Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote:
Hi all,
I checked the archives on this problem... but they all suggested to
adjust the chunksize of my holdingdisk section in my amanda.conf.
However, I have ver. 2.4.1, and there's no "holdingdisk" section IN my
amanda.conf! Is the chunksize the problem? I've got filesystems MUCH
larger than this one going to AMANDA... but if so, How do I adjust my
chunksize?
While 2.4.1 is not exactly a dinosaur, it's from long ago...
Isn't there a possibility to upgrade? At least 2.4.1p2 was much more
stable. Currently we're on 2.4.4p1.
It's not the size of the filesystem that is the problem, but the
maximum size of one file on that filesystem. For older Unix/Linux
versions this is often 2 Gbyte, even when the filesystem could
be larger.
That one file is the dump image. Specifying "chunksize" instructs
amanda to chunk it up in manageable pieces on disk; while writing
to tape, all chunks are concatenated again.
The example.conf for the latest version has some section like:
holdingdisk hd1 {
comment "blah"
directory "/dumps/amanda"
use 256 Mb
chunksize 1Gb
}
BUT My amanda.conf has NO section similar to this. I just have:
diskdir "/dumps/disk1"
disksize 4000 mb
These last two parameters are now deprecated. The program still
recognizes them for backward compatibility, but you better use
the format with holdingdisk as above, if it works in your ancient
version. The disksize paramater is now "use", but also with more
configurability (like negative sizes).
So I guess my questions for the gurus are: Is the chunksize the problem?
Yes.
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