Frank, et al,
FYI - amanda.conf choked on "reserve" apparently not a legal
parameter in v2.4.
While upgrading would help there should be a 2.4 solution, eh ?
good weekend all.
Brian
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 03:02:44PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote:
>
> Frank,
>
> Good suggestion, it might be that something as old as 2.4 reserved
> a lot of space. I was over this issue recently with another (more
> recent system) and had thought that "reserve" only came into play
> in degraded mode - when the tape drive was unavailable. However it
> might be that in 2.4 the rules where somewhat different.
>
> I have set reserve to be 15, will see how amanda progresses in
> the next run.
>
> Will post results either way.
>
> thank you,
>
> Brian
>
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 01:46:34PM -0500, Frank Smith wrote:
> > Brian Cuttler wrote:
> > > Hello amanda users,
> > >
> > > I'm running an old version of amanda 2.4 on a Solaris 9 system
> > > with a Solaris 8 client.
> > >
> > > Its come to my attention that the two larger client partitions
> > > are not being moved through the work area but are being written
> > > directly to tape.
> > >
> > > The work area is a 70 Gig partition, the client DLEs are on 35 Gig
> > > partitions. I'd expect to use the work area even if they did so
> > > sequentially, the partitions however are only about 70% occupied,
> > > aprox 24 Gig each, so ideally I'd have liked to have seen some
> > > parallelism.
> > >
> > > From the daily reports I see that the smaller client partitions
> > > on both the Solaris 8 and 9 machine (the amanda server does have
> > > itself as a client) do utilize the work area.
> > >
> > > I do not know what is preventing the work area from being used.
> > > I would add more work area if I thought it would help, but I don't
> > > see anything screaming "work area capacity" issue.
> >
> > If the direct-to-tape DLEs are level 0s, look at the 'reserve' option.
> > It tells amanda what percentage of your holdingdisk to save for use by
> > incrementals, so in case of tape problems you can run longer because
> > you don't fill it up with fulls. I don't remember what it defaults to
> > if not specified, but I think it is most of the space.
> >
> > >
> > > Here is a question, I assume chunksize appeared around the same
> > > time (if not actually with) the ability to split a single DLE
> > > across multiple work areas. I see it back in the docs into '98
> > > or more but I'm not sure when it first appeared. Is there a list
> > > of what version which features where added, other than the changelog
> > > installation file ?
> >
> > Chunksize was a workaround for writing dumps to disk larger than the
> > system's max file size (which was 2GB on many machines at the time).
> > I think support for multiple holding disks was added later.
> >
> > Frank
> >
> > >
> > > Anyway it doesn't look like a work area capacity issue. What, other
> > > than adding chunksize to my amanda.conf and perhaps adding additional
> > > work area can I do to investigate this issue.
> > >
> > > There does not seem to be any output in the /tmp/amanda/* files
> > > showing which DLEs will be work area and which will not, where else
> > > can I look for an explaintation/solution to this issue ?
> > >
> > > thank you,
> > >
> > > Brian
> > > ---
> > > Brian R Cuttler brian.cuttler AT wadsworth DOT org
> > > Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697
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> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Frank Smith fsmith AT hoovers DOT com
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> ---
> Brian R Cuttler brian.cuttler AT wadsworth DOT org
> Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697
> Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384
> NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773
>
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Brian R Cuttler brian.cuttler AT wadsworth DOT org
Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697
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