Amanda-Users

Re: Troubleshooting partition offline error

2003-04-16 13:45:19
Subject: Re: Troubleshooting partition offline error
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:05:10 -0400
On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 04:27:12PM +0200, Alexander JOLK wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> getting in a little late on this thread...
> 
> > setting up estimates for www:/var/www/main/htdocs
> > www:/var/www/main/htdocs overdue 12158 days for level 0
> > setup_estimate: www:/var/www/main/htdocs: command 0, options:
> >     last_level -1 next_level0 -12158 level_days 0
> >     getting estimates 0 (0) -1 (-1) -1 (-1)
> 
> This seems to indicate that it didn't receive any estimates from those
> disks, which leads it to conclude that the disk is offline.  (Are those
> `overdue 12158 days' normal for a new disk?)

        $ bc
        12158 / 365.25
        33.28.....
        2003 - 33
        1970
        qu
        $

I.e., no backups in the history of the UNIX clock which started 1/1/1970.


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