On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:53:19PM -0400, Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote: > Hi all, > > I've relatively new to Amanda, and playing with backups in general. > I've been able to get Amanda to back up my entire server farm (important > bits only, no full OS backups), but I'm running into a problem.. Well, > possibly a problem. I get this in my Amanda report : > > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > mail1 /etc lev 1 STRANGE > > > I understand, basically, what that means. In essence, the files are > changing and/or being removed before the tar command finishes. So, what > is the proper way to deal with this? Is this something to be concerned > with?
Assuming that was the "strangeness", the specific files should be listed elsewhere in the report. Monitor them for a while. You may find they are spool files and other temporary files. If so, who cares. But also, why are you backing up the directory containing tmp and spool files :) Perhaps the exclude directive could help for file types (eg. *.tmp) or for some directories. If you find some important files are changing during backup, then you will have to see if it happens during a lot of backups or just occasionally. Based on that decide if you can live with it of need to deal with it in some more complex way. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)