This seems like an obvious "read the FAQ" situation, but . . .
I'm running Amanda 3.3.2 on a Sun T5220 with Solaris 10 and a J4500 "jbod" disk array with multipath
SAS. It all should be fast and is on the local server, so there isn't any network path outside
localhost for the DLE's that are giving me trouble. They are zfs on raidz1 with five 2TB drives.
Gnutar is v1.23. This server is successfully backing up several other servers as well as many more
DLE's on the localhost. Output to an AIT5 tape library.
I've upped the etimeout to 1800 and the dtimeout to 3600, which both seem outrageously long (jumped
from the default 5 minutes to 30 minutes, and from the default 30 minutes to an hour).
The filesystem (DLE) that is giving me trouble (hasn't backed up in a couple of weeks) is
/export/herbarium, which looks like:
marlin:/export/herbarium# df -k .
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
J4500-pool1/herbarium
2040109465 262907572 1777201893 13%
/export/herbarium
marlin:/export/herbarium# find . -type f | wc -l
2806
marlin:/export/herbarium# find . -type d | wc -l
140
marlin:/export/herbarium#
So, it is only 262G and only has 2806 files. Shouldn't be that big a deal. They
are typically tif scans.
One thought that hits me is: possibly, because it is over 200G of tif scans, compression is causing
trouble? But this is just getting estimates, output going to /dev/null.
Here is a segment from the very end of the sendsize debug file from April 1 (the debug file ends
after these lines):
Mon Apr 1 08:05:49 2013: thd-32a58: sendsize: .....
Mon Apr 1 08:05:49 2013: thd-32a58: sendsize: estimate time for
/export/herbarium level 0: 26302.500
Mon Apr 1 08:05:49 2013: thd-32a58: sendsize: estimate size for
/export/herbarium level 0: 262993150 KB
Mon Apr 1 08:05:49 2013: thd-32a58: sendsize: waiting for runtar
"/export/herbarium" child
Mon Apr 1 08:05:49 2013: thd-32a58: sendsize: after runtar /export/herbarium
wait
Mon Apr 1 08:05:49 2013: thd-32a58: sendsize: getting size via gnutar for
/export/herbarium level 1
Mon Apr 1 08:05:49 2013: thd-32a58: sendsize: Spawning "/usr/local/libexec/amanda/runtar runtar
daily /usr/local/etc/amanda/tools/gtar --create --file /dev/null --numeric-owner --directory
/export/herbarium --one-file-system --listed-incremental
/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/localhost_export_herbarium_1.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read
--totals ." in pipeline
Mon Apr 1 10:16:17 2013: thd-32a58: sendsize: Total bytes written: 77663795200
(73GiB, 9.5MiB/s)
Mon Apr 1 10:16:17 2013: thd-32a58: sendsize: .....
Mon Apr 1 10:16:17 2013: thd-32a58: sendsize: estimate time for
/export/herbarium level 1: 7827.571
Mon Apr 1 10:16:17 2013: thd-32a58: sendsize: estimate size for
/export/herbarium level 1: 75843550 KB
Mon Apr 1 10:16:17 2013: thd-32a58: sendsize: waiting for runtar
"/export/herbarium" child
Mon Apr 1 10:16:17 2013: thd-32a58: sendsize: after runtar /export/herbarium
wait
Mon Apr 1 10:16:17 2013: thd-32a58: sendsize: done with amname /export/herbarium dirname
/export/herbarium spindle 45002
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Chris Hoogendyk
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c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments
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