Re: Can you remind Amanda of holding file(s)?

2009-11-24 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Mike Chesnut mi...@aggregateknowledge.com wrote: However, doing amadmin config holding list only lists the first one (20091121). What's in the directory it's not finding? Do the headers on those files look OK? Can you post the output of a find -ls on both

Re: Can you remind Amanda of holding file(s)?

2009-11-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's in 20091122180002? Mike Chesnut wrote: amdump got stuck for me the other day, and after running amcleanup, it seems to have lost track of a holding dir. My holding disk has these directories in it: 20091121180002 20091122180002 However, doing amadmin config holding list only lists

Re: Can you remind Amanda of holding file(s)?

2009-11-24 Thread Mike Chesnut
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Mike Chesnut mi...@aggregateknowledge.com wrote: However, doing amadmin config holding list only lists the first one (20091121). What's in the directory it's not finding? Do the headers on those files look OK? Can you post the

Re: Can you remind Amanda of holding file(s)?

2009-11-24 Thread Brian Cuttler
I had an issue once (or twice) where amanda just wouldn't flush certain files from the holding area. The issue turned out to be that I'd removed the particular partition from the disklist while there where files in the work area. That being the case, amflush didn't bother with the files in the

Re: Can you remind Amanda of holding file(s)?

2009-11-24 Thread Mike Chesnut
Brian Cuttler wrote: The issue turned out to be that I'd removed the particular partition from the disklist while there where files in the work area. That being the case, amflush didn't bother with the files in the work area because they essentially where not part of the amanda working set.

Re: Can you remind Amanda of holding file(s)?

2009-11-24 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Mike Chesnut mi...@aggregateknowledge.com wrote: It looked like running amcleanup after making this change resulted in the holding directories getting renamed accordingly, though (e.g., from 20091121 to 20091121180002). Would that change have caused this

Re: Can you remind Amanda of holding file(s)?

2009-11-24 Thread Mike Chesnut
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Mike Chesnut mi...@aggregateknowledge.com wrote: It looked like running amcleanup after making this change resulted in the holding directories getting renamed accordingly, though (e.g., from 20091121 to 20091121180002). Would that

Re: Can you remind Amanda of holding file(s)?

2009-11-24 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 15:15:50 -0800, Mike Chesnut wrote: Okay, that makes sense. My one concern is this: what if there is data in those .tmp files that's no longer on the client host? Is there no way to recover them so amanda can provide me with a backup of them? The issue is that the