We were running amanda 2.4.1p1 on solaris but we started getting timeout errors because we had more data than could be estimated(if I remeber correctly) within the timeout time. In amanda 2.4.1p1 this value could only be changed by recompiling amanda so to get round the problem we made the backup point futher down the tree so there was less data to be estimated in one go. For example in the disklist we changed /export/home/staff to /export/home/staff/finance, /export/home/staff/hr etc.
This worked fine but we wanted to upgrade to version 2.4.1p2 of amanda which allowed more of the timeouts to be set in the amanda.conf. So at Xmas we upgraded to version 2.4.1p2 including updating amanda.conf with with the new values for timeouts etc. All seemed to to go well(and everything up until now has just been background info) as the report produced by amanda at the end of dumps did not produce errors. The trouble started when we needed to do a restore(I know I should have done a test restore in the first place) and we found that the tape had the directory structure i.e it had /export/home/staff/hr/bob but it did not have any of bob's files. After checking the end of dump reports again the size of /export/home/staff was very small i.e. maybe enough just to store the directory structure. Other parts of /export/home (/export/home is all stored on one disk) backed up fine. The total size of /export/home/staff is 8.9GB but the end of dump reports are not giving any errors about timeouts so why is amanda only backing up the directory structure and not the files, also why is it only happening for staff. Thanks in advance ----------------------------------------- David Flood Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 (0)1224 262721 Robert Gordon University School of Computing St. Andrews Street Aberdeen -----------------------------------------
