Hi, Last Friday we got bitten by a rather vicious raid controller firmware/codeset that corrupted some of our raidsets when a disk failed in the array and the controller started a rebuild. Seeing that I quickly disabled some of DLEs involved by either commenting them out or inserting a `strategy skip' stanza in the dumptypes while we researched/solved the issue.
This is with amanda-2.6.1p2 both on clients and servers. Once the firmware issue was sorted out and the affected raidsets rebuilt I tried to restore them as they were prior to the failure just to see that the index files for those DLEs had disappeared. I had to retrieve them from the backups, but that made me a little nervous that something else was at work. Of course I could have used amfetchdump rather than amrecover, but that begs the question: What is the `proper' way to deal with a situation like this: commenting away the DLEs or use 'strategy skip'? I'm quite please to say: I restored of 3TB of data with no glitch whatsoever once the index files were put back in place. Amanda is quite a nice piece of software! thanks, jf -- <° >< Jean-François Malouin McConnell Brain Imaging Centre Systems/Network Administrator Montréal Neurological Institute 3801 Rue University, Suite WB219 Montréal, Québec, H3A 2B4 Phone: 514-398-8924 Fax: 514-398-8948
