On Tuesday 30 October 2018 17:56:33 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 October 2018 16:45:50 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 15:51:36 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > I just changed the length of the dumpcycle and runs percycle up to
> > > 10, about last friday while I was makeing the bump* stuff more
> > > attractive, but the above command returns that the are 5
> > > filesystens out of date: su amanda -c "/usr/local/sbin/amadmin
> > > Daily balance"
> > >
> > > due-date #fs orig MB out MB balance
> > > ----------------------------------------------
> > > 10/30 Tue 5 0 0 ---
> > > 10/31 Wed 1 17355 8958 -45.3%
> > > 11/01 Thu 2 10896 10887 -33.5%
> > > 11/02 Fri 4 35944 9298 -43.2%
> > > 11/03 Sat 4 14122 10835 -33.8%
> > > 11/04 Sun 3 57736 57736 +252.7%
> > > 11/05 Mon 2 39947 30635 +87.1%
> > > 11/06 Tue 8 4235 4215 -74.3%
> > > 11/07 Wed 4 19503 14732 -10.0%
> > > 11/08 Thu 32 31783 16408 +0.2%
> > > ----------------------------------------------
> > > TOTAL 65 231521 163704 16370
> > > (estimated 10 runs per dumpcycle)
> > > (5 filesystems overdue. The most being overdue 20 days.)
> > >
> > > That last line is disturbing. Ideas anyone? I'll certainly keep an
> > > eye on it.
> >
> > Did you already run today's (10/30's) dump? Assuming you are
> > running one dump per day, running the "balance" command after the
> > dump has occurred generates confusing output, because the output
> > includes a line for today's date but actually no (new) dumps will be
> > happening today. So if you are able to run the balance command
> > before a particular day's dump (but on the day in question), the
> > output is a little bit more helpful....
> >
> > Anyway by "last line" are you talking about the "overdue" line?
> > "amadmin ... due" should tell you which DLEs are overdue, and you
> > can then look back through through your Amanda Mail Reports to see
> > if there's any indication of why they are overdue (especially the
> > one that's 20 days overdue...)
> >
> > Anyway, the other thing that jumps out from the above listing is the
> > line for 11/4, with a balance of 250%. We can't tell from the
> > listing what the relatives sizes of the three DLEs in question are,
> > though. Here's where a true Amanda expert could advise you better,
> > but off hand I'd guess that one particule one of those three DLEs is
> > much larger than all the rest of your DLEs and that fact is making
> > it hard for the planner to come up with 10 consecutive days of plans
> > that when taken as a group actually work out to functional cycle....
> >
> > ("amadmin ... due" should help you figure out which three DLEs are
> > scheduled for that day, if you don't already know off hand which one
> > is super large.)
> >
> > Hmmm, it would be interesting to know if the the super-large DLE is
> > also the one that's 20 days overdue. Perhaps its so big it can't
> > fit on a tape, or something?
> >
> > Nathan
>
> Its rigged to use 2 40GB vtapes if it has to. But I found some
> amandates problems in my kicking the tires so we'll see what it does
> for tonight's after midnight run.
>
And my perms & linkages fixes for amandates didn't help a bit, this
morning after the run, its still showing the same 5 dle's as 21 days
overdue.
I'll see if I can find the logs, I assume on the clients marked guilty?
> Funny is that 5 machines are still running wheezy, but the default
> names in both /etc/passwd and in /etc/group don't match! One of then
> isn't a Wurlitzer, but since they were installed at different times
> over the history here... Who knows and I'm too lazy to lock
> in /var/cache/apt/archives to check versions. We'll see what happens
> tonight.
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> Copyright 2018 by Maurice E. Heskett
Copyright 2018 by Maurice E. Heskett
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