Re: lots of level-0 backups

2017-04-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 05:01:32PM -0400, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > Jon LaBadie writes: > >On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 12:03:02PM -0400, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > >> despite the documentation saying that the "diskdevice" must be a mount > >> point (it isn't anymore). > >> >

Error when attempting to write to multiple volumes: is already in use by drive

2017-04-11 Thread Oscar Ricardo Silva
I'm running amanda 3.3.9 with vtapes and trying to enable writing to multiple volumes with: taper-parallel-write2 Sometimes, but not always, I'll get an error like this during the dump: dump to tape failed: taper: Slot 5, containing 'daily-5', is already in use by drive

Re: lots of level-0 backups

2017-04-11 Thread hymie
Jon LaBadie writes: >On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 12:03:02PM -0400, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: >> despite the documentation saying that the "diskdevice" must be a mount >> point (it isn't anymore). >> >where was that? it should be corrected. man disklist A DLE usually contains one

Re: lots of level-0 backups

2017-04-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 12:03:02PM -0400, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > Jean-Louis Martineau writes: > >On 11/04/17 11:41 AM, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > > > despite the documentation saying that the "diskdevice" must be a mount > point (it isn't anymore). > where was that? it

RE: amflush

2017-04-11 Thread Ochressandro Rettinger
From my amanda.conf? tapetype "LTO6" define tapetype LTO6 { comment "Created by amtapetype; compression disabled" length 2459879424 kbytes filemark 2684 kbytes speed 154767 kps blocksize 256 kbytes } define changer "tape_drive" { tpchanger

Re: lots of level-0 backups

2017-04-11 Thread hymie
Jean-Louis Martineau writes: >On 11/04/17 11:41 AM, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: newlaptop.local.net /home/hymie/2 /home { simple-gnutar-remote include "./hymie/[m-z]*" } >>? /usr/bin/tar: ./hymie/[m-z]*: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file >>or directory >

Re: lots of level-0 backups

2017-04-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 11/04/17 11:41 AM, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > Jon LaBadie writes: >> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:45:52PM -0400, hymie! wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 04:14:25PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: Do you mean you do not understand the mechanics of splitting a DLE or that you do not

Re: lots of level-0 backups

2017-04-11 Thread hymie
Jon LaBadie writes: >On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:45:52PM -0400, hymie! wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 04:14:25PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: >> > Do you mean you do not understand the mechanics of splitting a DLE >> > or that you do not know what pieces to split off. The former we >> > can give

Re: amflush

2017-04-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Two thread in g_cond_wait is a bug. Can you post your storage and changer section? Jean-Louis On 11/04/17 11:03 AM, Ochressandro Rettinger wrote: Sorry, I’m definitely not a gdb power user. I had to google to get that much. :) Thread 3 (Thread 0x7fcbdea14700 (LWP 16608)): #0

RE: amflush

2017-04-11 Thread Ochressandro Rettinger
Sorry, I’m definitely not a gdb power user. I had to google to get that much. :) Thread 3 (Thread 0x7fcbdea14700 (LWP 16608)): #0 0x7fcbe718cbf9 in syscall () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x7fcbe5a9b94f in g_cond_wait () from /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #2 0x7fcbe07427ba

Re: amflush

2017-04-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
I want the stack trace of all threads,not only the main thread. in gdb for the taper process, do: thread apply all bt Jean-Louis This message is the property of CARBONITE, INC. and may contain confidential or privileged information. If this message has been delivered to you by mistake, then do

RE: amflush

2017-04-11 Thread Ochressandro Rettinger
Taper debug file: Mon Apr 10 15:21:13.388038789 2017: pid 16607: thd-0x1dcae00: taper: pid 16607 ruid 9000 euid 9000 version 3.4: start at Mon Apr 10 15:21:13 2017 Mon Apr 10 15:21:13.388111083 2017: pid 16607: thd-0x1dcae00: taper: Arguments: NMHPVPR --storage NMHPVPR --log-filename

Re: amflush

2017-04-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
It looks like the taper process is hang. Can you post the taper debug file? Can you get a gdb stacktrace of all threads? Jean-Louis On 11/04/17 10:12 AM, Ochressandro Rettinger wrote: > In fact, I am now sure that it's not doing anything. I ran amstatus > this morning and it looks

RE: amflush

2017-04-11 Thread Ochressandro Rettinger
In fact, I am now sure that it's not doing anything. I ran amstatus this morning and it looks exactly the same as it did yesterday afternoon. If I can't get amflush to work, is there a way to clear out the stuff that needs flushing in a way that won't mess Amanda up? I need

Re: lots of level-0 backups

2017-04-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:45:52PM -0400, hymie! wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 04:14:25PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 02:24:52PM -0400, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > > > I'm trying to figure out a way to split my two largest DLEs (one is > > > 100GB and the