--On Friday, June 13, 2003 10:48:15 -0400 Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:12:29AM -0500, Frank Smith wrote: >> >> >> --On Friday, June 13, 2003 12:24:45 +0200 Markus Dohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm using Amanda 2.5 on Solaris 8 and Amanda has a problem with the degraded >> > mode. Only one filesystem is dumped to the holding disk, all other dumps fail. >> > The capacity of the holding disk is about 30GB and amcheck reports no problems. >> > >> > Amanda reports in the status e-mail: >> > >> > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: >> > b3sn16 /home/b3sn16 lev 0 FAILED [no more holding disk space] >> > b3sn16 /home2/b3sn16 lev 0 FAILED [no more holding disk space] >> > b3sn30 /disk18/b3sn30 lev 0 FAILED [no more holding disk space] >> > b3sn20 /etc lev 0 FAILED [no more holding disk space] >> > b3sn30 /disk21/b3sn30 lev 0 FAILED [no more holding disk space] >> > . >> > . >> > . >> > >> > In the attachment the config file for Amanda. >> >> > From your config: >> reserve 50 # percent >> >> > >> > Could someone please give me a hint? >> >> You're reserving half of your holding disk for incrementals, leaving >> half (~15GB) for fulls in degraded mode. I would guess that after >> one filesystem is dumped to disk there isn't room for a second (you >> didn't say how big your directories are). > > > Those are some of my initial thoughts too. How big are these things? > > However, on reflection, IIRC, shouldn't "insufficient holding space" > merely force direct to tape backups, not failed backups? > > So my question is, you say the first DLE is making it to the holding > disk, does that one ever make it to tape? Maybe a failure to do > taping is your real problem. His question was about degraded mode (I missed it myself the first time through), so there wouldn't be a tape to write to. Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
