On Jan 15, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
If I understand, it's the disk array for the vtapes that failed?
Did you run 'amrmtape CONFIG LABEL' for each label so that amanda
know that the backup on those tape are no longer valid?
If not, then why amanda would do full dump? amanda think the
previous dump are still available.
Not sure what it is. yes the vtapes disk aray croaked. Then I had
another disk array to use. But at the same time I did a fresh install
of amanda on a different server. Then created the new vtapes on the
new disk array.
Essentially the index directory for amanda was empty. A whole new epoch.
jsummers wrote:
Hello All,
Man it has been a while since I have had a need to post a question
here! Amanda has been running beautifully and trouble free! That
is until my disk array broke. Fortunately I had another one that I
brought online with a new install of Amanda also.
I am using VTAPES with the hard disk style backups. Got everything
running and I wanted to get caught up on the backups. So I set the
runtapes to 8. But for several days now all that is used are two
tapes and I get a message:
partial taper: No space left on device
Each day it is a different DLE.
Looking through the log file I can see where it runs out of tape
and switches to the next one. Which I think explains the partial
taper message. Then it will right a second tape. But that is
where it stops. I guess I was thinking that the planner would
configure a run to use all eight tapes if needed.
I have the following set in amanda.conf:
runtapes 8
dumpcycle 2 weeks
runspercycle 14
tapecycle 37
length 40Gb
I did notice that the maxdumpsize was set to -1.
I commented that out so that it will default to ( runtapes *
length ).
Do ya'll think that may get it to use the eight tapes if needed?
Nothing is left in the holding disk, so I do not suspect autoflush
or anything.
In the report, planner states that many DLE's last full will be
overwritten in 2 - X runs. So I think there are some level 0's she
could be doing??
Amanda do level 0 in advance only to help it balance the schedule.
You can also force full backup with 'amadmin CONF force ...'
command, but amrmtape is the best solution for you.
Agreed. I do not want to force her to do anything. She does best
when she is doing her thing.
It should finish a tapecycle soon, so maybe it will heal itself. I
may add some disks and expand the FS. Then add more tapes. At that
point I may do the amrmtape. Do you recommend I amrmtape my whole
tapecycle and start fresh when I do that?
TIA
Jean-Louis
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Jim Summers
School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma
