On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 02:54:46PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> I've been a happy amanda user for quite some time now but now I've a little 
> problem. I backup to disk and backups occassionally stay in holding because 
> of a shortage of disk space (I'm using 2.4.3 - want to upgrade soon to 2.4.4 
> to be able to use autoflush). This hasn't been a problem as I just ran 
> amflush but now I've some dumps that I can't flush. This has happened for a 
> while now and I get mails like this:
> 
> DUMP SUMMARY:
>                                      DUMPER STATS                  TAPER 
> STATS  
> HOSTNAME   DISK       L   ORIG-KB    OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS     KB/s MMM:SS     
> KB/s
> ----------------------- -------------------------------------- ---------------
> arda       /            NO FILE TO FLUSH 
> arda       /boot        NO FILE TO FLUSH 
> bree       /            NO FILE TO FLUSH 
> bree       /boot        NO FILE TO FLUSH 
> dale       /            NO FILE TO FLUSH 
> dale       /boot        NO FILE TO FLUSH 
> 
> 
> I get this "NO FILE TO FLUSH" message for every disk in my disklist, and 
> there 
> are dumps for those disks in the holding disk.
> 
> In the last couple of days amdump doesn't seem to complete properly. Although 
> ps shows me no relevant processes, I have to run amcleanup - then I get the 
> above mail. I get the message about the unprocessed logfile and when I look 
> at the logfile I see:
> 
> DISK amflush arda /
> DISK amflush arda /boot
> DISK amflush bree /
> DISK amflush bree /boot
> DISK amflush dale /
> DISK amflush dale /boot
> START amflush date 20030601
> START driver date 20030601
> STATS driver startup time 0.015
> START taper datestamp 20030601 label TIZdaily45 tape 0
> INFO taper tape TIZdaily45 kb 0 fm 0 [OK]
> FINISH driver date 20030601 time 1.116
> 
> This is the entire logfile, except that I have removed a number of  the
> "DISK amflush" lines to shorten this mail.
> 
> Can anyone suggest what's going on here, and how I might flush these 
> outstanding dumps ?

Gosh those straws are hard to grasp :)

Config changes?  switch holding disk location?  names?  fqdn's?  disklist?
Rebuild amanda and do an incomplete installation so part are from different 
version?
Are they really dump files or other cruft?
Was a dump aborted so they are incomplete?
Are they possibly so old their dumps are not in the logs any longer?
(don't know if that would matter)
Do you really need them?  :))  On tape?  If not does amcleanup get rid of them?

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