On Wednesday 16 February 2005 09:45, Gil Naveh wrote: >After running Amanda's backup, I receive an email with a report > about the last backup. >The first section of that report is: "FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP > SUMMARY:" and under this section I get the following message: > > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > servername /folder/to/backup lev 0 STRANGE > You didn't post all the summary, so we can't guess really well.
>What does STRANGE means? What it usually means here is that some file changed while it was being read, like here, I get squawks about mail files from time to time because kmail is running 24/7, and may do a mail fetch run,or decide to purge old messages while amanda is running. >I checked the data that was backed up on the tape and was able to > restore it - should I ignore that message or what does Amanda tries > to tell me? Dunno, post the rest of summary and we'll take a look. >Many thanks, >gil -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.33% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.