Hi,
Using amanda-2.4.2p2 (but this was happening with earlier versions as
well) on a Red Hat Linux 6.2 server, the backup of my file server parition
is failing with a rather uninformative error message:
ironwood /mnt/files lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]
I don't see anything in the logs that indicate why its failed, although I
will offer my suspicions. The partition being backed up is a 38Gb
partition and has 30Gb in use. I exclude a number of directories because
they are backed up with my Macintosh backup program and sendsize
calculates a size of 15Gb to be backed up. The file server partition also
holds the amanda holding disk directory. What I am theorizing is that
there is not enough space on the dump disk to dump the entire parition at
once and hence it fails.
In my amanda.conf I have:
comment "main holding disk"
directory "/mnt/files/amanda/dumps"
use -200 Mb
chunksize 1Gb
At one point, there seemed to be an option to have a negative chunksize,
whereby amanda would write directly to tape if a chunk was larger than
that chunksize. That would have solved my problem but that solution is
gone now. Was something else implimented for situations like this?
Thanks,
Kevin
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Kevin M. Myer
Systems Administrator
Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13
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