Frank,
I think Joshua nailed it but your right, may be we can
squeeze a little more out of the hardware (looks like
we did pretty good though).
The drive is in fact a DLT 4000 on a SunOS 5.6 system (we
are in process of migrating to a new R280 with LTO drive
but that process is ongoing...).
>From amanda.conf
tapetype DLTIV # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes below)
define tapetype DLTIV {
comment "Differential Digital Linear Tape IV"
length 20000 mbytes
filemark 8 kbytes # I got this from Quantum's FAQ listing
speed 2500 kbytes
}
thanks,
Brian
> Well, your taper line in the report says it wrote 19.9G to tape, and your
> failed dump was trying to write 6.8G. How big are your tapes, and what is
> your tapetype set to?
>
> Frank
>
>
> --On Thursday, September 05, 2002 08:56:22 -0400 Brian Cuttler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
> >
> > We are very confused this morning.
> >
> > This report says "short write", usually I take that to
> > mean that we filled up the tape and we probably need to
> > perfrom a flush.
> >
> > However we have numbers in all the coluns have numbers which
> > always indicates to me that we wrote the dumps to tape (well,
> > except for one partition that outright failed).
> >
> > And the holding area is empty.
> >
> > Can you explain what really happened here ?
> >
> > These messages seem contradictory to me, could be that they
> > are, could be I've misunderstood their meanings.
> >
> > Please help us unravel this mystery.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > ----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----
> >
> > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 5 04:57:33 2002
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 04:57:11 -0400 (EDT)
> > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: NEWTON_DLT AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR September 4, 2002
> > X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
> >
> > *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!
> >
> > *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: short write]].
> > *** PERFORMED ALL DUMPS TO HOLDING DISK.
> >
> > THESE DUMPS WERE TO DISK. Flush them onto tape NEWTON_DLT05 or a new tape.
> > Tonight's dumps should go onto 1 tape: NEWTON_DLT06.
> >
> > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> > newton /usr4 lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
> > taper: FATAL syncpipe_get: w: unexpected EOF
> > newton /usr4 lev 0 FAILED ["data write: Broken pipe"]
> > newton /usr4 lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]
> >
> >
> > STATISTICS:
> > Total Full Daily
> > -------- -------- --------
> > Dump Time (hrs:min) 4:15 3:22 0:40 (0:13 start)
> > Output Size (meg) 16191.4 12912.6 3278.8
> > Original Size (meg) 60330.5 31313.2 29017.4
> > Avg Compressed Size (%) 26.8 41.2 11.3
> > Tape Used (%) 81.0 64.6 16.4 (level:#disks ...)
> > Filesystems Dumped 43 21 22 (1:22)
> > Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 273.2 289.4 223.9
> > Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 1142.1 1090.0 1406.9
> >
> >
> > FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
> >
> > /-- newton /usr4 lev 0 FAILED ["data write: Broken pipe"]
> > sendbackup: start [newton:/usr4 level 0]
> > sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/sbin/ufsdump
> > sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/local/bin/gzip -dc |/usr/sbin/ufsrestore -f... -
> > sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
> > sendbackup: info end
> >| DUMP: Writing 32 Kilobyte records
> >| DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Sep 05 03:03:16 2002
> >| DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
> >| DUMP: Dumping /dev/rdsk/c2t13d0s6 (newton:/usr4) to standard output.
> >| DUMP: Mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
> >| DUMP: Mapping (Pass II) [directories]
> >| DUMP: Estimated 14062200 blocks (6866.31MB) on 0.10 tapes.
> >| DUMP: Dumping (Pass III) [directories]
> >| DUMP: Dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
> >| DUMP: 7.14% done, finished in 2:11
> >| DUMP: 18.53% done, finished in 1:28
> >| DUMP: 27.82% done, finished in 1:18
> >| DUMP: 34.19% done, finished in 1:17
> >| DUMP: 42.90% done, finished in 1:06
> >| DUMP: 51.08% done, finished in 0:57
> >| DUMP: 58.90% done, finished in 0:48
> >| DUMP: 67.61% done, finished in 0:38
> >| DUMP: 75.00% done, finished in 0:30
> >| DUMP: 81.82% done, finished in 0:22
> >| DUMP: 90.67% done, finished in 0:11
> > \--------
> >
> >
> > NOTES:
> > driver: WARNING: /amanda/work: 175104000 KB requested, but only 16865439 KB
>available.
> > planner: Dump too big for tape: full dump of bohr:/ delayed.
> > planner: Dump too big for tape: full dump of castor:/ delayed.
