--On Tuesday, June 21, 2005 14:28:42 -0700 Andrew Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings, > > I am working with an Amanda installation that was a little neglected. > It backs up nightly and I have run a number of successful restores with > it. So, it appears operational. > > Several tape changes were missed over the last year and the unflushed > jobs on the holding disk have accumulated. There appear to be 26 of > them, now. I searched the web (mostly on the Amanda site) and looked > through docs and FAQ to see if there was an easy way to just delete the > held jobs, since they are pretty much irrelevant, now. However, I > wasn't able to find anything. It seems like it should be possible to > manually delete held jobs but, I hate to risk making a mess. > > So, I decided that I would flush the jobs to tape, just to be safe. The > problem is that they won't flush. First, I tried to flush all of the > held jobs. That job ran for about 10 hours before I killed it. I > figured that there is no way it was taking that long to fill up a 12G > DAT tape. > > The second attempt, I told it to just flush the first 4 held jobs in the > list. I killed that job after 20 hours for the same reason. After > killing the jobs and running amcleanup, I get email that suggests that > amanda wasn't doing anything during the flushes: > >> *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY! >> >> The dumps were flushed to tape XXXDaily18. >> The next tape Amanda expects to use is: XXXDaily19. >> >> >> STATISTICS: >> Total Full Daily >> -------- -------- -------- >> Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00 >> Run Time (hrs:min) 0:00 >> Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00 >> Output Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 >> Original Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 >> Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- -- >> Filesystems Dumped 0 0 0 >> Avg Dump Rate (k/s) -- -- -- >> >> Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00 >> Tape Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 >> Tape Used (%) 0.0 0.0 0.0 >> Filesystems Taped 0 0 0 >> Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) -- -- -- >> >> >> DUMP SUMMARY: >> DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS >> HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s >> -------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------ >> xxxfs.ex /home NO FILE TO FLUSH ----------------------------- >> >> (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.3) > > The (amflush) log seems to indicate that everything went fine: > >> amflush: datestamp 20050620 >> driver: pid 28678 executable driver version 2.4.3 >> driver: send-cmd time 0.002 to taper: START-TAPER 20050620 >> taper: pid 28679 executable taper version 2.4.3 >> taper: page size is 4096 >> taper: buffer size is 32768 >> taper: buffer[00] at 0x40208000 >> taper: buffer[01] at 0x40210000 >> taper: buffer[02] at 0x40218000 >> taper: buffer[03] at 0x40220000 >> taper: buffer[04] at 0x40228000 >> taper: buffer[05] at 0x40230000 >> taper: buffer[06] at 0x40238000 >> taper: buffer[07] at 0x40240000 >> taper: buffer[08] at 0x40248000 >> taper: buffer[09] at 0x40250000 >> taper: buffer[10] at 0x40258000 >> taper: buffer[11] at 0x40260000 >> taper: buffer[12] at 0x40268000 >> taper: buffer[13] at 0x40270000 >> taper: buffer[14] at 0x40278000 >> taper: buffer[15] at 0x40280000 >> taper: buffer[16] at 0x40288000 >> taper: buffer[17] at 0x40290000 >> taper: buffer[18] at 0x40298000 >> taper: buffer[19] at 0x402a0000 >> taper: buffer structures at 0x402a8000 for 240 bytes >> taper: read label `XXXDaily18' date `20050503' >> taper: wrote label `XXXDaily18' date `20050620' >> driver: adding holding disk 0 dir /var/tmp size 296960 >> reserving 296960 out of 296960 for degraded-mode dumps >> driver: start time 76140.288 inparallel 4 bandwidth 2000 diskspace 296960 >> dir OBSOLETE datestamp 20050620 driver: drain-ends tapeq LFFO big-dumpers ttt >> driver: result time 76140.289 from taper: TAPER-OK >> driver: state time 76140.301 free kps: 2000 space: 296960 taper: idle >> idle-dumpers: 4 qlen tapeq: 0 runq: 0 roomq: 0 wakeup: 86400 driver-idle: >> not-idle >> driver: interface-state time 76140.301 if : free 600 if ETH0: free 400 if >> LOCAL: free 1000 >> driver: hdisk-state time 76140.301 hdisk 0: free 296960 dumpers 0 >> driver: QUITTING time 76140.301 telling children to quit >> driver: send-cmd time 76140.301 to taper: QUIT >> taper: DONE [idle wait: 76136.019 secs] >> taper: writing end marker. [XXXDaily18 OK kb 0 fm 0] >> driver: FINISHED time 76140.316 > > Anyone know what might be going wrong? They may be incomplete dumps. If there is a problem before a dump completes you end up with a partial dump image in your holdingdisk that never gets cleaned up. (To the developers: Since amflush seems to know which ones are complete, can't it remove the incomplete ones? Also, why does amflush mark a tape as used even when it doesn't write any new data to it?) > Anyone know how to just delete the held backup jobs? 'rm' works for me. Just make sure they aren't complete (try a verify of the dump image) or are older than your rotation before removing them. Frank > Any help would be much appreciated. > > Andrew Crawford -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
