Greetings all; Last nights backup should have been a typical run, which since I restarted it a little less than 2 weeks back, should have been in the 17GB range, (and has been after the initial 4 vtapes, 180GB blast it took an extra flush run to clear the dumps assignment) except for the planner and something else apparently disagreeing on what a level is. The planner promoted /home/gene to a level 5 run, but the backup when it was listed actually was a level 0. So what should have been another 16G or so was actually still over 60GB, 4 times what it should have been.
Currently its got 10 days to do a cycle, and should stay at a given level for 2 days, so a level 5 should be a legal promotion. Do a level 0. then 2 level 1's =3 day, then 2 level 2's=5 days, then 2 level 3's=7 days, then 2 level 4's = 9 days, but a level 5=10 days and a reset to 0. This has happened many times before, and while its not a showstopper since its using however much of a 2T drive it needs writing the size of the vtape, which it can use 2 of at 45GB each. So theres nothing left in the dumps assignment this morning. But can we stop the planner from lying to us? Preferably by making it do what the planner is telling it to do? Since I've doubled the size of the drive, I am going to gradually reduce the cycle until the drive is around 75% used. But 2 weeks is not long enough to settle, and its sure not long enough to settle when a bug bites it like that. According to my math, it should have done a level 5 once before running out of days. Some of its math is base0 and some is base 1? So what I've done this morning is reduce the cycle by one day. And fixed the exclude file for that dumptype, there were 2 subdirs getting backed up by 2 different DLE's. A df says that drive is at 22%. We'll look again in a few days. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
