>FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> admin1.cor sda2 lev 1 FAILED [no more holding disk space]
> admin1.cor sda10 lev 1 FAILED [no more holding disk space]
> sundev1.co c0t0d0s7 lev 1 FAILED [no more holding disk space]
>...
>Output Size (meg) 150.9 0.0 150.9
>...
>root@sundev1:etc/amanda/daily# df -k /home/dumps/amanda
>Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 12221308 5338325 6760770 44% /home
>
>holdingdisk hd1 {
> comment "main holding disk"
> directory "/home/dumps/amanda" # where the holding disk is
> use 290 Mb # how much space can we use on it
OK, this says you'll allow Amanda to use 290 MBytes for its holding disk.
Now, search the amdump.1 file for "got result for host" and you'll see
lines like this:
got result for host ledger.cue.purdue.edu disk /opt: 0 -> 1172885K, 1 -> 6144K, -1
-> -1K
This says Amanda estimates a level 0 (full) dump will need 1172885 KBytes,
and a level 1 will need 6144 KBytes.
Since you're not using tape for most runs, add up the non level 0 dump
sizes to get a rough guess as to how much holding disk space you need per
run, then multiply that by the number of runs between calls to amflush,
then add a fudge factor for growth, etc. That's the amount of holding
disk space you'll need. Set the "use" parameter large enough for at
least one run.
You backed up ~150 MBytes in this run and I'm guessing each of the three
file systems that failed needed more than 140 MBytes.
You may want to consider using Amanda software compression to reduce
the size of the images in the holding disk. If you do, make sure you
do not use hardware compression (usually determined by the device name).
>" I suggest you use one of the other "normal" dumptypes and the amadmin
>method I mentioned to force the full dumps when you need them". JJ
>
>------------------- Will this work?-----------------------
>
>define dumptype denise {
> global
> comment "daily dump of file systems"
> compress none
> strategy nofull
>}
You don't want the "strategy nofull". For your setup, I suggest you
let Amanda run as usual w.r.t. dumptype, i.e. let it think it will have
a tape. When it doesn't find one, it will automatically drop back to
degraded (no full dumps) mode. You don't need to do anything special.
What I meant by "normal" was maybe (no)comp-user.
JJ
