I was wondering if anyone can help. Myself and colleagues have been
struggling with this amanda problem for a couple of weeks now and we
dont seem to be no where near resolving it. We thought you may beable to
enlighten us!
 
Bascially the daily backups on hostname: tsssun1 (Solaris 8
machine)appears to be failing. I've set up two slices on the disk for
the data before it flushes it to tape: 

/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0    17408538      15 17234438     1%    /amanda
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0    35006272      29 34656181     1%    /amanda1



They write to disk but do not flush to tape. When I run an amflush on
it, it says that there are no files to flush. Also the /amanda and
/amanda1 partitions dont clear themselves up afterwards. Problem is,
this seems to be happening on different days (ie: one Monday it'll fail
and the next Monday it'll succeed - using the same tapes) I checked the
/tmp/ambackup_Daily.log file and it gave me about 10 lines of the error
below:
 
/tmp/ambackup_Daily.log
Use of uninitialized value at /opt/amanda/sbin/amstatus line 868.
 
 
/opt/amanda/sbin/amstatus
 
elsif($dump_finished{$hostpart} == 1 &&
 
$taper_started{$hostpart} != 1) {
                                                if( defined
$opt_waittaper ) {
                                                        printf "%8s ",
$datestamp if defined $opt_date;
                                                        printf
"%-${maxnamelength}s%2d", "$host:$partition", $level{$hostpart};
                                                        printf "%9dk",
$size{$hostpart};
                                                        print " dump
done";
                                                        if( defined
$starttime ) {
                                                                print "
(", &showtime($dump_time{$hostpart}), ")";
                                                        }
                                                        print ", wait
for writing to tape\n";
                                                }

 
 
 
If there are errors from the night before, or if I have to do an amflush
then I normally run an amcleanup Daily and then kill off all Amanda
processes that are currently running. IS this correct? should I be
killing off all processes or should there be some running in order for
the following nights backup to succeed?

Also any ideas on why this is happening intermittantly?

A confused amanda user:

- Ranveer 
 




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