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Can anyone confirm this :

Does the content of you 'first' amandad.xxxxx.debug file on a client machine contain this kind of info :

GNUTAR /opt 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 -1
GNUTAR /opt 1 2004:7:2:8:51:57 -1
GNUTAR /var 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 -1
GNUTAR /var 1 2004:7:2:8:46:47 -1

ie : for each directory 2 entries ?

It is like that on all servers I back up nightly; except one I added last night; that one has sth. like this :
GNUTAR /opt 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 -1
GNUTAR /var 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 -1
GNUTAR /var 1 2004:7:2:8:46:47 -1

That's not the fun part though; I use a perl wrapper script for tar on each client machine that logs which directories are being backed up when.
And /opt gets backed up up twice... funny, no ? Well... funny...



Thanks in advance


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Bert_De_Ridder < at > peopleware.be wrote:


Can anyone confirm this :

Does the content of you 'first' amandad.xxxxx.debug file on a client
machine contain this kind of info :

The very 'first' debug file should be a 'noop' request, just to exchange
the features between client and server. But...


GNUTAR /opt 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 -1
GNUTAR /opt 1 2004:7:2:8:51:57 -1
GNUTAR /var 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 -1
GNUTAR /var 1 2004:7:2:8:46:47 -1

ie : for each directory 2 entries ?

It could be even three! These are requests for estimates, and
amanda could ask level 0, level n, and level n+1.



It is like that on all servers I back up nightly; except one I added
last night; that one has sth. like this :
GNUTAR /opt 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 -1
GNUTAR /var 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 -1
GNUTAR /var 1 2004:7:2:8:46:47 -1

Right. Because Amanda can't do anything useful with a level 1, when
there is not yet a level 0 to base it on.


That's not the fun part though; I use a perl wrapper script for tar on
each client machine that logs which directories are being backed up when.
And /opt gets backed up up twice... funny, no ? Well... funny...

Backup or estimate?
Or maybe it was a backup bypassing holdingdisk, running into end-of-
tape and restarted on the next tape?


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