On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 08:42:58AM -0500, James Wilson wrote:
> Hey All,
> 
> Lately I've been gettting the Failed [no more holding disk space] for 
> this one client. Is there something I can do to fix this? It has been 
> backing up fine until Sunday night and Monday night.
> 
> 
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>  amanda.transolutions.net   //192.168.1.38/etc           lev 1  STRANGE
>  amanda.transolutions.net   //192.168.1.38/var           lev 1  STRANGE
>  vikings.transolutions.net  /opt                         lev 1  STRANGE
>  amanda.transolutions.net   //192.168.1.38/opt           lev 1  STRANGE
>  amanda.transolutions.net   //192.168.1.202/interfix     lev 1  STRANGE
>  amanda.transolutions.net   //192.168.1.26/Sessions      lev 1  STRANGE
>  amanda.transolutions.net   //192.168.1.133/ifxsessions  lev 1  STRANGE
>  amanda.transolutions.net   //192.168.1.23/Crescendo     lev 1  STRANGE
>  amanda.transolutions.net   //192.168.1.23/BK            lev 4  FAILED 
> [no more holding disk space]
> 

At the risk of sounding pedantic,
increase the amount of holding disk space.

It doesn't have to be a single space, I'm currently using two
and my previous installation had four holding disks (HDs).
Just empty directories on different file systems that I let
amanda use all the available space except one or two GB.
And I set the chunk size to one or two GB so it is easy to
split a DLE among the various HDs.

You might also see if some junk is still in the HD.

You might also split up the DLE so it doesn't require so much HD.

It also sounds as if the estimate is incorrect as I don't think
amanda will write to the HD if it expects the size to be bigger
than the available space.  Instead it would send that DLE direct
to tape.

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