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From: FL <lengyel AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Sat, May 17, 2008 at 2:09 AM
Subject: Re: amcheck reports amadad busy!
To: Craig Dewick <craig.dewick AT gmail DOT com>


It was a process that hadn't exited---since may 8th! I could not
locate a .pid file. This hasn't happpened before. I somehow suspect
that the amanda server ran out of space and lost touch with the
clients--though this is a guess.

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Craig Dewick <craig.dewick AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> 2008/5/17 FL <lengyel AT gmail DOT com>:
>>
>> amanda was running fine against one client, until recently: amandad
>> thinks it's busy.
>> I'm not at all sure what changed or why it thinks it is busy:
>>
>>
>> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
>> -----------------------------
>> Holding disk /var/tmp/amanda: 16963120 KB disk space available, that's
>> plenty
>> amcheck-server: slot 28: date 20080516 label Daily028 (active tape)
>> amcheck-server: slot 29: date 20080312 label Daily029 (exact label match)
>> NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
>> Tape Daily029 label ok
>> Server check took 152.753 seconds
>>
>> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
>> --------------------------------
>> ERROR: NAK m248.gc.cuny.edu: amandad busy
>> Client check: 6 hosts checked in 10.798 seconds, 1 problem found
>>
>> (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4p3)
>
> Maybe an old amandad process is still running? I don't know if amandad
> creates a pid file when it's running but there might be a pid file not
> deleted even though amandad has exited after the last backup run.
>
> Craig.
>
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