I am still trying to understand and improve my inherited amanda configuration. I notice that in the disklist, there are parent directories listed before their children. Here is an example:

myhost        /                               comp-low-tar
myhost        /usr                            comp-low-tar
myhost        /var                            comp-med-tar
myhost        /net/myhost/home              comp-med-tar

Does Amanda backup the subdirectories of an item listed in the disklist? And does that mean that I am backing up /usr twice? I suspect that the answer is no, but I would like to confirm this.

I also notice that some things in the disklist sometimes show up in amadmin balance as being extraordinarily overdue (like 131 days). due-date #fs orig KB out KB balance
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4/06 Wed 5 56836750 46326642 +384.2%
4/07 Thu 2 13680830 13680830 +43.0%
4/08 Fri 0 0 0 ---
4/09 Sat 3 7928350 6604199 -31.0%
4/10 Sun 3 9011080 9011080 -5.8%
4/11 Mon 5 14117700 8890351 -7.1%
4/12 Tue 6 11165980 10039560 +4.9%
4/13 Wed 6 11057670 9254644 -3.3%


4/16 Sat    8    9326350    8127764    -15.1%
4/17 Sun    4   11941010   10722435    +12.1%
4/18 Mon    1   14422360   14422360    +50.7%
4/19 Tue    3   14011020   11719132    +22.5%
4/20 Wed    6   11232850    8034076    -16.0%

4/23 Sat   32   10841180   10841180    +13.3%
4/24 Sun    1   14116820   14116820    +47.5%
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TOTAL       85  209689950  181791073   9567951
 (estimated 19 runs per dumpcycle)
(3 filesystems overdue, the most being overdue 131 days)

I am suspicious that it is the parent directories that are so much overdue, but I don't know how to confirm what is overdue. Additionally, I am looking for a way to determine which disklist item is going to be fully backed up when. They don't seem to correspond that way. Is there an option to amadmin that I missed?

Vicki

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