On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:34:47AM -0700, jeffrey d anderson wrote:
> The strange behavior described here started when I upgraded my server to 
> amanda-2.5.0.  I was wondering if anyone else had seen this behavior:
> 
> 
> I run amanda 2.5.0  with a Redhat Linux 9 server attached to an ADIC Scalar 
> 24 
> changer.  
> 
> My configuration backs up about 20 clients (mix of linux and SunOS, running 
> various amanda versions from 2.4.3 to 2.5.0) with about 65 DLEs.  I backup 
> about 200GB per night with a dumpcycle of  7 days.
> 
> This configuration has been successfully running for about  a year, and seems 
> to still be successful.
> 
> So here is the point of this message.  I upgraded the server from amanda 
> 2.4.4p4 to 2.5.0 on March 30 and things appear to be running fine.  Backups 
> proceed and I've done successful restores.
> 
> But In the amanda mail report I get messages like this:
> 
> DUMP SUMMARY:
>                                           DUMPER STATS                   
> TAPER 
> STATS  
> HOSTNAME     DISK        L    ORIG-kB     OUT-kB  COMP%  
> client1.here.org /           1      23290       5568   23.9    
> client1.here.org /             MISSING ------------------------------
> 
> client2.here.org -/coldprobe 0   93053120   93053152    --   
> client2.here.org -/coldprobe   MISSING---------------------
> 
> It looks like these dumps have succeeded, but they are ALSO reported as 
> missing!  Not all DLEs are reported missing, and the "MISSING" ones are 
> different each night (different hosts, different DLEs).  Some nights there 
> are no "MISSING" entries, some nights there are a couple, some nights there 
> are five or six.
> 
> This started with the upgrade to amanda-2.5.0 on the server.  No changes were 
> made to the disklist at that time.  I thought perhaps I had duplicate entries 
> in the disklist file, and amanda's handling of them had changed, but that 
> does not appear to be the case.
> 
> Is this something I should be worried about?  Has anyone else seen this 
> behavior?
> 

There was a similar report by Nicolas Maire <trexmaster AT gmail DOT com>
on April 18, subject was "Problem in Amanda Report".

But it was a short-lived thread with no obvious resolution.

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