On Tuesday 04 August 2015 09:02:05 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 01 August 2015 08:43:24 Gene Heskett wrote: > > I forgot to send this at 4:30 am. > > > > It just got done, and the emailed report says the estimate time for > > a 50 gigabyte backup, was 3 minutes. Total elapsed time a hair over > > 3 hours. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Humm, setting that option disclosed 2 things, 1 of them a buglet IMO. > > 1. It now looks for /var/amanda/amandates, and of course doesn't find > it, so I had to become root on all 3 of the other machines, and > ln -s /etc/amandates /var/amanda/amandates, and > 2. On one of them I even had to create the /var/amanda directory! > > So why should adding an 'estimate calcsize\n' line to my global > dumptype change where it looks for amandates, the one in /etc had been > making it happy for years? > > So now amcheck is happy, and a real backup is running. > > Damn I'd like to find this, bit me on the 3rd day of uptime & the rest > of this machine is running nominally. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
And the great "Gene's saga" of "timeout on reply pipe" continues, amdump did a level 0 on all but 7 dle's out of 52, but even that was less than 1 vtape used. And it took 1:04 elapsed time to do it. One thing I found after I had started the backup, was that the "allow from" line in /etc/xinetd.d/amanda, did not contain the new machine I'd added to the disklist about the 2 weeks time after this excedrin headache started. It does now. Is it possible this can cause a time delayed failure? It Boggles my mind to even contemplate that. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
