Perhaps your system has a 2 GB file size limit. Try setting chunksize
to 1 Gb in the holding disk section of amanda.conf.
Frank
--On Tuesday, March 05, 2002 05:44:35 -0800 ThomasRatliffDDS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> /usr partition fails to write to tape although it seems to dump to the
> holding disk OK. Nothing is left in the holding disk
> (/var/local/storage/hold_amanda).
>
> amanda 2.4.2p2
> Travan 10/20Gb uncompressed/compressed tape
> The tape definition received from running tapetype
> define tapetype TRAVAN {
> comment "just produced by tapetype program"
> comment "Tecmar Travan NS20 - 3M Travan 20 Tape"
> length 9935 mbytes
> filemark 30 kbytes
> speed 938 kbytes
>
> From "df"
>
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda5 1981990 1456881 422659 78% /
> /dev/sda1 30719 11083 18050 39% /boot
> /dev/hda2 21472 2259 18105 12% /boothda
> /dev/hda1 1939104 823136 1115968 43% /dosC
> /dev/sda6 3465433 2180149 1106034 67% /usr
> /dev/sda7 1685149 108162 1489897 7% /var
>
> /dev/hdg1 27672404 20 26266700 1%
> /var/local/storage/hold_amanda
>
>
>
> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 06:01:52 -0800
> From: Red Hat Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: buddies.orthodontists.info AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR March 4, 2002
> Status: RO
>
> These dumps were to tape buddies_full-01.
> The next tape Amanda expects to use is: buddies_full-02.
>
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> buddies /usr lev 0 FAILED ["data write: File too large"]
>
>
> STATISTICS:
> Total Full Daily
> -------- -------- --------
> Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:06
> Run Time (hrs:min) 1:52
> Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:50 0:50 0:00
> Output Size (meg) 2205.2 2205.2 0.0
> Original Size (meg) 2205.2 2205.2 0.0
> Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- --
> Filesystems Dumped 5 5 0
> Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 754.4 754.4 --
>
> Tape Time (hrs:min) 1:00 1:00 0:00
> Tape Size (meg) 2205.4 2205.4 0.0
> Tape Used (%) 22.2 22.2 0.0
> Filesystems Taped 5 5 0
> Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 622.1 622.1 --
>
> ^L
> FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
>
> /-- buddies /usr lev 0 FAILED ["data write: File too large"]
> sendbackup: start [buddies:/usr level 0]
> sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/gtar
> sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gtar -f... -
> sendbackup: info end
> \--------
>
> ^L
> NOTES:
> planner: Adding new disk buddies:/usr.
> taper: tape buddies_full-01 kb 2258304 fm 5 [OK]
>
> ^L
> DUMP SUMMARY:
> DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS
> HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
> -------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
> buddies / 0 14583361458336 -- 22:051100.8 40:03 606.8
> buddies /boot 0 11072 11072 -- 0:043043.4 0:18 633.3
> buddies /boothda 0 2272 2272 -- 0:03 776.6 0:05 438.1
> buddies /dosC 0 679136 679136 -- 26:11 432.4 18:06 625.7
> buddies /usr 0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
> buddies /var 0 107328 107328 -- 1:311175.2 1:58 906.4
>
> (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.2p2)
>
> AND FROM SENDBACKUP.XXDEBUG
>
> sendbackup: debug 1 pid 1989 ruid 20 euid 20 start time Tue Mar 5
> 04:06:59 2002/usr/lib/amanda/sendbackup: version 2.4.2p2
> sendbackup: got input request: GNUTAR /usr 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 OPTIONS
>| ;bsd-auth;index;
> parsed request as: program `GNUTAR'
> disk `/usr'
> lev 0
> since 1970:1:1:0:0:0
> opt `|;bsd-auth;index;'
> sendbackup: try_socksize: send buffer size is 65536
> sendbackup: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.1086
> sendbackup: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.1087
> sendbackup: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.1088
> waiting for connect on 1086, then 1087, then 1088
> sendbackup: stream_accept: connection from 192.168.1.1.1089
> sendbackup: stream_accept: connection from 192.168.1.1.1090
> sendbackup: stream_accept: connection from 192.168.1.1.1091
> got all connections
> sendbackup-gnutar: doing level 0 dump as listed-incremental to
> /usr/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/buddies_usr_0.new
> sendbackup-gnutar: doing level 0 dump from date: 1970-01-01 0:00:00 GMT
> sendbackup: spawning /usr/lib/amanda/runtar in pipeline
> sendbackup: argument list: gtar --create --file - --directory /usr
> --one-file-system --listed-incremental
> /usr/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/buddies_usr_0.new --sparse
> --ignore-failed-read --totals .
> sendbackup-gnutar: /usr/lib/amanda/runtar: pid 1993
> sendbackup: started index creator: "/bin/gtar -tf - 2>/dev/null | sed -e
> 's/^\.//'"
> index tee cannot write [Broken pipe]
>
>
> thanks for any direction
>
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