The backup is running now. Here is what top says:
load averages: 0.46, 0.31, 0.18
19:00:37
134 processes: 131 sleeping, 1 zombie, 2 on cpu
CPU states: 16.3% idle, 12.4% user, 2.7% kernel, 68.6% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 2048M real, 1457M free, 190M swap in use, 5385M swap free
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
24118 root 1 10 0 12M 12M cpu/1 2:27 22.34% gtar
68% iowait while the only activity on the machine is gtar ran by amanda.
Here is what amstat says:
amanda@rozi$ amstatus cab
Using /var/amanda/cab/amdump from Tue Nov 11 18:51:59 CET 2003
lena2.cab.u-szeged.hu:/etc 0 11110k estimate done
lena2.cab.u-szeged.hu:/root/ldap_backup 0 1380k estimate done
rozi.cab.u-szeged.hu:/etc getting estimate
rozi.cab.u-szeged.hu:/home getting estimate
SUMMARY part real estimated
size size
partition : 4
estimated : 2 12490k
flush : 0 0k
failed : 0 0k ( 0.00%)
wait for dumping: 0 0k ( 0.00%)
dumping to tape : 0 0k ( 0.00%)
dumping : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%)
dumped : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%)
wait for writing: 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%)
wait to flush : 0 0k 0k (100.00%) ( 0.00%)
writing to tape : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%)
failed to tape : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%)
taped : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%)
all dumpers active
taper idle
Looks like gtar is quite busy in doing the estimates....
Zoltan
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Zoltan Kato wrote:
> > ZK> My config is the following:
> >
> > ZK> Amanda server runs on the same machine (i.e. the tape drive, which is a
> > HP
> > ZK> DLT 40/80GB attached directly to this server).
> >
> > Which one? I assume that your machines are the following disklist
> > entries, even if some are commented out right now.
> >
> > From your former post I assume rozi.cab.u-szeged.hu is your Amanda
> > tape server.
>
> Ooops, the disklist file has been changed since I last tried to backup
> /home. Of course, the right entry was the following:
>
> rozi.cab.u-szeged.hu /home user-tar
>
> > Is the holdingdisk the same physical disk as the on /home is on?
>
> No, it is on another partition (/opt) and partly on the same physical
> disk. Here are the relevant parts:
>
> /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s5 20G 1.0G 18G 6% /opt
> /dev/md/dsk/d0 102G 51G 51G 51% /home
>
> Since /home is under lvm, it uses two disks. Out of the 102G, we have 30G
> on the same disk as /opt. However, it is hard to tell how much of the 50G
> is actually stored on the same disk as /opt. Anyway, the holding disk is
> only 18G so it is not used for the backup of /home.
>
> > #disklist
> >
> > rozi.cab.u-szeged.hu /home {
> > user-tar
> > holdingdisk no
> > }
> >
> > or creating a specific dumptype which disables holdingdisk.
> > Disabling this would show if Amanda then is able to dump /home.
> >
>
> OK, I'm going start it right now with these settings,
>
> Regards,
>
> Zoltan
>
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