Hm,
there are some solutions to suppress such a situation,
1.)take your server down into single user-mode before taking the backup.... ;-)
2.)tell your users not to log in while your backup is running
3.)ignore the failed files,It is very likely that the next night amanda will
   catch these files correct. In worst case your users will loose the
   modifications after the last backup of these files.
4.) create a script which scanns the amanda mail after the run,
    collects all strange files in a single tar-archive and write it
    to the end of the tape amanda used....
Christoph

Raúl Wild-Spain schrieb:

Ok! thanks, Christoph (and Toomas again), but ... does it exist any solution in

> these cases? or  must I have to be satisfied and try a "post-backup"

(manually or not) of these files ?

thanks again,

----- Original Message ----- From: "Christoph Scheeder" <christoph.scheeder AT scheeder DOT de>

To: "Raúl Wild-Spain" <rcruz AT wild-spain DOT com>
Cc: <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: Q: finally!!! my first backup ... but :-)

Hi,
Your guess is correct,
this messages are the result of an active filesystem.
The backup itself is ok, but these specific files will
probably be bad, as they have been modifyd while tar was reading them.
Christoph

Raúl Wild-Spain schrieb:

Finally! yesterday I did my first backup and it seems ok, but I've some doubts 
about various messages:

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
 xaloc      /dev/sdc2 lev 0 STRANGE

....

FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:

/-- xaloc      /dev/sdc2 lev 0 STRANGE
sendbackup: start [xaloc:/dev/sdc2 level 0]
sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f... -
sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
sendbackup: info end
? gtar: ./notesdata/mail/sdelamoc.nsf: file changed as we read it
? gtar: ./notesdata/mail/spaxtonl.nsf: file changed as we read it
? gtar: ./notesdata/mail/xguardio.nsf: file changed as we read it
| Total bytes written: 4793784320 (4.5GB, 3.3MB/s)
sendbackup: size 4681430
sendbackup: end
\--------

I've looked at the index files of _dev_sdc2 and the list seems to be ok. Then I suppose the mentioned users was connected ( from home) when amanda did the backup (0:45). It seems, true?

No problem with the rest of filesystems ( or it seems ).

Best Regards,

Raúl
rcruz AT wild-spain DOT com