Amanda-Users

Re: amcheck and BIG holding disks

2006-08-09 13:11:48
Subject: Re: amcheck and BIG holding disks
From: "Gavin Henry" <ghenry AT suretecsystems DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:05:28 +0100 (BST)
<quote who="Gavin Henry">
> <quote who="Jon LaBadie">
>> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:41:29PM +0100, Gavin Henry wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> We've put Amandas Holding disk on a NAS, which has 6.6T free on it:
>>>
>>> df -h
>>> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>> /dev/sda1              73G  6.0G   67G   9% /
>>> tmpfs                 2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
>>> /dev/sdb              6.9T  263G  6.6T   4% /storage
>>>
>>> amcheck doesn't like it though:
>>>
>>> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
>>> -----------------------------
>>> WARNING: holding disk /storage/amanda: only -2048 GB free, using
>>> nothing
>>>
>>> in our amanda.conf we've put in the holdingdisk section:
>>>
>>> use -1000Gb
>>>
>>> Anything else we can do?
>>
>>
>> Damn wrap around/overflow on big numbers.
>
> Say again?
>
>>
>> Do you expect to be able to feed your unbelievably fast
>> LTO-3 drive fast enough from network storage?
>
> Yeah, it's on the same server (www.dnuk.com NAS Server):
>
> Dual AMD64 2GHz
> 4GB Ram
> 80GB OS Disk
> 6.9T /storage
> SUSE 9.3 64Bit
> Quantum SuperLoader 3 LT0-2 Autoloader

Any advice on a changer script for this loader?

Was going to use chg-scsi?

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Changers#chg-scsi_.28new_interface.2C_try_to_drive_a_robot_with_direct_scsi_commands.29

Thanks.

> LSI Logic/Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev
> 07)
>
> Just running amtapetype now via "screen", so might just pick one from:
> http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Tapetype_definitions#LTO-2_.28Ultrium_2.29
>
> Gavin.
>
>>
>> --
>> Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
>>  JG Computing
>>  4455 Province Line Road        (609) 252-0159
>>  Princeton, NJ  08540-4322      (609) 683-7220 (fax)
>>
>
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