On Tuesday 30 October 2018 17:56:33 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 30 October 2018 16:45:50 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 15:51:36 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I just changed the length of the dumpcycle and runs percycle up to > > > 10, about last friday while I was makeing the bump* stuff more > > > attractive, but the above command returns that the are 5 > > > filesystens out of date: su amanda -c "/usr/local/sbin/amadmin > > > Daily balance" > > > > > > due-date #fs orig MB out MB balance > > > ---------------------------------------------- > > > 10/30 Tue 5 0 0 --- > > > 10/31 Wed 1 17355 8958 -45.3% > > > 11/01 Thu 2 10896 10887 -33.5% > > > 11/02 Fri 4 35944 9298 -43.2% > > > 11/03 Sat 4 14122 10835 -33.8% > > > 11/04 Sun 3 57736 57736 +252.7% > > > 11/05 Mon 2 39947 30635 +87.1% > > > 11/06 Tue 8 4235 4215 -74.3% > > > 11/07 Wed 4 19503 14732 -10.0% > > > 11/08 Thu 32 31783 16408 +0.2% > > > ---------------------------------------------- > > > TOTAL 65 231521 163704 16370 > > > (estimated 10 runs per dumpcycle) > > > (5 filesystems overdue. The most being overdue 20 days.) > > > > > > That last line is disturbing. Ideas anyone? I'll certainly keep an > > > eye on it. > > > > Did you already run today's (10/30's) dump? Assuming you are > > running one dump per day, running the "balance" command after the > > dump has occurred generates confusing output, because the output > > includes a line for today's date but actually no (new) dumps will be > > happening today. So if you are able to run the balance command > > before a particular day's dump (but on the day in question), the > > output is a little bit more helpful.... > > > > Anyway by "last line" are you talking about the "overdue" line? > > "amadmin ... due" should tell you which DLEs are overdue, and you > > can then look back through through your Amanda Mail Reports to see > > if there's any indication of why they are overdue (especially the > > one that's 20 days overdue...) > > > > Anyway, the other thing that jumps out from the above listing is the > > line for 11/4, with a balance of 250%. We can't tell from the > > listing what the relatives sizes of the three DLEs in question are, > > though. Here's where a true Amanda expert could advise you better, > > but off hand I'd guess that one particule one of those three DLEs is > > much larger than all the rest of your DLEs and that fact is making > > it hard for the planner to come up with 10 consecutive days of plans > > that when taken as a group actually work out to functional cycle.... > > > > ("amadmin ... due" should help you figure out which three DLEs are > > scheduled for that day, if you don't already know off hand which one > > is super large.) > > > > Hmmm, it would be interesting to know if the the super-large DLE is > > also the one that's 20 days overdue. Perhaps its so big it can't > > fit on a tape, or something? > > > > Nathan > > Its rigged to use 2 40GB vtapes if it has to. But I found some > amandates problems in my kicking the tires so we'll see what it does > for tonight's after midnight run. > And my perms & linkages fixes for amandates didn't help a bit, this morning after the run, its still showing the same 5 dle's as 21 days overdue.
I'll see if I can find the logs, I assume on the clients marked guilty? > Funny is that 5 machines are still running wheezy, but the default > names in both /etc/passwd and in /etc/group don't match! One of then > isn't a Wurlitzer, but since they were installed at different times > over the history here... Who knows and I'm too lazy to lock > in /var/cache/apt/archives to check versions. We'll see what happens > tonight. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > >-- ------ Nathan Stratton Treadway - natha...@ontko.com - > > Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services > > - > > http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: > > http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key > > fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239 > > Copyright 2018 by Maurice E. Heskett Copyright 2018 by Maurice E. Heskett -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>