Re: question
2003-01-29 20:34:46
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 17:12, David.Lee AT arvatousa DOT com wrote:
>I got the error when ran amdump:
>
>FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> hostcat /dev/ida/c0d0p2 lev 0 FAILED [dump larger than
> tape, but cannot incremental dump new disk]
> planner: FATAL cannot fit anything on tape, bailing out
>STATISTICS: ...
>
>Any suggestion?
It sounds like you are useing 'dump' not tar. In event the
filesystem named is in fact bigger than a tape, then you must
switch to tar, and describe that particular filesystem as a set of
one more level deeper subdirs in you disklist file, in the form of
FQDNs prefereably. Amanda cannot span a single dumpfile (or
tarfile for that matter) across multiple tapes, so you will need to
make them tarfiles instead, which can be made smaller than a tape
by the above subdir nameing convention.
Here is a snippet of my disklist to show what I mean:
coyote /usr/bin root-tar 2
coyote /usr/dlds root-tar 2
coyote /usr/games root-tar 2
coyote /usr/gene comp-root-tar 2
coyote /usr/i386-glibc21-linux root-tar 2
coyote /usr/include comp-root-tar 2
coyote /usr/kerberos root-tar 2
coyote /usr/lib comp-root-tar 2
coyote /usr/libexec comp-root-tar 2
# the "amanda" directories below will be missed due to file locks
# so back them up seperately after amdump is finished and
# the locks have been removed, I use a seperate script for that
coyote /usr/local comp-root-tar 2
coyote /usr/man root-tar 2
coyote /usr/music root-tar 2
coyote /usr/pix root-tar 2
coyote /usr/sbin root-tar 2
coyote /usr/share comp-root-tar 2
coyote /usr/src comp-root-tar 2
coyote /usr/X11R6 comp-root-tar 2
I personally like to see the tarfiles no bigger than 1/4 of a tape
because if it has to reach for the next tape, less space is wasted
on the first tape, but thats just a personal preference. YMMV of
course. I also sort bigger files first for the same reason.
The '2' is the spindle number, and helps to keep amanda from
thrashing a drive by haveing two proccesses fighting over access to
one disk. I have 2 physical drives in this machine, and /usr is on
the second drive.
You can also see that I control the compression with choice of
dumptype, leaving those that won't compress alone.
HTH
--
Cheers, Gene
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