Jon LaBadie schreef:
> 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.
>


I had no time to look at it then.
I have more time now.

Can you send the amdump.X file that goes with this report to me?

Obvious question:  are there any files autoflushed from previous run?


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