--On Monday, February 28, 2005 13:35:15 -0500 "Byarlay, Wayne A." <wab AT 
purdue DOT edu> wrote:

> Hi, all!
> 
> I've been running dumps to hard disk using chg-multi & stuff for about a
> year now, very good, no complaints.
> 
> But recently, suddenly, one of the computers I back up is failing.
> Here's what's in the e-mail:
> 
> 
> _+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+
> _+_+_+_+_+_+
> These dumps were to tape DailySet109.
> The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet110.
> 
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>   <servername> /m1 lev 1 FAILED [dump larger than tape, -1 KB, skipping
> incremental]
>   <servername> /export/home lev 1 FAILED [dump larger than tape, -1 KB,
> skipping incremental]
>   <servername> /usr/local lev 1 FAILED [dump larger than tape, -1 KB,
> skipping incremental]
>   <servername> / lev 1 FAILED [dump larger than tape, -1 KB, skipping
> incremental]
> 
>   <servername> /var lev 0 FAILED [/usr/local/bin/tar returned 2]
>   <servername> /var lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]
> 
> .
> .
> .
> 
> FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
> 
> /-- mole.lib.p /services lev 1 STRANGE
> sendbackup: start [mole.lib.purdue.edu:/services level 1]
> sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
> sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/tar -f... -
> sendbackup: info end
> ? gtar: ./purl/dist-2.14-linux-intel/WebRoot/logs/access_log: file
> changed as we read it
>| Total bytes written: 168099840 (160MB, 7.0MB/s)
> sendbackup: size 164160
> sendbackup: end
> \--------
> 
> 
> 
> 
> /-- <servername> /var lev 0 FAILED [/usr/local/bin/tar returned 2]
> sendbackup: start [<servername>:/var level 0]
> sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/local/bin/tar
> sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/local/bin/tar -f... -
> sendbackup: info end
> ? gtar:
> /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/luke.lib.purdue.edu_var_0.new: Cannot
> write: No space left on device

I'll bet this is the problem. Amanda can't write here on
this client due to a full disk (The gnutar-lists files enable
tar to keep track of what files have changed in order to
do incrementals).
  The 'dump larger than tape' is probably just poor handling
of a negative number.

Frank


>| Total bytes written: 3040256000 (2.8GB, 8.9MB/s)
> ? gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> sendbackup: error [/usr/local/bin/tar returned 2]
> \--------
> 
> _+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+
> _+_+_+_+_+_+
> 
> Now, the disks I'm using to do my backups is not full. Nowhere near
> full; I've got 112Gb free on it. I doubt the filesystem on the target
> system is THAT full... I will doublecheck though. Any immediate
> thoughts?
> 
> Wab.



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