On Monday 14 January 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Sunday 13 January 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >>On Jan 13, 2008 9:00 PM, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Is there anything in that config driver that I should change for 2.6.0b1? >> >>Not that I know of. The changes to note are in the NEWS and >>ReleaseNotes -- in particular, some new build dependencies, lib and >>libexec files moved to lib/amanda and libexec/amanda, and >>/etc/amandates moved to /var/amanda/amandates unless you supply >>--with-amandates=/etc/amandates. >> >>Thanks so much for testing this. Has anyone else had a chance to take >>it out for a ride? >> >>Dustin > >Well, this ride ended in a 100% disaster. /tmp/amanda and /tmp/amanda-dbg > were used and duly populated with debug files from yesterdays amcheck and > amlabel activities, but was unable to make the /tmp/amanda/Daily dir for > the rest of it. There isn't anything left in the /dumps holding disk, and > the virtual tape it was going to use is empty except for the label file. > >The /tmp/amanda and /tmp/amanda-dbg dirs do not contain *any* files dated to >the start time of the run, only leftovers I had pulled with amrecover, and >the amcheck & amlabel runs to set up the new drive that were made last night >as I was getting it setup. > >I've made that missing /tmp/amanda/Daily dir, and touched the gene.log file >there and restarted it. It seems to be doing its thing ok now as its >generating files in the /tmp/amanda dirs and 1Gb chunk.tmp files are showing >up in /dumps, so I'm going back to bed & when I wake up again, I'll fire off >my catchup script since it all failed for round one, and about 22 Gb failed >for round two according to amstatus. catchup will run about 6 backups in a >row & should begin to establish some order. > >Who would have thought that one missing subdir containing one, constantly > over written log file in /tmp/amanda/Daily/gene.log would have screwed > things up so bad. My script obviously needs to handle that and didn't. > >Humm, although it says the first 7.6Gb dle has been taped, the chunk files > are still in /dumps, I thought they were cleaned out once they were written > to tape? Has this behavior changed? > >>From amstatus: >coyote:/usr/movies 0 7672400m finished (2:42:12), PARTIAL > >What is this 'PARTIAL'? > >More news later.
Back again after reading the email from the flush. It looks as if I have a filesystem maxfilesize problem, this number looks VERY familiar, from that email: --------------------------- FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY: driver: FATAL event_register: Invalid file descriptor 4294967295 and later: NOTES: driver: Taper protocol error driver: taper pid 29196 exited with signal 11 and later yet: coyote /usr/movies NO FILE TO FLUSH ------------------------------ but there's these sitting in /dumps [EMAIL PROTECTED] config-bak]# ls -lR /dumps /dumps: total 16 drwx------ 2 amanda amanda 4096 2008-01-14 03:21 20080114023115 drwx------ 2 amanda amanda 4096 2008-01-14 03:36 20080114033617 /dumps/20080114023115: total 12730908 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 2008-01-14 02:51 coyote._home.0 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 2008-01-14 03:08 coyote._home.0.1 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 165619638 2008-01-14 03:10 coyote._home.0.2 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 2008-01-14 03:14 coyote._opt.0 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 2008-01-14 03:16 coyote._opt.0.1 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 478117957 2008-01-14 03:20 coyote._opt.0.2 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 209625088 2008-01-14 03:20 coyote._usr_dlds.0 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 18455042 2008-01-14 03:21 coyote._usr_libexec.0 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 2008-01-14 02:35 coyote._usr_movies.0 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 2008-01-14 02:36 coyote._usr_movies.0.1 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 2008-01-14 02:37 coyote._usr_movies.0.2 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 2008-01-14 02:38 coyote._usr_movies.0.3 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 2008-01-14 02:39 coyote._usr_movies.0.4 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 2008-01-14 02:40 coyote._usr_movies.0.5 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 1073741824 2008-01-14 02:41 coyote._usr_movies.0.6 -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 340606976 2008-01-14 02:41 coyote._usr_movies.0.7 /dumps/20080114033617: total 0 I don't believe it will do me any good to try to run the catchup script, so I'll await your sage advice. This is a stock, most recent, 2.6.23.9 fedora kernel. -- 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) Real Users hate Real Programmers.
