Hi,
After many months of operation (THANK YOU to all the developers!) last night's amanda Daily run gave me this error: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: planner: FATAL error [planner askfor: lev out of range -1..10: 10] beowulf /usr/local RESULTS MISSING beowulf /var/mail RESULTS MISSING (and so on, for every element of the disklist) The only debug files from this (9 PM) run were /tmp/amanda.amtrmlog.*.debug /tmp/amanda/amtrmidx.*.debug but they showed nothing particularly interesting or helpful. The latter said could not open index directory "/var/lib/amanda/Daily/index/db02/_root/" but that's because I recently added that machine-directory combination (oops, forgot it) and amanda hasn't managed to schedule a full dump, and won't incrementally dump a new disk. The relevant parts of my amanda.conf file are: dumpcycle 3 weeks runspercycle 15 tapecycle 17 tapes define dumptype mydumptype { program "GNUTAR" compress none } (plus more of the usual options) I searched the archive, but could not find anything directly relevant. This "lev out of range" error happened to me once before, when I was first learning and setting up amanda. That time, I just deleted all the logs and tapelists and everything, and started from scratch. I would like to avoid repeating that. The only other (possibly) relevant detail is that I constantly get errors like: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: beowulf /home/proj/mm5 lev 1 FAILED [dump larger than tape, skipping incremental] beowulf /var/mail lev 1 FAILED [dumps way too big, must skip incremental dumps] (and so on, for ~30 or so directories) I've written a script that runs (via crontab) every afternoon and re-generates the disklist. It starts with a list of directories (/etc /var/log /var/lib /usr/spool /root /home /data). For every directory it finds that contains more than 25Gb, it recursively breaks it up and adds the sub-directories to the disklist. This is because /home is currently 153Gb, and would never get dumped since it's larger than a tape. I have about 200Gb to backup to a DLT8000 (40 Gb) tape drive. I recently went from a 2 to 3 week dumpcycle, hoping that the extra space would get rid of the "dumps way too big" error. Please cc me with any hints as to how to clear this up, as I only get daily digests and I don't want to wait until tomorrow to fix this... Bart -- Bart Brashers MFG Inc. Air Quality Meteorologist 19203 36th Ave W Suite 101 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lynnwood WA 98036-5707 http://www.mfgenv.com 425.921.4000 Fax: 425.921.4040