On Thursday 21 February 2002 11:17 am, Tom Van de Wiele wrote: >I did a amflush and it was done in a couple of secs... it was > not complete... > Then its appears there may be yet another problem unless it can identify that its not the tape it expected in that short a time. Tape being a bit slow, I can't buy that one.
What do you now get when you do an amcheck /config/? >can I redo the backup now? on today's tape? coz it will tell me > that it can't overwrite > >Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 at 4:28pm, Tom Van de Wiele wrote >> >> > I looked in my temp dump dir and there are files in there, >> > representing the partitions I want to backup, one is 7 megs >> > and the other is 21 megs... the two partitions that I have >> > to backup are 7gig and 5 gig... >> > >> > amflush wouldn't be the solution here... >> >> Why not? Amanda went into degraded mode since there was no >> tape and put what it could in your holding space. All that >> info (including the level backups of each partition it did) >> should be in the email report. Run amflush, put the next tape >> in tonight, and everything will be back on track and you won't >> be missing any files should something happen. This should do it. For some reason it chose to do very low levels of backup for the incremental. I use 4gig tapes here, with a total space of something in the 65 gig, not all used of course, and its yet to use more than 3g of a 4g tape, and often less than 400 megs in any one nights run. >> >> -- >> Joshua Baker-LePain >> Department of Biomedical Engineering >> Duke University -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 98.6+% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a hillbilly
