On 4/3/13 12:15 PM, C.Scheeder wrote:
Hi Chris,

Am 03.04.2013 17:26, schrieb Chris Hoogendyk:
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

Nice, it took 7 hours 18 Minutes and 22 Seconds to get the level-0 estimate.

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

and aditional it took 2 hours 11 minutes getting the level-1 estimate.

in sum it took about 9 and a half hour to get the estimates....

so your etimeout of 30 minutes is a little bit low for this machine, isn't it?

you should consider using another method of getting estimates for that machine,
or you should find out what makes the estimates on that machine so slow,
as the backup itself will likely take longer then the estimates....

I should just note that when you say "that machine", it is really "that DLE". There are many other DLE's on that machine, on that disk array, and even on that same zpool, that return estimates and that successfully backup.


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Chris Hoogendyk

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