Greetings; I made a movie out of a machining operation which put nearly 18GB in .avi files in my /usr/movies DLE.
So this mornings report for the 2nd time, notes its too big, and only wrote a PARTIAL, then ran out of space, and I had added another 20GB to the size of the vtape yesterday. I'll add another 10GB today. But, I thought I would clean out the holding disk by doing a flush by hand, and found a piece of my script that has worked numerous times before, is now broken. The command line issued from the /GenesAmandaHelper-0.6 directorry, as the use amanda is: ./flush.sh Daily The 6 line snippet of backup.sh, which flush.sh is a softlink to is: ================ # or are we running as flush.sh if [ $0 == "./flush.sh" ]|| [ $0 == "${MYDIR}/flush.sh" ]||[ $0 == "flush.sh" ]; then # we don't want amflush to disconnect or ask questions if [`/bin/ls /dumps`]; then <<<<<----line 173 echo "Backup script running amflush -bf $CONFIGNAME " >> $LOG ================= The if statement probably needs help but all its looking for is a non-null response, or at least that's the theory when I wrote it and its worked since years now. But, now I get this return on the command line: ================= ./flush.sh: line 173: [20091019011512]: command not found ================= and the echo line above never makes it to the log, here it is: ================= ./flush.sh started on 19/10/09 07:10:37 with arg Daily CONFIGNAME = Daily First put the tapelist in order with a run of amcheck running /usr/local/sbin/amcheck Daily Amanda Tape Server Host Check ----------------------------- Holding disk /dumps: 308895744 kB disk space available, using 308383744 kB stage 1: search for oldest reusable volume oldest reusable volume is 'Dailys-3' changer is not fast-searchable; skipping to stage 2 stage 2: scan for any reusable volume trying slot 3 Will write to volume 'Dailys-3' in slot 3. NOTE: skipping tape-writable test Server check took 1.014 seconds Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check -------------------------------- Client check: 2 hosts checked in 2.460 seconds. 0 problems found. (brought to you by Amanda 2.6.2alpha) Back in ./flush.sh - and the lists should be sane line 72 ./flush.sh tapenum from /usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/chg-disk-slot is now=3 TAPECYCLE=30 RUNTAPES=1 This script is being run as ./flush.sh No dumps left in holding disk area, ./flush.sh has been skipped <<---is the else clause of that 'if' in line 173 flush-indices-configs is done and completed successfully. <<--'echo' line is trash, removed now amcheckdump run is disabled by gene.conf config. ======end of log========= But: [ama...@coyote Daily]$ ls /dumps 20091019011512 [ama...@coyote Daily]$ du /dumps 17856304 /dumps/20091019011512 17856312 /dumps [ama...@coyote Daily]$ ls -lR /dumps /dumps: total 4 drwx------ 2 amanda amanda 4096 2009-10-19 02:35 20091019011512 /dumps/20091019011512: total 17856300 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 291857 2009-10-19 02:34 coyote._opt.1 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 43008 2009-10-19 02:35 coyote._sbin.1 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 73728 2009-10-19 02:27 coyote._usr_dlds_misc.1 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 43008 2009-10-19 02:34 coyote._usr_dlds_rpms.1 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 43008 2009-10-19 02:34 coyote._usr_dlds_tgzs.1 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 2097152000 2009-10-19 02:17 coyote._usr_movies.1 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 2097152000 2009-10-19 02:19 coyote._usr_movies.1.1 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 2097152000 2009-10-19 02:20 coyote._usr_movies.1.2 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 2097152000 2009-10-19 02:22 coyote._usr_movies.1.3 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 2097152000 2009-10-19 02:23 coyote._usr_movies.1.4 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 2097152000 2009-10-19 02:24 coyote._usr_movies.1.5 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 2097152000 2009-10-19 02:25 coyote._usr_movies.1.6 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 2097152000 2009-10-19 02:26 coyote._usr_movies.1.7 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1485770752 2009-10-19 02:27 coyote._usr_movies.1.8 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 43008 2009-10-19 02:34 coyote._usr_music.1 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 3428215 2009-10-19 02:33 coyote._usr_src.1 Can somebody teach me a better 'if' in line 173? Thanks. PS: I would still like to be able to turn the amcheckdump option back on, but until it loses the required cli confirmation, that's DIW. -- 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) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> Never argue with a fool -- people might not be able to tell the difference.