Well, I took the two new servers from amanda's disklist, and the backup
succeeded. I will add them one at a time and see what happens, although I
don't really see how the new servers could have caused this.
Maybe it's a disk space issue on the holding disk...hmmm....
Joe Donner wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> Please help!
>
> My amanda setup has been working wonderfully until the day before
> yesterday, when I added 2 more servers to the amanda job (adding
> approximately 6GB to the job).
>
> The newly added servers back up fine, but I now have a problem with an
> existing server.
>
> Amanda dumps all DLEs to holding disk (120 GB IDE drive) successfully, but
> now some of those fail to write to tape (the same ones each time), and I
> have to amflush them in the morning (which amanda happily does). The DLEs
> that fail to write to tape are for a server I've been successfully backing
> up for a month (minerva's /usr/local/clients and /usr/local/development).
> They make up about 46GB in total compressed size. And of course they are
> the two most importants ones to be backed up!
>
> I have noticed that both times this has happened, the backup server seemed
> to have become sluggish, e.g. my VNC session to it becomes virtually
> unusable. Althought drastic, I've on both occasions decided to reboot the
> amanda server before running amflush.
>
> Can anyone tell why this would happen?
>
>
> a) Here is an extract of amanda's report after the reboot:
>
> *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!
>
> STATISTICS:
> Total Full Daily
> -------- -------- --------
> Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:04
> Run Time (hrs:min) 0:32
> Dump Time (hrs:min) 3:46 3:46 0:00
> Output Size (meg) 65327.5 65327.5 0.0
> Original Size (meg) 186319.2 186319.2 0.0
> Avg Compressed Size (%) 35.1 35.1 --
> Filesystems Dumped 71 71 0
> Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 4933.2 4933.2 --
>
> Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:28 0:28 0:00
> Tape Size (meg) 19722.4 19722.4 0.0
> Tape Used (%) 12.6 12.6 0.0
> Filesystems Taped 69 69 0
> Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 11875.1 11875.1 --
>
> USAGE BY TAPE:
> Label Time Size % Nb
> daily-24 0:28 19722.4 12.6 69
>
> NOTES:
> taper: tape daily-24 kb 24459648 fm 70 writing file: Device or resource
> busy
> DUMP SUMMARY:
> DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS
> HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
> minerva -al/clients 0 10938425636295312 33.2 112:015399.9 N/A
> N/A
> minerva -evelopment 0 3531356010404361 29.5 42:354072.3 N/A N/A
>
> b) And here is the amflush report:
>
> STATISTICS:
> Total Full Daily
> -------- -------- --------
> Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00
> Run Time (hrs:min) 0:55
> Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00
> Output Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
> Original Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
> Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- --
> Filesystems Dumped 0 0 0
> Avg Dump Rate (k/s) -- -- --
>
> Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:55 0:55 0:00
> Tape Size (meg) 45605.2 45605.2 0.0
> Tape Used (%) 29.2 29.2 0.0
> Filesystems Taped 2 2 0
> Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 14253.2 14253.2 --
>
> USAGE BY TAPE:
> Label Time Size % Nb
> daily-25 0:55 45605.2 29.2 2
>
> NOTES:
> taper: tape daily-25 kb 46699776 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
> -------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
> minerva -al/clients 0 N/A36295312 -- N/A N/A
> 42:3214221.4
> minerva -evelopment 0 3531356010404362 29.5 N/A N/A
> 12:0414365.0
>
>
>
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