--On Friday, April 01, 2005 16:50:34 -0500 Vicki Stanfield <vicki AT progeny 
DOT com> wrote:

> I discovered that some things on a remote machine were not being backed up. 
> Some things on that same machine were but not everything that should be. I 
> tried to add the lines to the disklist by copying the ones that were there 
> and editing them. I then
> ran amcheck and got this:
> 
> <SNIP>
> NOTE: info dir 
> /var/lib/amanda/Progeny01/curinfo/pollux/_net_pollux_project_new-ps-archive_50:
>  does not exist
> NOTE: index dir 
> /var/lib/amanda/Progeny01/index/pollux/_net_pollux_project_new-ps-archive_50: 
> does not exist
> NOTE: info dir 
> /var/lib/amanda/Progeny01/curinfo/pollux/_net_pollux_project_new-ps-archive_49:
>  does not exist
> NOTE: index dir 
> /var/lib/amanda/Progeny01/index/pollux/_net_pollux_project_new-ps-archive_49: 
> does not exist
> </SNIP>

Don't worry about it, amcheck is just telling you the index files
don't exist for those filesystems.  Since you just added them, it
is not a problem. Amanda will create them when it does the backups.
   If you ever see that NOTE  for something that's already been
backed up, you would then need to worry about what happened to
your index files.

Frank

> 
> I obviously have another knowledge gap when it comes to how amanda works. I 
> expected that it would go to the system in question with ssh and tar across 
> the necessary stuff. Evidently I am wrong. Can someone give me a brief 
> explanation of the process
> that amanda goes through to back up a remote system?
> 
> For the record, the lines I added to disklist look like this:
> 
> pollux          /net/pollux/project/new-ps-archive/49   med-tar
> pollux          /net/pollux/project/new-ps-archive/50   med-tar
> 
> /net/pollux/project/new-ps-archive/49 is an existing directory on pollux as 
> is 50.
> 
> What am I missing here?
> 
> Vicki
> 
> 



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