On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:04:58AM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:05 AM, stan <[email protected]> wrote: > > -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 32788 2009-02-24 22:42 pbuild3.wd0f.0 > > > > Shouldn't the nightly backup be deleting these files, and the parent > > directory? I am fairly certain that in the past, a failed backup did not > > result in an orphan directory on the dumpdisk. > > those are 32k+20b, which is an odd size. What does the taper logfile > look like when you run 'amflush'? > > You can definitely delete the files manually, if you'd like. The > holding-disk management code tends to be conservative about deleting > "junk" that it doesn't recognize, so I would guess that's what's going > on here.
I did deletea these, alrady. I understand what the failure mode is, I just have not had the time/resources to come to a resolution on it. The point I am making is, to the best of myy knowledge, in the past, a failed backup set got written to the tape, and then deleted from the dumpdisk. Once it's on the tape, leaving it on the dumpdisk, is a problem, in that you will eventually lose availbe dumpdisk spcae that way. -- One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
