>... The message I received today after the run is a bit confusing ...
Ahh, then us Amanda programmers have done our job well :-).
>... The filesystem is about 30GB ...
>part of it makes it seem
>as if the backup failed and part makes it seem as if the backup
>succeeded. ...
That's because it did both :-).
This part:
> doris.gw.u /local1 lev 0 FAILED ["data write: Broken pipe"]
> doris.gw.u /local1 lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]
>...
> taper: tape daily16 kb 53023520 fm 106 writing file: No space left on device
is from the first attempt to write the image to tape. Because it is so
large and probably does not fit in your holding disk, it was being written
directly to tape. When taper ran into the end, it shut down the pipeline
which filtered back to the client and generated the "Broken pipe" error.
And, it's true that during that first try, "dump to tape failed".
FYI, if the image being written to tape was in the holding disk, your
report would have only had the taper error, not the "Broken pipe" and
"dump to tape failed" messages.
> taper: retrying doris.gw.utexas.edu:/local1.0 on new tape: [writing file: No space
>left on device]
Because that was the first attempt and you had not exhausted runtapes,
Amanda advanced to the next tape and tried again (the repeat of "writing
file: No space left on device]" is talking about the first attempt and
explaining why this message says Amanda is retrying).
> taper: tape daily17 kb 28125568 fm 1 [OK]
Eventually, without further errors, you get the above line which says a
couple of things. First, taper was happy ("OK") when it finished this
tape. Second, notice the size is ~28 GBytes, which is close to what you
say is the size of doris.gw.utexas.edu:/local1.
>doris.gw.ute /local1 0 28125536 28125536 -- 123:013810.7 123:023810.0
This part is too hard to read (you might want to look into columnspec(*)),
but note that it does not say "ERROR" or anything like that, also
indicating Amanda eventually (on the second try) got the image to tape.
>Oscar
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(*) FWIW, we just added some SuperDLT drives here (100+ GBytes/tape and
12 MByte/s) and this is the columnspec we're now using in amanda.conf:
columnspec "OrigKB=1:8,OutKB=1:8,DumpRate=0:7,TapeRate=0:8"
