One of my clients does not backup. amcheck detects no error. What do I
check for?
Help greatly appreciated.
-Christoph Sold
<snip>
# su operator -c amcheck
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
Holding disk /usr/local/dumps: 29644774 KB disk space available, using
29132774 KB
ERROR: /dev/nrsa0: no tape online
(expecting tape Taeglich-04 or a new tape)
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Server check took 60.814 seconds
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
Client check: 3 hosts checked in 0.410 seconds, 0 problems found
(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.2p2)
</snip>
But:
<snip>
[i-clue taeglich AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR July 17, 2001]
These dumps were to tape Taeglich-01.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: Taeglich-02.
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
miraculix. ad0s1c lev 0 FAILED [Request to miraculix.i-clue.de timed
out.]
miraculix. da0s1e lev 0 FAILED [Request to miraculix.i-clue.de timed
out.]
miraculix. da0s1f lev 0 FAILED [Request to miraculix.i-clue.de timed
out.]
miraculix. da0s1a lev 0 FAILED [Request to miraculix.i-clue.de timed
out.]
STATISTICS:
Total Full Daily
-------- -------- --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min) 2:30
Run Time (hrs:min) 3:52
Dump Time (hrs:min) 1:08 0:00 1:08
Output Size (meg) 3762.2 32.6 3729.6
Original Size (meg) 6234.6 32.6 6202.0
Avg Compressed Size (%) 60.1 -- 60.1 (level:#disks
...)
Filesystems Dumped 4 1 3 (1:3)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 938.0 2966.8 932.4
Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:34 0:00 0:34
Tape Size (meg) 3762.3 32.6 3729.7
Tape Used (%) 9.4 0.1 9.3 (level:#disks
...)
Filesystems Taped 4 1 3 (1:3)
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 1901.4 2361.2 1898.2
NOTES:
planner: Full dump of informatix.i-clue.de:ad0s2a promoted from 2 days
ahead.
taper: tape Taeglich-01 kb 3852640 fm 4 [OK]
DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS
KB/s
-------------------------- ---------------------------------
------------
amnesix.i-cl ad0s1a 1 2678 416 15.5 0:07 61.6 0:03
164.4
amnesix.i-cl ad0s1f 1 34248732402624 70.2 48:29 825.8
13:492898.2
informatix.i ad0s2a 0 33376 33376 -- 0:112966.5
0:142361.1
informatix.i ad0s2e 1 29233231416096 48.4 19:401200.1
19:401199.8
miraculix.i- ad0s1c 0 FAILED
---------------------------------------
miraculix.i- da0s1a 0 FAILED
---------------------------------------
miraculix.i- da0s1e 0 FAILED
---------------------------------------
miraculix.i- da0s1f 0 FAILED
---------------------------------------
(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.2p2)
</snip>
on miraculix, all the time during backup something is working:
<snip>
# ps wauxU backup
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
backup 2297 0.0 1.6 1684 960 ?? Is 5:27PM 0:00.06 amandad
backup 2298 0.0 1.7 1524 1000 ?? I 5:27PM 0:00.27
/usr/local/libexec/amanda/sendsize
backup 2351 0.1 6.3 4123 3808 ?? DL 5:40PM 0:12.08 dump 0hsf �
1048576 - /dev/ad0s1c
</snip>
Well, that's a big filesystem:
<snip>
# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a 254063 35353 198385 15% /
[...]
/dev/ad0s1c 38788812 26814809 8870899 75% /u/0
</snip>
