On Friday 23 August 2002 16:15, Frank Smith wrote:
>It looks like you have it set up correctly.  Sendsize is just
> reporting what tar returns, and the problem is that for some
> reason a tar of that directory to /dev/null is 15GB no matter
> what level is used (although your level 0 is about 10k bigger).
>   Do the /var/amanda/gnutar-lists/beowulf_home_proj_bp-9725*
> files have current dates?  The only thing I can think of is that
> those files can't be updated for some reason so everything was
> last backed up more than a dumpcycle ago.
>   Maybe others on the list have more ideas?
>
>Frank

About the only other thing I can come up with would be a circular 
dependency due to bad linkages or something that would give that 
effect.  Other  than that, I'm as stumped as you, Frank.

>
>--On Friday, August 23, 2002 13:11:04 -0600 "Brashers, Bart -- MFG, 
Inc." <Bart.Brashers AT mfgenv DOT com> wrote:
>> Thanks for your responses, here is a combined answer:
>>> Is it possible that it needs an update to dump?
>>
>> I use tar (GNU tar) 1.13.19, not dump.
>>
>>> Is this happening on all of your machines or just a few?
>>
>> I'm running amanda on the head node of my cluster, so all the
>> disks are local.  I only back up 1 of my slave nodes (since the
>> others are identical) and then only parts (/var/log,
>> /usr/spool/PBS, etc.).  The problem only happens on this one
>> machine (itself), but there's not much on any other machine to
>> back up.
>>
>>> What version of AMANDA?
>>
>> Version is amanda-2.4.2p2.
>>
>>> Do you set record to yes in your dumptype?
>>
>> Yes, I use "record yes".
>>
>>> What's the output of `amadmin <config> disklist beow
>>> /home/proj/bp-9725`?
>>
>> line 49:
>>     host beowulf:
>>         interface default
>>     disk /home/proj/bp-9725:
>>         program "GNUTAR"
>>         exclude list "/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar"
>>         priority 1
>>         dumpcycle 14
>>         maxdumps 1
>>         strategy STANDARD
>>         compress NONE
>>         auth BSD
>>         kencrypt NO
>>         holdingdisk YES
>>         record YES
>>         index YES
>>         skip-incr NO
>>         skip-full NO
>>
>>> What does the /tmp/amanda/sendsize.debug file on beow look
>>> like?
>>
>> From last night's, 8/22:
>>
>> -------------
>> calculating for amname '/home/proj/bp-9725', dirname
>> '/home/proj/bp-9725' sendsize: getting size via gnutar for
>> /home/proj/bp-9725 level 0 sendsize: missing exclude list file
>> "/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar" discarded
>> sendsize: spawning /usr/libexec/runtar in pipeline
>> sendsize: argument list: /bin/gtar --create --file /dev/null
>> --directory /home/proj/bp-9725 --one-file-system --listed
>> -incremental
>> /var/amanda/gnutar-lists/beowulf_home_proj_bp-9725_0.new
>> --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals .
>> Total bytes written: 15848878080 (15GB, 15GB/s)
>> .....
>> sendsize: getting size via gnutar for /home/proj/bp-9725 level 4
>> sendsize: missing exclude list file
>> "/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar" discarded
>> sendsize: spawning /usr/libexec/runtar in pipeline
>> sendsize: argument list: /bin/gtar --create --file /dev/null
>> --directory /home/proj/bp-9725 --one-file-system --listed
>> -incremental
>> /var/amanda/gnutar-lists/beowulf_home_proj_bp-9725_4.new
>> --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals .
>> Total bytes written: 15848867840 (15GB, ?B/s)
>> .....
>> sendsize: getting size via gnutar for /home/proj/bp-9725 level 5
>> sendsize: missing exclude list file
>> "/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar" discarded
>> sendsize: spawning /usr/libexec/runtar in pipeline
>> sendsize: argument list: /bin/gtar --create --file /dev/null
>> --directory /home/proj/bp-9725 --one-file-system --listed
>> -incremental
>> /var/amanda/gnutar-lists/beowulf_home_proj_bp-9725_5.new
>> --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals .
