--On Friday, June 13, 2003 10:48:15 -0400 Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:12:29AM -0500, Frank Smith wrote:
>>
>>
>> --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).
>
>
> Those are some of my initial thoughts too. How big are these things?
>
> However, on reflection, IIRC, shouldn't "insufficient holding space"
> merely force direct to tape backups, not failed backups?
>
> So my question is, you say the first DLE is making it to the holding
> disk, does that one ever make it to tape? Maybe a failure to do
> taping is your real problem.
His question was about degraded mode (I missed it myself the first
time through), so there wouldn't be a tape to write to.
Frank
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