* Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin AT zmanda DOT com> [20070524 10:38]:
> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 09:58:44AM -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
> > My first attempt at flushing the holdding disk 
> > with Amanda-2.5.2-20070508 fails:
> > 
> > su amanda -c "/opt/amanda/amanda4/sbin/amflush stk_80-conf4"Scanning
> > /holddisk/conf4/stk_80...
> >   20070408091512: found Amanda directory.
> >   20070507221512: found Amanda directory.
> >   20070509221513: found Amanda directory.
> >   20070522221514: found Amanda directory.
> > 
> > Multiple Amanda directories, please pick one by letter:
> >   A. 20070408091512
> >   B. 20070507221512
> >   C. 20070509221513
> >   D. 20070522221514
> > Select directories to flush [A..D]: [ALL] 
> > Could not find any valid dump image, check directory.
> > 
> > Looking at the content of the holdding disk:
> 
> Which directory is this?  There should be four subdirectories of stk_80,
> one with each of the timestamps above.

yes, that was the listing in D. 20070522221514

> 
> > drwx------    2 amanda   sys       4096 May 24 02:12 ./
> > drwxr-xr-x    6 amanda   sys         90 May 24 09:51 ../
> > -rw-------    1 amanda   sys      63488 May 23 09:56 
> > yorick._data_ado_ado1_slsj_subjects.2
> > -rw-------    1 amanda   sys          0 May 23 17:00 
> > yorick._data_ado_ado1_slsj_transfer.2
> > -rw-------    1 amanda   sys          0 May 23 20:07 yorick.ado1.1
> > -rw-------    1 amanda   sys    2480128 May 23 11:08 yorick.ado1_slsj.1
> > -rw-------    1 amanda   sys          0 May 24 01:17 yorick.mril4_2.1
> > -rw-------    1 amanda   sys     135168 May 23 09:17 yorick.mril4_3.1
> > -rw-------    1 amanda   sys 7268272128 May 23 07:11 yorick.mril4_4.0
> 
> Have you recently changed your 'usetimestamps' setting?  A mismatch
> between the timestamp or datestamp in each dumpfile and the timstamp
> (never a datestamp) that is the name of the directory can cause an error
> like the one you're seeing.

no I haven't changed usetimestamps.

> 
> Can you run the following at the bash prompt and send us the result?

make that tcsh prompt :)

> 
> for i in `find /holddisk/conf4/stk_80 -type f`; do 
>     echo $i; head -n1 $i;
> done

See attached.

Just tested the latest snapshot (2.5.2-20070523) and it seems to flush ok.

thanks,
jf

> 
> Dustin
> 
> -- 
>         Dustin J. Mitchell
>         Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc.
>         http://www.zmanda.com/

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