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Re: runtapes > 1

2002-11-01 10:45:39
Subject: Re: runtapes > 1
From: Steve Simeonidis <steves AT awebd.com DOT au>
To: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>, amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 01:47:49 +0500
But it has complained about /usr here..
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>   planner: Dump larger than tape: full dump of localhost:/usr delayed.
>   taper: tape Daily01 kb 550656 fm 4 [OK]
> 
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Also I haven't set holding space at all.

hhmmm, I had set the capacity of the tape to 1.1GB so I can make/force it
change tapes, but /usr is bigger than 1.1GB.

May be that is way it is behaving like that???

Thanks



On Friday 01 November 2002 20:00, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 12:56:49AM +0500, Steve Simeonidis wrote:
> > Does anyone use more than 1 tape on a single tape drive
> > without a changer for dumping data?
> >
> > I can't make it work, it doesn't ask me to instert the second tape!!??
> >
> > These are some of the definition of the configuration filethat I use for
> > my testing.
> >
> > dumpcycle 0 days        # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
> > runspercycle 1 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
> > tapecycle 2 tapes       # the number of tapes in rotation
> >
> >
> > runtapes 2              # number of tapes to be used in a single run of
> > amdump tpchanger "chg-manual"  # the tape-changer glue script
> > tapedev "/dev/nst0l"    # the no-rewind tape device to be used
> > #rawtapedev "/dev/null" # the raw device to be used (ftape only)
> > changerfile "/var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/changer"
> > #changerfile "/var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/changer-status"
> > #changerfile "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer.conf"
> > #changerdev "/dev/null"
> >
> > tapetype STD-5000               # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes
> > below)
> > labelstr "^Daily[0-9][0-9]*$"   # label constraint regex: all tapes must
> > match
> >
> > infofile "/var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo"    # database filename
> > logdir   "/var/lib/amanda/DailySet1"            # log directory
> > indexdir "/var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/index"      # index directory
> >
> >
> > ERROR: I get the following email from AMANDA
> >
> > These dumps were to tape Daily01.
> > The next 2 tapes Amanda expects to used are: Daily02, Daily01.
> >
> >
> > STATISTICS:
> >                           Total       Full      Daily
> >                         --------   --------   --------
> > Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:16
> > Run Time (hrs:min)         1:01
> > Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:45       0:39       0:06
> > Output Size (meg)         537.6      526.0       11.6
> > Original Size (meg)       537.6      526.0       11.6
> > Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         --    (level:#disks
> > ...) Filesystems Dumped            4          3          1   (1:1)
> > Avg Dump Rate (k/s)       204.5      229.9       34.1
> >
> > Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:45       0:39       0:06
> > Tape Size (meg)           537.8      526.1       11.6
> > Tape Used (%)              49.0       47.9        1.1   (level:#disks
> > ...) Filesystems Taped             4          3          1   (1:1)
> > Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)   204.0      229.3       34.1
> >
> >
> > NOTES:
> >   planner: Dump larger than tape: full dump of localhost:/usr delayed.
> >   taper: tape Daily01 kb 550656 fm 4 [OK]
> >
> >
> > DUMP SUMMARY:
> >                                      DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS
> > HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
> > -------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
> > localhost    /home       0  103904 103904   --    8:06 213.7   8:07 213.3
> > localhost    /squid      0  236384 236384   --   18:43 210.5  18:47 209.8
> > localhost    /usr        1   11872  11872   --    5:48  34.1   5:49  34.1
> > localhost    /var        0  198368 198368   --   12:14 270.3  12:16 269.7
> >
> > (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.2p2)
> >
> >
> > The /usr partition is around 2.3GB in size
>
> I don't see a problem with your changer.  For this amdump,
> amanda did not need a second tape.  Everything could fit
> on a single tape.  Runtapes doesn't say how many tapes
> amanda WILL use, it is how many it CAN use.
>
> However, I'm surprised amanda did an incremental of
> /usr when you  have dumpcycle 0.  I expected that to
> force full dumps everytime.


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