I have frequently done an "ls" on my holding disk, and manually deleted files
and directories older than 7 days ago, which clearly amanda is not planning to
flush to tape. 7 days because I ran amanda nightly. Your time window is up
to you.
I'm not sure 'amcleanup -rv backup' gets everything. I had an "onboot" job
to send me email and remind me of that command, but perhaps I didn't reboot
often, or perhaps amanda didn't register those files any more.
If amanda hasn't flushed them during normal backups (assuming autoflush = ALL,
i think it is), then it isn't planning to. Manual deletions never hurt my
setup. If your holding disk isn't empty, but amanda sees nothing she wants to
backup, then I suggest a manual cleanup.
Deb Baddorf
retired from Fermilab
On Saturday, April 16, 2022, 01:27:15 PM EDT, Exuvo wrote:
My backup failed tonight as i forgot to turn on my tape drive before i went to
bed. Nothing was written to my dump drive as it was too full from a previous
aborted backup i had done.
When i woke up i turned on the tape drive and ran the backup again as i have
done before when this has happend, most DLEs ran fine but the one DLE i have
with 'holdingdisk required' failed as there was too little space left on the
holding disk.
I cleared out the holding disk and ran just that one failed DLE but it fails
instantly and i get:
FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY:
planner: FATAL find_est_for_dp return NULL
localhost storage RESULTS MISSING
I tried running 'amcleanup -rv backup' but it did not do anything:
# sudo -u amanda amcleanup -rv backup
amcleanup: pid 2972312 is done
amcleanup: pid 2972313 is done
amcleanup: pid 2972311 is done
amcleanup: pid 2972309 is done
amcleanup: pid 2972305 is done
amcleanup: no unprocessed logfile to clean up
I also tested removing 'holdingdisk required' from the affected DLE but same
result.
Any ideas about what i should try?
The logs don't seem to hold any more information (partial log from a RESULTS
MISSING run):
SENDING FLUSHES...
Cleaning up holding disk '/dumps/'
driver: adding holding disk 0 dir /dumps/ size 1949288448 chunksize
9007199254740896
ENDFLUSH
SETTING UP FOR ESTIMATES...
reserving 1949288448 out of 1949288448 for degraded-mode dumps
driver: taper taper0 storage backup-storage tape_size 1499463680
driver: started dumper0 pid 2972312
driver: send-cmd time 0.001 to dumper0: START 20220416185052
planner: time 0.000: setting up estimates for localhost:storage
driver: started dumper1 pid 2972313
driver: send-cmd time 0.001 to dumper1: START 20220416185052
setup_estimate: localhost:storage: command 0, options: none last_level 3
next_level0 14 level_days 1 getting estimates 0 (-3) 3 (-3) -1 (-3)
planner: time 0.001: setting up estimates took 0.000 secs
GETTING ESTIMATES...
planner: find_est_for_dp return NULL
driver: send-cmd time 0.001 to taper0: START-TAPER taper0 worker0-0
backup-storage 20220416185052
more about starting dumpers which never get used here until quitting.
-Mail report 03:14 with drive off-
Hostname: minerva
Org : exuvo
Config : backup
Date : april 16, 2022
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: ['/dev/tape/by-id/scsi-DEC8320699' not found].
Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
The next 2 tapes Amanda expects to use are: ROT09, ROT07.
FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY:
localhost efi lev 0 FAILED [can't dump 'holdingdisk never' dle in degraded
mode]
localhost boot lev 0 FAILED [can't dump 'holdingdisk never' dle in degraded
mode]
localhost root lev 1 FAILED [can't dump 'holdingdisk never' dle in degraded
mode]
localhost storage lev 3 FAILED [can't dump required holdingdisk when no
holdingdisk space available ]
localhost backup-minerva lev 0 FAILED [can't dump 'holdingdisk never' dle in
degraded mode]
localhost exuvo-desktop-root lev 1 FAILED [can't dump 'holdingdisk never'
dle in degraded mode]
localhost backup lev 0 FAILED [can't dump 'holdingdisk never' dle in
degraded mode]
STATISTICS:
Total Full Incr. Level:#
Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:15
Run Time (hrs:min) 0:15
Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00
Output Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Original Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- --
DLEs Dumped 0 0 0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s) -- -- --
Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00
Tape Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Tape Used (%) 0.0 0.0 0.0
DLEs Taped 0 0 0
Parts Taped 0 0 0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) -- -- --
NOTES:
planner: Last full dump of localhost:efi on tape ROT05 overwritten in 4 runs.
planner: Last full dump of localhost:boot on tape ROT05