Re: amflush "NO FILE TO FLUSH"

Responding to my own post...is it possible that this dump taking place
over 2 different dates be an issue?  Does it matter what date is in the
tapelist when you flush it?

If so, I could rename files or the folder...

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 up AT 3 DOT am wrote:

>
> I make a special amanda config with a one tape tapelist to just dump this
> one large filesystem on a remote network that didn't make the last backup
> due to an interuption.  After nearly 24 hours, it made it to the local
> holding disk on the server, but had a tape error trying to get it to tape.
> The DLT drive complained about needing to be cleaned, so I did that,
> amlabeled another tape (not a new one, but one that should be fine) and
> attempted to amflush thusly:
>
> ---- su-2.05b$ amflush ns1 ns1_0 Scanning/home/amanda/dumps...
>   20060914210742: found Amanda directory.
>
> Today is: 20060915
> Flushing dumps in 20060914210742 to tape drive "/dev/nsa0".
> Expecting a new tape.  (The last dumps were to tape ns1_0)
> Are you sure you want to do this [yN]? y
> Running in background, you can log off now.
> You'll get mail when amflush is finished.
> ---
> The tape drive starts to spin, but a few seconds later, I get the amanda
> report saying:
>
> NOTES:
>   taper: tape ns1_0 kb 0 fm 0 [OK]
>
> ?
> DUMP SUMMARY:
>                                      DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS
> HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-kB OUT-kB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
> -------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
> host.name.net  /dev/da0s1f   NO FILE TO FLUSH ---------------------------
>
> (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.5)
>
> With all the stats at zero.  There are definitely several ~1GB files in
> the under ~amanda/dumps/20060914210742/ and it seemed to find the
> directory fine...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> James Smallacombe                   PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
> up AT 3 DOT am                                                            
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James Smallacombe                     PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
up AT 3 DOT am                                                      http://3.am
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