Kevin Dalley wrote:

Last night, my amanda run had a problem.  The partition on which
infofile is stored ran out of space.  With infofile set to
/var/lib/amanda/normal/curinfo, the file:

/var/lib/amanda/normal/curinfo/condor/__redbird_l$

had 0 length, which meant that all history for this partition was
lost.  I restored the file from backup, and things look better.

Is it possible to write the new file in a way that the old file is not
deleted until the new file is known to exist?

Which amanda version is this?  I remember going through all the
source and adding a few error checks for these conditions.
I do not remember anymore which version exactly the patches got
incorporated, but 2.4.4p4 should detect these errors.

If not, I like to know and go through it all again...


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