On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 07:42:34AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> But I saw something during the backups from this morning that may be
> related.
That's not related :-)
> eng-backup# amstatus Eng --failed --summ
> Using /var/log/amanda/Eng/amdump from Tue Dec 19 01:53:00 PST 2000
>
> shrimp:/shrimp/usr/local 0 [write_tapeheader: No space left on device] (6:07:45)
> shrimp:/usr 0 [write_tapeheader: No space left on device] (6:08:01)
>
> So the aggregate space required by the 2 failed dumps would have been
> around 1.5 GB; I had >25 GB free, but for reasons that aren't (yet)
> clear to me, amanda tried to put the (first chunks of the) dump images
> on a holding disk that didn't have the space. And there is no retrying
> being done.
You found two bugs!
1- The disk should be retryed.
2- This holding should not be used for another dump.
I will try to fix them.
What's the use value? I suggest `-2 Mb'.
Jean-Louis
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