> Well, that's strange! Why does amflush need to to do an estimate??? > My 28 Gbyte flush on monday morning takes 0:00 estimate time. > There isn't even an estimate phase when doing amflush (skimmed quickly > in the source, correct me if I missed it.)
Strange for me too! > Are you sure you execute the correct amflush command? Some people > have many versions (the system supplied one, maybe version 2.4.1 > in /usr/sbin, some other version in /usr/local/sbin, and/or a > self compiled in ~amanda/sbin ... # rpm -qa | grep "amanda" amanda-client-2.4.3-4 amanda-server-2.4.3-4 amanda-2.4.3-4 # locate amflush /usr/sbin/amflush /usr/share/man/man8/amflush.8.gz /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/amflush.2 /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/amflush.1 /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/amflush.3 /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/amflush.6 .... and so on till amflush.24 /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/amflush.log.20040204 > Just checking... your holdingdisk and it's subdirectories > are local disks AND are owned by amanda? And you do run > amdump and amflush as user amanda? # pwd / # ls -l drwxrwxr-x 10 amanda root 4096 Feb 5 00:30 backup # cd backup/ # pwd /backup # ls -l total 44 drwxrwxr-x 2 amanda disk 4096 Dec 30 01:12 20031230 drwx------ 2 amanda disk 4096 Jan 30 01:25 20040130 drwx------ 2 amanda disk 4096 Jan 31 01:25 20040131 drwx------ 2 amanda disk 4096 Feb 1 01:24 20040201 drwx------ 2 amanda disk 4096 Feb 3 01:30 20040203 drwx------ 2 amanda disk 4096 Feb 5 01:51 20040205 drwxrwxr-x 2 amanda root 16384 Sep 27 15:28 lost+found drwxrwx--- 4 root root 4096 Oct 23 12:26 windows > PS. to avoid complaints about cruft concerning the lost+found > directory, make a subdir on that disk (/disk/amandahold/TheConfig) > and specify that subdir as holdingdisk directory in amanda.conf. Sure, I can do that.
