On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 09:56:58AM -0400, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:
> [Jon, hope you don't mind my taking this back on the list.]
> 
> Still no joy in Mudville; my backup to Amanda struck out again last night.

Hope someone else can chime in.  


> Here's three sections from the Amanda email report:
> These dumps were to tape Outside-16.
> *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: No space left on device]].
> Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
> Run amflush to flush them to tape.
> The next tape Amanda expects to use is: Outside-17.
> 
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>   www        /var/www lev 0 FAILED [disk /var/www offline on www?]
>   www        /var/www/main/htdocs lev 0 FAILED [disk /var/www/main/htdocs 
> offline on www?]
>   real       sda4 lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
>   real       sda4 lev 0 FAILED ["data write: Connection reset by peer"]
>   real       sda4 lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]
> 
> NOTES:
>   planner: Adding new disk www:/var/www/main/htdocs.
>   planner: Adding new disk www:/var/www.
>   planner: Last full dump of real:sda4 on tape  overwritten in 1 run.
>   planner: Dump too big for tape: full dump of real:sda2 delayed.
>   taper: tape Outside-16 kb 10170272 fm 9 writing file: No space left on 
> device
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^

A dds3 tape running into EOT at 10.1GB??
Sounds like you may be doing software and hardware compression.

> 
> If I follow your thoughts correctly, my problem might be caused by my host 
> 'real' which fills up the tape before the 'www' dumps can begin. I'll try to 
> break down 'real' into smaller chunks and see if this makes a difference. 
> Although I'm still doubtful, as the www partitions seem to fail in the 
> estimate section of the amdump.1 log:

That has only been a part of your problems.
Should not cause the "offline" messages.


> Thanks for letting me know about not needing to change the disk partition 
> from its '/dev/sd??' designation to it's mount point. I didn't know this. 
> I'll reconfigure and kick off a backup right away. Now I'm really starting to 
> sweat; don't have a full backup of my main web section anywhere.
> 

I believe it depends on the ability to determine the mountpoint from /etc/?fstab
or some such mechanism.

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