Re: no more holding disk space

> On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 08:53:50AM +0200, Markus Dohmann wrote:
> > 
> >  
> > > 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
> > 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > you are right, there was no tape inserted just to test the holding disk 
> > confiugration.
> > 
> > The capacity of the directories is
> > b3sn30:/etc             7 mb
> > b3sn16:/home/b3sn16   670 mb
> > b3sn16:/home2/b3sn16  800 mb
> > b3sn30:/disk18/b3sn30  10 mb
> > b3sn20:/etc             3 mb
> > b3sn30:/disk21/b3sn30   1 mb
> > 
> > 
> > Amanda makes a level 1 dump of b3sn30:/etc (14 kb) and tried a level 0 dump
> > of b3sn16:/home/b3sn16 (670 mb). I think it should be feasible to dump these
> > backups to the holding disk. I'm a little bit confused, I thought Amanda 
will 
> > first dump the smallest backups and the bigger corresponding to the 
dumporder in 
> > amanda.conf.
> 
> I presume that doesn't match the order in your dumporder?
> 
> Even so, it is not as simple as that.  You probably allow multiple dumpers.

Yes, I allow 4 dumpers.

> As they individually finish they are used again for another DLE.  Other
> considerations are only spindle restrictions (only one on the same spindle
> at the same time), perhaps priority, perhaps number of simultaneous dumps
> per host, ...
> 
> From what you show, the 670 MB DLE on b3sn16 is the smallest on that host.
> 

I think it is the priority, there is an entry in the logfile of amdump:

dump of driver schedule after start degraded mode:
--------
  b3sn16     /home/b3sn16 lv 0 t  1455 s   512273 p 3
  b3sn16     /home2/b3sn16 lv 0 t  1441 s   397833 p 3
  b3sn30     /disk18/b3sn30 lv 0 t     4 s     2893 p 3
  b3sn20     /etc lv 0 t     2 s      924 p 3
  b3sn30     /disk21/b3sn30 lv 0 t     0 s      283 p 3
  b3sn30     /home/b311 lv 0 t     1 s      150 p 3
  b3sn30     /disk17/b3sn30 lv 0 t  3940 s  8725283 p 2
  b3sn30     /disk19/b3sn30 lv 0 t   496 s  1095541 p 2
  b3sn28     /var lv 1 t   135 s    83500 p 1
  .
  .
  .
  
  
The last messagess in this logfile are:

driver: hdisk-state time 144.363 hdisk 0: free 30669036 dumpers 0
driver: QUITTING time 144.363 telling children to quit
driver: send-cmd time 144.363 to dumper0: QUIT
driver: send-cmd time 144.363 to dumper1: QUIT
driver: send-cmd time 144.364 to dumper2: QUIT
driver: send-cmd time 144.364 to dumper3: QUIT
driver: send-cmd time 144.364 to taper: QUIT
taper: DONE [idle wait: 124.319 secs]
driver: FINISHED time 144.382


Markus