On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:59:48PM -0500, Tom Hansen wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote: > >On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:31:53PM -0500, Tom Hansen wrote: > > > >>BACKGROUND INFO: I have Amanda 2.5.2p1 running on Ubuntu linux 6.10, > >>configured to backup several large (300Gb +) filesystems spanning > >>several tapes. I have a robot changer, LTO1 tapes (100Gb capacity) and > >>I used: > >> > >> tape_splitsize 3Gb > >> fallback_splitsize 256m > >> > >>[ stuff deleted ] > >>MY QUESTION: Is there any way to configure Amanda such that such a tape > >>error would simply go to the next tape, instead of the worst possible > >>action, which is to abort the whole job? > >> > >>Short of that, is there any way Amanda could start up from where it left > >>off? > >> > >> > > > >Short answer - no. If the backups are in a holding disk they can > >still be flushed to tapes, but resume a backup no. > > > > > >Something in your report is amiss. If amanda had successfully > >used 6 tapes, it would have completed backing up and taping > >one or more of your 300GB DLE's. There is no reason a failed > >tape after that would invalidate those backups. And your > >report (emailed or available with amreport) would show that. > > > > Following is the report. It clearly says "FAILED" for all 4 filesystems > under "FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY" and sure enough, I could not > see any files using "amrecover". (I have done a test using one small > filesystem, and amrecover did work in that case, so I'm pretty confident > that my setup is good.) > > I did just notice that, at the very bottom, it does not indicate failure > for the two filesystems that were complete. I'm not sure what to make > of that. > > Thanks for your comments. (Oh and BTW, I was totally wrong about the > dump time, it was more like 20 hours) > > -Tom > > > > > > Hostname: waterbase > Org : GLWI > Config : fullback > Date : October 29, 2007 > > These dumps were to tapes GLWIBACK-001, GLWIBACK-002, GLWIBACK-003, > GLWIBACK-004, GLWIBACK-005, GLWIBACK-006. > *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No more writable valid tape found]. > Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. > Run amflush to flush them to tape. > The next 9 tapes Amanda expects to use are: 9 new tapes. > > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > waterbase.uwm.edu /media/raid2 lev 0 FAILED [out of tape] > waterbase.uwm.edu /media/raid2 lev 0 FAILED [data write: Broken pipe] > waterbase.uwm.edu / lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to > incremental dump] > waterbase.uwm.edu /media/raid2 lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed] > > > STATISTICS: > Total Full Incr. > -------- -------- -------- > Estimate Time (hrs:min) 1:00 > Run Time (hrs:min) 20:06 > Dump Time (hrs:min) 16:25 16:25 0:00 > Output Size (meg) 690435.5 690435.5 0.0 > Original Size (meg) 690351.3 690351.3 0.0 > Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- -- > Filesystems Dumped 2 2 0 > Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 11966.4 11966.4 -- > > Tape Time (hrs:min) 16:14 16:14 0:00 > Tape Size (meg) 690435.5 690435.5 0.0 > Tape Used (%) 665.3 665.3 0.0 > Filesystems Taped 2 2 0 > > Chunks Taped 3121 3121 0 > Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 12093.4 12093.4 -- > > USAGE BY TAPE: > Label Time Size % Nb Nc > GLWIBACK-001 3:01 130531776K 122.8 0 498 > GLWIBACK-002 3:10 135774016K 127.7 0 518 > GLWIBACK-003 3:01 123874432K 116.5 1 473 > GLWIBACK-004 3:05 143113152K 134.6 0 546 > GLWIBACK-005 2:56 124765312K 117.4 0 476 > GLWIBACK-006 3:38 159734400K 150.3 1 610 > > > FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: > > /-- waterbase.uwm.edu /media/raid2 lev 0 FAILED [data write: Broken pipe] > sendbackup: start [waterbase.uwm.edu:/media/raid2 level 0] > sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar > sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/tar -xpGf - ... > sendbackup: info end > | gtar: ./mysql_trans/mysql.sock: socket ignored > \-------- > > > NOTES: > planner: Adding new disk waterbase.uwm.edu:/. > planner: Adding new disk waterbase.uwm.edu:/media/raid0. > planner: Adding new disk waterbase.uwm.edu:/media/raid1. > planner: Adding new disk waterbase.uwm.edu:/media/raid2. > taper: mmap failed (Cannot allocate memory): using fallback split size > of 262144kb to buffer waterbase.uwm.edu:/media/raid1.0 in-memory > taper: tape GLWIBACK-001 kb 130547712 fm 499 writing file: short write > taper: continuing waterbase.uwm.edu:/media/raid1.0 on new tape from > 130547712kb mark: [writing file: short write] > taper: tape GLWIBACK-002 kb 135895488 fm 519 writing file: short write > taper: continuing waterbase.uwm.edu:/media/raid1.0 on new tape from > 266338304kb mark: [writing file: short write] > taper: mmap failed (Cannot allocate memory): using fallback split size > of 262144kb to buffer waterbase.uwm.edu:/media/raid0.0 in-memory > taper: tape GLWIBACK-003 kb 124064672 fm 474 writing file: short write > taper: continuing waterbase.uwm.edu:/media/raid0.0 on new tape from > 21233664kb mark: [writing file: short write] > taper: tape GLWIBACK-004 kb 143219328 fm 547 writing file: short write > taper: continuing waterbase.uwm.edu:/media/raid0.0 on new tape from > 164364288kb mark: [writing file: short write] > taper: tape GLWIBACK-005 kb 125018816 fm 477 writing file: short write > taper: continuing waterbase.uwm.edu:/media/raid0.0 on new tape from > 289144832kb mark: [writing file: short write] > taper: mmap failed (Cannot allocate memory): using fallback split size > of 262144kb to buffer waterbase.uwm.edu:/media/raid2.0 in-memory > taper: tape GLWIBACK-006 kb 159989024 fm 611 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 > -------------------------- ------------------------------------- > ------------- > waterbase.uw / 0 FAILED > -------------------------------------------- > waterbase.uw -edia/raid0 0 337970560 338011808 -- 466:31 12074.1 > 460:04 12245.2 > waterbase.uw -edia/raid1 0 368949150 368994176 -- 518:11 11866.7 > 514:18 11957.7 > waterbase.uw -edia/raid2 0 FAILED > -------------------------------------------- > > (brought to you by Amanda version 2.5.2p1) >
It appears to me that two DLE were successfully dumped and taped. jl -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)