Problem: Amanda has consistently failed backing up /home on svhsfiles
for the last several weeks, originally with Amanda 2.4.1, now with
2.4.2. The partition has approximately 17GB of data on it. The tape is a
DDS3 12/24GB drive. The other partitions backing up have used from
850M-3G of space on the tape before /home is started. This has not been
a problem in the past, and no changes had been made to the system,
however I've not tracked usage on /home carefully, so it truly could be
a size issue.
Steps taken so far:
1) Cleaned tape drive :)
2) Rotated in new tapes
3) Doubled the value of "length" in my tapetype generated tapetype entry
in to reflect my use of compression (gzip) - is this right, BTW? The
number is now 18860 mbytes.
4) Upgraded to 2.4.2
5) Confirmed that /home was to be backed up with compression.
6) Added four users' directories (total of appx. 4G) to exclude.list in
order to reduce total size.
(Hopefully) Relevant Info:
Error/info reported in AMANDA MAIL REPORT:
svhsfiles /home lev 0 FAILED [data timeout]
svhsfiles /home lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]
--8< SNIP >8--
Output Size (meg) 1466.6 1395.0 71.6
Entry in disklist:
svhsfiles /home comp-user-tar -1 local
>From "sendbackup.debug":
sendbackup: debug 1 pid 16803 ruid 40582 euid 40582 start time Wed Feb
7 02:34:
35 2001
/usr/local/libexec/sendbackup: got input request: GNUTAR /home 0
1970:1:1:0:0:0
OPTIONS
|;bsd-auth;compress-fast;index;exclude-list=/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclud
e.gtar;
parsed request as: program `GNUTAR' disk `/home' lev 0 since
1970:1:1:0:0:0 op
t
`|;bsd-auth;compress-fast;index;exclude-list=/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gta
r;'
sendbackup: exclude list file "/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar" does
not exis
t, ignoring
waiting for connect on 3257, then 3258, then 3259
got all connections
sendbackup: spawning "/usr/bin/gzip" in pipeline
sendbackup: argument list: "/usr/bin/gzip" "--fast"
sendbackup-gnutar: pid 16804: /usr/bin/gzip --fast
sendbackup: doing level 0 dump as listed-incremental:
/usr/local/var/amanda/gnut
ar-lists/svhsfiles_home_0.new
sendbackup: doing level 0 dump from date: 1970-01-01 0:00:00 GMT
sendbackup: spawning "/usr/local/libexec/runtar" in pipeline
sendbackup: argument list: "gtar" "--create" "--directory" "/home"
"--listed-inc
remental" "/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/svhsfiles_home_0.new"
"--sparse" "
--one-file-system" "--ignore-failed-read" "--totals" "--file" "-" "."
sendbackup-gnutar: pid 16807: /usr/local/libexec/runtar --create
--directory /ho
me --listed-incremental
/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/svhsfiles_home_0.new
--sparse --one-file-system --ignore-failed-read --totals --file - .
sendbackup: started index creator: "/usr/bin/gtar -tf - 2>/dev/null |
sed -e 's/
^\.//'"
index tee cannot write [Broken pipe]
Thanks in advance for the help!
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