On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:04:12PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 11:10:47AM -0400, Frederic Medery wrote: > > Hello, > > every time I do a amflush i received this report : > > > > The dumps were flushed to tape daily-05. > > The next tape Amanda expects to use is: daily-02. > > > > > > STATISTICS: > > Total Full Daily > > -------- -------- -------- > > Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00 > > Run Time (hrs:min) 0:01 > > Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00 > > Output Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 > > Original Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 > > Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- -- > > Filesystems Dumped 0 0 0 > > Avg Dump Rate (k/s) -- -- -- > > > > Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00 > > Tape Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 > > Tape Used (%) 0.0 0.0 0.0 > > Filesystems Taped 0 0 0 > > Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) -- -- -- > > > > USAGE BY TAPE: > > Label Time Size % Nb > > daily-05 0:00 0.0 0.0 0 > > > > > > How can i troubleshoot amflush (I run it as amanda user) > > > > I just took a guess and did an experiment ... > > First, did you get some initial comments by amflush saying > something like "todays date is xxxxxx"? Then asking if you > really want to do this? > > == OR == > > Did you get something like: > > A. some_date > B. some_date > ... > > Then amflush asked which dumps or all do you want to flush? > > > My guess is the former; that is based on my experiment. > > I had nothing to flush, but I ran amflush. It gave me the > first dialog then "wasted" a tape and gave me a report full > of zeros like you show. > > An interesting side-effect of this was the creation of a > directory named with today's date in each of my holding disks. > They were removed at the end of the amflush run, but if amflush > were terminated early, it might appear there were dumps left > in the holding disk because of the directories existence. > > > I feel this is improper behavior on the part of amflush. > If nothing was detected that could be flushed, it seems to > me that amflush should say so and exit. But maybe there is > an explanation of which I'm unaware. I will ask on the > hacker's list if someone could explain the behavior and/or > adjust this behavior. >
Just a follow-up. I posted the note to the hacker's list and JLM supplied a patch that corrected the behavior. I'm sure it will be comming to a source repository near you real soon now. jl -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
