Re: amflush problem
2004-10-21 01:18:46
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:04:12PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 11:10:47AM -0400, Frederic Medery wrote:
> > Hello,
> > every time I do a amflush i received this report :
> >
> > The dumps were flushed to tape daily-05.
> > The next tape Amanda expects to use is: daily-02.
> >
> >
> > STATISTICS:
> > Total Full Daily
> > -------- -------- --------
> > Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00
> > Run Time (hrs:min) 0:01
> > Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00
> > Output Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
> > Original Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
> > Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- --
> > Filesystems Dumped 0 0 0
> > Avg Dump Rate (k/s) -- -- --
> >
> > Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00
> > Tape Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
> > Tape Used (%) 0.0 0.0 0.0
> > Filesystems Taped 0 0 0
> > Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) -- -- --
> >
> > USAGE BY TAPE:
> > Label Time Size % Nb
> > daily-05 0:00 0.0 0.0 0
> >
> >
> > How can i troubleshoot amflush (I run it as amanda user)
> >
>
> I just took a guess and did an experiment ...
>
> First, did you get some initial comments by amflush saying
> something like "todays date is xxxxxx"? Then asking if you
> really want to do this?
>
> == OR ==
>
> Did you get something like:
>
> A. some_date
> B. some_date
> ...
>
> Then amflush asked which dumps or all do you want to flush?
>
>
> My guess is the former; that is based on my experiment.
>
> I had nothing to flush, but I ran amflush. It gave me the
> first dialog then "wasted" a tape and gave me a report full
> of zeros like you show.
>
> An interesting side-effect of this was the creation of a
> directory named with today's date in each of my holding disks.
> They were removed at the end of the amflush run, but if amflush
> were terminated early, it might appear there were dumps left
> in the holding disk because of the directories existence.
>
>
> I feel this is improper behavior on the part of amflush.
> If nothing was detected that could be flushed, it seems to
> me that amflush should say so and exit. But maybe there is
> an explanation of which I'm unaware. I will ask on the
> hacker's list if someone could explain the behavior and/or
> adjust this behavior.
>
Just a follow-up.
I posted the note to the hacker's list and JLM supplied
a patch that corrected the behavior. I'm sure it will
be comming to a source repository near you real soon now.
jl
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Jon H. LaBadie jon AT jgcomp DOT com
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