On Tuesday 15 February 2005 02:44, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >This one time, at band camp, Frank Smith wrote: >>--On Tuesday, February 15, 2005 17:44:32 +1100 Jamie Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> We've got one problem machine that has about 90GB in one DLE, and >>> our tapes are 100GB LTO1s. >>> >>> Of course, once a cycle, the server decides it can only write >>> maybe 5 DLES out of 150+ to the tape, because one of them is >>> 80GB+, and so all the other dumps end up being reported as >>> >>> FAILED [dumps way too big, 1 KB, must skip incremental dumps] >>> >>> which afaict means that amanda doesn't even attempt to back up >>> this DLE because it knows it's not going to fit it on the tape. >>> >>> But I've got a ton of free space in the holding disk. What I >>> want to know is, is there an option to tell the server to do the >>> dumps anyway and hold them, so later I can come along with >>> another tape and flush them? >> >>If you have plenty of holdingdisk space, I would think they would >> go there. Even with the default reserve of 100%, you should still >> get the incremental. You might have to look in the debug files to >> see why they were completely skipped. > >Well, I did check, and there were no incrementals in the holding > disk. According to the debug log, the planner fails the dumps right > after building the schedule. > >>> In general, we only need one LTO1 a day, this particular DLE is a >>> freak statistic well outside the standard deviations of the other >>> DLE sizes, so doing a flush once every cycle is more appealing >>> than allocating two tapes per run. >> >>Just because you set runtapes > 1 doesn't mean Amanda will use them >> all. I keep runtapes set to a number higher than what normally >> gets used per run, and have autoflush set true. That way even if >> I have a tape error and it all goes to disk, the next run can >> flush it all and do the backups as well without running out of >> tape. >> If you normally only need one tape, then that's what it will >> normally use, even if you have runtapes set to 2 or 3 or whatever. >> The higher number just allows it to use additional tape(s) if >> needed. > >I was under the impression that Amanda would choose dump levels to > fill as much of the tapes as possible. That's incorrect then?
If the holding disk is reserved 100% for incrementals, which is the default, no, it won't do any of them. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.33% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
