Admins et al,
After searching for a coupla days through the archives with limited success
I resort to a direct problem request:
I am running a 6 machine Linux cluster on Red Hat 6.2, I am using Amanda
2.4.1p1 and backing all machines up to one using dump. I had been
successfully dumping and restoring, as required, several filesystems off
each machine when one day three of the 4 filesystems on one machine refused
to be dumped and basically hung the dumper process.
Three weeks ago one of the other machines demonstrated similar symptoms,
after a reboot, when one of it's two filesystems refused to dump. I have had
to remove these filesystems from disklist to allow the other filesystems to
be backed up. I have tried to run these filesystem backups individually and
to another backup system I have running under Tru64, with the same results.
Amcheck reports no errors.
Here is an extract from the log that may offer some clues:
STRANGE dumper servername /usr/local 0 [sec 50316.841 kb 70336 kps 1.4
orig-kb 0]
sendbackup: start [servername:/usr/local level 0]
sendbackup: info BACKUP=/sbin/dump
sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/sbin/restore -f... -
sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
sendbackup: info end
| DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sun Feb 11 18:56:58 2001
| DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
| DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda6 (/usr/local) to standard output
| DUMP: Label: none
| DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
| DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
| DUMP: estimated 222184 tape blocks.
| DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Sun Feb 11 18:56:59 2001
| DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
| DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
| DUMP: 1.30% done, finished in 9:17
| DUMP: 2.16% done, finished in 10:06
| DUMP: 3.22% done, finished in 12:24..........etc, this continued on
until I killed the process several hrs later.
And from amdump for the same run (note the file to large message(?))
driver: send-cmd time 27.966 to dumper1: FILE-DUMP 01-00002
/usr/var/amanda_3/20
010205/lvsp._usr_local.0 lvsp /usr/local 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 -2097087 DUMP
|;bsd-au
th;compress-fast;
driver: state time 27.966 free kps: 2140 space: 1628268 taper: idle
idle-dumpers
: 8 qlen tapeq: 0 runq: 3 stoppedq: 0 wakeup: 86400 driver-idle:
file-too-large
driver: interface-state time 27.966 if : free 540 if LE0: free 10000 if
LOCAL: f
ree 10000
driver: hdisk-state time 27.966 hdisk 0: free 1628268 dumpers 2
driver: result time 460.329 from dumper0: DONE 00-00001 2748 1728 432 [sec
432.2
12 kb 1728 kps 4.0 orig-kb 2748]
Although I have been using Amanda for some time, this is my first go at this
list, so please let me know if more info can help resolve this problem.
Thanks in advance.
John Gormley
Senior Unix Systems Administrator
Southern Cross University
Lismore NSW
Australia.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
