Hello...
first, thanks to all the helpful people on this list. I rarely have to
post anything, I just look through the list archives and my questions
are already answered. :)
I have a problem tring to backup a reiserfs partition with gnutar. I use
dump for all the other systems. The system is a redhat linux 7.1. three
filesystems, only one is reiserfs.
reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 08:11) ...
Using tea hash to sort names
reiserfs: using 3.5.x disk format
ReiserFS version 3.6.25
(no reiserfs debug)
tar-1.13.19-4
amanda-client-2.4.2p2-1
amanda-2.4.2p2-1
The same exact data is also on other servers, so in the past I just
skipped this filesystem. Now I would like to convert some other
filesystems to reiserfs, so now I have to get the backups working. the
reiserfs filesystem isn't huge, but it does have lots of small files. (
try http://www.pricegrabber.com , see the pictures? They might be
coming off this reiserfs system. look around...there are a lot of
images ;). If I put it in my disklist, the estimate takes about an hour
(etimeout 7200). Then the backups start, the other filesystems work,
but this one fails everytime.
looking back through my mailing list archives, I saw a thread regarding
'calcsize' and using that instead of GNUTAR to do estimates. Is there
another way to get faster gnutar performance? Is there an amanda.conf
switch to use calcsize? or use gerhard's patch?
Any other ideas?
I'm going to put it back in for tonight's run to get all the debug info.
define dumptype my-global {
index yes
record yes
priority high
maxdumps 1
compress client fast
holdingdisk yes
dumpcycle 2
}
define dumptype my-type {
my-global
}
define dumptype my-type-reiserfs {
my-global
program "GNUTAR"
}
bash-2.04$ cat runtar.20010806020712.debug
runtar: debug 1 pid 31211 ruid 33 euid 0 start time Mon Aug 6 02:07:12 2001
gtar: version 2.4.2p2
running: /bin/tar: gtar --create --file - --directory /www
--one-file-system --listed-incremental
/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/eeyore_www_0.new --sparse
--ignore-failed-read --totals .
TIA
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Christopher McCrory
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http://www.pricegrabber.com
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