Charles,
Ah, I was mistaken that the error was not fatal due to the fact that the
summary email says "output size" (listing around 1TB of data over 6
hours of backup time!) and "these dumps were to tape xxxxxxx."
Well if they are indeed failures then the FAIL classification is right
indeed. Good to know! I really need to investigate my estimate
timeouts then...
Cheers,
Alan
On 12/11/2012 12:56 PM, Charles Stroom wrote:
The planner has an "ERROR" to make the estimate, but than later the
dump itself FAILs as well. So no backup is made of that particular DLE.
Regards, Charles
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:04:46 +0300
Alan Orth <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi, All.
It's good that you brought this up on the mailing list, I was just
about to ask! I've been having problems with estimation timeouts
lately too, so I'll try some of these tips to fix it.
What confused me initially was why estimation failures are classified
as "FAIL"? It's quite worrying when you wake up in the morning to
find last night's backups have FAILED. Shouldn't the classification
be more similar to something like the STRANGE errors (where files
have changed during backup, for example)?
Cheers,
Alan
On 12/10/2012 06:05 PM, Charles Stroom wrote:
Hi, the forwarded email below was meant to go to the list, but I
noticed later it was only to 1 recepient. Hence the forward.
Regards, Charles
Begin forwarded message:
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 22:08:48 +0100
From: Charles Stroom <[email protected]>
To: Jens Berg <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: failure "estimate of level x timed out"
So far, so good. Since I have increased etimeout to 14400 AND set
"estimate calcsize" I have had 2 backups without failures. The only
thing I don't know yet which parameter did the trick. I keep my
fingers crossed.
Thanks both of you.
Charles
On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 09:49:28 +0100
Jens Berg <[email protected]> wrote:
I would suggest to increase etimeout to a much bigger value, let's
say 14400 or so and see if the estimates finish at all then. If
they still fail, I would take a closer look on the health of the
hard discs... Another option could be to change the estimate
method for the dump type you are using, e.g. if you are using
"dumptype user-tar" for the DLEs, put an "estimate calcsize" in
the definition of "dumptype user-tar". The results of that
estimate method will be less accurate than the ones from the
default method but it executes faster.
Best
Jens
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