Amanda-Users

Re: backup run stalled- how to restart?

2004-11-19 10:14:44
Subject: Re: backup run stalled- how to restart?
From: "Gavin Henry" <ghenry AT suretecsystems DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:10:32 -0000 (GMT)
Eric Sproul said:
> Hi all,
> This morning by backup run was interrupted by severe network problems
> with a core router.  I had done about 80-85 partitions out of 165 total,
> and after the problems cleared, I had one stalled partition (client
> dumper died) but I got about 10-15 more done.  Now it appears that
> everyone else is waiting for dumping but no others have started.
>
> Is there a way to kickstart the rest of the waiting dumpers?  I have not
> done anything yet.
>
> An amadmin summary reports 165 total partitions, 99 done, 1 "dumping"
> (but it's actually stalled), and 65 waiting to dump.
>

I don't think so. I think you will have to kill it and then run amcleanup:

http://www.amanda.org/docs/manpages/amcleanup.8.html

I may be wrong.

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