Since the 'all estimate failed' error is a generic (thank you Dustin),
it was suggested (thank you Jean-Louis) that I look on the client for
amandad.*.debug and sendsize.*.debug for error message.
On the Gentoo client I found the log in:
/var/spool/amanda/tmp/client/DailySet1
The file: sendsize.20080714181357.debug
sendsize[7952]: time 0.001: calculating for amname /, dirname /, spindle -1
sendsize[7952]: time 0.001: getting size via dump for / level 0
sendsize[7952]: time 0.001: calculating for device /dev/sda2 with reiserfs
sendsize[7952]: time 0.001: running "/usr/sbin/dump 0Ssf 1048576 - /dev/sda2"
sendsize[7952]: time 0.002: running /usr/libexec/killpgrp
sendsize[7950]: time 0.002: waiting for any estimate child: 1 running
sendsize[7952]: time 0.003: /dev/sda2: Bad magic number in super-block while
opening filesystem^M
sendsize[7952]: time 0.003: DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
sendsize[7952]: time 0.004: .....
sendsize[7952]: time 0.004: estimate time for / level 0: 0.002
sendsize[7952]: time 0.004: no size line match in /usr/sbin/dump output for /
This error offers more information as to why it really died.
What do I do about it?
What does it mean?
Is this a manifestation of the reiserfs-dump incompatibility?
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 10:11 -0700, johns AT msli DOT com wrote:
> The disklist was in my first email to the group, but here it is again:
> builder1.mydomain.com /boot hard-disk-dump
> builder1.mydomain.com / hard-disk-dump
>
> Ian asked (in another email) for a "FAILED DUMP SUMMARY" section to
> explained what happened, as well as my /etc/amanda/DailySet1/amdump.1
>
> In the report, at the top, I do see:
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> builder1.mydomain.com / lev 0 FAILED [disk /, all estimate failed]
>
> My amdump.1 appears in /usr/adm/amanda/ and it's big.... so I used a
> pastebin site, as I don't know what parts are relevant.
> Please see: http://pastebin.ca/1072527
> In that file I do see the same 'FAILED' message above.
>
> Searching the web for 'amanda all estimate failed' has turned up many
> hits, but few fixes. Is this a broad error, or could some fix for it go
> in the FAQ?
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 11:49 +0200, Andres Moya wrote:
> > post your disklist file strings corresponding to server. and /etc/fstab.
> > difficult to say. what is error reported by amcheck? dump more likely
> > work with deices names, while tar with mounted paths.
> > On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 00:09 -0400, Ian Turner wrote:
> > > On Monday 14 July 2008 22:01:21 johns AT msli DOT com wrote:
> > > > I am trying to backup a remote host's /boot and / mount points.
> > > > I don't have a tape drive, so I am backing up host to a disk on the
> > > > server.
> > > > When I use hard-disk-dump, /boot seems to backup fine, but / doesn't.
> > > > When I use hard-disk-tar, both backup.
> > > > What's wrong with my hard-disk-dump?
> > >
> > > Can you explain how you know that / doesn't work? To put it differently,
> > > what
> > > evidence has Amanda given you that there is a problem, besides the empty
> > > index dir?
> > >
> > > --Ian
> >
>
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