--On Friday, June 13, 2003 12:24:45 +0200 Markus Dohmann <dohmann AT 
sdac.hannover.bgr DOT de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm using Amanda 2.5 on Solaris 8 and Amanda has a problem with the degraded 
> mode. Only one filesystem is dumped to the holding disk, all other dumps fail.
> The capacity of the holding disk is about 30GB and amcheck reports no 
> problems.
> 
> Amanda reports in the status e-mail:
> 
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>   b3sn16     /home/b3sn16 lev 0 FAILED [no more holding disk space]
>   b3sn16     /home2/b3sn16 lev 0 FAILED [no more holding disk space]
>   b3sn30     /disk18/b3sn30 lev 0 FAILED [no more holding disk space]
>   b3sn20     /etc lev 0 FAILED [no more holding disk space]
>   b3sn30     /disk21/b3sn30 lev 0 FAILED [no more holding disk space]
>   .
>   .
>   .
>   
> In the attachment the config file for Amanda.  

>>From your config:
reserve 50 # percent

> 
> Could someone please give me a hint?

You're reserving half of your holding disk for incrementals, leaving
half (~15GB) for fulls in degraded mode.  I would guess that after
one filesystem is dumped to disk there isn't room for a second (you
didn't say how big your directories are).

Frank
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Markus
> 



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