On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:41:00PM -0800, Kevin Dalley wrote:
> I ran amstatus as follows:
> sudo su - backup -c 'amstatus normal --dumping --writing --summary 
> --waitdumping'
> 
> It included the following line:
> 
> condor://linnet/g$         1        7k flushing to tape (14:27:46)
> 
> However, this backup is quite a bit bigger than 7k.
> 
> kevin@condor:/archive/jon$ sudo ls -l /backup*/20050308005830/ total 21477828
> -rw-------  1 backup backup 1073741824 Mar  8 02:07 condor.__linnet_g$.0
> -rw-------  1 backup backup 1073741824 Mar  8 02:44 condor.__linnet_g$.0.1
> -rw-------  1 backup backup 1073741824 Mar  8 08:07 condor.__linnet_g$.0.10
> -rw-------  1 backup backup 1073741824 Mar  8 08:34 condor.__linnet_g$.0.11
> -rw-------  1 backup backup 1073741824 Mar  8 09:05 condor.__linnet_g$.0.12
> -rw-------  1 backup backup 1073741824 Mar  8 09:37 condor.__linnet_g$.0.13
> -rw-------  1 backup backup 1073741824 Mar  8 10:07 condor.__linnet_g$.0.14
> -rw-------  1 backup backup 1073741824 Mar  8 10:37 condor.__linnet_g$.0.15
> -rw-------  1 backup backup 1073741824 Mar  8 11:07 condor.__linnet_g$.0.16
> -rw-------  1 backup backup 1073741824 Mar  8 11:34 condor.__linnet_g$.0.17
> -rw-------  1 backup backup 1073741824 Mar  8 12:05 condor.__linnet_g$.0.18
> -rw-------  1 backup backup 1073741824 Mar  8 12:44 condor.__linnet_g$.0.19
> -rw-------  1 backup backup 1073741824 Mar  8 03:38 condor.__linnet_g$.0.2
> -rw-------  1 backup backup  518456602 Mar  8 12:56 condor.__linnet_g$.0.20
> -rw-------  1 backup backup 1073741824 Mar  8 04:52 condor.__linnet_g$.0.3
> -rw-------  1 backup backup 1073741824 Mar  8 05:34 condor.__linnet_g$.0.4
> -rw-------  1 backup backup 1073741824 Mar  8 06:07 condor.__linnet_g$.0.5
> -rw-------  1 backup backup 1073741824 Mar  8 06:29 condor.__linnet_g$.0.6
> -rw-------  1 backup backup 1073741824 Mar  8 06:52 condor.__linnet_g$.0.7
> -rw-------  1 backup backup 1073741824 Mar  8 07:19 condor.__linnet_g$.0.8
> -rw-------  1 backup backup 1073741824 Mar  8 07:43 condor.__linnet_g$.0.9
> 
> I believe that amdump is working correctly.  The file is on flushing
> from an autoflush with this particular DLE.
> 

Probably an overflow condition where numbers keep adding to the max an integer
can hold and you are seeing what is left over.  Like the odometer rolling over.

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