On Friday 08 October 2004 14:15, Fernan Aguero wrote: >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" We need to see a copy of this file, Fernan^^^^^^^^^^ >} > >Thanks in advance for any suggestion, > >Fernan
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