On Wednesday 15 April 2009, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Tuesday 14 April 2009, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
>>I committed a fix, thank for finding the bug.
>>
>>CHECK-DEVICE is correct, properties are sent send to the 'support'
>>application command because they are not needed, the script just log the
>>default value.
>>
>>Jean-Louis
>>
>>Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>>> OK, after some logfile exchange off-list, I think we're onto something
>>> here.  The planner examines all DLEs to decide which incremental to
>>> promote, and selects coyote:/root.  It finishes its loop, and then
>>> goes to attempt to promote that dump:
>>>
>>> 2792     if(dp_promote) {
>>> 2793         one_est_t *level0_est = est_for_level(dp, 0);
>>> 2794         dp = dp_promote;
>>>
>>> Sadly, dp is NULL on line 2793.  The fix is to use dp_promote instead
>>> of dp.  Jean-Louis, do you agree?  If so, please commit (I'm running
>>> off for the evening).
>>>
>>> Also, Jean-Louis, I'm leaving the chasing-down of the CHECK-DEVICE
>>> question to you.
>>>
>>> Gene: thanks for working so hard on this, and my apologies if I seemed
>>> short with you.  In general, when you see something go wrong with
>>> Amanda, it's probably best to freeze everything and get to the bottom
>>> of it immediately.
>>>
>>> Dustin
>
>Not so sure about this backup, started at 01:45, it is still running at 5:01
>am, apparently getting stuck waiting for the last 4kb of a dle.  But it will
>eventually get it and go on.  My algorithm setting is largest first.
>amstatus's extra output lines aren't really a help when scrolling back to
> see where its actually at.
>It gets here fairly quickly:
>
>coyote:/root                  2   1330791k dumping  1322112k ( 99.35%)
>(4:57:50)
>And it still reads the same at 5:20am.  And 26 dle's yet to go out of
> thirty.
>
>Now there are no tar's running, and gzip is idling at 0 cpu, and will
>apparently be stuck there till something times out. From amanda.conf:
>[root@coyote /]# grep dtimeout /usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/amanda.conf
>dtimeout 2800           # number of idle seconds before a dump is aborted.
>
>But amstatus isn't reporting any aborts.  Of those 3 done 'finished'
>[root@coyote log]# amstatus Daily|grep coyote|grep finished
>coyote:/home                  0   2217790k finished (4:36:48)
>coyote:/usr/pix               0   2158180k finished (4:58:56)
>coyote:/usr/src               0   3139051k finished (3:49:24)
>
>So something is amiss. However it is progressing, albeit slowly.  I'm going
>back to bed.  Need more zz's.

PS: At 9:40 am, 14 done, one in progress, 15 to go.

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