Paul,
Actually both amanda hosts are Solaris 5.6, one machine is its
own and only client, the other is its own client but also has
both solaris and irix clients.
In both cases its a local file system with the problem.
In both cases output is to a local DLT drive.
Establishing chunksize as a required parameter is a good reason
for me to upgrade. Can you tell me what it does ?
thanks,
Brian
> Brian,
>
> Just a quick thought: If your AMANDA tape host is running Linux, there is a
> limit of 2.0Gb per file in an ext2 file system. (Even if you're not running
> Linux, you might have a similar limit.) The chunksize also helps get around
> file size limit problems.
>
> Paul
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 10:52 AM
> To: Alexandre Oliva
> Cc: Brian Cuttler; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; J Chris Knight
> Subject: Re: Amanda 2.2.6, not using spool area
>
>
>
> Alex,
>
> Holding disk on "wcnotes" is 36 gig (in a single partition) the
> level 1 backup that went direct to tape last night was 11 gig
> (5 gig from another partion, same system).
>
> This is why I thought it wasn't a spool space issue. In this
> case we should have had sufficient room as the 4 partitons
> involved contributed 11 gig, 5 gig, 1 gig and .7 gig. Even with
> all in spool at one time I would not expect to see this behaviour.
>
> Not that I'm don't want to upgrade Amanda, but you know how it is.
> Without the excuse its hard to pull the time from another project
> to fix something that is working (and amanda is very reliable).
>
> Besides, I don't like mystery behaviour.
>
> This just doesn't look like a spool capacity issue ?
>
> thanks,
>
> Brian
>
> > On Apr 10, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Cuttler) wrote:
> >
> > > Wondering if this isn't a "feature" of 2.2.6 and a must upgrade
> > > for performance issue at our site.
> >
> > > The smaller problem partition is only 4 gig, the larger in excess
> > > of 18, both partitions continue to grow.
> >
> > I'm afraid you'll have to upgrade. In 2.4.1 or so, we have introduced
> > `chunksize', that lets Amanda back up large disks regardless of the
> > maximum holding disk file size.
> >
> > --
> > Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
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