On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> 
wrote:
> I rebooted to 2.6.27.6 yesterday, from 2.6.28-rc4, and although the ls -l
> of /dev/sd* does not change, amanda thought the whole system needed a level 0
> disguised as a level 1.

Recall that it's not the device numbers of the /dev/sd* that will
change -- it's the devices from which you're mounting your
filesystems, which IIRC are LVM volumes.  So you should be checking
the major/minor numbers of those device files.

If the --no-check-device option is not working correctly, then it
would best be demonstrated with a small example using *only* tar, and
leaving Amanda out of the situation.

I think you determined that the holding-disk problems were a disk failure.

Dustin

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