Hi,

I'm getting some errors in my amstatus output - can anyone enlighten me?

# su amanda -c "/usr/sbin/amstatus DailySet1"
Using /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/amdump from Wed Jun 30 16:46:16 CST 2004

localhost:/etc                           2      24k finished (16:46:53)
Use of uninitialized value in printf at /usr/sbin/amstatus line 760.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at /usr/sbin/amstatus line 761.
localhost:/home                          017720729k dumping        0k (16:49:27)
Use of uninitialized value in addition (+) at /usr/sbin/amstatus line 770.
localhost:/usr/local                     0   22701k finished (16:47:32)
localhost:/var                           0  232660k wait for dumping driver: 
(aborted)

SUMMARY          part     real estimated
                          size      size
partition       :   4
estimated       :   4           17976128k
flush           :   0        0k
failed          :   0                  0k           (  0.00%)
wait for dumping:   1             232660k           (  1.29%)
dumping to tape :   0                  0k           (  0.00%)
dumping         :   1        0k 17720729k (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
dumped          :   2    22725k    22739k ( 99.94%) (  0.13%)
wait for writing:   0        0k        0k (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
wait to flush   :   0        0k        0k (100.00%) (  0.00%)
writing to tape :   0        0k        0k (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
failed to tape  :   0        0k        0k (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
taped           :   2    22725k    22739k ( 99.94%) (  0.13%)
3 dumpers idle  : not-idle
taper writing, tapeq: 0
network free kps:       67
holding space   :   296960k (100.00%)
 dumper0 busy   :  0:02:17  ( 88.75%)
   taper busy   :  0:00:10  (  6.90%)
 0 dumpers busy :  0:00:17  ( 10.98%)          start-wait:  0:00:17  (100.00%)
 1 dumper busy  :  0:02:17  ( 89.02%)        no-bandwidth:  0:01:49  ( 79.46%)
                                               start-wait:  0:00:28  ( 20.54%)

It seems to be taking ages to complete this backup...is something wrong?

Max.

Max Waterman wrote:

Thanks everyone for helping.

I got email working (albeit only locally since my isp is blocking my [chinese] IP address), so now I can get the reports.

I bought some more tapes, and have used the amrmtape command to start from scratch. Seems to be working like a charm. Next step is 'day 4' :)

http://www.harkness.co.uk/services/backup.html

Thanks again...until next time.

Max.

Paul Bijnens wrote:

Max Waterman wrote:

I am not really sure. Maybe this :

driver: result time 6.776 from taper: TAPE-ERROR [cannot overwrite active tape DailySet101]

It seems that the very first time you ran the backup for '/etc' it
worked fine. See:
  http://reality.sgiweb.org/maxw/tmp/amanda/log.20040623.0.mail )

This is how a normal run looks like.

For the next test, you seem to be using the same tape.
But you instructed to amanda ("tapecycle XXX") that she will not
overwrite an active tape.  So she cannot write to that tape.

She falls back to so called "degraded mode" backups dumping to
the holdingdisk.  You also have specified "reserve 100" (that's the
default if you didn't change it), meaning that in degraded mode,
100% of the holdingdisk is reserved for incremental backups.

But the only disklistentry was a new one, and amanda cannot
make an incremental backup when there is no full backup to base
it on.  Then she gives up.

Solution:  while testing, you can "amrmtape" the testing tape,
or you need to give more tapes (until you have "tapecycle" number
of tapes).