Hello List,
I am experiencing an odd behavior from amanda. I have a client that I have
been backing up for a couple of years now. A while back, I noticed that it
was doing multiple level 0's on one DLE within one backup cycle. It stopped
for a while but then began doing it again a couple of months ago. The pattern
seems to be, when it does a level 0, then it will do another level 0 the next
night, possibly a third one the night after the second. Then it will go back
to incrementals. It does take a while to complete the level 0 and I am
wondering if that may be throwing things off for the planner.
I checked it a little bit ago with amstatus and here is what it is saying for
that host/dle:
192095k dumping 108864k ( 56.67%) (0:21:55)
Is the 21:55 21hours and 55minutes? If I run a second amstatus several
minutes later the numbers don't change as expected.
I have looked through the sendsize and selfcheck on the client and did not
spot any problems.
Still using amanda-2.4.5
gtar version = tar (GNU tar) 1.13.19
The dle for the affected client/filesystem:
vader /var/ds comp-high-sf
The dumptype is:
define dumptype comp-high-sf {
global
program "GNUTAR"
comment "Non-root partitions with server compression"
compress server fast
priority high
The dumpcycle is 2weeks and runspercycle is 14.
Here is the planner/ponder from the current still ongoing run:
pondering vader:/var/ds... next_level0 13 last_level 0 (not due for a full
dump, picking an incr level)
picklev: last night 0, so tonight level 1
Previous amdump log:
pondering vader:/var/ds... next_level0 12 last_level 1 (not due for a full
dump, picking an incr level)
pick: size 235212 level 1 days 1 (thresh 20480K, 1 days)
pick: next size 150864... BUMPED
curr level 2 size 9617 total size 202729 total_lev0 0 balanced-lev0size 317923
And by the time the actual schedule is generated the ds filesystem is getting
a level 0.
None of the other dle's for this client or others exhibit this behavior.
Any ideas or suggestions on what may be going on?
TIA
--
Jim Summers
School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma
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