RE: Question about /home/amanda/20020904/ directory
yeah I had done an amflush and it removed the directories after the flush Michael Martinez System Administrator Information Systems and Technology Management CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture (202) 720-6223 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 6:32 PM To: 'Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Question about /home/amanda/20020904/ directory yes, or it may be a dump left over from an incomplete backup (i.e. one that didn't get written to tape). If you notice that you have several of these, and they actually contain data: su amanda cd ~amanda/ du ./* -sh this will tell you how big the directories are. If they're empty I delete them. If they actually contain something, I then run amflush: amflush myconf and stick in the next tape that it wants. Cheers, Crhis |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Martinez, Michael - |CSREES/ISTM |Sent: Wednesday, 4 September 2002 22:35 |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Question about /home/amanda/20020904/ directory | | |Is the /home/amanda/20020904/ (or whatever date on a particular day) |directory a temporary directory used by amanda during the |backup process? | |I had never noticed these directories before, until a couple days ago. | |Michael Martinez |System Administrator |Information Systems and Technology Management |CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture |(202) 720-6223 |
Re: Question about /home/amanda/20020904/ directory
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 at 8:34am, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM wrote Is the /home/amanda/20020904/ (or whatever date on a particular day) directory a temporary directory used by amanda during the backup process? I had never noticed these directories before, until a couple days ago. If /home/amanda is your holding disk, then that directory will contain dumps that didn't make it to tape. Your report email should have told you that you need to run amflush. If it's empty, then something isn't quite cleaning up after itself properly. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
RE: Question about /home/amanda/20020904/ directory
Yes, that's what happened. Okay. Thanks. Michael Martinez System Administrator Information Systems and Technology Management CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture (202) 720-6223 -Original Message- From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 8:48 AM To: Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Question about /home/amanda/20020904/ directory On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 at 8:34am, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM wrote Is the /home/amanda/20020904/ (or whatever date on a particular day) directory a temporary directory used by amanda during the backup process? I had never noticed these directories before, until a couple days ago. If /home/amanda is your holding disk, then that directory will contain dumps that didn't make it to tape. Your report email should have told you that you need to run amflush. If it's empty, then something isn't quite cleaning up after itself properly. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: Question about /home/amanda/20020904/ directory
Hi, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM wrote: Is the /home/amanda/20020904/ (or whatever date on a particular day) directory a temporary directory used by amanda during the backup process? Yes, these are the directorys amanda creates during the backup-process to spool the tar/dump images before writing them to tape. If a tape error (like eot/eom) occures during the backup, the left over degraded-mode dumpes will sit in these directorys waiting to be flushed to tape by amflush. If the amdump-run succeeds completly amanda deletes these directorys at the end. Christoph I had never noticed these directories before, until a couple days ago. Michael Martinez System Administrator Information Systems and Technology Management CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture (202) 720-6223
Re: Question about /home/amanda/20020904/ directory
On Wednesday 04 September 2002 08:34, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM wrote: Is the /home/amanda/20020904/ (or whatever date on a particular day) directory a temporary directory used by amanda during the backup process? I had never noticed these directories before, until a couple days ago. If you have index = yes in the amanda.conf file, then it will keep a database of whats on each days tape, clearing each tapes database out on whatever run re-uses that tape. So if you have a dumpcycle of 7 days, and each dump fits on one tape, then you will have 7 'sets' of these index files as it will generate a list for each entry in the disklist which is a 'set' of index's. With a tapecycle of 20, I have a bunch of those. AIUI, amrestore will use them to find the latest copy of a file when you need to restore just one file, or group of files. Its worked for me a couple of times. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.13% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
RE: Question about /home/amanda/20020904/ directory
yes, or it may be a dump left over from an incomplete backup (i.e. one that didn't get written to tape). If you notice that you have several of these, and they actually contain data: su amanda cd ~amanda/ du ./* -sh this will tell you how big the directories are. If they're empty I delete them. If they actually contain something, I then run amflush: amflush myconf and stick in the next tape that it wants. Cheers, Crhis |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Martinez, Michael - |CSREES/ISTM |Sent: Wednesday, 4 September 2002 22:35 |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Question about /home/amanda/20020904/ directory | | |Is the /home/amanda/20020904/ (or whatever date on a particular day) |directory a temporary directory used by amanda during the |backup process? | |I had never noticed these directories before, until a couple days ago. | |Michael Martinez |System Administrator |Information Systems and Technology Management |CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture |(202) 720-6223 |
