Most often, my laptop backup get started from the client using ambackup. However, if it happens to be booted when the amanda server does its dumps, the laptop gets backed up then also.
Last night I ran ambackup from the laptop but it had not finished by bedtime so I left it on to complete and went to bed. Unfortunately the second DLE was still being dumped via ambackup when the nightly amdump kicked off. The effect of this was the running dump encountered the dreaded "broken pipe" situation and looped writing error messages to /var/log/amanda/server/DS1/amadmin... until it filled the entire file system. Then due to the full file system, the regular nightly dumps of the laptop failed as the gnutar-list could not be written to (no space left on device). Not a common situation, but it seems that something should have sensed the broken pipe and aborted rather than writing 20GB of duplicate error messages. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)
