On Wednesday 07 January 2004 16:54, Mike Heller wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>On Wednesday 07 January 2004 14:55, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>>>On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 at 2:40pm, Gene Heskett wrote
>>>
>>>>On Wednesday 07 January 2004 13:21, Mike Heller wrote:
>>>>>I have amanda running on serveral servers and last night I tried
>>>>>to back up one more to the tape server.  When I arrived this
>>>>>morning, the backups were still running and the new server had
>>>>>an extremely high load on it.  It's a RedHat Linux 9.0 server
>>>>>and the load was over 520 (quad Xeon system).  There were about
>>>>>1500 processes with "amanda" as the user, some are listed below:
>>>>
>>>>Why is it running restore?  You said it was backing up, aka
>>>>amdump..
>>>>
>>>>>amanda    4030  4028  3 01:03 ?        00:17:00 /sbin/restore
>>>>>-tvf - amanda    4031  4028  0 01:03 ?        00:01:47 sed -e
>>>>>?s/^leaf[
>>>
>>>I'd guess those are the index threads -- note that it's restore
>>> -t.
>>
>>Odd indeed, Joshua.  Not anything I've ever seen here that I
>> recall. I just put todays snapshot in, but I doubt Mike's install
>> is that new.  I also wonder if its an rpm, and redhat's been
>> 'adjusting' things again?  I don't recall what Mike said about
>> version if he did.
>>
>>:(
>
>Thanks Gene, I was wondering why restore was running as well but if
> that is the index then I suppose that makes sense.

Well, its got my curiosity piqued, so if I'm still awake, I'll check 
my run tonight and see if there is a restore going.  But I had it 
fixed in my wee & aged brain that tar made its own indexes. OTOH, 
somebody that actually knows could chime in here and rescue us :)

>I'm using amanda version: amanda-2.5.0-20031219
>
>Mike

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