Amanda-Users

Files left on holding disk after successful dumps

2003-08-13 02:57:51
Subject: Files left on holding disk after successful dumps
From: Toralf Lund <toralf AT procaptura DOT com>
To: Amanda Mailing List <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 08:55:06 +0200
I suddenly realised that I have a lot of dump directories on my holding disk, even though dumps have generally been successful. The below "amflush" output should illustrate this.


-sh-2.05b$ /usr/sbin/amflush ks
Scanning /dumps/amanda/hd...
  20030731: found Amanda directory.
  20030730: found Amanda directory.
  20030725: found Amanda directory.
  20030729: found Amanda directory.
  20030728: found Amanda directory.
  20030709: found Amanda directory.
  20030812: found Amanda directory.
  20030811: found Amanda directory.
  20030801: found Amanda directory.
  20030807: found Amanda directory.
  20030806: found Amanda directory.
  20030805: found Amanda directory.
  20030804: found Amanda directory.
  20030808: found Amanda directory.
 Multiple Amanda directories, please pick one by letter:
  A. 20030709
  B. 20030725
  C. 20030728
  D. 20030729
  E. 20030730
  F. 20030731
  G. 20030801
  H. 20030804
  I. 20030805
  J. 20030806
  K. 20030807
  L. 20030808
  M. 20030811
  N. 20030812
Select directories to flush [A..N]: [ALL]


When I say "generally successful", what I mean is that there haven't been any major problems lately, but DLEs will occasionally fail to fit on the current tape. If they do, they are flushed automatically via the "autoflush" option. In any case, closer inspection reveals that the directories don't contain real data; a full listing of the files is included below.

Does anyone know what is causing this? I'm using amanda-2.4.4p1 on Red Hat Linux 9.

-sh-2.05b$ ls -ltr */*
-rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Jul 9 23:10 20030709/fileserv._usr_freeware_apache.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Jul 25 22:59 20030725/fileserv._usr_freeware_var_openldap-ldbm.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Jul 25 23:00 20030725/fileserv._scanner3_images.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Jul 28 23:31 20030728/fileserv._scanner_plankart.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Jul 28 23:39 20030728/fileserv._scanner3_images.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Jul 29 22:32 20030729/fileserv._scanner_Island.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Jul 29 22:32 20030729/fileserv._usr_freeware_etc_amanda.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Jul 29 23:50 20030729/fileserv._var_www.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Jul 30 22:33 20030730/fileserv._scanner_Island.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Jul 30 22:34 20030730/fileserv._usr_freeware_etc_amanda.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Jul 30 23:53 20030730/fileserv._scanner_plankart.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Jul 31 22:25 20030731/fileserv._scanner_Island.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Jul 31 22:25 20030731/fileserv._usr_freeware_etc_amanda.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Jul 31 23:47 20030731/fileserv._usr_local.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 1 00:04 20030731/fileserv._u.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 1 00:14 20030731/fileserv._scanner2_Vann.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 1 00:17 20030731/fileserv._scanner2_nijos.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 1 00:34 20030731/fileserv._scanner_plankart.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 1 23:37 20030801/fileserv._scanner3.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 1 23:37 20030801/fileserv._scanner_golg.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 1 23:47 20030801/fileserv._var_www.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 2 00:07 20030801/fileserv._usr_local.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 2 00:07 20030801/fileserv._u.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 2 00:17 20030801/fileserv._scanner2_Vann.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 2 00:37 20030801/fileserv._scanner_plankart.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 2 00:47 20030801/fileserv._u_people.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 4 23:35 20030804/fileserv._usr_freeware_etc_openldap.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 4 23:45 20030804/fileserv._scanner3.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 4 23:50 20030804/fileserv._scanner_golg.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 5 00:05 20030804/fileserv._var_www.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 5 00:15 20030804/fileserv._usr_local.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 5 02:13 20030804/fileserv._scanner_plankart.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 5 22:53 20030805/fileserv._scanner_Island.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 5 22:53 20030805/fileserv._usr_freeware_etc_amanda.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 5 23:23 20030805/fileserv._usr_freeware_etc_openldap.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 6 00:37 20030805/fileserv._usr_local.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 6 00:46 20030805/fileserv._u_project.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 6 01:08 20030805/fileserv._scanner3_SMA.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 6 01:11 20030805/fileserv._scanner2_Vann.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 6 01:16 20030805/fileserv._scanner_plankart.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 6 01:38 20030805/fileserv._u_people.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 6 23:36 20030806/fileserv._usr_freeware_etc_openldap.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 6 23:38 20030806/fileserv._scanner3.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 6 23:57 20030806/fileserv._scanner_golg.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 7 00:06 20030806/fileserv._archive.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 7 00:09 20030806/fileserv._usr_freeware_apache.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 7 00:28 20030806/fileserv._var_www.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 7 00:36 20030806/fileserv._usr_local.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 7 00:39 20030806/fileserv._u_project.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 7 00:58 20030806/fileserv._scanner3_SMA.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 7 01:09 20030806/fileserv._scanner_plankart.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 7 23:09 20030807/fileserv._usr_freeware_var_openldap-ldbm.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 7 23:20 20030807/fileserv._usr_freeware_etc_openldap.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 7 23:50 20030807/fileserv._scanner3.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 8 00:55 20030807/fileserv._usr_freeware_apache.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 8 01:21 20030807/fileserv._var_www.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 8 01:23 20030807/fileserv._usr_local.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 8 01:25 20030807/fileserv._u_project.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 8 01:53 20030807/fileserv._scanner_plankart.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 8 23:11 20030808/fileserv._usr_freeware_etc_openldap.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 8 23:22 20030808/fileserv._scanner3.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 8 23:27 20030808/fileserv._scanner_golg.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 8 23:42 20030808/fileserv._archive.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 8 23:52 20030808/fileserv._usr_freeware_apache.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 8 23:58 20030808/fileserv._var_www.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 9 00:12 20030808/fileserv._usr_local.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 9 00:22 20030808/fileserv._u_project.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 11 23:07 20030811/fileserv._usr_freeware_etc_openldap.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 11 23:09 20030811/fileserv._scanner3.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 11 23:21 20030811/fileserv._scanner_golg.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 11 23:37 20030811/fileserv._archive.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 11 23:40 20030811/fileserv._usr_freeware_apache.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 11 23:51 20030811/fileserv._var_www.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 12 22:23 20030812/fileserv._var_www.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 12 23:43 20030812/fileserv._usr_freeware_etc_openldap.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 12 23:49 20030812/fileserv._scanner3.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 12 23:51 20030812/fileserv._archive.0.tmp -rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Aug 13 00:13 20030812/fileserv._scanner_golg.0.tmp

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Toralf Lund