[sorry for the scatological reference.] My regular backup process last night produced 17 files of about 1GB each for my server tobaccodev. (Listing pasted in at the end of this note.) I tried flushing this to my DDS-4 tapes, but was not able to do this. I got these notes in the emailed report: driver: WARNING: /dumps/amanda2: not 1024 KB free. taper: tape DBackup11 kb 16766592 fm 1 writing file: No space left on device driver: Taper error: "[writing file: No space left on device]"
I tried both flushing all the dumps, and just the one for tobaccodev, without success. My questions are 1) Don't understand why I can't flush less than 20GB of data to my tapes which are supposed to hold 20GB raw and more compressed. I have compression turned off on the drive. I thought I was compressing the dumps, but I just checked the disklist and amanda.conf and found I wasn't. 2) Is there any way to compress the files now on the holdingdisk before they're taped? Any other advice or suggestions? Thanks for helping me. -Kevin Kevin Zembower Internet Services Group manager Center for Communication Programs Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, Maryland 21202 410-659-6139 ====================================== bac...@centernet:~$ ls -laR /dumps/ /dumps/: total 16 drwxr-xr-x 4 1001 disk 4096 Nov 30 2006 . drwxr-xr-x 28 root root 4096 Jun 5 2008 .. drwxr-xr-x 6 backup backup 4096 Dec 16 11:45 amanda drwxr-xr-x 4 backup backup 4096 Dec 15 22:31 amanda2 /dumps/amanda: total 36 drwxr-xr-x 6 backup backup 4096 Dec 16 11:45 . drwxr-xr-x 4 1001 disk 4096 Nov 30 2006 .. drwx------ 2 backup backup 4096 Dec 15 20:16 20081215181501 drwx------ 2 backup backup 4096 Dec 16 08:54 20081216085440 drwx------ 2 backup backup 4096 Dec 16 11:45 20081216114526 drwx------ 2 backup backup 16384 Sep 11 2006 lost+found /dumps/amanda/20081215181501: total 3851432 drwx------ 2 backup backup 4096 Dec 15 20:16 . drwxr-xr-x 6 backup backup 4096 Dec 16 11:45 .. -rw------- 1 backup backup 560758182 Dec 15 20:15 tobacco._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0 -rw------- 1 backup backup 43935157 Dec 15 20:16 tobacco._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol01.0 -rw------- 1 backup backup 119436082 Dec 15 20:15 tobacco._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol03.0 -rw------- 1 backup backup 6001456 Dec 15 20:15 tobacco._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol04.2 -rw------- 1 backup backup 24152255 Dec 15 20:16 tobacco._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol05.1 -rw------- 1 backup backup 9616939 Dec 15 20:16 tobacco._dev_sda2.0 -rw------- 1 backup backup 1073745920 Dec 15 20:01 tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.14 -rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 20:07 tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.15 -rw------- 1 backup backup 390398792 Dec 15 20:12 tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.16 -rw------- 1 backup backup 33177 Dec 15 20:12 tobaccodev._dev_sda1.1 -rw------- 1 backup backup 233788870 Dec 15 20:16 www._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.1 -rw------- 1 backup backup 35798 Dec 15 20:16 www._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol08.2 -rw------- 1 backup backup 404276705 Dec 15 20:14 www._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol09.0 /dumps/amanda/20081216085440: total 8 drwx------ 2 backup backup 4096 Dec 16 08:54 . drwxr-xr-x 6 backup backup 4096 Dec 16 11:45 .. /dumps/amanda/20081216114526: total 8 drwx------ 2 backup backup 4096 Dec 16 11:45 . drwxr-xr-x 6 backup backup 4096 Dec 16 11:45 .. /dumps/amanda/lost+found: total 20 drwx------ 2 backup backup 16384 Sep 11 2006 . drwxr-xr-x 6 backup backup 4096 Dec 16 11:45 .. /dumps/amanda2: total 28 drwxr-xr-x 4 backup backup 4096 Dec 15 22:31 . drwxr-xr-x 4 1001 disk 4096 Nov 30 2006 .. drwx------ 2 backup backup 4096 Dec 15 20:12 20081215181501 drwx------ 2 backup backup 16384 Sep 11 2006 lost+found /dumps/amanda2/20081215181501: total 14596768 drwx------ 2 backup backup 4096 Dec 15 20:12 . drwxr-xr-x 4 backup backup 4096 Dec 15 22:31 .. -rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 18:25 tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0 -rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 18:32 tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.1 -rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 19:36 tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.10 -rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 19:42 tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.11 -rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 19:48 tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.12 -rw------- 1 backup backup 973795328 Dec 15 19:54 tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.13 -rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 18:39 tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.2 -rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 18:47 tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.3 -rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 18:55 tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.4 -rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 19:02 tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.5 -rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 19:09 tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.6 -rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 19:16 tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.7 -rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 19:23 tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.8 -rw------- 1 backup backup 1073741824 Dec 15 19:29 tobaccodev._dev_mapper_VolGroup00-LogVol00.0.9 /dumps/amanda2/lost+found: total 20 drwx------ 2 backup backup 16384 Sep 11 2006 . drwxr-xr-x 4 backup backup 4096 Dec 15 22:31 .. bac...@centernet:~$
