[Amanda-users] Amanda backup problem - a tape error occured
Thanks for your prompt replies.
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:06 AM, mandaillou
amanda-forum at backupcentral.com wrote:
On the forum, I found people facing the same problem and the error was
related to the tapecycle. Mine is 12 and I have 12 reusable tapes.
Right -- if you're doing 14 backups (2 weeks, every day), you're not
going to fit that on 12 tapes. You need 15 tapes.
I wasn't clear enough. I run a backup every working day (monday to friday),
which means 10 backup per cycle so I guess 12 tapes is enough.
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
Furthermore, it looks like you don't have enough holding-disk space:
FAILED [no more holding disk space]
which is causing your dumps to go straight to tape, which isn't very
efficient.
I confess I haven't configurated this part. I understood (maybe I'm wrong) that
it would work anyway.
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
Furthermore, your tape only wrote a bit over 1G:
DailySet-05 2:11 1140224K 28.8 1 0
which is 28% of the length you specified in your tapetype definition.
Is there a problem with the tape? Or is the tapetype definition
incorrect?
I'm using 4Go tapes. They are all new and I have the same problem for every
tape. I've used amtapetype for amanda.conf configuration.
Below is the extract from amanda.conf related to the tapetype definition.
define tapetype HP-C1537A{
length 3868 mbytes
filemark 225 kbytes
speed 491 kps
}
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
mandaillou wrote:
Quote:
NOTES:
taper: tape DailySet-05 kb 1783648 fm 2 writing file: No space left on
device
The tape got full after 1783648 was written, you need bigger tape.
The capacity of all my tapes is 4Go. I feel like Amanda doesn't overwrite the
tape but just fill the tape until it's full and then exit with the previous
error message : The tape got full after 1783648 was written, you need bigger
tape.
PS:can anybody tell me why I can't see my original post but only the replies ?
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[Amanda-users] Amanda backup problem - a tape error occured
Hi everybody :D
This is my first post in this forum and maybe not the last.
I'm a newbie using Amanda and I'm facing a problem with my backup.
I'm working with Amanda 2.5.2p1.1 under RHEL 3.
My backup strategy is really simple :
- full backup every day on 1 tape
- dumpcycle : 2 weeks
- tapecycle : 12 tapes
The first cycle went ok but then when a tape has to be overwritten, I get the
following message :
These dumps were to tape DailySet-05.
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No more writable valid tape found].
Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
Run amflush to flush them to tape.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet-06.
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
asmtls2.sda-akka.net /opt/cvsroot/lev 0
FAILED [out of tape]
asmtls2.sda-akka.net /opt/cvsroot/lev 0
FAILED [data write: Broken pipe]
asmtls2.sda-akka.net /opt/cvsroot/lev 0
FAILED [dump to tape failed]
asmtls1.sda-akka.net /home/fer/ lev 1
FAILED [no more holding disk space]
asmtls1.sda-akka.net /UserBig/CVS_WORKSPACES/fer_cvs_workspaces/ lev 1
FAILED [no more holding disk space]
STATISTICS:
Total Full Incr.
Estimate Time (hrs:min)0:00
Run Time (hrs:min) 2:58
Dump Time (hrs:min)2:11 2:11 0:00
Output Size (meg)1113.5 1113.50.0
Original Size (meg) 1113.5 1113.50.0
Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- --
Filesystems Dumped1 1 0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 145.0 145.0--
Tape Time (hrs:min)2:11 2:11 0:00
Tape Size (meg) 1113.5 1113.50.0
Tape Used (%) 28.8 28.80.0
Filesystems Taped 1 1 0
Chunks Taped 0 0 0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 144.9 144.9--
USAGE BY TAPE:
Label Time Size %NbNc
DailySet-05 2:11 1140224K 28.8 1 0
FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
/-- asmtls2.sda-akka.net /opt/cvsroot/ lev 0 FAILED [data write: Broken
pipe]
sendbackup: start [asmtls2.sda-akka.net:/opt/cvsroot/ level 0]
sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/tar -xpGf - ...
sendbackup: info end
\
NOTES:
taper: tape DailySet-05 kb 1783648 fm 2 writing file: No space left on
device
DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATS TAPER
STATS
HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS
KB/s
--- -
-
asmtls1.sd -r_cvs_workspaces/ 1 FAILED
asmtls1.sd /UserBig/fer/ 0 1140200 1140224-- 131:06 144.9 131:06
144.9
asmtls1.sd /home/fer/ 1 FAILED
asmtls2.sd /opt/cvsroot/ 0 FAILED
(brought to you by Amanda version 2.5.2p1)
On the forum, I found people facing the same problem and the error was related
to the tapecycle. Mine is 12 and I have 12 reusable tapes.
Here is the tapelist from today, after the backup failure of last night:
20081219 DailySet-05 reuse
20081217 DailySet-04 reuse
20081216 DailySet-03 reuse
20081211 DailySet-02 reuse
20081210 DailySet-01 reuse
20081209 DailySet-12 reuse
20081204 DailySet-11 reuse
20081202 DailySet-10 reuse
20081201 DailySet-09 reuse
20081128 DailySet-08 reuse
20081127 DailySet-07 reuse
20081126 DailySet-06 reuse
From what I see, the tape 05 was the one to use and the rule the tape can't
be used again before (tapecycle-1) other tapes are used, is respected.
So I don't have any clue how to solve this problem.
Thanks in advance for your help and sorry for the english mistakes.
Sylvain
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