On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:49:22PM +0200, Peter Kunst wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> ever seen something like this in amstatus output ?
> 
>  matrix:/var/lib/backuppc 0 planner: [hmm, disk was stranded on waitq]
> 
> This is a new debian box, which (guess it :) runs BackupPC, and was 
> taken into amanda's disklist today. This DLE should have around ~60GB.
> 
> On this client, there is a "tar [foobar] --file /dev/null [barfoo]" 
> still running now, and i guess amanda runs into etimeout. However, never 
> seen this message since running amanda (~3 years now). Not an urgent 
> issue, since i'm just moving over amanda from an old amanda-server to a 
> new one with another robot attached.
> 

A tar run to output file "--file /dev/null"
is part of the estimate phase.

Tar senses the /dev/null output and only looks
at directory blocks and inodes.  Doesn't read
the data blocks for other files.

Never saw the "stranded" message.
Wonder which tropical island it is on :)


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