Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 09:43, Vicki Stanfield wrote:
I have noticed that two large files which are of type GNU tar archive and named in the format: hostname._net_hostname_home_user.20041221.2 (exactly matches an entry in disklist except that the slashes in the path are now underscores and the date and another number are appended)
That has most all of the marks of accidentally including the holding disk area in a disklist entry, and its going to be recursively backing itself up till it runs out of disk.
If you want to backup the holdingdisk itself (e.g. because it contains some other valuable data), then add the "holdingdisk no" directive to the dumptype of that disklistentry. In that case amanda schedules this DLE last and bypassing the holdingdisk dumping directly to tape to avoid (re)cursing.
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