Jean-Louis,
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:27:29AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> In case of hard failure, the post_dle_* scripts are not executed and the
> snapshot are not removed, you must removed them manually.
Not unreasonable, I'd just wanted to ask
- a situation we will strive to avoid.
thank you,
Brian
> Jean-Louis
>
> Brian Cuttler wrote:
> >Jean-Louis,
> >
> >On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:15:48AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> >
> >>Amanda should remove the snapshot. It's a bug if it doesn't.
> >>
> >>The pre_dle_* scripts create the snapshot and the post_dle_* scripts
> >>remove them. Do you configured the post_dle_* scripts?
> >>
> >
> >I'm not sure how to answer that question. I did no script tuning
> >but certainly did include the block of code that starts with
> > "define script-tool script_zfs_snapshot"
> > (also the application-tool app_amgtar and the snapshot dumptype)
> >in amanda.conf and the snapshot DLEs come and go as expected when
> >amanda runs normally. This was an exceptional type of failure that
> >was entirely our fault.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> >>Jean-Louis
> >>
> >>Brian Cuttler wrote:
> >>
> >>>Amanda 2.6.1p1 on Solaris 10/x86.
> >>>
> >>>We have been running great! However because of problems outside
> >>>the scope of amanda, our work area failing, we have moved the
> >>>work area to a portion of our ZFS file system.
> >>>
> >>>This has worked great for us, however (why is there always a but
> >>>or however...) for reasons outside of amanda, we have implemented
> >>>daily snapshots to allow online recovery of data, rather than
> >>>recovery from tape (we still have offsite backups, which makes
> >>>me very happy).
> >>>
> >>>Unfortunately the automated code to remove the snapshots from
> >>>the amanda work area isn't in place (again, not an amanda problem).
> >>>
> >>>This did however result in our inability to remove files from the
> >>>work area because the snapshot area ended up consuming the available
> >>>disk quota for amanda on that partition.
> >>>
> >>>At that point amanda failed, inexplicably having no disk space to
> >>>write in, yet being unable to remove files that had been flushed
> >>>to tape - really a situation that shouldn't every happen.
> >>>
> >>>The amanda question (now that our setup is out of the way) is
> >>>the amanda snapshots of the DLEs amanda was still trying to dump.
> >>>
> >>>These snapshots survive passed the end of the amanda run. I suppose
> >>>being removed by the wind down of subsequent amanda runs ?
> >>>
> >>>cascadep/export/rc...@amanda-_cascadep_export_rcole-current 0 -
> >>>164G -
> >>>cascadep/export/sh...@amanda-_cascadep_export_shain-current 0 -
> >>>377G -
> >>>
> >>>Anyway, does or should amanda have a mechanism to remove these
> >>>snapshots, either at time of failure or...
> >>>
> >>> thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Brian
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