On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:35:18PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have just setup amanda on a test installation for a sparc 5. > > It has mounted partitions as follows: > Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on > /dev/dsk/c1t3d0s0 1778230 694298 1030586 41% / > /dev/dsk/c1t5d0s0 2007070 265390 1681468 14% /home > /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s0 2007070 119950 1826908 7% /opt > /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 2007070 1230887 715971 64% /opt/local > > All of which adds up to around 2.2 Gb. I have specified the tape compression > device, but to use software compression for c1t1d0s0 otherwise amanda won't > touch it.
Don't get what you mean "specified the tape compression device" unless you are saying something like /dev/rmt/0cn. If that is the case, figure out why amanda "won't touch" /opt/local. You should never mix hardware and software compression. Amanda doesn't do the backups, so she really never touches them. > My test level 0 dump produced this, which is baffling: > > These dumps were to tapes godzilla1, godzilla2. > The next 2 tapes Amanda expects to used are: a new tape, a new tape. > > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > godzilla c1t1d0s0 lev 0 FAILED ["data write: Broken pipe"] > godzilla c1t1d0s0 lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed] > > [lots of ufsdump output deleted] > > and then this: > > DUMP SUMMARY: > DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS > HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s > -------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------ > godzilla c1t1d0s0 0 1242399 704928 56.7 185:46 63.2 185:47 63.2 > godzilla c1t2d0s0 0 121088 121088 -- 4:29 450.2 4:30 448.6 > godzilla c1t3d0s0 0 720032 720032 -- 23:19 514.8 23:20 514.5 > godzilla c1t5d0s0 0 267392 267392 -- 10:15 434.5 10:17 433.8 > > (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.2p2) > > So it looks like it succeeded, but amanda wasted a couple of hours getting > halfway through a ufsdump which was always going to fail, then getting it > right with the second tape. Is there a reason you are not using a holding disk? Is your tape capacity below 2 GB? Only 1.8 GB total was written? Why do you say it "was always going to fail"? Is it something that amanda should have predicted? Why did it fail? Amanda is just reporting what the backup programs reported to her. There may be more detail available in some log files. Amanda generally puts its debug logs in /tmp/amanda. Solaris is likely to have recorded something about the ufsdump error in /var/adm/messages. > Is there a way to force the first three partitions onto one tape, and the > fourth onto the second? Don't recall one, why would you want to? -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
