Amanda-Users

Re: Problem with compression?

2003-02-21 18:48:54
Subject: Re: Problem with compression?
From: John Oliver <joliver AT john-oliver DOT net>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:26:22 -0800
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:23:53PM -0800, Jay Lessert wrote:
> This is telling you what actually got on the tape, or on holdingdisk.
> But unless I'm a bozo, (always a good possibility) your disklist is >18
> entries long, correct?

There are 19 entries in the disklist currently.

> So the 19th DLE was backup:/dev/hda1, and it was big, >10GB.  Either
> the estimate was smaller than reality (uncompressible data, new data,
> etc., you can take a look at the sendsize debug file in
> backup:/tmp/amanda), and/or amanda could not get a level>0 to work.
> 
> Since we're seeing 18 fulls and 1 daily, it smells like you're dumping
> a whole bunch of new DLE's on amanda at the same time?  If so, you'll
> probably be OK tonight, just don't put any more new DLE's in.

"DLE"?

I assume you mean filesystems to be backed up.  No, I haven't added any
recently.

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