Hi All
I'm experiencing an odd problem with a USB DAT drive that keeps
running out of space. Apologies for the length of the post.
The drive is supposed to be 36 / 72 GB.
Here's the kind of thing I see when I run a level 0 dump.
These dumps were to tape DailySet1-18.
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No more writable valid tape found].
Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
Run amflush to flush them to tape.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet1-19.
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
mail.XXXXXXXX.com.au mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 lev 0 FAILED
[out of tape]
STATISTICS:
Total Full Incr.
-------- -------- --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:04
Run Time (hrs:min) 14:44
Dump Time (hrs:min) 11:22 11:22 0:00
Output Size (meg) 33927.1 33927.1 0.0
Original Size (meg) 50710.1 50710.0 0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%) 66.9 66.9 10.0 (level:#disks
...)
Filesystems Dumped 2 1 1 (1:1)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 849.1 849.1 8.5
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 (level:#disks
...)
Filesystems Taped 1 0 1 (1:1)
Chunks Taped 0 0 0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 7.4 -- 7.4
USAGE BY TAPE:
Label Time Size % Nb Nc
DailySet1-18 0:00 32K 0.0 1 0
NOTES:
planner: Forcing full dump of
mail.XXXXXXXX.com.au:mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 as directed.
taper: tape DailySet1-18 kb 31022240 fm 2 writing file: No space
left on device
driver: Taper error: "[writing file: No space left on device]"
driver: going into degraded mode because of taper component error.
big estimate: mail.XXXXXXXX.com.au sda1 1
est: 64K out 32K
Here is the amanda.conf file with everything not used snipped out:
org "DailySet1" # your organization name for reports
mailto "amandabackup" # space separated list of operators at your site
dumpuser "amandabackup" # the user to run dumps under
inparallel 4 # maximum dumpers that will run in parallel
(max 63)
dumporder "sssS" # specify the priority order of each dumper
taperalgo first # The algorithm used to choose which dump
image to send
displayunit "k" # Possible values: "k|m|g|t"
netusage 600 Kbps # maximum net bandwidth for Amanda, in KB per
sec
dumpcycle 4 weeks # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
runspercycle 20 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
tapecycle 21 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation
bumpsize 20 Mb # minimum savings (threshold) to bump level 1
-> 2
bumppercent 20 # minimum savings (threshold) to bump level 1
-> 2
bumpdays 1 # minimum days at each level
bumpmult 4 # threshold = bumpsize * bumpmult^(level-1)
etimeout 300 # number of seconds per filesystem for
estimates.
dtimeout 1800 # number of idle seconds before a dump is
aborted.
ctimeout 30 # maximum number of seconds that amcheck waits
tapebufs 20
runtapes 1 # number of tapes to be used in a single run
of amdump
tapedev "/dev/nst0" # the no-rewind tape device to be used
changerfile "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer.conf"
changerdev "/dev/null"
maxdumpsize -1 # Maximum number of bytes the planner
will schedule
tapetype HP-DAT72 # what kind of tape it is (see
tapetypes below)
labelstr "^DailySet1-[0-9][0-9]*$" # label constraint regex: all
tapes must match
amrecover_do_fsf yes # amrecover will call amrestore with the
amrecover_check_label yes # amrecover will call amrestore with the
amrecover_changer "null:" # amrecover will use the changer if
you restore
holdingdisk hd1 {
comment "main holding disk"
directory "/dumps/amanda" # where the holding disk is
use -10 Gb # how much space can we use on it
chunksize 1Gb # size of chunk if you want big dump to be
}
autoflush no #
infofile "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo" # database DIRECTORY
logdir "/etc/amanda/DailySet1" # log directory
indexdir "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/index" # index directory
define tapetype HP-DAT72 {
comment "HP DAT72 USB with hardware compression on"
length 72 G
}
define dumptype global {
comment "Global definitions"
}
define dumptype custom-compress {
global
program "GNUTAR"
comment "Dump with custom client compression"
exclude list "/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar"
compress client custom
client_custom_compress "/usr/bin/bzip2"
}
define interface local {
comment "a local disk"
use 1000 kbps
}
define interface le0 {
comment "10 Mbps ethernet"
use 400 kbps
}
and finally the disklist:
mail.airsolutions.com.au mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
custom-compress
mail.airsolutions.com.au sda1 custom-compress
Any idea where I can start would be appreciated (apart from "bigger
tape" or "less data").
Rgds
Nigel.