I am running amanda-server-1:2.5.2p1-1--i386 on Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy Heron, and backing up to vtapes. For about a week, I have gotten the following error messages in my reports:
dzur.localdomain /home lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed] taper: FATAL tape...@616: memory allocation failed (1073741824 bytes requested) taper: FATAL writer: Syncpipe failure before start ... NOTES: planner: Incremental of dzur.localdomain:/var bumped to level 2. taper: open of /crc/back/split_diskbuffer/splitdump_bufferfailed (No such file or directory): +using fallback split size of 1048576kb to buffer dzur.localdomain:/home.0 in-memory driver: taper pid 9554 exited with signal 6 ... dzur.localdo /home 0 FAILED -------------------------------------------- I was able to solve the second error message by creating the directory /crc/back/split_diskbuffer/ and changing its ownership to that of the user under which amanda runs: r...@chaffee:/crc/back# ll total 16 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 23 06:30 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 30 2008 .. drwxr-xr-x 10 backup backup 4096 Sep 23 07:24 amanda drwxr-xr-x 2 backup backup 4096 Sep 23 07:21 split_diskbuffer (Shouldn't split_diskbuffer be under the amanda directory for better information hiding? And if Amanda needs it, shouldn't it create it for itself?) I then ran amdump manually. I still got the taper allocation error message. I did not get the missing directory message. I did, however, get this: NOTES: driver: WARNING: This is not the first amdump run today. Enable the usetimestamps option in the +configuration file if you want to run amdump more than once per calendar day. taper: mmap failed (Cannot allocate memory): using fallback split size of 1048576kb to buffer +dzur.localdomain:/home.0 in-memory driver: taper pid 25816 exited with signal 6 and that backup still failed. The offending directory, minus an exclude that has worked well for over a year, is 19.5 G. I can probably cut that back a bit, but is there anything else I can do to remove this error. Would upgrading the server to 2.6.1p1 help? Thanks -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB