On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Eva Freer wrote:
> We have a highly subnetted configuration of Solaris 8 and 2.6 boxes, mostly
> E220R's. The subnets are connected via firewalls. Each subnet has its own
> Amanda server with an Exabyte Mammoth tape drive. We use hardware
> compression only. The Amanda is 2.4.2p1 on most nodes.
...
We very occasionally (two times in months of running Amanada) see
something which _may_ be related to your problem. We're running a
mixture of Solaris 7 and 8 (Amanda server is 7) [as well as some
RedHat Linux and MacOS X clients].
Twice one of the Solaris 7 Amanda clients (same one both times) has
locked up during the estimate phase of the backup run (this is using
ufsdump). When this happens access to one or more filesystems blocks
and the system clogs up with jammed processes. This is a mail server
and sendmail stops accepting new mail once the load gets too high so
I've managed to recover both times by killing off the amanda
processes. Next time this happens I plan to be less flustered :-> and
hopeffully will have better data about what's causing the blockage.
Paul
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Paul Haldane
Computing Service
University of Newcastle
