Hi! I've just installed amanda-2.4.4p2 on a couple of FreeBSD-4.10 machines, and everything is going well, except for one partition (the holding disk).
The holding disk space is in /scratch/amanda. I want to backup /scratch but not /scratch/amanda, so I've decided to use gnutar for this. The problem is that amanda it's always failing to estimate the size for this disklist entry (DLE). This is from log.20041008.0 FAIL planner pi /scratch 20041008 0 [disk /scratch, all estimate failed] This is from amdump.1 planner: time 0.112: setting up estimates for pi:/scratch pi:/scratch overdue 12699 days for level 0 setup_estimate: pi:/scratch: command 0, options: last_level -1 next_level0 -12699 level_days 0 getting estimates 0 (0) -1 (-1) -1 (-1) ... planner: time 141.610: got result for host pi disk /scratch: 0 -> -1K, -1 -> -1K, -1 -> -1K ... FAILED QUEUE: 0: pi /scratch If I set myself to manually estimate the size of the DLE, I get the following: /usr/local/libexec/amanda/runtar --create --file /dev/null \ --one-file-system --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals \ --directory /scratch/ --exclude-from /home/amanda/scratch_exclude . Total bytes written: 5138913280 (4.8GiB, 340MiB/s) So I see no problem here ... the size it's also fine (I'm using 20/40 Gb DDS-4 tapes). I already waited a whole dumpcycle for all partitions to be accomodated. Maybe there's something wrong with my dumptype/DLE? DLE: pi /scratch holding-disk-tar 2 local dumptype: define dumptype holding-disk-tar { global program "GNUTAR" comment "The master-host holding disk itself, using tar" holdingdisk yes priority medium exclude list "/home/amanda/scratch_exclude" } Thanks in advance for any suggestion, Fernan -- Fernan Aguero - fernan at iib.unsam.edu.ar Phone: +54 11 4580-7255/7 ext 310, Fax: +54 11 4752-9639 Check http://genoma.unsam.edu.ar/~fernan for more info.