On 27 Feb, in message <200602271122.55827.gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>, you
wrote:
> On Monday 27 February 2006 07:03, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> > Having, apparently successfully, performed an amdump, consisting of
> > several DLEs, I run amverify on the same tape.
> >
> > amverify finds the first DLE image, and reports that is is OK. However,
> > it then continues to run, presumably to the end of tape, but without
> > reporting any other images. It then hangs, with the tape drive
> > indicating busy. I have to manually kill the amverify process to regain
> > control over the tape drive.
> >
> >
> > My setup has, in the past, worked fine, and in fact still does using an
> > amdump/amverify configuration with different DLEs. I recently upgraded
> > to kernel 2.6.12.
>
> The kernel shouldn't be a factor, currently running 2.6.16-rc5 here. Yeah,
> I have spare blood. :)
>
Well, that's the only thing that's changed recently, so I thought I'd
mention it.
> Could we see a disklist entry that works, and one that doesn't please?
>
Yep, I was hoping to avoid cluttering the list with useless garbage :)
This works:
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define dumptype user-tar {
comment "user partitions dumped with tar"
global
program "GNUTAR"
compress none
exclude file optional append "*/recover*"
exclude file optional append "*/restore*"
exclude file optional append "*/download"
priority medium
dumpcycle 0
}
define dumptype comp-user-tar {
user-tar
compress client fast
}
tony-lx /home comp-user-tar
tony-lx /cvsroot comp-user-tar
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resulting in:
These dumps were to tape HomeDumps-05.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: HomeDumps-06.
STATISTICS:
Total Full Incr.
-------- -------- --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:01
Run Time (hrs:min) 0:37
Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:33 0:33 0:00
Output Size (meg) 1658.9 1658.9 0.0
Original Size (meg) 4317.3 4317.3 0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%) 38.4 38.4 --
Filesystems Dumped 2 2 0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 846.1 846.1 --
Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:34 0:34 0:00
Tape Size (meg) 1658.9 1658.9 0.0
Tape Used (%) 18.9 18.9 0.0
Filesystems Taped 2 2 0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 837.1 837.1 --
USAGE BY TAPE:
Label Time Size % Nb
HomeDumps-05 0:34 1698734k 18.9 2
NOTES:
taper: tape HomeDumps-05 kb 1698848 fm 2 [OK]
DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-kB OUT-kB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
tony-lx /cvsroot 0 13100 5223 39.9 0:022326.1 0:23 229.7
tony-lx /home 0 44078401693511 38.4 33:25 844.5 33:27 844.0
(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.5)
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verified as:
Tapes: HomeDumps-05
No errors found!
amverify HomeDumps
Mon Feb 27 02:36:48 GMT 2006
Using device /dev/nst0
Volume HomeDumps-05, Date 20060227
Checked tony-lx._cvsroot.20060227.0
Checked tony-lx._home.20060227.0
End-of-Tape detected.
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This fails:
define dumptype root-tar {
global
program "GNUTAR"
comment "root partitions dumped with tar"
compress none
exclude file optional append "*/tmp"
priority low
dumpcycle 0
}
define dumptype comp-root-tar {
root-tar
comment "Root partitions with compression"
compress client best
}
define dumptype comp-var-tar {
root-tar
comment "var partitions with compression"
compress client best
#exclude list "/usr/local/etc/amanda/SysDumps/exclude"
exclude file optional append "/var/spool"
}
tony-lx /bin root-tar
tony-lx /boot root-tar
tony-lx /etc comp-root-tar
tony-lx /lib root-tar
#tony-lx /root comp-root-tar
tony-lx /sbin root-tar
tony-lx /usr comp-root-tar
tony-lx /usr/local comp-root-tar
tony-lx /var comp-var-tar
tony-lx /var/www comp-var-tar
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resulting in:
These dumps were to tape SysDumps-02.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: SysDumps-01.
STATISTICS:
Total Full Incr.
-------- -------- --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00
Run Time (hrs:min) 1:01
Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:32 0:32 0:00
Output Size (meg) 1516.1 1516.1 0.0
Original Size (meg) 3514.9 3514.9 0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%) 42.4 42.4 --
Filesystems Dumped 9 9 0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 816.7 816.7 --
Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:30 0:30 0:00
Tape Size (meg) 1516.1 1516.1 0.0
Tape Used (%) 17.3 17.3 0.0
Filesystems Taped 9 9 0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 873.6 873.6 --
USAGE BY TAPE:
Label Time Size % Nb
SysDumps-02 0:30 1552522k 17.3 9
NOTES:
taper: tape SysDumps-02 kb 1552928 fm 9 [OK]
DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-kB OUT-kB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
tony-lx /bin 0 5420 5420 -- 0:0025996.8 0:10 523.0
tony-lx /boot 0 3190 3190 -- 0:0020975.4 0:06 565.3
tony-lx /etc 0 23570 4236 18.0 0:06 723.9 0:07 599.0
tony-lx /lib 0 30080 30080 -- 0:0217618.8 0:46 647.1
tony-lx /sbin 0 6110 6110 -- 0:0021957.3 0:11 538.6
tony-lx /usr 0 2429770 957556 39.4 21:54 728.6 17:34 908.5
tony-lx /usr/local 0 895650 409728 45.7 8:33 798.6 7:30 911.4
tony-lx /var 0 202510 135016 66.7 1:042095.3 2:50 793.7
tony-lx /var/www 0 2960 1186 40.1 0:011157.1 0:22 52.8
(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.5)
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I aborted the amverify after some hours:
Tapes: SysDumps-02
Errors found:
aborted!
amverify SysDumps
Sun Feb 26 14:12:45 GMT 2006
Using device /dev/nst0
Volume SysDumps-02, Date 20060226
Checked tony-lx._var_www.20060226.0
aborted!
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Tony van der Hoff | mailto:tony AT vanderhoff DOT org
Buckinghamshire, England
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