Mark Lidstone wrote:
These dumps were to tape Haslar12.
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: No space left on device]].
[...]
USAGE BY TAPE:
Label Time Size % Nb
Haslar12 1:10 5208.7 27.0 4
[...]
NOTES:
taper: tape Haslar12 kb 16875296 fm 5 writing file: No space left on device
...
Now, if I'm reading this right, it's saying that it's hit the end of a
20Gb tape at around the 5Gb mark.
No, you're not reading this right. 5 Gbyte of dumps for 4 DLE's were
successfully written to tape. While writing the fifth DLE, amanda hit
EOT at 16875296 Kbyte (or about 16 Gbyte).
A few comments.
The report says:
olympic /samba/company lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]
That means that you were not using a holdingdisk for this DLE. Maybe
it's too small? It helps a lot in having a large holdingdisk.
Unless you have really fast hardware and network, the tapedrive must
constantly stop/rewind-a-little/restart again. Besides the fact
that this slows down the whole process enormously, this is also a
fast and proven way to wear the tapedrive in a few weeks!
tapetype HP-DDS-4
define tapetype HP-DDS-4 {
comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression
on)"
length 17021 mbytes
filemark 403 kbytes
speed 1578 kps
}
You seem to be using hardware + software compression at the same time.
This is a waste of tapecapacity, and a wast of time, and a wast of
cpu.
Put your tapedrive in hardware compression off, and you'll gain almost
4 Gbyte in capacity!
I'm wondering about a faulty tape drive or tapes?
If you keep bypassing the holdingdisk, that answer
will be "yes" in a few weeks. But currently is it "no".
>>olympic /home 0 90793005319769 58.6 69:241277.4 69:251277.4
This reads much clearer if you add some whitespace between the columns.
Search the man page about "columnspec".
I have this line in my amanda.conf (all on one very long line):
columnspec
"HostName=0:9,Disk=1:18,Level=1:1,OrigKB=1:8,OutKB=1:7,Compress=1:5,DumpTime=1:6,DumpRate=1:6,TapeTime=1:6,TapeRate=1:6"
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