On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 01:17:14PM +0200, Charles Stroom wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> last day's dump of Amanda (version 2.5.1b1) failed and files were
> left over in the holding disk.  So I tried to do an amflush which
> also fails, nearly immediately.  Below is some more info:
> 
> 
> logfile amflush.1:
> amflush: start at Thu Aug 24 13:02:54 CEST 2006
> amflush: datestamp 20060824130248
> amflush: Can't fdopen: Illegal seek
> driver: pid 29589 executable driver version 2.5.1b1
> driver: Did not get DATE line from planner
> 
> logfile log.20060824130248.0:
> DISK amflush corrente.localnet /boot
> DISK amflush corrente.localnet /
> DISK amflush corrente.localnet /home
> DISK amflush corrente.localnet /home/charles/pictures
> DISK amflush corrente.localnet /home/charles/vmware-4
> DISK amflush corrente.localnet /local
> DISK amflush corrente.localnet /opt
> DISK amflush corrente.localnet /usr
> DISK amflush corrente.localnet /usr/local
> DISK amflush corrente.localnet /var
> START amflush date 20060824130248
> FATAL amflush Can't fdopen: Illegal seek
> FATAL driver Did not get DATE line from planner
> 
> and the mailed report is
> From: [email protected] (Amanda)
> 
> *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!
> 
> The next tape Amanda expects to use is: daily-05.
> 
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>   amflush: FATAL Can't fdopen: Illegal seek
>   driver: FATAL Did not get DATE line from planner
> 
> 
> STATISTICS:
>                           Total       Full      Incr.
>                         --------   --------   --------
> Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:00
> Run Time (hrs:min)         0:00
> Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
> Output Size (meg)           0.0        0.0        0.0
> Original Size (meg)         0.0        0.0        0.0
> Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         -- 
> Filesystems Dumped            0          0          0
> Avg Dump Rate (k/s)         --         --         -- 
> 
> Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
> Tape Size (meg)             0.0        0.0        0.0
> Tape Used (%)               0.0        0.0        0.0
> Filesystems Taped             0          0          0
> 
> Chunks Taped                  0          0          0
> Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)     --         --         -- 
> 
> 
> DUMP SUMMARY:
>                                        DUMPER STATS               TAPER STATS 
> HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB  OUT-KB  COMP%  MMM:SS   KB/s MMM:SS   KB/s
> -------------------------- ------------------------------------- -------------
> corrente.loc /             NO FILE TO FLUSH ----------------------------------
> corrente.loc /boot         NO FILE TO FLUSH ----------------------------------
> corrente.loc /home         NO FILE TO FLUSH ----------------------------------
> corrente.loc -s/pictures   NO FILE TO FLUSH ----------------------------------
> corrente.loc -s/vmware-4   NO FILE TO FLUSH ----------------------------------
> corrente.loc /local        NO FILE TO FLUSH ----------------------------------
> corrente.loc /opt          NO FILE TO FLUSH ----------------------------------
> corrente.loc /usr          NO FILE TO FLUSH ----------------------------------
> corrente.loc /usr/local    NO FILE TO FLUSH ----------------------------------
> corrente.loc /var          NO FILE TO FLUSH ----------------------------------
> 
> (brought to you by Amanda version 2.5.1b1)
> 
> I have tried to use amflush before and it never succeeded, I always
> got the same problem, but than I ignored the problem as the dumps
> started to run smoothly.  I am rather new to Amanda.
> 
> Can anybody shed some light?  This is an RPM installation of Amanda
> version 2.5.1b1 on SuSE 10.0, currently a single PC as client-server.
> 

I guess my first question would be,
are there any amanda dumps on your holding disk?

Try an ls -lR on the hold disk.

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