Re: two dumps, when combines, larger than the holding disk

2008-04-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Sven, Jordan I swear i already tested it and it behaved as i explained. It was in the 2.4.x timeframe. I found the bug Jordan hit and it will not be easy to fix, amandad get hung trying to write data for one dle and doesn't proceed the other dle. - two DLEs on the same client. - bsd (or bsdu

Re: two dumps, when combines, larger than the holding disk

2008-04-29 Thread Sven Rudolph
Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jordan Desroches wrote: >> Dear Amanda community, >> >> I am running two dumpers simultaneously, and using software >> compression. The estimates of the compression are not exact, and >> I've been running into a problem where the two DLEs AMANDA c

Re: two dumps, when combines, larger than the holding disk

2008-04-28 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 02:12:40PM -0400, Jordan Desroches wrote: > Well, it must have hit SOME timeout, because after a few hours, it > AMANDA did exactly as Jean-Louis said it would. So all's good :-) That is good news, better than forcing single threading and apparently not in the version I

Re: two dumps, when combines, larger than the holding disk

2008-04-28 Thread Jordan Desroches
Well, it must have hit SOME timeout, because after a few hours, it AMANDA did exactly as Jean-Louis said it would. So all's good :-) Thanks so much for your help! Jordan On Apr 28, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Amanda should stop one of the dle, terminate the second, write i

Re: two dumps, when combines, larger than the holding disk

2008-04-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Amanda should stop one of the dle, terminate the second, write it to tape and restart the first dle. Which release are you using? Can you post the amdump log file? Jean-Louis Jordan Desroches wrote: Dear Amanda community, I am running two dumpers simultaneously, and using software compressi

Re: two dumps, when combines, larger than the holding disk

2008-04-28 Thread Brian Cuttler
Unclear, you have two concurrent amdump tasks running or you have two DLE's running concurrently (which is really the goal). For concurrent amdump tasks. I've had that problem only when sharing my holding partition with other jobs, either users or with competing amanda jobs (yes, I do do some reco

two dumps, when combines, larger than the holding disk

2008-04-28 Thread Jordan Desroches
Dear Amanda community, I am running two dumpers simultaneously, and using software compression. The estimates of the compression are not exact, and I've been running into a problem where the two DLEs AMANDA chooses to dump are bigger when combined than the holding disk. The holding disk fil