-- 
AlanP

On Thu, July 27, 2006 5:37 pm, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 at 11:49am, Mitch Collinsworth wrote
>
>> Also, amcheck will alert you to this problem before you amdump.  If
>> you choose to ignore the warning...
>
> I don't think amcheck will warn you if you're going to overwrite the only
> level 0 of a particular DLE.  The amdump report emails generally do,
> however.  They'll tell you if full dumps of DLEs are being postponed, and
> generally give you 1 or 2 days of 'last full dump overwritten in N runs'
> messages.
>


Hmm, not in this case. In this case Amanda was happily promoting full
dumps of other machines, and gave no indication of last full dump
overwritten in N runs.
Here is the previous nights dump email :



These dumps were to tape DailySet1-2.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet1-3.

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  qtvpdc.lab..tv  /  lev 1  STRANGE


STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Incr.
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:09
Run Time (hrs:min)         1:57
Dump Time (hrs:min)        1:48       1:14       0:34
Output Size (meg)       26878.9    16555.7    10323.2
Original Size (meg)     41726.2    29473.2    12253.0
Avg Compressed Size (%)    64.4       56.2       84.3   (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Dumped           17          7         10   (1:10)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)      4238.6     3815.0     5156.8

Tape Time (hrs:min)        1:45       1:07       0:38
Tape Size (meg)         26879.7    16556.0    10323.7
Tape Used (%)              80.8       49.8       31.0   (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Taped            17          7         10   (1:10)

Chunks Taped                  0          0          0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)  4385.3     4243.6     4633.3

USAGE BY TAPE:
  Label             Time      Size      %    Nb    Nc
  DailySet1-2       1:45    26880M   80.8    17     0


FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:

/--  qtvpdc.lab..tv / lev 1 STRANGE
sendbackup: start [qtvpdc.lab..tv:/ level 1]
sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/bin/gnutar
sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/gnutar -f... -
sendbackup: info end
? gtar: ./Library/Logs/PasswordService/ApplePasswordServer.Server.log.1:
file changed as we read it
? gtar: ./Library/Logs/PasswordService/ApplePasswordServer.Server.log.2:
file changed as we read it
? gtar: ./Library/Logs/PasswordService/ApplePasswordServer.Server.log.3:
file changed as we read it
| Total bytes written: 10867752960 (11GiB, 7.3MiB/s)
sendbackup: size 10613040
sendbackup: end
\--------


NOTES:
  planner: Incremental of dev5.lab..tv:/ bumped to level 2.
  planner: qtvpdc.lab..tv / 20060726 0 [dump larger than available tape
space, 34930478 KB, full dump delayed]
  planner: Full dump of dev5.lab..tv:/ promoted from 2 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of qube-demo.lab..tv:/ promoted from 2 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of dev2.lab..tv:/ promoted from 2 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of xen-srv1.lab..tv:/ promoted from 2 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of sourcecontrol.lab..tv:/ promoted from 6 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of vs1.lab..tv:/ promoted from 6 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of qa-apps2.lab..tv:/ promoted from 6 days ahead.
  taper: tape DailySet1-2 kb 27524832 fm 17 [OK]


DUMP SUMMARY:
                                       DUMPER STATS               TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-MB  OUT-MB  COMP%  MMM:SS   KB/s MMM:SS  
KB/s
-------------------------- -------------------------------------
-------------
dev1.lab.qua /           1      23       2   10.3    0:30   77.9   0:03 
822.4
dev2.lab.qua /           0    2318     882   38.0   11:23 1321.7   3:10
4744.6
dev3.lab.qua /           1      19       2    9.0    0:30   58.3   0:03 
670.4
dev4.lab.qua /           1      18       2    9.2    0:30   54.7   0:03 
587.4
dev5.lab.qua /           0   10360    6646   64.2   24:30 4629.8  23:39
4796.2
devdb1.lab.q /           1      12       1   10.1    0:30   40.1   0:03 
474.6
qa-apps1.lab /           1      20       2    8.9    0:31   57.3   0:04 
501.3
qa-apps2.lab /           0    2517    1042   41.4    5:38 3153.2   4:40
3810.5
qa-db1.lab.q /           1      20       2    9.6    0:30   62.0   0:03 
662.1
qtvpdc.lab.q /           1   10364    9070   87.5   23:55 7396.6  33:20
4645.1
qtvpdc.lab.q /Users      1    1745    1240   71.1    4:44 6300.1   4:19
4904.4
qube-demo.la /           0    5987    3987   66.6   14:27 4709.9  14:08
4813.6
sourcecontro /           0    2281    1012   44.4    3:30 4935.6  10:08
1705.3
vs1.lab.quat /           0    4276    2343   54.8    8:29 4711.8   8:28
4722.9
xen-srv1.lab /           0    1734     644   37.1    6:06 1798.8   2:22
4651.9
xen-srv2.lab /           1      16       1    9.2    2:00   12.1   0:03 
565.0
xen-srv3.lab /           1      16       1    9.2    0:30   47.0   0:03 
509.9

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> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University
>