could not rebuild the data from the other streams.

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