>> Total bytes written: 15848867840 (15GB, ?B/s)
>> -----------------
>>
>> So yes, each of level 0, 4 and 5 return about the same size from
>> sendsize. There was about 680M changed last night, so maybe I
>> should look at 8/20 instead.  It's just about the same story. 
>> The oldest surviving sendsize.debug is from 8/19.  Is there some
>> place I can change a setting to keep more of these temp files? 
>> I can't find it in amanda.conf.
>>
>> [root amanda/Daily]% \ls -1
>> /var/amanda/gnutar-lists/beowulf_home_proj_bp-9725*
>> /var/amanda/gnutar-lists/beowulf_home_proj_bp-9725_0
>> /var/amanda/gnutar-lists/beowulf_home_proj_bp-9725_1
>> /var/amanda/gnutar-lists/beowulf_home_proj_bp-9725_2
>> /var/amanda/gnutar-lists/beowulf_home_proj_bp-9725_3
>> /var/amanda/gnutar-lists/beowulf_home_proj_bp-9725_4
>>
>> [root amanda/Daily]% head
>> /var/amanda/gnutar-lists/beowulf_home_proj_bp-9725_4
>> 1029991548
>> 2081 19611660 ./contemp.cpuf/post
>> 2081 19611665 ./contemp.cpuf/vis/plots
>> 2081 20004866 ./calpuff/calmet
>> 2081 19988482 ./calpuff
>> 2081 19529746 ./calpuff/bc.post
>> 2081 19939332 ./calpuff/calmet/upa
>> 2081 16367618 ./calpuff/dep.con
>> 2081 19955715 ./calpuff/calmet/sfc
>> 2081 20135938 ./contemp.cpuf
>> [root amanda/Daily]% head
>> /var/amanda/gnutar-lists/beowulf_home_proj_bp-9725_3
>> 1029509897
>> 2081 19611660 ./contemp.cpuf/post
>> 2081 19611665 ./contemp.cpuf/vis/plots
>> 2081 20004866 ./calpuff/calmet
>> 2081 19988482 ./calpuff
>> 2081 19529746 ./calpuff/bc.post
>> 2081 19939332 ./calpuff/calmet/upa
>> 2081 16367618 ./calpuff/dep.con
>> 2081 19955715 ./calpuff/calmet/sfc
>> 2081 20135938 ./contemp.cpuf
>> [root amanda/Daily]% head
>> /var/amanda/gnutar-lists/beowulf_home_proj_bp-9725_2
>> 1029428874
>> 2081 19611660 ./contemp.cpuf/post
>> 2081 19611665 ./contemp.cpuf/vis/plots
>> 2081 20004866 ./calpuff/calmet
>> 2081 19988482 ./calpuff
>> 2081 19529746 ./calpuff/bc.post
>> 2081 19939332 ./calpuff/calmet/upa
>> 2081 16367618 ./calpuff/dep.con
>> 2081 19955715 ./calpuff/calmet/sfc
>> 2081 20135938 ./contemp.cpuf
>> [root amanda/Daily]% head
>> /var/amanda/gnutar-lists/beowulf_home_proj_bp-9725_1
>> 1029343540
>> 2081 19611660 ./contemp.cpuf/post
>> 2081 19611665 ./contemp.cpuf/vis/plots
>> 2081 20004866 ./calpuff/calmet
>> 2081 19988482 ./calpuff
>> 2081 19529746 ./calpuff/bc.post
>> 2081 19939332 ./calpuff/calmet/upa
>> 2081 16367618 ./calpuff/dep.con
>> 2081 19955715 ./calpuff/calmet/sfc
>> 2081 20135938 ./contemp.cpuf
>>
>> This just tells me amanda has always been confused, through all
>> the levels of backup.
>>
>> Hopefully, something in the above sticks out like a sore thumb,
>> and a lightbulb will go off above someone's head.  I sure don't
>> see why sendsize is so wrong.
>>
>> Bart
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