Amanda-Users

Re: What to do about a failing back-up?

2005-03-10 11:52:22
Subject: Re: What to do about a failing back-up?
From: "Erik P. Olsen" <erik AT epo DOT dk>
To: Amanda Users List <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:39:50 +0100
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 16:25 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> I have had a peculiar situation where a back-up failed to succeed. The
> error message was:
> epo.dk     /var lev 2 FAILED [no more holding disk space]
> 
> It later turned out not to be too little holding disk space. I had
> simply forgotten to set the write inhibit switch off when I inserted the
> tape. Of course the holding space ran full and that was later written to
> tape by the amflush command. So far so good, but what about all the data
> that was not backed-up when the staging area ran full? Has that been
> backed up by the amflush command? If not what shall I do (have done) in
> this case?
> 
Sorry, folks. Forgot the attachment.

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Regards,
Erik P. Olsen

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