On Friday 02 July 2010, McGraw, Robert P wrote:
>I am trying to get amanda-3.1.1 up and running on a Sun Solaris 10 x86
> host.
>
>The problem is that amanda is not using the holdingdisk configured in
> amanda.conf.
>
>To check this I set the global dumptype "holdingdisk required" and then
> ran an amdump.
>
>This is the email output:
>
> Hostname: hertz.math.purdue.edu
> Org : DAILY BACKUP - MATHNET
> Config : daily
> Date : July 1, 2010
>
> The next 4 tapes Amanda expects to use are: 4 new tapes.
> The next 4 new tapes already labelled are: D01003, D01004, D01005,
> D01006 FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY: hertz /gauss/export/users-q RESULTS MISSING
> hertz /gauss/export/users-q lev 0 FAILED [can't dump required
> holdingdisk]
>
>I ran the same backup dumptype "holdingdisk yes" and it ran to completion
> but it did not write to the holding disk but sent directly to tape.
>
>Can you see any reason why the holding disk is not being used?
>
>And amstatus shows
>
> 6 dumpers idle : no-diskspace
> taper status: Idle
> taper qlen: 0
> network free kps: 1000000
> holding space : 0m ( 0.00%)
> 0 dumpers busy : 0:00:37 ( 97.08%) not-idle: 0:00:37
> (100.00%)
>
>
>This is a snippets from my amanda.conf file
>
> define holdingdisk hd1 {
> comment "holding disk"
> directory "/zvol/amanda/holdingdisk/daily"
> use 700GB
> chunksize 10GB
> }
>
> flush-threshold-dumped 185
> flush-threshold-scheduled 180
> taperflush 100
> #taperflush 0
> autoflush yes
>
> # You may want to use this for globally enabling or disabling
> # indexing, recording, etc. Some examples:
> comment "Global Definitions"
> compress none
> index yes
> record yes
> holdingdisk required
> estimate calcsize
> maxdumps 2
> auth "bsdtcp"
> }
>
>
>When I was running amanda 2.6.1p2 this was not a problem. This stated
> happening when I moved to 3.1.1.
>
>Any ideas why Amanda 3.1.1 will not use the holdingdisk?
>
Perms? It must be rw available to the user amanda is running as.
>Thanks
>
>Robert
>
>
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