Hello,
when amanda creates a new entry for the backup of an partition in a
currinfo file it uses for each level from 0 to n:
1) The DATE of the last dump of this partition in the current level and
backup configuration. No matter at which date and in which config
this backup was really dumped.
2) The (current) TAPE on which the backup file of this partition
and level was written (Holdingdisk -> Tape). No matter at which
date or in which configuration this backup was dumped.
This becomes a problem if one uses different backup configuration (e.g.
a config for daily and another for monthly backups) together with
"autoflush=yes".
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I ran into this error the following way:
27.08.2003
Daily backup on tape "Daily-4". Because of an tape error there were
two dumps left over on the holdingdisk:
Casandra /var Level 0
Phoenix /groups Level 0
30.08.2003
Daily backup on tape "Daily-1" with autoflush=yes. First the both left
over dumps were flushed. During the normal backup this partitions was
additional dumped in level 1. Tape "Daily-1" contains two dumps of each
of this partitions.
03.09.2003
Archiv backup on tape "Archiv-2". Because of an tape error there were
three dumps left over on the holdingdisk:
Casandra //Castor/E$ Level 0
Emanuel /usr Level 0
Phoenix /groups Level 0
04.09.2003
Daily backup on tape "Daily-2" with autoflush=yes. first the three left
over archiv dumps were flushed to tape. Because ONE of my holding disks
was 100% full the directory /amholding/20030904/ cannot be created and
many dumps failed.
05.09.2003
The assignment of tapes, backuplevel and dates is mixed up for some
partitions. Here are some examples:
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Casandra /var Everything seems correct.
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Phoenix /groups Mixed up Date and Tape of the both last level 0
backups
backup@Casandra:~$ amadmin DailySet find Phoenix groups
date host disk lv tape or file file status
2003-08-22 Phoenix.buju.nrw /groups 0 Daily-3 20 OK
2003-08-26 Phoenix.buju.nrw /groups 0 Daily-5 20 OK
2003-08-27 Phoenix.buju.nrw /groups 0 Daily-1 2 OK <OK
2003-08-30 Phoenix.buju.nrw /groups 1 Daily-1 7 OK
2003-09-03 Phoenix.buju.nrw /groups 0 Daily-2 1 OK <OK
backup@Casandra:~$ amadmin DailySet info Phoenix groups
Dumps: lev datestmp tape file origK compK secs
0 20030827 Daily-2 1 3086890 3086890 2861 <FALSE
1 20030830 Daily-1 7 4760 4760 14
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Emanuel /usr Mixed up Date and Tape of the both last level 0
backups
backup@Casandra:~$ amadmin DailySet find Emanuel usr
date host disk lv tape or file file status
2003-08-22 Emanuel.mydomain.local /usr 0 Daily-3 16 OK
2003-08-26 Emanuel.mydomain.local /usr 1 Daily-5 6 OK
2003-08-27 Emanuel.mydomain.local /usr 1 Daily-4 9 OK
2003-08-30 Emanuel.mydomain.local /usr 0 Daily-1 16 OK <OK
2003-09-03 Emanuel.mydomain.local /usr 0 Daily-2 2 OK <OK
2003-09-04 Emanuel.mydomain.local /usr 1 Daily-2 10 OK
backup@Casandra:~$ amadmin DailySet info Emanuel usr
Current info for Emanuel.mydomain.local /usr:
Dumps: lev datestmp tape file origK compK secs
0 20030830 Daily-2 2 2426650 2426650 2935 <FALSE
1 20030904 Daily-2 10 60 60 57
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Ask me if you need additional information, please.
Thanks,
Bernd
- -- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
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