Author: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:52:29 -0400 (EDT)
As has been mentioned (and as a simple search of the archives would tell you), there is a spanning patch out there being tested by various folks. You could be one of them. This can happen for a varie
Ah, I'm sorry! I should not assume that amanda can do it's own math. I must sit down with a calculator every night and do my own estimates and make this all work? Jon, this is a fairly serious probl
Nope. The tapelength was 33gb for 4 years, and then we found a problem last year where amanda was calculating or writing wrong or whatever so we lowered the tapelength to 30gb to avoid this problem.
No, I was commenting on the futility of trying again something that failed once unexpectedly, you knew it was going to fail again, and have known from 5 years of amanda experience that that particula
I have gone that route many times over the last four years. One gets tired of finding and fixing a code problem, and then releasing the patch with every new update that comes out, and then mailing it
By 20gb? And no, we're not using compression anywhere so that's not it. Huh? Impossible to anticipate that 53gb can't be written to a 30gb tape? Comes from 4 years of having the exact same discussion
Because it's a patch that's been floating around for 2+ years and isn't being accepted into the mainline code for reasons unknown. Support for amanda is really only done by like 2 people, and applyin
Author: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:06:37 -0400 (EDT)
*You* are the only one who can really identify the problem. Are you using server-side or client-side estimates? If the latter, look at the sendsize*debug for the 53GB dump to see what amanda thought
Author: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:18:39 -0400 (EDT)
I've had DLEs grow by over 100GB between estimate time and dump time. Investigate this. Only you can figure out why that 53GB dump happened in the first place. Amanda figures backups are really impor
Author: Jamie Wilkinson <jaq AT spacepants DOT org>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 10:56:55 +1000
Thankyou for both copies of your courteous email! I do apologise for failing to read your mind properly. Had I known that you knew already about John Stange's patch and were unwilling to try it out I
Perhaps I am missing your point. Should I be going around and making sure of amanda's dependancies? Or just maybe, perhaps, you could patch amanda to check for sanity in what it is attempting to do?
Not at all. All the other free software projects I've worked on we submit patches and they are either accepted or rejected with a reason. Not ignored. Pretty much everyone that has at times tried to
It knew the size would be 53gb. Let me get this right. 1. Ignore 7 years of people telling you this doesn't work. 2. Ignore repeated good-faith attempts to fix the system 3. Then blame the messenger
I have already said that, that isn't it. In fact, the size of this filesystem has only gone down over the last 10 months. By trying to write nearly twice the size of a tape to a tape? C'mon, be seri
THAT was already done. Several days ago. What I didn't stop to do was delete the amount to flush because I assumed amanda would do the math and realize it couldn't back it up and then discard it. I
Author: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 20:50:21 -0400 (EDT)
I'd be intereseted in seeing the sendsize*debug from the client and/or the relevant planner line from the amdump.N file. Amanda didn't do a level 0 b/c it knew that was bigger than tapelength, but th
Here's the relevant lines from amdump's log: planner: time 0.084: setting up estimates for customer-plat1:/ customer-plat1:/ overdue 82 days for level 0 setup_estimate: customer-plat1:/: command 0,
Discard a perfectly valid dump? Possibly the one and only copy of some data? It still could be used by a SysAdmin in a number of ways. For example, it could be manually taped or stored in some manner
Joe, You have made similar statements a number of times. It disturbs be that something like that would happen. Not being one of the amanda developers, I certainly was not responsible for the slight,
Valid points. Then can we address why it was backed up in the first place? I do not want to have to spend a few hours every night trying to make sure every backup will fit on a tape. If a sysadmin s