Jon, On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 11:01:51AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:39:26AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > First, Solaris 9 with Amanda 2.4.4 > > > > I have changed the "reserve" parameter from commented out (prior to > > the friday night run) to 30, and this morning, lowered it to 10. This > > I had thought was the cuprit. > > > > > grep reserve amanda.conf > > reserve 10 # percent > > > > holdingdisk hd1 { > > comment "main holding disk" > > directory "/amanda/work" # where the holding disk is > > use 70 Gb # how much space can we use on it > > # a non-positive value means: > > # use all space but that value > > chunksize 1Gb # size of chunk if you want big dump to be > > # dumped on multiple files on holding disks > > # N Kb/Mb/Gb split images in chunks of size N > > # The maximum value should be > > # (MAX_FILE_SIZE - 1Mb) > > # 0 same as INT_MAX bytes > > } > > > > I do not believe holdingdisk is set to no in the dumptype. > > amadmin has a command, I think disklist, which can be used to > print out many of the dump parameters for a single (or multiple) > DLE's. This would be after the parsing of amanda.conf and all > the included dumptypes. I'm pretty sure "holding disk yes/no" > is among those printed.
Yes, in fact all entries in the disklist have holdingdisk yes set. > amadmin ninfo disklist | more line 4: host csserv: interface default disk /: program "DUMP" priority 0 dumpcycle 7 maxdumps 4 maxpromoteday 10000 strategy STANDARD compress NONE auth BSD kencrypt NO holdingdisk YES record YES index NO skip-incr NO skip-full NO line 5: host csserv: interface default > amadmin ninfo disklist | grep holdingdisk holdingdisk YES holdingdisk YES holdingdisk YES holdingdisk YES holdingdisk YES holdingdisk YES (many lines removed) > I don't recall, is your DLE small enough to fit the available > holding disk space. Not your 70 GB, but actual available > space (df <holding disk> cmd or 70GB (which ever is smaller) > minus whatever is stored under <holding disk> finally multiplied > by percent unreserved. Few of the DLE at level 0 should be forced direct to tape, certainly none of the non-level-0 DLE. # df -kh /amanda/work Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/c7t6d0s0 67G 118M 66G 1% /amanda With a reserve value of 10, we should be ablet o utilize 60 Gig of work area, or do I have some value set backwards ? > amcheck is seeing your holding disks, right? Yes it is. > amcheck -s ninfo Amanda Tape Server Host Check ----------------------------- WARNING: holding disk /amanda/work: only 69728377 KB free (73400320 KB requested > Maybe someone can tell us the actual lines in log or debugging > files that would say why amanda selects direct to tape. thank you, Brian --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773