Anyone care to comment?

On 20/10/14 10:49, Tom Robinson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure why I'm not getting such good tape usage any more and wonder if 
> someone can help me.
>
> Until recently I was getting quite good tape usage on my 'weekly' config:
>
> USAGE BY TAPE:
>   Label               Time         Size      %  DLEs Parts
>   weekly01            3:10  1749362651K  117.9    16    16
>   weekly02            3:09  1667194493K  112.4    21    21
>   weekly03            3:08  1714523420K  115.5    16    16
>   weekly04            3:04  1664570982K  112.2    21    21
>   weekly05            3:11  1698357067K  114.5    17    17
>   weekly06            3:07  1686467027K  113.7    21    21
>   weekly07            3:03  1708584546K  115.1    17    17
>   weekly08            3:11  1657764181K  111.7    21    21
>   weekly09            3:03  1725209913K  116.3    17    17
>   weekly10            3:12  1643311109K  110.7    21    21
>   weekly01            3:06  1694157008K  114.2    17    17
>
> For that last entry, the mail report looked like this:
>
> These dumps were to tape weekly01.
> Not using all tapes because 1 tapes filled; runtapes=1 does not allow 
> additional tapes.
> There are 198378440K of dumps left in the holding disk.
> They will be flushed on the next run.
>
> Which was fairly typical and to be expected since the tune of flush settings 
> was:
>
> flush-threshold-dumped 100
> flush-threshold-scheduled 100
> taperflush 100
> autoflush yes
>
> Now, without expectation, the dumps started to look like this:
>
>   weekly02            3:21  1289271529K   86.9    10    10
>   weekly03            3:17   854362421K   57.6    11    11
>   weekly04            3:20   839198404K   56.6    11    11
>   weekly05            9:40   637259676K   42.9     5     5
>   weekly06           10:54   806737591K   54.4    15    15
>   weekly09            1:12    35523072K    2.4     1     1
>   weekly09            3:21   841844504K   56.7    11    11
>   weekly01            3:16   842557835K   56.8    19    19
>
> About the time it started looking different, I introduced a second config for 
> 'archive' but I can't
> see why that would affect my 'weekly' run.
>
> I had a couple of bad runs and had to flush them manually and I'm not sure 
> what happened with tapes
> weekly07 and weekly08 (they appear to be missing) and weekly09 is dumped to 
> twice in succession.
> This looks very weird.
>
> $ amadmin weekly find | grep weekly07
> 2014-09-14 00:00:00 monza /data/backup/amanda/vtapes/daily/slot4  0
> weekly07                                                                      
>                  1 
> 1/-1 PARTIAL PARTIAL
> $ amadmin weekly find | grep weekly08
> 2014-09-14 00:00:00 monza /data/backup/amanda/vtapes/daily/slot4  0
> weekly08                                                                      
>                  1 
> 1/-1 PARTIAL PARTIAL
> $ amadmin weekly find | grep weekly09
> 2014-09-21 00:00:00 monza /                                       0
> weekly09                                                                      
>                  9  
> 1/1 OK
> 2014-09-21 00:00:00 monza /data/backup/amanda/vtapes/daily/slot1  0
> weekly09                                                                      
>                 10  
> 1/1 OK
> 2014-09-21 00:00:00 monza /data/backup/amanda/vtapes/daily/slot2  0
> weekly09                                                                      
>                 11 
> 1/-1 OK PARTIAL
> 2014-09-14 00:00:00 monza /data/backup/amanda/vtapes/daily/slot4  0
> weekly09                                                                      
>                  1  
> 1/1 OK
> 2014-09-14 00:00:00 monza /data/backup/amanda/vtapes/daily/slot5  0
> weekly09                                                                      
>                  2  
> 1/1 OK
> 2014-09-14 00:00:00 monza /data/backup/amanda/vtapes/daily/slot6  0
> weekly09                                                                      
>                  3  
> 1/1 OK
> 2014-09-14 00:00:00 monza /data/backup/amanda/vtapes/daily/slot7  0
> weekly09                                                                      
>                  4  
> 1/1 OK
> 2014-09-14 00:00:00 monza /data/backup/amanda/vtapes/daily/slot8  0
> weekly09                                                                      
>                  5  
> 1/1 OK
> 2014-09-14 00:00:00 monza /export                                 0
> weekly09                                                                      
>                  6  
> 1/1 OK
> 2014-09-14 00:00:00 monza /export/home                            0
> weekly09                                                                      
>                  7  
> 1/1 OK
> 2014-09-14 00:00:00 monza /export/home/tom                        0
> weekly09                                                                      
>                  8  
> 1/1 OK
>
>
> More recently (about three weesk ago) I upgraded the OS. I don't think it has 
> anything to do with
> this but mention it for completeness.
