On Tuesday 16 March 2004 17:51, Geoff Swavley wrote:
>35GB AIT-1 tapes (Native) plus I also have compression on the
>drives DISABLED (advice from the list about double compressing a
> file, resulting in a larger file than what you started with). It
> has slowed down the backups but the large (already compressed
> thanks to oracle) export database files seem to fit on the tape
> now.
>
>Those two files add up as follows:
>2355658752+
>32212254720
>---------------
>34567913472
>---------------

Thats rather close.  How many bytes is a filemark on that tape?

>and the filesystem is 33.7GB so it should just fit on:
>-------------------------
>HOST          FILESYSTEM          TOTAL      USED
>pokolbin       /u20                            36144364  33701475
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>TOTALS:                                      36144364  33701475
>
>
>
>
>Maybe I'm living too close to the edge? Maybe the tape is bad
> towards the end ... I'll change the tape and try flushing again.
> Hmmmmm ... that's 3 tapes now and all with the same flush error:
>
>Subject:  schedule8 AMFLUSH MAIL REPORT FOR March 17, 2004
>   Date:  Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:28:57 +1100 (EST)
>   From:  Amanda Archiving Server <amanda AT dipnr.nsw.gov DOT au>
>     To:   aman AT dipnr.nsw.gov DOT au, amanda AT dipnr.nsw.gov DOT au
>
>The dumps were flushed to tape schedule8-WEEK3.
>*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: I/O error]].
>Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
>Run amflush again to flush them to tape.
>The next tape Amanda expects to use is: schedule8-WEEK4.
>
>FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>  pokolbin   /u20 lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
>
>
>STATISTICS:
>                          Total       Full      Daily
>                        --------   --------   --------
>Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:00
>Run Time (hrs:min)         1:10
>Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
>Output Size (meg)           0.0        0.0        0.0
>Original Size (meg)         0.0        0.0        0.0
>Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         --
>Filesystems Dumped            0          0          0
>Avg Dump Rate (k/s)         --         --         --
>
>Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
>Tape Size (meg)             0.0        0.0        0.0
>Tape Used (%)               0.0        0.0        0.0
>Filesystems Taped             0          0          0
>Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)     --         --         --
>
>USAGE BY TAPE:
>  Label                 Time      Size      %    Nb
>  schedule8-WEEK3       0:00       0.0    0.0     0
>
>
>NOTES:
>  taper: tape schedule8-WEEK3 kb 3440992 fm 1 writing file: I/O
> error
>
>
>DUMP SUMMARY:
>                                     DUMPER STATS            TAPER
> STATS HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s
> MMM:SS  KB/s --------------------------
> --------------------------------- ------------ pokolbin     /u20   
>     0     N/A      0   --    N/A   N/A   FAILED  ----
>
>(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p2)
>
>Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 at 8:02am, Geoff Swavley wrote
>>
>> > I was wondering if anyone could tell me why amanda seems to
>> > split my filesystem into 2 "holding" files? An error has
>> > occurred so these filesare
>>
>> This is normal, and the size of the chunks are set by the
>> 'chunksize' parameter in amanda.conf.
>>
>> > NOTES:
>> >   taper: tape schedule8-WEEK3 kb 31851520 fm 1 writing file:
>> > short write driver: going into degraded mode because of tape
>> > error.
>>
>> How big are your tapes?  It looks like you hit EOT here...
>>
>> --
>> Joshua Baker-LePain
>> Department of Biomedical Engineering
>> Duke University
>
>geoffs :-)
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