The strange behavior described here started when I upgraded my server to 
amanda-2.5.0.  I was wondering if anyone else had seen this behavior:


I run amanda 2.5.0  with a Redhat Linux 9 server attached to an ADIC Scalar 24 
changer.  

My configuration backs up about 20 clients (mix of linux and SunOS, running 
various amanda versions from 2.4.3 to 2.5.0) with about 65 DLEs.  I backup 
about 200GB per night with a dumpcycle of  7 days.

This configuration has been successfully running for about  a year, and seems 
to still be successful.

So here is the point of this message.  I upgraded the server from amanda 
2.4.4p4 to 2.5.0 on March 30 and things appear to be running fine.  Backups 
proceed and I've done successful restores.

But In the amanda mail report I get messages like this:

DUMP SUMMARY:
                                          DUMPER STATS                   TAPER 
STATS  
HOSTNAME     DISK        L    ORIG-kB     OUT-kB  COMP%  
client1.here.org /           1      23290       5568   23.9    
client1.here.org /             MISSING ------------------------------

client2.here.org -/coldprobe 0   93053120   93053152    --   
client2.here.org -/coldprobe   MISSING---------------------

It looks like these dumps have succeeded, but they are ALSO reported as 
missing!  Not all DLEs are reported missing, and the "MISSING" ones are 
different each night (different hosts, different DLEs).  Some nights there 
are no "MISSING" entries, some nights there are a couple, some nights there 
are five or six.

This started with the upgrade to amanda-2.5.0 on the server.  No changes were 
made to the disklist at that time.  I thought perhaps I had duplicate entries 
in the disklist file, and amanda's handling of them had changed, but that 
does not appear to be the case.

Is this something I should be worried about?  Has anyone else seen this 
behavior?

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