Re: amanda refuses to use tapes
Hello, * Jon LaBadie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20030330 17:02] thus spake: On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 03:32:52PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hi, I have amanda version 2.4.3b4-20020829 running on a SGI Origin2000 since last September and even I had a few problems (mainly I was hitting known bugs with tar and exclude lists) the last one just got me stumped and I can't clearly anymore even though I know the answer must be staring at me right in the eyes... Essentially amanda is telling that she wants a new tape and she refuses to backup to tape but the tapes in the library should be used according to the amanda.conf dumpcycle, runspercycle and tapecycle (see below). here's the output of amcheck: Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /holddisk/conf1: 35836836 KB disk space available, using 35836836 KB [...] amcheck-server: slot 1: date 20030217 label 01 (active tape) [...] ERROR: new tape not found in rack (expecting a new tape) NOTE: skipping tape-writable test Server check took 950.340 seconds -- amanda.conf -- dumpcycle 2 weeks runspercycle 14 tapecycle 40 tapes This should be the total number of tapes you want to have in circulation. Amanda will not reuse any tape until it has used this many different tapes. I'm guessing you have used the 10 in the changer but no others. Tape 01 will not be used again until 30 more tapes are used. did you looked at the dates on the 40 tapes for the stk_40-conf1 in the tapelist file? They should be reused. Look at tape 01: 20030217 01 reuse Last time it was used was 17-feb-2003, more than 40 days ago! Amanda shoud use it, no? I thought I understood what makes a tape 'active' but obviuosly I got it wrongWhen, for instance, will tape 01 status change from active with the above conf variables? BTW, Amanda is configured to use the first 10 slots of the changer (but see below) and the contain tape 01 to 10. runtapes 10 This is the number of tapes amanda is allowed to use in a single huge amdump or amflush session. It will not use more tapes than it needs to hold the session, but it may use 10 in a single run. yep, that's what I want! I have over 800GB of disk space in that conf, all splitted in disklist in chunks of 100GB or less so that each iamge can fit on one tape... worst case that can happen is a full for all, in which case up to 8 or 9 tapes could be needed to fit them all. tpchanger chg-zd-mtx tapedev /hw/tape/tps12d1nrnsv rawtapedev /dev/null changerfile /opt/amanda/amanda1/etc/amanda/stk_40-conf1/stk_40 Does this naming mean the library holds 40 tapes? And are all 40 labeled tapes in the library? The library has 40 slots and 4 LTO tapedrives but only slots 1 to 10 and tape 0 are used for the conf 'stk_40-conf1'. I have 4 amanda configurations (stk_40-conf[1234]), one drive and 10 slots for each. Here's my conf details for conf1. (the other confs used different tcp and udp portrange so I have essentially duplicated 4 times the amanda setup with partionned ports, drives and slots range) amandad: version 2.4.3b4-20020829 amandad: build: VERSION=Amanda-2.4.3b4-20020829 amandad:BUILT_DATE=Thu Aug 29 16:19:48 EDT 2002 amandad:BUILT_MACH=IRIX64 feeble 6.5 10100655 IP27 CC=cc amandad:CONFIGURE_COMMAND='./configure' '--prefix=/opt/amanda/amanda1' '--with-user=amanda' '--with-group=sys' '--with-testing=conf1' '--with-tcpportrange=16384,16895' '--with-udpportrange=739,802' '--with-tape-device=/hw/tape/tps12d1nrnsv' '--with-changer-device=/dev/changer' '--with-gnutar=/usr/freeware/bin/tar' '--with-tape-server=bullcalf' '--with-index-server=bullcalf' '--with-config=stk_40-conf1' amandad: paths: bindir=/opt/amanda/amanda1/bin amandad:sbindir=/opt/amanda/amanda1/sbin amandad:libexecdir=/opt/amanda/amanda1/libexec amandad:mandir=/opt/amanda/amanda1/man amandad:AMANDA_TMPDIR=/tmp/amanda AMANDA_DBGDIR=/tmp/amanda amandad:CONFIG_DIR=/opt/amanda/amanda1/etc/amanda amandad:DEV_PREFIX=/dev/dsk/ RDEV_PREFIX=/dev/rdsk/ amandad:DUMP=/sbin/dump RESTORE=/sbin/restore amandad:XFSDUMP=/sbin/xfsdump XFSRESTORE=/sbin/xfsrestore amandad:GNUTAR=/usr/freeware/bin/tar amandad:COMPRESS_PATH=/usr/sbin/gzip amandad:UNCOMPRESS_PATH=/usr/sbin/gzip MAILER=/usr/sbin/Mail amandad: listed_incr_dir=/opt/amanda/amanda1/var/amanda/gnutar-lists amandad: defs: DEFAULT_SERVER=bullcalf DEFAULT_CONFIG=stk_40-conf1 amandad:DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER=bullcalf amandad:DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE=/hw/tape/tps12d1nrnsv HAVE_MMAP amandad:HAVE_SYSVSHM LOCKING=POSIX_FCNTL SETPGRP_VOID DEBUG_CODE amandad:AMANDA_DEBUG_DAYS=4 BSD_SECURITY USE_AMANDAHOSTS amandad:CLIENT_LOGIN=amanda FORCE_USERID HAVE_GZIP amandad:COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz COMPRESS_FAST_OPT=--fast amandad:
Re: amanda refuses to use tapes
