Greetings;
I thought maybe I'd better get amanda running again after updating this
box from FC2 to Fc6 about 2 weeks back.
So I removed the entries for the machine gene from teh disklist since I'm
now useing the x86 build of DD-WRT for a router/firewall & gene, a 300+
watt power hog, has been powered down till whenever.
Anyway, I ran it by hand using my usual script that cron runs to do this,
and was surprised to see the printed report say it had only backed up
2166.2 megs. The estimate tallied about 23gb. Hummm, & I go wandering
around to see what upchecked. First I checked in /dumps, and there's a
large pile waiting to be taped:
[amanda@coyote dumps]$ ls -l
total 8
drwx------ 2 amanda amanda 4096 Nov 22 12:55 20061122102422
[amanda@coyote dumps]$ cd 20061122102422/
[amanda@coyote 20061122102422]$ ls -l
total 15353432
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 7641088 Nov 22 12:53 coyote._bin.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 40798208 Nov 22 12:51 coyote._boot.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 339968 Nov 22 12:54 coyote._dev.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 24509572 Nov 22 12:51 coyote._etc.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 935754744 Nov 22 11:37
coyote._GenesAmandaHelper-0.5.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 335897196 Nov 22 11:30 coyote._home.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 250490738 Nov 22 12:34 coyote._lib.1
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 739566534 Nov 22 11:49 coyote._opt.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Nov 22 11:24 coyote._root.2
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 37595346 Nov 22 11:25 coyote._root.2.1
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 24567808 Nov 22 12:52 coyote._sbin.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 2281615 Nov 22 12:53 coyote._tmp.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 424777728 Nov 22 11:51 coyote._usr_bin.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 382076928 Nov 22 11:51 coyote._usr_dlds.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 810436608 Nov 22 11:38 coyote._usr_dlds-misc.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 117925888 Nov 22 12:26 coyote._usr_dlds-rpms.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 63488 Nov 22 12:54 coyote._usr_dlds-tgzs.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 43008 Nov 22 12:55 coyote._usr_games.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 128360448 Nov 22 12:24 coyote._usr_include.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1425408 Nov 22 12:53 coyote._usr_kerberos.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 528648926 Nov 22 12:51 coyote._usr_lib.1
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 28877138 Nov 22 12:52 coyote._usr_libexec.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 109894645 Nov 22 12:26 coyote._usr_local.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 234366 Nov 22 12:54 coyote._usr_man.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Nov 22 10:39 coyote._usr_movies.1
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Nov 22 10:42 coyote._usr_movies.1.1
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Nov 22 10:47 coyote._usr_movies.1.2
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Nov 22 10:51 coyote._usr_movies.1.3
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Nov 22 10:56 coyote._usr_movies.1.4
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Nov 22 11:00 coyote._usr_movies.1.5
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 Nov 22 11:04 coyote._usr_movies.1.6
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 595360210 Nov 22 11:06 coyote._usr_movies.1.7
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 13783078 Nov 22 12:53 coyote._usr_sbin.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 881227178 Nov 22 12:24 coyote._usr_share.1
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 693649066 Nov 22 12:08 coyote._usr_src.2
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 32990 Nov 22 12:54 coyote._usr_X11R6.0
Which I haven't bothered to total up but it looks to be at least 10-11GB.
So I go take a look at the vtape to see why some of those smaller files
weren't taped, and find:
[amanda@coyote 20061122102422]$ ls -l /amandatapes/Dailys/data/
total 8497816
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 10 Nov 22 10:33 00000-Dailys-15
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 32768 Nov 22 10:33 00000.Dailys-15
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 14 Nov 22 10:36 00001-coyote._usr_pix.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1628667904 Nov 22 10:36 00001.coyote._usr_pix.0
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 14 Nov 22 11:06 00002-coyote._var.3
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 642744320 Nov 22 11:06 00002.coyote._var.3
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 15 Nov 22 11:14
00003-coyote._usr_movies.1
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 6326878208 Nov 22 11:14
00003.coyote._usr_movies.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 amanda amanda 102400 Nov 22 12:55 configuration.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 amanda amanda 94750720 Nov 22 12:55 indices.tar
As you can see, there is a 6.3GB file there that isn't noted in the
printout. Humm, and its 1GB pieces are still in /dumps, so it EOT'd
while merging that to the single file on the vtape.
Ok, so here is a request for enhancement that would be quite usefull for
those of us running vtapes.
Could it be made so that when this occurs, rather than leaving the
incomplete output file on the vtape where its just wasted disk space, why
not delete it and then try the next larger file to see if it fits, and
repeat till one is found that does fit? And repeat this EOT action until
all files in the holding disk have been scanned and whats left are all
too big.
Seems like the sensible thing to do but I've NDI how hard it would be to
code that up only for us vtape users.
What I'm going to do right now is delete it, make the vtape considerably
larger on a one time basis and run a flush, which should write the rest
of them. Then once a day reduce the vtape by a gig, until its back down
into the area where it is now.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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