Greetings, I'm running an Amanda Server under Solaris and one of my clients is a Linux box; That box has a partition filled with +/-28GB. All the backups run fine, but at the end i never manage to backup that huge partition:
> amstatus NEWBREAK Using /home/amanda/backup-logs/NEWBREAK/amdump from Sat Dec 1 02:30:00 EST 2001 lenbkx0001:/ 1 1216k finished (2:37:02) lenbkx0001:/apps 0 2084032k finished (3:18:18) lenbkx0001:/export/data01 1 416k finished (2:36:36) lenbkx0001:/export/data02 1 32k finished (2:36:22) lenbkx0001:/export/data03 1 32k finished (2:35:23) lenbkx0001:/export/data04 1 32k finished (2:35:14) lenbkx0001:/export/data05 1 32k finished (2:34:56) lenbkx0001:/export/data06 1 32k finished (2:36:58) lenbkx0001:/export/data07 1 32k finished (2:36:38) lenbkx0001:/export/home 0 1306848k finished (2:52:05) lenbkx0001:/usr 1 32k finished (2:36:56) lenbkx0001:/var 1 3776k finished (2:36:45) lenbkx0005:/ 1 32k finished (2:35:08) lenbkx0005:/export/apps 1 32k finished (2:34:54) lenbkx0005:/export/home 1 64k finished (2:35:28) lnxsrv0001:/dev/hdc1 1 32k finished (2:34:51) lnxsrv0001:/dev/hdc5 012619006k dumping to tape (3:18:18) lnxsrv0001:/dev/hdc6 1 672k finished (2:35:20) SUMMARY part real estimated size size partition : 18 estimated : 18 16110660k failed : 0 0k ( 0.00%) wait for dumping: 0 0k ( 0.00%) dumping to tape : 1 12619006k ( 78.33%) dumping : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) dumped : 17 3397344k 3491654k ( 97.30%) ( 21.09%) wait for writing: 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) writing to tape : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) failed to tape : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) taped : 17 3397344k 3491654k ( 97.30%) ( 21.09%) 3 dumpers idle : not-idle taper writing, tapeq: 0 network free kps: 4848 holding space : 2097152k (100.00%) dumper0 busy : 0:42:50 ( 98.48%) dumper1 busy : 0:00:21 ( 0.83%) dumper2 busy : 0:00:03 ( 0.12%) taper busy : 0:42:06 ( 96.80%) 0 dumpers busy : 0:00:22 ( 0.85%) start-wait: 0:00:12 ( 54.57%) no-diskspace: 0:00:10 ( 45.43%) 1 dumper busy : 0:42:57 ( 98.73%) not-idle: 0:41:42 ( 97.12%) no-diskspace: 0:00:34 ( 1.33%) no-bandwidth: 0:00:31 ( 1.21%) start-wait: 0:00:08 ( 0.34%) 2 dumpers busy : 0:00:08 ( 0.33%) start-wait: 0:00:07 ( 84.82%) no-diskspace: 0:00:01 ( 15.18%) 3 dumpers busy : 0:00:02 ( 0.09%) start-wait: 0:00:02 (100.00%) In the server side i observe zombie taper processes: amanda 25673 25665 0 02:30:00 ? 0:00 dumper NEWBREAK amanda 25675 25665 0 02:30:00 ? 0:00 dumper NEWBREAK amanda 25672 25665 0 02:30:00 ? 1:11 dumper NEWBREAK amanda 12107 12097 0 12:15:33 pts/4 0:00 -tcsh amanda 12125 12107 0 12:23:22 pts/4 0:00 grep amanda amanda 25660 25657 0 02:30:00 ? 0:00 /bin/sh /home/amanda/sbin/amdump NEWBREAK amanda 25657 269 0 02:30:00 ? 0:00 sh -c /home/amanda/sbin/amdump NEWBREAK amanda 25674 25665 0 02:30:00 ? 0:00 dumper NEWBREAK amanda 25667 25665 0 02:30:00 ? 0:34 taper NEWBREAK amanda 25857 25672 0 03:18:19 ? 45:43 /usr/local/bin/gzip --best amanda 25666 25665 0 0:00 <defunct> amanda 25668 25667 0 02:30:00 ? 0:12 taper NEWBREAK amanda 25665 25660 0 02:30:00 ? 0:00 /home/amanda/libexec/driver NEWBREAK And on the clienps -[root@lnxsrv0001 /root]# ps -ef|grep amanda amanda 2403 1 0 03:18 ? 00:00:00 /home/amanda/libexec/sendbackup amanda 2404 2403 0 03:18 ? 00:00:03 dump 0usf 1048576 - /dev/hdc5 amanda 2405 2404 0 03:18 ? 00:00:22 dump 0usf 1048576 - /dev/hdc5 amanda 2406 2405 0 03:18 ? 00:00:59 dump 0usf 1048576 - /dev/hdc5 amanda 2407 2405 0 03:18 ? 00:00:59 dump 0usf 1048576 - /dev/hdc5 amanda 2408 2405 0 03:18 ? 00:00:58 dump 0usf 1048576 - /dev/hdc5 root 4116 4093 0 12:24 pts/9 00:00:00 grep amanda t a lot of idle dump processes: Thankx in advance. JV ===== System Engineer, José Vicente Nuñez Zuleta ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Newbreak System Administrator (http://www.newbreak.com) Phone: 203-355-1511, 203-355-1510 Java 2 Certified Programmer Java 2 Certified Developer _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ¿Quieres armar tu própia página Web pero no sabes HTML? Usa los asistentes de edición de Yahoo! Geocities y tendrás un sitio en sólo unos minutos. Visítanos en http://espanol.geocities.yahoo.com