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 05:32:27PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hello, * Jon LaBadie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20030330 17:02] thus spake: On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 03:32:52PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hi, I have amanda version 2.4.3b4-20020829 running on a SGI Origin2000 since last September and even I had a few problems (mainly I was hitting known bugs with tar and exclude lists) the last one just got me stumped and I can't clearly anymore even though I know the answer must be staring at me right in the eyes... Essentially amanda is telling that she wants a new tape and she refuses to backup to tape but the tapes in the library should be used according to the amanda.conf dumpcycle, runspercycle and tapecycle (see below). here's the output of amcheck: did you looked at the dates on the 40 tapes for the stk_40-conf1 in the tapelist file? They should be reused. Look at tape 01: 20030217 01 reuse Now that you mention it, did you look at the bottom of the list: 20030220 04 reuse 20030219 03 reuse 20030218 02 reuse 20030217 01 reuse 20030212 40 reuse Tape 40 has not been used since much earlier than any other tape in the tapelist. Did you perhaps reset things between 2/12 and 2/17? Amanda seems to want to use tape 40 or a new tape. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: amanda refuses to use tapes
Hi again, * Jon LaBadie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20030330 19:10] thus spake: On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 05:32:27PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hello, * Jon LaBadie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20030330 17:02] thus spake: On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 03:32:52PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hi, I have amanda version 2.4.3b4-20020829 running on a SGI Origin2000 since last September and even I had a few problems (mainly I was hitting known bugs with tar and exclude lists) the last one just got me stumped and I can't clearly anymore even though I know the answer must be staring at me right in the eyes... Essentially amanda is telling that she wants a new tape and she refuses to backup to tape but the tapes in the library should be used according to the amanda.conf dumpcycle, runspercycle and tapecycle (see below). here's the output of amcheck: did you looked at the dates on the 40 tapes for the stk_40-conf1 in the tapelist file? They should be reused. Look at tape 01: 20030217 01 reuse Now that you mention it, did you look at the bottom of the list: 20030220 04 reuse 20030219 03 reuse 20030218 02 reuse 20030217 01 reuse 20030212 40 reuse Tape 40 has not been used since much earlier than any other tape in the tapelist. Did you perhaps reset things between 2/12 and 2/17? Amanda seems to want to use tape 40 or a new tape. I did a number of things :) First, while on holidays backups timed out for a period of 3 weeks and my assistants could not find out why. Turned out that 'etimeout' was too small. Right after that I realized that one critical filesystem had only one full backup image left on tape (40) and, as things go bad in cluster, that filesystem experienced corruption, or so it seemed at the time. Turns out that one user with elevated privileges messed up. So, while we digged for the error I reserved tape 00040 with 'amadmin stk_40-conf1 no-reuse 40'. After that, amanda always complained about using it or a new tape *or* tapes 01 to 10. regards, jf -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: amanda refuses to use tapes
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 08:09:20PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hi again, * Jon LaBadie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20030330 19:10] thus spake: On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 05:32:27PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hello, did you looked at the dates on the 40 tapes for the stk_40-conf1 in the tapelist file? They should be reused. Look at tape 01: 20030217 01 reuse Now that you mention it, did you look at the bottom of the list: 20030220 04 reuse 20030219 03 reuse 20030218 02 reuse 20030217 01 reuse 20030212 40 reuse Tape 40 has not been used since much earlier than any other tape in the tapelist. Did you perhaps reset things between 2/12 and 2/17? Amanda seems to want to use tape 40 or a new tape. I did a number of things :) First, while on holidays backups timed out for a period of 3 weeks and my assistants could not find out why. Turned out that 'etimeout' was too small. Right after that I realized that one critical filesystem had only one full backup image left on tape (40) and, as things go bad in cluster, that filesystem experienced corruption, or so it seemed at the time. Turns out that one user with elevated privileges messed up. So, while we digged for the error I reserved tape 00040 with 'amadmin stk_40-conf1 no-reuse 40'. After that, amanda always complained about using it or a new tape *or* tapes 01 to 10. If I understand correctly, you labeled and had 40 tapes in circulation and had a tapecycle of 40. Then you removed one from circulation reducing the number to 39. Seems likely that is the reason amanda is asking for a new tape, to get the number back up to 40. Did you amlabel a new tape? If so, that is the one it wants to use, though I do not see it in your tapelist. I see 40 shows in your tapelist as reuse, not no-reuse. Did you try to amlabel it 40 again? Remembering to use the -f option? Or did you just hand edit the tapelist file? But it seems to me that amanda wants to use tape 40 if it believes 40 is back in circulation, or a newly labeled (relabeled) tape if it thinks there are only 39 tapes in circulation. But clearly not tapes 01 to 10. jl -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
