But it has complained about /usr here.. ----------------- > planner: Dump larger than tape: full dump of localhost:/usr delayed. > taper: tape Daily01 kb 550656 fm 4 [OK] > ------------------
Also I haven't set holding space at all. hhmmm, I had set the capacity of the tape to 1.1GB so I can make/force it change tapes, but /usr is bigger than 1.1GB. May be that is way it is behaving like that??? Thanks On Friday 01 November 2002 20:00, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 12:56:49AM +0500, Steve Simeonidis wrote: > > Does anyone use more than 1 tape on a single tape drive > > without a changer for dumping data? > > > > I can't make it work, it doesn't ask me to instert the second tape!!?? > > > > These are some of the definition of the configuration filethat I use for > > my testing. > > > > dumpcycle 0 days # the number of days in the normal dump cycle > > runspercycle 1 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days > > tapecycle 2 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation > > > > > > runtapes 2 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of > > amdump tpchanger "chg-manual" # the tape-changer glue script > > tapedev "/dev/nst0l" # the no-rewind tape device to be used > > #rawtapedev "/dev/null" # the raw device to be used (ftape only) > > changerfile "/var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/changer" > > #changerfile "/var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/changer-status" > > #changerfile "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer.conf" > > #changerdev "/dev/null" > > > > tapetype STD-5000 # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes > > below) > > labelstr "^Daily[0-9][0-9]*$" # label constraint regex: all tapes must > > match > > > > infofile "/var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo" # database filename > > logdir "/var/lib/amanda/DailySet1" # log directory > > indexdir "/var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/index" # index directory > > > > > > ERROR: I get the following email from AMANDA > > > > These dumps were to tape Daily01. > > The next 2 tapes Amanda expects to used are: Daily02, Daily01. > > > > > > STATISTICS: > > Total Full Daily > > -------- -------- -------- > > Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:16 > > Run Time (hrs:min) 1:01 > > Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:45 0:39 0:06 > > Output Size (meg) 537.6 526.0 11.6 > > Original Size (meg) 537.6 526.0 11.6 > > Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- -- (level:#disks > > ...) Filesystems Dumped 4 3 1 (1:1) > > Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 204.5 229.9 34.1 > > > > Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:45 0:39 0:06 > > Tape Size (meg) 537.8 526.1 11.6 > > Tape Used (%) 49.0 47.9 1.1 (level:#disks > > ...) Filesystems Taped 4 3 1 (1:1) > > Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 204.0 229.3 34.1 > > > > > > NOTES: > > planner: Dump larger than tape: full dump of localhost:/usr delayed. > > taper: tape Daily01 kb 550656 fm 4 [OK] > > > > > > DUMP SUMMARY: > > DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS > > HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s > > -------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------ > > localhost /home 0 103904 103904 -- 8:06 213.7 8:07 213.3 > > localhost /squid 0 236384 236384 -- 18:43 210.5 18:47 209.8 > > localhost /usr 1 11872 11872 -- 5:48 34.1 5:49 34.1 > > localhost /var 0 198368 198368 -- 12:14 270.3 12:16 269.7 > > > > (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.2p2) > > > > > > The /usr partition is around 2.3GB in size > > I don't see a problem with your changer. For this amdump, > amanda did not need a second tape. Everything could fit > on a single tape. Runtapes doesn't say how many tapes > amanda WILL use, it is how many it CAN use. > > However, I'm surprised amanda did an incremental of > /usr when you have dumpcycle 0. I expected that to > force full dumps everytime.
