Re: interactivity hangs amanda and blows out email

2015-07-10 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Thank you, Jean-louis, Given the tradeoffs, I guess it's best for me to turn off interactivity. We run amcheck on cron in the mid afternoon, when people are around. So the correct tape should be in place. In an unusual case where the tape library becomes unavailable after that, I would rather j

Re: interactivity hangs amanda and blows out email

2015-07-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 09/07/15 03:06 PM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: But, amanda did not continue. After the estimates, there was nothing. Zero backups. And, when I came in in the morning, amanda was basically dead and gone, aside from the bazillion defunct amanda mail processes. Is it possible that the mail issue cre

Re: interactivity hangs amanda and blows out email

2015-07-09 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
But, amanda did not continue. After the estimates, there was nothing. Zero backups. And, when I came in in the morning, amanda was basically dead and gone, aside from the bazillion defunct amanda mail processes. Is it possible that the mail issue created too many processes and exceeded some limit

Re: interactivity hangs amanda and blows out email

2015-07-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Chris, Amanda should continue to do the backup to holding disk while it wait for a new tape, this is constructive work. You could remove the interactivity setting if you don't what its behaviour. What can be done is to add a timeout to the intertivity plugin to abort if there is no tape avail

interactivity hangs amanda and blows out email

2015-07-09 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
I have an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server with Amanda 3.3.6 using an NEO200 LTO6 connected by SAS. I ran aptitude updates yesterday evening and rebooted. This morning, I had no email report from Amanda, and the mail admin said that the backup server and been sending email every 10 seconds to unknown u