On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 08:17:45AM -0400, 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
> }
>
The status seems to say there is no holding disk space available.
You've asked to set aside 700GB, does /zvol/amanda/holdingdisk/daily
have that much space available?
Are the DLEs causing the problem larger than 700GB?
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