I've set amanda's holding space to be ``all of the disk, but leave XXX
free''
(
holdingdisk hd1 {
comment "main holding disk"
directory "/whopper/amanda/lto" # where the holding disk is
use -10 Gb # how much space can we use on it
# a non-positive value means:
# use all space but that value
}
It looks like amanda treats this as:
Upon startup, check how much free diskspace is there, subtract 10G from
that, and use that as the disksize.
My amanda dumps take all night (well over 12 hours) and the disks are
active, meaning that the amount of free diskspace is fluctuating.
However amanda does *NOT* adapt her idea of how much disksapce is
available.
She simply calculates at startup how much she can use, and uses that number
for the rest of the night.
Ideally amanda should look every time a chunk is written to disk how much
space ios free, but at least she should check at the start of each new
dump/tar how much diskspace is free.
% amstatus lto
Using /volume/amanda/share/amanda/lto/amdump from Thu May 3 18:00:01 MET
DST 2001
[snipped]
james:/whopper/data/autotest 033409192k wait for dumping
[snipped]
james:/whopper/newhome2 038438112k writing to tape (7:59:55)
All the other dumps are finished.
SUMMARY part real estimated
size size
partition : 27
estimated : 27 125219454k
failed : 1 2860734k ( 2.28%)
wait for dumping: 1 33409192k ( 26.68%)
dumping to tape : 0 0k ( 0.00%)
dumping : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%)
dumped : 25 85863904k 88949528k ( 96.53%) ( 68.57%)
wait for writing: 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%)
writing to tape : 1 38438112k 38678328k ( 99.38%) ( 30.70%)
failed to tape : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%)
taped : 24 47425792k 50271200k ( 94.34%) ( 37.87%)
6 dumpers idle : no-diskspace
taper writing, tapeq: 0
network free kps: 126880
holding space : 4672463k ( 10.84%)
dumper0 busy : 12:37:57 ( 96.85%)
dumper1 busy : 7:37:54 ( 58.51%)
dumper2 busy : 8:24:40 ( 64.49%)
dumper3 busy : 9:06:01 ( 69.77%)
taper busy : 2:39:11 ( 20.34%)
0 dumpers busy : 0:23:56 ( 3.06%) no-diskspace: 0:23:56 (100.00%)
1 dumper busy : 3:31:44 ( 27.06%) no-diskspace: 3:31:13 ( 99.76%)
start-wait: 0:00:31 ( 0.24%)
2 dumpers busy : 0:41:29 ( 5.30%) no-diskspace: 0:41:00 ( 98.86%)
start-wait: 0:00:28 ( 1.14%)
3 dumpers busy : 0:47:51 ( 6.11%) no-diskspace: 0:47:16 ( 98.79%)
start-wait: 0:00:34 ( 1.21%)
4 dumpers busy : 7:37:35 ( 58.47%) no-diskspace: 7:32:38 ( 98.92%)
start-wait: 0:04:56 ( 1.08%)
james:/home/netscradd/Mail # df -k /whopper
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d99 433727332 391286116 38103943 92% /whopper
Note that holding space sais it has only 4 G free
Whereas the df shows that the holding disk should have approx 28G free
Kind regards,
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