Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:11:44 -0400
Wow! Amanda, by design, is supposed to clean those up when the tape is over-written, and generally has done that here over the last 7 or 8 years. You may want to look at your install, make sure these
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:16:46 -0400
Those logfiles are Amanda's tape catalog. Amanda should be cleaning out the logs that correspond to overwritten tapes. Do you have tapes that old? Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmand
Author: Paul Bijnens <Paul.Bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:54:38 +0200
If you remove those files manually, than Amanda cannot locate older backups anymore with "amadmin x find". When Amanda does not need them anymore, Amanda moves them to the subdir "oldlog". And only f
Author: Paul Yeatman <pyeatman AT mamacass.ucsd DOT edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:06:30 -0700
Well, thanks everyone! I'm just barely smart enough to do so but that is exactly why I asked first! Yes, I really do have tapes that old. Is that unusual? I backup up a LOT of linux and unix machines
Author: Paul Yeatman <pyeatman AT mamacass.ucsd DOT edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:27:48 -0700
Ah, I see what is going on. For all the log files I have, I was wondering how even so many 1-4K files were adding up to 84G. So, I ran an ls piped to sort and it turns out that the size of this direc
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:53:32 -0400
Sure, that won't be a problem. If the run produced no useful dumps, you could also just delete the whole file. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:01:10 -0400
Not really, but it does end up being a lot of logfiles, as you indicate :) Someday (>>wistful sigh<<) we'll have a DB-backed catalog, so folks like you with lots of tapes won't have to worry about ma
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:19:34 -0400
We could stand that now Dustin. The problem as I see it though is in compressing it while still maintaining it in a human readable format. This, for bare metal recovery operations that really do need