On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 03:15:26PM +0200, Harald Schioeberg wrote:
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> I don't know whats the right place for bug-reports, sorry if its off-topic.
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> amanda (2.5.2) crashes without further notice if /tmp/amanda has no
> space left.
> amstatus shows "in progress" stats ( some disks dumped, some dumping
> ....) after that.
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> in my opinion, amanda should catch that write-error, and terminate in a
> controlled fashion (write mail, clean up ...)
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Does amanda use /tmp for anything other than writing the debug files?

I ask because it seems to me that the backups themselves may be more
important than the debug files it can not write.

Rather than controlled clean-up and terminate, perhaps a flag in
the debug message writing routines (are they self-contained as a
library function) could be used to stop write attempts and let the
backups proceed without debug files.

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