>
> To get as much on tape as possible I was originally using:
>
> flush-threshold-dumped 100
> flush-threshold-scheduled 100
> taperflush 100
> autoflush yes
>
> But now, in an effort to tune better tape usage, I've dabbled with the 
> settings. My full amanda.conf
> is below. I include some configs (include statements) but have only shown 
> robots.conf and
> tapetypes.conf as the dumptypes.conf and networks.conf are pretty much stock 
> standard and haven't
> been modified.
>
> Kind regards,
> Tom
>
>
> #amanda.conf
> org      "somedomain.com weekly"
> mailto   "[email protected]"
> dumpuser "amanda"
> inparallel 4
> dumporder "sssS"
> taperalgo first
> displayunit "k"
> netusage  8000 Kbps
> dumpcycle 8 weeks
> runspercycle 8
> tapecycle 10 tapes
> bumpsize 20 Mb
> bumppercent 20
> bumpdays 1
> bumpmult 4
> etimeout 3000
> dtimeout 1800
> ctimeout 30
> device_output_buffer_size 81920k
> usetimestamps yes
> flush-threshold-dumped 50
> flush-threshold-scheduled 100
> taperflush 0
> autoflush yes
> runtapes 1
> includefile "/etc/opt/csw/amanda/robot.conf"
> maxdumpsize -1
> tapetype ULT3580-TD5
> labelstr "^weekly[0-9][0-9]*$"
> amrecover_changer "changer"
> holdingdisk hd1 {
>     comment "main holding disk"
>     directory "/data/spool/amanda/hold/monza"
>     use -100 Mb
>     chunksize 1Gb
>     }
> infofile "/etc/opt/csw/amanda/weekly/curinfo"
> logdir   "/etc/opt/csw/amanda/weekly"
> indexdir "/etc/opt/csw/amanda/weekly/index"
> includefile "/etc/opt/csw/amanda/dumptypes.conf"
> includefile "/etc/opt/csw/amanda/networks.conf"
> includefile "/etc/opt/csw/amanda/tapetypes.conf"
>
> #robot.conf
> define changer robot {
>         tpchanger "chg-robot:/dev/scsi/changer/c1t5000E11156304003d1"
>         property "tape-device" "0=tape:/dev/rmt/0bn"
>         #property "eject-before-unload" "yes"
>         property "use-slots" "1-23"
>         device-property "BLOCK_SIZE" "512k"
>         device-property "READ_BLOCK_SIZE" "512k"
>         device-property "FSF_AFTER_FILEMARK" "false"               
>         device-property "LEOM" "TRUE"
> }
> tapedev "robot"
>
> # tapetypes.conf
> define tapetype global {
>     part_size 3G
>     part_cache_type none
> }
>
> define tapetype ULT3580-TD5 {
>     comment "Created by amtapetype; compression enabled"
>     length 1483868160 kbytes
>     filemark 868 kbytes
>     speed 85837 kps
>     blocksize 512 kbytes
> }
>
>
>


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