On Wednesday 21 September 2005 09:31, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 at 9:04am, Guy Dallaire wrote > >> It's very rare that I don't come up here in the morning and don't see >> failed and strange dumps in my 10 machines backup. > >FAILED is a lot different than STRANGE. > >> Most of the time, this occurs because some housekeeping/cleaning is >> between the time the estimates and backups are done. >> >> Most of the time, the message is there because a file disapeared, or >> changed in size. >> >> I can live with it. >> >> Since I've put my amanda indexes and log elsewhere (in >> /usr/local/var/amanda) I often get the following kind of messages: >> >> /-- lnx-que-am / lev 2 STRANGE >> sendbackup: start [lnx-que-amanda:/ level 2] >> sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/gtar >> sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gtar -f... - >> sendbackup: info end >> ? gtar: >> ./usr/local/var/amanda/idx/DailySet1/index/chablis/_/20050921_1.gz.tmp >>: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory >> ? gtar: >> ./usr/local/var/amanda/idx/DailySet1/index/lnx-que-wforms1-dev/_WEB__D >>EP__6i/20050921_1.gz.tmp: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or >> directory >> >> | Total bytes written: 372920320 (356MiB, 2.7MiB/s) >> >> sendbackup: size 364180 >> sendbackup: end >> \-------- >> >> Looks like some temporary compressed index files from the current run >> should be there but are not. Could there be a problem here ? If not, >> is there a way to stop amanda from complaining about missing files ? >> >> Do you see similar behavior ? > >You're always going to see that when trying to back up the index > directory of an active amanda setup. What I do is run a script after > the backups are done which tars up all the config and index dirs and > puts them in a few different locations which then get backed up that > night.
That mans your indices and such are all out of date by one run. I didn't like that when I got to thinking about os I go ahead and append them to the same tape Joshua. When I was using tape, I had to reduce the tapetype size to make sure there was room for the 2 extra files, in my case about 100 megs. Now useing vtapes, I just watch the df report, trying to keep the drive at 90% or so. So my backup has its uptodate indices on the same tape or in the same dir of a vtape. I sleep better. :-) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
