On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 13:28:15 -0500, Chris Nighswonger wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 5:03 PM Nathan Stratton Treadway <natha...@ontko.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 11:39:58 -0500, Chris Nighswonger wrote:
> > > (3 filesystems overdue. The most being overdue 17841 days.)
> > >
> > > Not sure what's up with the overdues. There were none prior to breaking
> > up
> > > the DLEs. It may just be an artifact.
> >
> > With a 5-day dumpcycle that would mean Amanda thinks the last dump took
> > place 17846-ish days ago:
> > $ date --date="17846 days ago"
> > Wed Dec 31 14:24:39 EST 1969
> > ... and the date of 1969/12/13 is the "no data saved" placeholder date
> > within Amanda's info database.
> >
> > Anyway, you should be able to identify the three DLEs in question with
> > amadmin campus due | grep "Overdue"
> > and then use "amadmin campus info [...]" to see what amanda has recorded
> > about them.
> >
> >
> I found the long overdue culprit... It was a windows client using the ZWC
> community client. The ZWC service had hung (not an uncommon problem) and
> Amanda was missing backups from it. If I had been paying attention to the
> nightly reports, I would have investigated it sooner. However, it does beg
> the question: That DLE is NOT 49 years overdue... So where in the world did
> the planner get that idea from?
Again, that 1969 date is the "no data saved" timestamp. You can see
this mostly-directly by doing "amadmin campus info [HOST] [DEV]" on that
DLE... or completely-directly by looking at the
.../campus/curinfo/[HOST]/[DEV]/info
file (where the "seconds since the epoch" timestamp will show up as "-1"
instead of a number in the range around 1542048289).
(I don't know off hand why Amanada would have saved a "no data recorded"
status rather than still having a record of the last time ZWC ran
sucessfully -- perhaps the last successful dump went to a volume that
has since been overwritten, and so the entry had to be deleted from the
info database without anything new replacing it?)
Nathan
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