On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:08:07AM -0600, Matthew Boeckman wrote:
> Normally, I'd try the FAQ... but.
> 
> In my backups I do 3 directories on a large disk via tar, which has 
> historically worked fine. Last week, I added a fourth directory with 
> tar, and now I cannot get a backup of one of the dirs!
> 
> To make more sense of that
> /bkup1
> /bkup2
> /bkup3
> /bkup4
> 
> For diagnostic, I have commented out everything in my normal cycle, and 
> just run amdump once lvl-0 for each directory. bkup1 fails every time:
> 
>   ultra      /webhome/bkup1 lev 0 FAILED [no estimate]
> 
> There are no errors in /tmp/amanda files this box is both the server and 
> client. What's interesting is that sendbackup.debug does not get written 
> to when amdump'ing just that bkup1 directory! FWIW, permissions are the 
> same across all, and the size of bkup1 is inline with the other's (i.e. 
> plenty of tape!)
> 
> Some clipped lines from other debug files in /tmp/amanda:
> sendsize.debug
> Total bytes written: 12705822720
> .....
> sendsize: pid 22778 finish time Mon Dec  2 07:59:36 2002
> 
> amandad.debug:
> amandad: sending REP packet:
> ----
> Amanda 2.4 REP HANDLE 000-000549D0 SEQ 1038837189
> OPTIONS maxdumps=1;
> /webhome/bkup1 2 SIZE 12408030
> ----

No result for estimate level 0!
Did the planner asker for level 0 estimate? (REQ packet form amandad.debug)
If not, WHY? look into the amdump log file.
What's your dumptype? (amadmin <conf> disklist ultra /webhome/bkup1)
Which release of amanda?

Jean-Louis
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