Is there still nobody here who can answer my question?
As quoted from Gertjan van Oosten <gertjan AT West DOT NL>:
> I'm having a problem configuring Amanda-2.4.4p2 (on sun-sparc-solaris8)
> to always do a full dump of a filesystem. The filesystem in question is
> over 100 GByte, and no matter what I try, when Amanda starts, Amanda's
> planner asks for a size estimate for the level 0 dump of this filesystem
> (good), and then for a size estimate for a level 1 dump of this
> filesystem (not good). The level 1 estimate takes too long, so Amanda
> aborts with the (in)famous:
>
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> datahost /data lev 0 FAILED [Estimate timeout from datahost]
>
>
> In my disklist I have:
>
> datahost /data always-full
>
>
> Excerpt from my amanda.conf:
>
> inparallel 4
> dumporder "Ssss"
> netusage 10000 Kbps
>
> dumpcycle 1 day
> runspercycle 5
> tapecycle 5 tapes
>
> bumpsize 20 Mb
> bumpdays 1
> bumpmult 4
>
> etimeout 300
> dtimeout 1800
> ctimeout 30
>
> tapebufs 30
>
> runtapes 1
> tpchanger "chg-zd-mtx"
> tapedev "/dev/rmt/0bn"
> rawtapedev "/dev/null"
> changerfile "/opt/amanda-2.4.4p2/etc/amanda/tapehost/changer"
> changerdev "/dev/scsi/changer/c3t0d0"
>
> maxdumpsize -1
>
> tapetype HP-LTO-2
> define tapetype HP-LTO-2 {
> comment "HP LTO-2 Ultrium (hardware compression off)"
> length 201216 mbytes
> filemark 0 kbytes
> speed 23663 kps
> }
>
> define dumptype global {
> comment "Global definitions"
> index yes
> }
>
> define dumptype always-full {
> global
> comment "Full dump of this filesystem always"
> compress none
> priority high
> dumpcycle 0
> strategy noinc
> }
>
>
> What I want is simple: Amanda should do a level 0 dump of that
> filesystem, and not try to find out how large a level 1 dump of this
> filesystem would be (it wastes a *HUGE* amount of time, almost an hour).
> I want a level 0 or nothing at all. Is that possible, and if so, how?
>
> By the way, even though the above specifies:
>
> etimeout 300 # number of seconds per filesystem for estimates.
> dtimeout 1800 # number of idle seconds before a dump is aborted.
>
> the estimate is not aborted after 300 seconds but only after 1800
> seconds. That doesn't seem right, does it?
>
> Furthermore, even after the planner decides to timeout and cut the
> connection, the amandad/sendsize/ufsdump processes keep on running on
> the client (until they're done, in fact, but they have nowhere to send
> the data to). Shouldn't they be terminated as well?
Regards,
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-- Gertjan van Oosten, gertjan AT West DOT NL, West Consulting B.V., +31 15
2191 600
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