I am trying to get amanda-3.1.1 up and running on a Sun Solaris 10 x86 host.
The problem is that amanda is not using the holdingdisk configured in
amanda.conf.
To check this I set the global dumptype "holdingdisk required" and then ran an
amdump.
This is the email output:
Hostname: hertz.math.purdue.edu
Org : DAILY BACKUP - MATHNET
Config : daily
Date : July 1, 2010
The next 4 tapes Amanda expects to use are: 4 new tapes.
The next 4 new tapes already labelled are: D01003, D01004, D01005,
D01006 FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY:
hertz /gauss/export/users-q RESULTS MISSING
hertz /gauss/export/users-q lev 0 FAILED [can't dump required
holdingdisk]
I ran the same backup dumptype "holdingdisk yes" and it ran to completion but
it did not write to the holding disk but sent directly to tape.
Can you see any reason why the holding disk is not being used?
And amstatus shows
6 dumpers idle : no-diskspace
taper status: Idle
taper qlen: 0
network free kps: 1000000
holding space : 0m ( 0.00%)
0 dumpers busy : 0:00:37 ( 97.08%) not-idle: 0:00:37
(100.00%)
This is a snippets from my amanda.conf file
define holdingdisk hd1 {
comment "holding disk"
directory "/zvol/amanda/holdingdisk/daily"
use 700GB
chunksize 10GB
}
flush-threshold-dumped 185
flush-threshold-scheduled 180
taperflush 100
#taperflush 0
autoflush yes
# You may want to use this for globally enabling or disabling
# indexing, recording, etc. Some examples:
comment "Global Definitions"
compress none
index yes
record yes
holdingdisk required
estimate calcsize
maxdumps 2
auth "bsdtcp"
}
When I was running amanda 2.6.1p2 this was not a problem. This stated happening
when I moved to 3.1.1.
Any ideas why Amanda 3.1.1 will not use the holdingdisk?
Thanks
Robert
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