Dear all, please help!
I added those two servers again, and again the job dumps all DLEs to holding
disk, but fails to write those two DLEs to tape!
Just to make it clear:
I was backing up a server called Minerva, and all seemed well.
I added two more servers, callled Apollo and Cerberus. Then some of
Minerva's DLEs failed to write to tape after dumped to the holding disk.
I remove Apollo and Cerberus, and the backup works ok.
I add Apollo and Cerberus again, and again Minerva's DLEs dump ok, but fail
to write to tape.
This time I ejected the tape, and tried to amflush to the next amanda tape.
Amanda told me that I needed to run amcleanup. So I ran amcleanup and then
ran amflush again. Amflush then sent me an email saying there were no files
to flush!
So I rebooted the server again, and now amflush works.
What on earth is going on??
Please help!
Joe Donner wrote:
>
> 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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