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List:       amanda-users
Subject:    Weird dumpsize problem  (symlinks??)
From:       Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst () barrett ! com ! au>
Date:       2005-10-24 8:21:17
Message-ID: 20051024082117.GA10617 () pits ! barrett ! com ! au
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all,

I have got a weird problem and cant figure out whats wrong.


I get an error during a dump:

  FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
    lalalalala /samba lev 1 FAILED [dump larger than tape, 10101550 KB, skipping incremental]

so that means its 10.1GB, correct? (The tape is only 4/8gb, but thats not the questions here).


Yet when I do a "du -s ." inside that /samba directory:

  [root@lalalalala /samba] #>du -s .
  5.3G    .

Thats HALF of what amanda is trying to backup!
I have no idea where the 5GB comes from amanda is trying to dump.



Does Amanda follow symlinks? I thought it does not!

I have two symlinks in there, which COULD encount for the incorrect sizes:

   [root@lalalalala /samba] #>find -lname "*" -exec ls -la {} \;
   lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 6 Oct  8 17:20 ./Shares/SysAdmins/home -> /home/
   lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 16 Oct  8 17:20 ./Shares/SysAdmins/Profiles -> /samba/Profiles/

I use these (if I am on a windows box and logged in as SysAdmin)
to fiddle with users profiles or with users home directories.












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