On Wednesday 07 January 2004 16:54, Mike Heller wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >>On Wednesday 07 January 2004 14:55, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >>>On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 at 2:40pm, Gene Heskett wrote >>> >>>>On Wednesday 07 January 2004 13:21, Mike Heller wrote: >>>>>I have amanda running on serveral servers and last night I tried >>>>>to back up one more to the tape server. When I arrived this >>>>>morning, the backups were still running and the new server had >>>>>an extremely high load on it. It's a RedHat Linux 9.0 server >>>>>and the load was over 520 (quad Xeon system). There were about >>>>>1500 processes with "amanda" as the user, some are listed below: >>>> >>>>Why is it running restore? You said it was backing up, aka >>>>amdump.. >>>> >>>>>amanda 4030 4028 3 01:03 ? 00:17:00 /sbin/restore >>>>>-tvf - amanda 4031 4028 0 01:03 ? 00:01:47 sed -e >>>>>?s/^leaf[ >>> >>>I'd guess those are the index threads -- note that it's restore >>> -t. >> >>Odd indeed, Joshua. Not anything I've ever seen here that I >> recall. I just put todays snapshot in, but I doubt Mike's install >> is that new. I also wonder if its an rpm, and redhat's been >> 'adjusting' things again? I don't recall what Mike said about >> version if he did. >> >>:( > >Thanks Gene, I was wondering why restore was running as well but if > that is the index then I suppose that makes sense.
Well, its got my curiosity piqued, so if I'm still awake, I'll check my run tonight and see if there is a restore going. But I had it fixed in my wee & aged brain that tar made its own indexes. OTOH, somebody that actually knows could chime in here and rescue us :) >I'm using amanda version: amanda-2.5.0-20031219 > >Mike -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
