Just to update this. I tried it again (choosing a different directory and in the foreground). This is the current ps -ef |grep amanda: amanda 30890 30809 76 17:13 pts/0 00:02:23 amflush -f normal amanda 30891 30890 0 17:13 pts/0 00:00:00 driver normal nodump amanda 30892 30891 0 17:13 pts/0 00:00:00 taper normal amanda 30893 30892 0 17:13 pts/0 00:00:00 taper normal In addition this is the current output from the job: Flushing dumps in 20041207 to tape drive "/dev/nst0". Expecting tape Normal20 or a new tape. (The last dumps were to tape Normal19) Are you sure you want to do this [yN]? y amflush: datestamp 20041208 driver: pid 30891 executable driver version 2.4.3 taper: pid 30892 executable taper version 2.4.3 driver: send-cmd time 5.087 to taper: START-TAPER 20041208 driver: adding holding disk 0 dir /var/holding size 296960 reserving 296960 out of 296960 for degraded-mode dumps taper: page size is 4096 taper: buffer size is 32768 taper: buffer[00] at 0x400df000 taper: buffer[01] at 0x400e7000 taper: buffer[02] at 0x400ef000 taper: buffer[03] at 0x400f7000 taper: buffer[04] at 0x400ff000 taper: buffer[05] at 0x40107000 taper: buffer[06] at 0x4010f000 taper: buffer[07] at 0x40117000 taper: buffer[08] at 0x4011f000 taper: buffer[09] at 0x40127000 taper: buffer[10] at 0x4012f000 taper: buffer[11] at 0x40137000 taper: buffer[12] at 0x4013f000 taper: buffer[13] at 0x40147000 taper: buffer[14] at 0x4014f000 taper: buffer[15] at 0x40157000 taper: buffer[16] at 0x4015f000 taper: buffer[17] at 0x40167000 taper: buffer[18] at 0x4016f000 taper: buffer[19] at 0x40177000 taper: buffer structures at 0x4017f000 for 240 bytes taper: read label `Normal20' date `X' I hope this sheds some lite on the matter James Marcinek <jmarc1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I recently implemented amanda on a RH9 system. The following rpm's are > installed: > > rpm -qa |grep amanda > amanda-server-2.4.3-4 > amanda-2.4.3-4 > amanda-client-2.4.3-4 > > > I've had it running for a couple of weeks and all is good. Several 'actual' > backups were missed, due to the tape not being onsite, and were dumped to the > holding area. > > I'm trying to dump the backups from disk to tape using the amflush command. I > issue the command using no options (e.g. amflush normal), select the appropriate > date and then hit the enter (goes into the background by default)... > > When I start the amflush, the children processes, taper among others are idle > the whole time so nothing's happening. > > The normal amdump backups are working fine... Does anyone have any suggestions? > > Thanks, > > James > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
