I am running Amanda 2.5.0p1 on a Solaris 10 sparc.


QUESTION 1
These are errors from the email report. What do they mean. 

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  zorn  /export/users:wilker    lev 0  FAILED [missing result for
/export/users:wilker in zorn response]
  zorn  /export/users:santos    lev 0  FAILED [missing result for
/export/users:santos in zorn response]
  zorn  /export/users:phillips  lev 0  FAILED [missing result for 

  zorn  /export/users:pkeskar   lev 0  FAILED [cannot read header: got 0
instead of 32768]
  zorn  /export/users:pkeskar   lev 0  FAILED [data timeout]
  zorn  /export/users:bfrigyik  lev 0  FAILED [cannot read header: got 0
instead of 32768]
  zorn  /export/users:bfrigyik  lev 0  FAILED [data timeout]
  zorn  /export/users:aedquist  lev 0  FAILED [cannot read header: got 0
instead of 32768]


FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:

/--  zorn /export/users:pkeskar lev 0 FAILED [data timeout]
? dumper: strange [missing size line from sendbackup]
\--------

/--  zorn /export/users:bfrigyik lev 0 FAILED [data timeout]
? dumper: strange [missing size line from sendbackup]
\--------

/--  zorn /export/users:aedquist lev 0 FAILED [data timeout]
? dumper: strange [missing size line from sendbackup]
\--------

QUESTION 2

The following is a ps  of running amanda jobs. 

1) I see a gzip --best entry. I have "    compress none". Why would this be
running?

2) I get a lot of the <defunct> processes. What causes this?

amanda 21622 19420   0 12:53:22 pts/5       0:00 chunker0 daily
  amanda 19431 19420   0 12:43:57 pts/5       0:00 dumper5 daily
  amanda   717   703   0 16:08:16 pts/1       0:02 tcsh
  amanda 19479   621   0 12:43:57 ?           0:01
/local/Amanda/amanda/libexec/amandad
  amanda 19426 19420  11 12:43:57 pts/5       0:14 dumper1 daily
  amanda 21472 19428   0 12:52:38 pts/5       0:00 /bin/gzip --best
  amanda 19801 19479   0        - ?           0:00 <defunct>
  amanda 21684 19479   3 12:53:51 ?           0:01
/local/Amanda/amanda-2.5.0p1/libexec/sendbackup
  amanda   703 22225   0 16:08:15 pts/1       0:00 -sh



Thanks

Robert


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