Re: disk was stranded on waitq/sendsize timed out waiting for REP data

2007-03-07 Thread Toralf Lund
Forgot to answer this earlier, I think... If you can't kill sendsize, it's because it is hang in a system call. It's often when it try to access a mount point. Do you have a hanged mount point? But yes, you are absolutely right. The host in question had problems with an NFS mount. I didn't

sendbackup: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe]

2007-03-07 Thread Toralf Lund
A few days ago I had some backup problems that turned out to be caused by a hanging NFS mount, causing sendsize to lock up completely - see a separate post on this. Now I have sorted out this problem, and it seemed like amdump would once again start properly, but it turns out that the backup

Re: sendbackup: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe]

2007-03-07 Thread Toralf Lund
A few days ago I had some backup problems that turned out to be caused by a hanging NFS mount, causing sendsize to lock up completely - see a separate post on this. Now I have sorted out this problem, and it seemed like amdump would once again start properly, but it turns out that the backup

amdump performance problem

2007-03-07 Thread Kenneth Berry
Hello list, I have been working on a performance problem for about a month and I am out of ideas. I hope someone can help me. What is happening is that backups of large DLE that start very early seem to dump at a very slow rate. Where as dumps of DLE on the same host, physical drive, etc. that

Re: amdump performance problem

2007-03-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 at 9:58am, Kenneth Berry wrote I have been working on a performance problem for about a month and I am out of ideas. I hope someone can help me. What is happening is that backups of large DLE that start very early seem to dump at a very slow rate. Where as dumps of DLE on

Re: amdump performance problem

2007-03-07 Thread Kenneth Berry
Thank you for the tip on columnspec, I was about to create another post on that problem. The computer mbthome is both the amanda server and client, it is a Dell PE2650 dual Xeon processor, 2GB Ram. Tape unit is LTO3 on a dedicated SCSI controller. Internal HDD's are four SCSI ultra320 10K

Re: amdump performance problem

2007-03-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:58:09AM -0600, Kenneth Berry wrote: Hello list, I have been working on a performance problem for about a month and I am out of ideas. I hope someone can help me. What is happening is that backups of large DLE that start very early seem to dump at a very slow

Re: amdump performance problem

2007-03-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 at 11:45am, Kenneth Berry wrote The computer mbthome is both the amanda server and client, it is a Dell PE2650 dual Xeon processor, 2GB Ram. Tape unit is LTO3 on a dedicated SCSI controller. Internal HDD's are four SCSI ultra320 10K configured as hardware RAID5. On top of

Re: amdump performance problem

2007-03-07 Thread Brian Cuttler
I'm sorry to interject without having read the complete thread but I wanted to share (remind of previous emails) that I had a problem with my LTO on Solaris a while back. Turned out the HBA card was failing, the A side was dropping in performance with no additional/errors noticable which the B

Re: amdump performance problem

2007-03-07 Thread Kenneth Berry
Thanks for all the great ideas. I have some comments and questions. From Gene's message: The dump's are not going straight to tape which really does slow things down. One of the way I can tell is that the final DLE dump that has been running since midnight is spooling to disk and the tape is

Re: amdump performance problem

2007-03-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 at 2:30pm, Kenneth Berry wrote ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- MachineMB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec % CPU /sec %CPU

Re: amdump performance problem

2007-03-07 Thread Kenneth Berry
Here are the corrected bonnie++ results. 1.) Below are bonnie results on mbthome:/home/public this is on a percraid controller handled as a single 300GB HDD with LVM allocating the space to the following filesystems /home, /home/public/, and /home/public/Ausk... The dump rate last night for this

Re: Backup of index and config files

2007-03-07 Thread Olivier Nicole
In my case the machine which works as an Amanda backup server itself is backed up by Amanda. So which are the important files/directories (index and config files/directories or any other important files) that I should save on some other machine, so that I can recover data from the Amanda

Use of unintialized value in hash element in amstatus repoty

2007-03-07 Thread FL
Has anyone seen this kind of result from an amstatus? (amanda.conf and disklist to follow) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ amstatus Daily Using /var/log/amanda/Daily/amdump from Wed Mar 7 23:18:01 EST 2007 Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/sbin/amstatus line 520, AMDUMP line 2777. Use of

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

2007-03-07 Thread FL
On 3/7/07, Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FL schrieb: On 3/6/07, *Stefan G. Weichinger* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glad that thinks worked out. Might be a nice thing to write as small udev-related subsection for the HOWTOs ... Greets, Stefan. Maybe