Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org a écrit sur 17/07/2006 11:36:21 : > > Good point - and that is why I need help unravelling what it all means. My > question now would be: 0.41% of what? What would 100% of that something > represent? Constant streaming of data to tape from holding disk?

AFAIK, 100% would mean constant streaming.
> > I've just left it alone to see if I get different results when subsequently > running amstatus, but it seems stuck at wherever it is at the moment. The > tape drive itself is doing nothing... > > It really seems as if all went reasonably well and then froze up for some > reason.
Yep, it looks like...

> > Please help if at all possible. > > > Cyrille Bollu wrote: > > > > Looking with my newbie's eyes it seems that Amanda is running well. Just > > very slowly. > > > > And Amanda's log seems to indicate that the problem is on the tape drive > > side. > > > > The only thing strange that I see is the following line which say that > > your drive is busy only 0,41% of the time: > > > >> taper busy : 0:12:38 ( 0.41%) > > > > What does it do the rest of the time??? > > > > owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org a écrit sur 17/07/2006 10:54:55 : > > > >> > >> I set up Amanda on Friday to do an almost real backup job. I thought > > this > >> would be the final test before putting it into operation. > >> > >> When I arrived at work this morning, I was somewhat surprised to see > > that > >> the Amanda run doesn't seem to have finished. amstatus daily gives me > > some > >> information, but I'm not sure how to interpret it. > >> > >> There are still 3 files on the holding disk, adding up to about 48GB. > > The > >> tape drive doesn't seem to be doing anything - just sitting there > > quietly at > >> the moment with no sign of activity. > >> > >> I won't include the entire output of amstatus daily, but here are > > extracts, > >> if someone can please tell me if they see something wrong. > >> > >> I have many entries like these - seems to be one for each DLE: > >> cerberus:/home 0 1003801k finished > > (22:18:15) > >> > >> Then these entries, which I think are the 2 that failed, as shown later > > in > >> the summary: > >> cerberus:/.autofsck 0 planner: [disk /.autofsck > >> offline on cerberus?] > >> cerberus:/.fonts.cache-1 0 planner: [disk > >> /.fonts.cache-1 offline on cerberus?] > >> > >> Then these 3 that are the ones still on the holding disk: > >> minerva:/home 0 8774296k writing to tape > >> (23:09:07) > >> minerva:/usr/local/clients 0 32253287k dump done > >> (1:08:27), wait for writing to tape > >> minerva:/usr/local/development 0 9687648k dump done > >> (23:48:17), wait for writing to tape > >> > >> And then this summary, which I'm not sure how to interpret: > >> SUMMARY part real estimated > >> size size > >> partition : 109 > >> estimated : 107 69631760k > >> flush : 0 0k > >> failed : 2 0k ( 0.00%) > >> wait for dumping: 0 0k ( 0.00%) > >> dumping to tape : 0 0k ( 0.00%) > >> dumping : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) > >> dumped : 107 58148656k 69631760k ( 83.51%) ( 83.51%) > >> wait for writing: 2 41940935k 48107940k ( 87.18%) ( 60.23%) > >> wait to flush : 0 0k 0k (100.00%) ( 0.00%) > >> writing to tape : 1 8774296k 12515695k ( 70.11%) ( 12.60%) > >> failed to tape : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) > >> taped : 104 7433425k 9008125k ( 82.52%) ( 10.68%) > >> 4 dumpers idle : not-idle > >> taper writing, tapeq: 2 > >> network free kps: 2000 > >> holding space : 50295358k ( 49.79%) > >> dumper0 busy : 2:53:47 ( 5.67%) > >> dumper1 busy : 0:13:48 ( 0.45%) > >> dumper2 busy : 0:00:00 ( 0.00%) > >> taper busy : 0:12:38 ( 0.41%) > >> 0 dumpers busy : 2+0:07:56 ( 94.22%) not-idle: 2+0:00:04 ( > >> 99.73%) > >> start-wait: 0:07:51 ( > >> 0.27%) > >> 1 dumper busy : 2:46:29 ( 5.43%) not-idle: 1:20:10 ( > >> 48.15%) > >> client-constrained: 1:18:08 ( > >> 46.93%) > >> no-bandwidth: 0:04:16 ( > >> 2.57%) > >> start-wait: 0:03:54 ( > >> 2.35%) > >> 2 dumpers busy : 0:10:34 ( 0.35%) client-constrained: 0:06:22 ( > >> 60.27%) > >> start-wait: 0:04:05 ( > >> 38.76%) > >> no-bandwidth: 0:00:06 ( > >> 0.96%) > >> 3 dumpers busy : 0:00:00 ( 0.00%) > >> > >> I would highly appreciate your insight into what is going on, especially > > for > >> the 3 DLEs that are "waiting for writing to tape". > >> -- > >> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Unravel- > >> amstatus-output-tf1953587.html#a5357597 > >> Sent from the Amanda - Users forum at Nabble.com. > >> > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Unravel- > amstatus-output-tf1953587.html#a5358022 > Sent from the Amanda - Users forum at Nabble.com. > >