Dustin,
updated from gtar 1.22 to 1.23, which we installed in /usr/local/bin
Update amanda.conf accordingly.
define application-tool app_amgtar {
comment "amgtar"
plugin "amgtar"
property "ATIME-PRESERVE" "no"
property "CHECK-DEVICE" "no"
# property "PFEXEC" "YES"
# property "PFEXEC-PATH" "/usr/bin/pfexec"
property "GNUTAR-PATH" "/usr/local/bin/tar"
# property "CHECK-DEVICE" "no"
}
Amanda is now failing differently.
tar exited with signal 11.
Here is an extract from the file
/tmp/amanda/client/cascade/amgtar.20100506143725000.debug
betting this is another end-user typing error.
1273171045.440478: amgtar: NORMAL : File .* shrunk by [0-9][0-9]* bytes, padding
with zeros
1273171045.440482: amgtar: NORMAL : Cannot add file .*: No such file or director
y$
1273171045.440487: amgtar: NORMAL : Error exit delayed from previous errors
1273171045.440883: amgtar: pipespawnv: stdoutfd is 1
1273171045.441024: amgtar: Spawning "/usr/local/bin/tar /usr/local/bin/tar --cre
ate --verbose --file - --directory /cascadep/export/confocal/.zfs/snapshot/amand
a-_cascadep_export_confocal-current --one-file-system --no-check-device --listed
-incremental /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/cascade_cascadep_export_confocal
_0.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals ." in pipeline
1273171045.528938: amgtar: after /usr/local/bin/tar /cascadep/export/confocal wa
it
1273171045.528956: amgtar: amgtar: /usr/local/bin/tar: pid 16321
1273171045.528962: amgtar: /usr/local/bin/tar terminated with signal 11: see /tm
p/amanda/client/cascade/amgtar.20100506143725000.debug1273171045.528978: amgtar:
sendbackup: size -1
1273171045.528993: amgtar: sendbackup: end
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 03:18:27PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote:
> Dustin,
>
> On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 02:09:40PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Brian Cuttler <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Also, the issues seem to be specific to certain DLE, in both
> > > cases the busiest of the DLEs, not necessarily the largest
> > > but the most active.
> >
> > It's clearly timing-related, then. Keep in mind that hte dtimeout is
> > a timeout without *any* data, so I suspect that this is some kind of
> > ugly interaction between ZFS busily doing copy-on-write to implement
> > its snapshot while trying to feed data to the syscall-hungry gnutar.
>
> I was thinking along those lines, just in a much less sophisticated
> mannor. When I spoke Dan at my site about this he recalled that the
> Orcale manager set some kind of resource controls on oracle on one
> machine a couple of years back.
>
> If so that may resolve the current problem on one of my machines.
>
> The other machine doesn't run oracle, so those switches, even if
> they work will be just plain unavailable. We'll have to find a
> ZFS based solution or perhaps find a way to subdivide the DLE and
> create multiple mount points.
>
> Dan - I do mean mount points and not multiple DLEs by using
> include/excludes like we did on systems with large DLE but
> relatively small tapes.
>
> Dan - you received the new storage unit for cascade, I don't
> think we implemented the new storage yet, separate pools for
> amanda-work and the zpool under amanda control has to be a
> step in the right direction.
>
> thanks,
>
> Brian
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