That was it-- thanks. Confirmed same test but backing up smaller portions
and giving it time to bleed to tape.
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Dean wrote:
> NBU won't even consider duplicating a DSSU backup image out to tape
> until the entire backup is complete. Then it has to write the entire
> image out to tape before it will delete it from the DSSU.
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT
> com> wrote:
>> Say you have 4 clients, each have 10TiB of data on them.
>> For disk staging you only have 1TiB on each client.
>>
>> When it gets to 98% of the total capacity of the staging area (default)--
>> shouldn't it pause, bleed to tape, delete the files on disk and then
>> continue?
>>
>> Instead, it keeps backing up the files to disk until the disk runs out of
>> capacity, has anyone encountered this?
>>
>> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 55G 51G 627M 99% /local
>> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 55G 51G 503M 100% /local
>> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 55G 51G 311M 100% /local
>> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 55G 52G 154M 100% /local
>> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 55G 52G 7.1M 100% /local
>> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 55G 52G 0 100% /local
>>
>> And then..
>>
>> 10/24/2008 04:15:26 - Critical bpdm (pid=32317) bp_sts_write_image failed:
>> error 31
>> 10/24/2008 04:15:26 - Warning bpdm (pid=32317) storage unit my_stage01 is
>> full: processing disk full condition
>> 10/24/2008 04:15:41 - Critical bpdm (pid=32317) bp_sts_write_image failed:
>> error 31
>> 10/24/2008 04:15:41 - Error bpdm (pid=32317) cannot write image to disk,
>> attempted write of 262144 bytes, system wrote 0
>> 10/24/2008 04:15:42 - Error bpbrm (pid=32310) from client client-name: ERR -
>> Cannot write to STDOUT. Errno = 104: Connection reset by peer
>>
>> About 10-15 seconds later..
>>
>> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 55G 55G 0 100% /local
>> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 55G 55G 0 100% /local
>> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 55G 51G 593M 99% /local
>> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 55G 29G 24G 55% /local
>> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 55G 23G 29G 45% /local
>> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 55G 19G 33G 37% /local
>> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 55G 18G 35G 34% /local
>> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 55G 18G 35G 34% /local
>> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 55G 18G 35G 34% /local
>> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 55G 18G 35G 34% /local
>>
>> It starts deleting the files even though it has not yet written anything
>> to tape?
>>
>> With other backup SW-- it sticks to the settings you have it set
>> to, e.g., 70% and then backup to tape, pause backup until it pushes
>> all of the data off disk. With NetBackup that is not the case, any
>> ideas?
>>
>> Justin.
>>
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