Hi guys. Hopefully I will get the answer as soon as possible :confused:
fedora wrote: > > Hello, > > fedora schrieb: >> Questions: >> 1) "No writable valid tape found". What does it mean? > > There was no tape in your drive/changer or it was not writeable (write > protected, broken tape, no tape with valid label,...) > > >> Actually I am using tapeless. I made HDD as virtual tape (tapetype >> HARD-DISK). The tape was writable (drwxrwx---), I think it could be >> broken tape. How do we know the tape is broken or not? Do I need to >> delete the broken tape and do amlabel again if the tape broken? >> > >> 2) Do I need to run amflush? I found out a folder in holding disk dated >> 23 >> July 2007. > > If the folder isn't empty, you have to run amflush, if you want to have > your > data on tape. > > >> If I run amflush, would it same integrity with actual files in client? >> Why does it remains in holding disk? Is it because it can't writing to >> tape? >> > >> 3) "can't switch to incremental dump". What does it mean? (causing failed >> for the dump summary "domin11 -/lib/mysql 0 FAILED......." ) > > Amanda can't do a full dump on your tape, because of to less space. And > without having a full dump, Amanda can't do an incremental dump. This > could > happen if you only use one tape and the estimated size is compressed (if > you > use compression) bigger than your tape. Or you use more tapes and you > don't > use splitting, ... > > >> here is my amanda.conf settings: >> runtapes 1 >> use 60000 Mb (holdingdisk) of 1.1T HDD >> I don't think the compression size is bigger than tape. Can u guys >> suggest me what should I do? Run multiple tapes with splitting? I've no >> idea how to do splitting. Pls advice. >> > >> 4) "cannot overwrite active tape DailySet1*". What does it mean? > > Seams you have too less tapes configured for one dumpcycle. Dumpcycle is > the > number of of days in a backup cycle (e.g. one week). Amanda tries to do a > full > backup at least this often (e.g. once per week). When you have e.g. > runspercycle=7 (how often you let amanda do amdump in dumpcycle) and a > tapecycle of 6, then amanda had to overwrite the first tape again to do > the > backup on the last day. And this is what the message means. You can't > overwrite the tape, because you could never do a restore then, because of > the > overwritten first tape. Amanda prevent you doing that. > > # man amanda.conf > - > tapecycle > This is calculated by multiplying the number of amdump runs per dump cycle > (runspercycle parameter) times the number of tapes used per run (runtapes > parameter). Typically two to four times this calculated number of tapes > are in > rotation. > > >> here is my amanda.conf settings: >> dumpcycle 14 days >> #runspercycle 20 (commented) >> tapecycle 14 tapes >> bumpsize 20 Mb >> maxdumpsize -1 >> > > >> 5) "taper: changer problem: 11 file:/backup/amanda/dumps/tape11". What >> does >> it mean? > > Somethings wrong with your changer. :-) Any more information? > > >> here is my amanda.conf settings: >> tapedev "/dev/null" >> tpchanger "chg-multi" >> #changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer" (commented) >> #changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer-status" (commented) >> changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer.conf" >> #changerdev "/dev/null" (commented) >> > >> 7) Lastly, all my client servers got N/A result for the taper stats >> accept >> domain11. Why? > Amanda clients running? Firewalls? Any messages inside the logs? > > >> No error in logfiles. Amanda client is running checking by netstat -auv >> and /etc/initd/xinetd status. I didn't change the firewall. I think if >> firewall is blocked I will be return failed or missing in dump summary. >> However the dumper stats has value. May I know in this situation is the >> backup successfull? >> >> DUMP SUMMARY: >> DUMPER STATS TAPER >> STATS >> HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-MB OUT-MB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS >> KB/s >> -------------------------- ------------------------------------- >> ------------- >> doamin1 -/lib/mysql 1 5782 1307 22.6 651:09 34.3 N/A N/A >> domain2 -/lib/mysql 1 0 0 10.0 0:01 1.1 N/A N/A >> > > Any helps would be appreciated. > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/amstatus%3A-no-estimate-and-disk-was-stranded-on-waitq-tf4108528.html#a11804128 Sent from the Amanda - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
