On Wednesday 16 March 2005 09:43, Vicki Stanfield wrote:
>I have noticed that two large files which are of type GNU tar
> archive and named in the format:
> hostname._net_hostname_home_user.20041221.2 (exactly matches an
> entry in disklist except that the slashes in the path are now
> underscores and the date and another number are appended)
>
>I assume that Amanda is creating these files, and that I just don't
>completely understand the process. My backups which begin at 2:00 AM
> are still running when I get here at 8:30. They used to finish much
> earlier (like 5:00 or so). I looked through the faq on amanda.org
> and didn't see anything about this. Maybe there is a step by step
> explanation of the process amanda goes through somewhere?
>
>Thanks,
>Vicki

That has most all of the marks of accidentally including the holding 
disk area in a disklist entry, and its going to be recursively 
backing itself up till it runs out of disk.

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