> > planner: Dump too big for tape: full dump of newton:/ delayed.
> > planner: Dump too big for tape: full dump of lyra:/ delayed.
> > taper: tape NEWTON_DLT04 kb 19910336 fm 44 writing file: short write
> >
> >
> > DUMP SUMMARY:
> > DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS
> > HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
> > -------------------------- -------------------------------------- --------------
> > bohr / 1 5951 224 3.8 0:22 10.3 0:02 136.2
> > bohr /doc_storage 0 888703 353024 39.7 48:03 122.4 4:08 1424.8
> > bohr /new_docs 0 1051743 368640 35.1 52:31 117.0 4:19 1422.7
> > bohr /opt 1 55039 23520 42.7 3:47 103.5 0:17 1362.2
> > bohr /usr 0 261087 108640 41.6 16:07 112.3 1:16 1435.1
> > bohr /var 0 16479 5728 34.8 1:18 73.0 0:05 1218.1
> > castor / 1 68351 4928 7.2 1:10 70.2 0:05 1032.8
> > castor /7a 0 760831 145440 19.1 16:01 151.4 1:41 1440.8
> > castor /apoa 0 1373439 287456 20.9 45:51 104.5 3:22 1420.9
> > castor /home1 0 980031 332736 34.0 27:48 199.5 3:55 1418.0
> > castor /home3 1 1187487 204928 17.3 25:06 136.1 2:26 1405.5
> > denali / 0 466047 213984 45.9 17:44 201.2 2:32 1408.1
> > denali /home9 0 1012095 439008 43.4 36:33 200.2 5:09 1420.9
> > denali /images 0 378111 258016 68.2 18:06 237.5 3:03 1412.6
> > etal / 0 5474815 1298240 23.7 120:50 179.1 15:16 1416.9
> > etal /network 1 63 32 50.8 0:38 0.8 0:02 34.5
> > etal /usr/local 0 1047327 336992 32.2 25:29 220.4 3:57 1422.9
> > lyra / 1 9183 512 5.6 0:55 9.3 0:02 310.4
> > lyra /db8 1 13482783 838208 6.2 42:05 332.0 9:46 1431.1
> > lyra /db9 1 511 32 6.3 0:04 7.2 0:02 39.1
> > lyra /ndevelop 0 3263903 1432288 43.9 24:22 979.7 16:47 1421.9
> > lyra /ndevelop2 1 511 32 6.3 0:37 0.9 0:02 39.8
> > mira / 0 1263423 440000 34.8 19:06 383.8 5:07 1431.1
> > mira /bkup-db 1 10950175 1078016 9.8 107:47 166.7 12:39 1420.1
> > mira /db6 0 127 32 25.2 0:02 12.9 0:02 35.7
> > mira /home1 0 4436575 1437472 32.4 91:17 262.5 16:46 1429.4
> > mira /usr 1 426207 157216 36.9 6:52 381.3 1:54 1379.4
> > mira /var 1 228575 69120 30.2 3:17 351.7 0:53 1295.0
> > newton / 1 28415 4000 14.1 1:07 59.9 0:04 1125.4
> > newton /export 0 800479 317408 39.7 16:05 328.8 3:43 1422.8
> > newton /home10 1 4959 1600 32.3 0:50 32.1 0:01 1165.8
> > newton /home11 1 41311 11616 28.1 1:34 123.7 0:09 1326.6
> > newton /home4 1 1700639 584800 34.4 27:53 349.5 6:52 1419.3
> > newton /logsback 0 3638303 3631456 99.8 89:49 673.9 89:49 673.8
> > newton /nfsamba 0 945535 322144 34.1 17:01 315.6 3:47 1420.6
> > newton /nfsamba2 1 95 32 33.7 0:02 12.9 0:02 40.0
> > newton /opt 0 1376415 333184 24.2 29:04 191.1 3:55 1420.0
> > newton /sol2 1 838047 76096 9.1 8:15 153.8 0:53 1440.6
> > newton /usr3 1 19711 8032 40.7 1:13 110.1 0:06 1280.6
> > newton /usr4 0 FAILED --------------------------------------------
> > newton /usr5 1 121407 38304 31.6 3:34 178.9 0:28 1370.5
> > newton /wclrspool 1 533855 250912 47.0 12:32 333.7 2:58 1412.1
> > panther / 0 2629215 1160640 44.1 48:22 400.0 13:32 1429.6
> > panther /data 1 10513 5344 50.8 0:15 356.1 0:05 1019.0
> >
> > (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.1p1)
> >
> > ----- End of forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----
>
>
>
> --
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