Hi:
I have amanda 2.5.1p3 running on a server and amanda 2.6.1p1 on the client
in this case. I set up 3 "virtual tapes" on disk with a 3 week
"dumpcycle" and a 3 tape "tapecycle". I then saw somewhere that you
should have one more tape in your tapecycle than in your dumpcycle, so I
added one.
I am doing level 0 full backups only, but not yet on a regular basis for
these hosts. Because I had a failure the first time, I added this to my
amanda.conf:
usetimestamps yes # allow more than one run per day
However, one of the filesystems still failed to back up. Furthermore, it
used 3 different virtual tapes for this run, even though I set:
runtapes 1 # number of tapes to be used in a single run
Here was the report:
These dumps were to tape NS3_4.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: NS3_1.
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
ns3.pil.net /dev/mirror/gm0s1g lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]
STATISTICS:
Total Full Incr.
-------- -------- --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:02
Run Time (hrs:min) 1:20
Dump Time (hrs:min) 1:12 1:12 0:00
Output Size (meg) 1830.7 1830.7 0.0
Original Size (meg) 4943.6 4943.6 0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%) 37.0 37.0 --
Filesystems Dumped 3 3 0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 436.8 436.8 --
Tape Time (hrs:min) 1:18 1:18 0:00
Tape Size (meg) 1830.7 1830.7 0.0
Tape Used (%) 3.1 3.1 0.0
Filesystems Taped 5 5 0
Chunks Taped 0 0 0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 402.7 402.7 --
USAGE BY TAPE:
Label Time Size % Nb Nc
NS3_4 1:18 1874624k 3.1 5 0
NOTES:
planner: tapecycle (4) <= runspercycle (21)
planner: Last full dump of ns3.pil.net:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a on tape NS3_0
overwritten in 4 runs.
planner: Last full dump of ns3.pil.net:/dev/mirror/gm0s1g on tape NS3_3
overwritten in 2 runs.
planner: Preventing bump of ns3.pil.net:/dev/mirror/gm0s1g as directed.
planner: Last full dump of ns3.pil.net:/dev/mirror/gm0s1e on tape NS3_0
overwritten in 4 runs.
planner: Last full dump of ns3.pil.net:/dev/mirror/gm0s1f on tape NS3_2
overwritten in 3 runs.
driver: ns3.pil.net /dev/mirror/gm0s1g 0 [dump to tape failed, will try
again]
taper: tape NS3_4 kb 1874720 fm 5 [OK]
DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATS TAPER
STATS
HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-kB OUT-kB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS
KB/s
-------------------------- -------------------------------------
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ns3.pil.net -ror/gm0s1a 0 2478757 923072 37.2 34:31 445.7 34:32
445.5
ns3.pil.net -ror/gm0s1e 0 2436963 907008 37.2 35:06 430.7 35:07
430.5
ns3.pil.net -ror/gm0s1f 0 146506 44544 30.4 1:55 388.1 1:56
385.2
ns3.pil.net -ror/gm0s1g 0 FAILED
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(brought to you by Amanda version 2.5.1p3)
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What's the best way to straighten out this mess, and have each backup dump
to one tape and back up everything?
Thanks,
James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
u...@3.am http://3.am
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