> On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 08:53:50AM +0200, Markus Dohmann wrote: > > > > > > > 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 > > > > Hi, > > > > you are right, there was no tape inserted just to test the holding disk > > confiugration. > > > > The capacity of the directories is > > b3sn30:/etc 7 mb > > b3sn16:/home/b3sn16 670 mb > > b3sn16:/home2/b3sn16 800 mb > > b3sn30:/disk18/b3sn30 10 mb > > b3sn20:/etc 3 mb > > b3sn30:/disk21/b3sn30 1 mb > > > > > > Amanda makes a level 1 dump of b3sn30:/etc (14 kb) and tried a level 0 dump > > of b3sn16:/home/b3sn16 (670 mb). I think it should be feasible to dump these > > backups to the holding disk. I'm a little bit confused, I thought Amanda will > > first dump the smallest backups and the bigger corresponding to the dumporder in > > amanda.conf. > > I presume that doesn't match the order in your dumporder? > > Even so, it is not as simple as that. You probably allow multiple dumpers.
Yes, I allow 4 dumpers. > As they individually finish they are used again for another DLE. Other > considerations are only spindle restrictions (only one on the same spindle > at the same time), perhaps priority, perhaps number of simultaneous dumps > per host, ... > > From what you show, the 670 MB DLE on b3sn16 is the smallest on that host. > I think it is the priority, there is an entry in the logfile of amdump: dump of driver schedule after start degraded mode: -------- b3sn16 /home/b3sn16 lv 0 t 1455 s 512273 p 3 b3sn16 /home2/b3sn16 lv 0 t 1441 s 397833 p 3 b3sn30 /disk18/b3sn30 lv 0 t 4 s 2893 p 3 b3sn20 /etc lv 0 t 2 s 924 p 3 b3sn30 /disk21/b3sn30 lv 0 t 0 s 283 p 3 b3sn30 /home/b311 lv 0 t 1 s 150 p 3 b3sn30 /disk17/b3sn30 lv 0 t 3940 s 8725283 p 2 b3sn30 /disk19/b3sn30 lv 0 t 496 s 1095541 p 2 b3sn28 /var lv 1 t 135 s 83500 p 1 . . . The last messagess in this logfile are: driver: hdisk-state time 144.363 hdisk 0: free 30669036 dumpers 0 driver: QUITTING time 144.363 telling children to quit driver: send-cmd time 144.363 to dumper0: QUIT driver: send-cmd time 144.363 to dumper1: QUIT driver: send-cmd time 144.364 to dumper2: QUIT driver: send-cmd time 144.364 to dumper3: QUIT driver: send-cmd time 144.364 to taper: QUIT taper: DONE [idle wait: 124.319 secs] driver: FINISHED time 144.382 Markus
