The backup is running now. Here is what top says: load averages: 0.46, 0.31, 0.18 19:00:37 134 processes: 131 sleeping, 1 zombie, 2 on cpu CPU states: 16.3% idle, 12.4% user, 2.7% kernel, 68.6% iowait, 0.0% swap Memory: 2048M real, 1457M free, 190M swap in use, 5385M swap free
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND 24118 root 1 10 0 12M 12M cpu/1 2:27 22.34% gtar 68% iowait while the only activity on the machine is gtar ran by amanda. Here is what amstat says: [EMAIL PROTECTED] amstatus cab Using /var/amanda/cab/amdump from Tue Nov 11 18:51:59 CET 2003 lena2.cab.u-szeged.hu:/etc 0 11110k estimate done lena2.cab.u-szeged.hu:/root/ldap_backup 0 1380k estimate done rozi.cab.u-szeged.hu:/etc getting estimate rozi.cab.u-szeged.hu:/home getting estimate SUMMARY part real estimated size size partition : 4 estimated : 2 12490k flush : 0 0k failed : 0 0k ( 0.00%) wait for dumping: 0 0k ( 0.00%) dumping to tape : 0 0k ( 0.00%) dumping : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) dumped : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) wait for writing: 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) wait to flush : 0 0k 0k (100.00%) ( 0.00%) writing to tape : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) failed to tape : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) taped : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) all dumpers active taper idle Looks like gtar is quite busy in doing the estimates.... Zoltan __________________________________________________________________ http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~kato/ -- research in computer vision http://www.cameradigita.com/ -- photography (online gallery) __________________________________________________________________ On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Zoltan Kato wrote: > > ZK> My config is the following: > > > > ZK> Amanda server runs on the same machine (i.e. the tape drive, which is a HP > > ZK> DLT 40/80GB attached directly to this server). > > > > Which one? I assume that your machines are the following disklist > > entries, even if some are commented out right now. > > > > From your former post I assume rozi.cab.u-szeged.hu is your Amanda > > tape server. > > Ooops, the disklist file has been changed since I last tried to backup > /home. Of course, the right entry was the following: > > rozi.cab.u-szeged.hu /home user-tar > > > Is the holdingdisk the same physical disk as the on /home is on? > > No, it is on another partition (/opt) and partly on the same physical > disk. Here are the relevant parts: > > /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s5 20G 1.0G 18G 6% /opt > /dev/md/dsk/d0 102G 51G 51G 51% /home > > Since /home is under lvm, it uses two disks. Out of the 102G, we have 30G > on the same disk as /opt. However, it is hard to tell how much of the 50G > is actually stored on the same disk as /opt. Anyway, the holding disk is > only 18G so it is not used for the backup of /home. > > > #disklist > > > > rozi.cab.u-szeged.hu /home { > > user-tar > > holdingdisk no > > } > > > > or creating a specific dumptype which disables holdingdisk. > > Disabling this would show if Amanda then is able to dump /home. > > > > OK, I'm going start it right now with these settings, > > Regards, > > Zoltan >