Gene, thanks for the help. Per your request below is the section that describes why I got the Strange message:
FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: /-- servername /bck/folder lev 0 STRANGE sendbackup: start [servername:/bck/folder level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/sbin/ufsdump sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/gzip -dc |/usr/sbin/ufsrestore -f... - sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz sendbackup: info end ? Unable to create temporary directory in any of the directories listed below: ? /tmp/ ? /var/tmp/ ? / ? Please correct this problem and rerun the program. | DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Feb 16 00:46:26 2005 | DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch | DUMP: Dumping /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s6 (servername:/bck) to standard output. | DUMP: Mapping (Pass I) [regular files] | DUMP: Mapping (Pass II) [directories] | DUMP: Writing 32 Kilobyte records | DUMP: Estimated 230640 blocks (112.62MB) on 0.00 tapes. | DUMP: Dumping (Pass III) [directories] | DUMP: Dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] | DUMP: 230590 blocks (112.59MB) on 1 volume at 10095 KB/sec | DUMP: DUMP IS DONE sendbackup: size 115295 sendbackup: end \-------- The above section shows that Amanda was not able to create temporary folders in /tmp/ - but I checked it and it is not a disk issue as well as permission? (I was able to manually create (as Amanda user) a new folder in /tmp ) Any ideas why Amanda is having problem creating temporary folders? Thx, gil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gene Heskett Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 10:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Amanda's report On Wednesday 16 February 2005 09:45, Gil Naveh wrote: >After running Amanda's backup, I receive an email with a report > about the last backup. >The first section of that report is: "FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP > SUMMARY:" and under this section I get the following message: > > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > servername /folder/to/backup lev 0 STRANGE > You didn't post all the summary, so we can't guess really well. >What does STRANGE means? What it usually means here is that some file changed while it was being read, like here, I get squawks about mail files from time to time because kmail is running 24/7, and may do a mail fetch run,or decide to purge old messages while amanda is running. >I checked the data that was backed up on the tape and was able to > restore it - should I ignore that message or what does Amanda tries > to tell me? Dunno, post the rest of summary and we'll take a look. >Many thanks, >gil -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.33% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
