On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:39:12 -0400 gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings all; > > I disturbed amanda's schedule about 3 weeks back by shutting the > whole system down for 6 days while the wife and I took a few days to > "get out of Dodge". The only reason I can think of to shut Amanda down is because you are changing tapes manually. I gather that you are not. I use vtapes, and routinely leave the Amanda server and many of my computers running while I am away. I then SSH in and check my reports as email. mutt works very nicely over a slow SSH link. > > Since the restart, the scheduling, which I assumed would stabilize in > a week or so, doesn't seemed to have settled as well as it should, > with the total size of the backups still varying from 14g to 35g just > in the last few days. > > Then last night, the printed report was a blank sheet of paper on the > output tray this morning. There I can't help you. > Fixing the scheduler would also help. It is not settling in like it > should. I will expand the vtape size to 50Gb for tonights run, which > is about 2.5x an average run needs if it is 'in balance'. I'm skeptical that that will help, but we'll see how tonight's run goes. If that doesn't help, try commenting out a bunch of DLEs, and uncommenting them back in slowly over the next few days. I've done that trick a few times in similar circumstances. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
