On Tuesday 28 April 2020 05:33, Gene Heskett wrote: I just noted that my clock was foobar, set for something in april 2020! As I have a daily rdate, is there any way to ascertain that the rdate request to the server returns a sane result before it blindly resets everything? It happened yesterday morning on cron executing my setibatch -uploads script which includes this rdate command as it finishes up.
Sort of embarrasing that I missed it for nearly 2 days. >On Wednesday 11 September 2002 23:03, Alvin Ko wrote: >>I used amanda 2.4.2p2 with a DDS-3 tape drive to do a full backup >> of my Linux last night. In the amanda.conf file, I used >> chg-manual as the changer with 3 tapes. My /export/home folder >> has 23GB data. I had labeled three tapes (Tape-01, Tape-02, >> Tape-03) and then start the backup. 3 hours later, she asked me >> to insert backup tape into slot 1. When amdump completed, I got >> the following report. >>--- >>These dumps were to tapes Tape-01, Tape-02, Tape-03. >>The next 3 tapes Amanda expects to used are: a new tape, a new >> tape, a new tape. >> >>FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: >> localhost /export/home lev 0 FAILED [too many taper retries] >>... >>NOTES: >> planner: Adding new disk localhost:/boot. >> planner: Adding new disk localhost:/usr. >> planner: Adding new disk localhost:/. >> planner: Adding new disk localhost:/export/home. >> planner: Adding new disk localhost:/home. >> planner: Adding new disk localhost:/var. >> planner: Adding new disk localhost:/opt. >> taper: tape Tape-01 kb 12013824 fm 7 writing file: No space >> left on device taper: retrying localhost:/export/home.0 on new >> tape: [writing file: No space left on device] >> taper: tape Tape-02 kb 12004832 fm 1 writing file: No space >> left on device taper: retrying localhost:/export/home.0 on new >> tape: [writing file: No space left on device] >> taper: tape Tape-03 kb 0 fm 0 [OK] >> driver: Could not rmdir /mnt/hdc1/20020911: Directory not empty >>--- >>She could not backup my /export/home folder into multiple tapes. >> Anybody knows why? >> >>Best Regards, >> >>Alvin K. T. Ko > >How big is /export/home? If its bigger than your DDS3 tape, you >will have to break that entry up into even smaller pieces. > >Basicly, amanda cannot span more than one tape with a single >filesystem, and probably never will. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.15% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
