Re: Backup issues with OpenBSD 4.5 machines

2009-09-02 Thread Michael Burk
This was a good idea; I tried it with one modification: I determined earlier that the failure happens without indexing also, so I added just the line: fcntl(datafd, F_GETFL, 0); and that fixed the problem as well. So I guess this is truly the minimal patch! -- Michael On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at

Re: Backup issues with OpenBSD 4.5 machines

2009-09-02 Thread Michael Burk
I modified sendbackup-dump.c to run ktrace, e.g.: /usr/bin/ktrace -id -t censw -f /tmp/sendbackup.trc /sbin/dump 0usf 1048576 - /dev/rsd0d Unfortunately, I don't get a backup, even with the patch applied. The trace output shows write errors because of a broken pipe with or without the patches,

Re: Backup issues with OpenBSD 4.5 machines

2009-09-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Michael Burkbur...@gmail.com wrote: So I suspect my approach is not correct. Any other ideas how I might get some useful trace output? Can you have amandad sleep for, say, 120 seconds just before it launches sendbackup, and somenow notify you of the pid to which

Estimate timeout

2009-09-02 Thread Brian Cuttler
Amanda 2.6.1 on Solaris 10/Sparc Amanda 2.6.1, Solaris 10x86 Server has 21 clients with a total of 109 DLEs. One of the client systems has 51 DLEs, 1 ufs and 50 zfs partitions. The partitions/DLE are all part of the same ZFS pool, which I believe (listening to another discussion earlier this

Re: very slow dumper (42.7KB/s)

2009-09-02 Thread Tom Robinson
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Tom Robinsontom.robin...@motec.com.au wrote: While the disk is reaching saturation (and recovering quickly) I'm thinking that the all the retransmissions would be slowing things down more. I don't see any errors on the client