Amanda-Users

Re: gtar program still running after backup failed

2007-08-15 09:04:43
Subject: Re: gtar program still running after backup failed
From: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
To: fedora <zuki AT abamon DOT com>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:00:09 -0500
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 02:53:16AM -0700, fedora wrote:
> When Amanda did not completed backup (failed), the gtar program is still
> running in client server by checking run ps -ef|grep amanda. It will
> increase the client server load. I have to manually kill the processes. 
> 
> May I know how to make it kill the failed gtar program automatically once
> the Amanda server finished (failed to backup)??

In "normal" failure modes, this should be taken care of.  Can you give
some detail on the type of failure that's triggering this?

Also, amcleanup should function as a second line of defense for killing
such processes.

Dustin

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        Dustin J. Mitchell
        Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc.
        http://www.zmanda.com/