Degraded dump in amanda 3.5.2

Pablo Venini <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:17:56 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi, I'm setting up a new backup server with amanda 3.5.2 on CentOS 7 
with vtapes. I've setup the vtapes directories, created the job and 
added the dlc, checked permissions, then run amcheck and it shows no 
errors. However when I run amdump, only one of the dlc gets backed up, 
the other ones give a "can't do degraded dump without holding disk" 
error. The config is:

amanda.conf

org "monitoreo10_diario"                # your organization name for 
reports
dumpuser "amandabackup" # the user to run dumps under
mailto "yyyyy@xxxxx"        # space separated list of operators at your 
site
dumpcycle 1week         # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
tapecycle 8     # the number of tapes in rotation
runspercycle 7          # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days

define changer my_vtapes {
     tpchanger "chg-disk:/backups/amanda/vtape/diarios/monitoreo10_diario/"
     property "num-slot" "8"
     property "auto-create-slot" "yes"
}
dtimeout 1800   # number of idle seconds before a dump is aborted
ctimeout 30     # max number of secconds amcheck waits for each client
etimeout 300    # number of seconds per filesystem for estimates
define dumptype global {
        comment "Global definitions"
        auth "bsdtcp"
}
define dumptype gui-base {
        global
        program "GNUTAR"
        comment "gui base dumptype dumped with tar"
        compress none
        index yes
}
define tapetype HARDDISK {
        comment "Virtual Tapes"
        length 5000 mbytes
}

define policy monitoreo10_diario {
     retention-tapes   8
     retention-days    0
     retention-recover 0
     retention-full    0
}

define storage monitoreo10_diario {
     policy "monitoreo10_diario" # the policy
     tapepool "monitoreo10_diario"       # the tape-pool
     tpchanger "my_vtapes"       # the changer
     runtapes 1          # number of tapes to be used in a single run of 
amdump
     tapetype "HARDDISK" # what kind of tape it is
     labelstr "monitoreo10_diario"       # label constraint regex: all 
tapes must match
     #autolabel
     #meta-autolabel
     taperscan "traditional"
     #max-dle-volume 1000000
     #taperalgo first
     #taper-parallel-write 1
}
storage "monitoreo10_diario"

includefile "advanced.conf"
includefile "/etc/amanda/template.d/dumptypes"
includefile "/etc/amanda/template.d/tapetypes"


disklist

zzzzzzz.yyy.xx /etc sm-encrypt-compress
zzzzzzz.yyy.xx /usr/local/bin sm-encrypt-compress
zzzzzzz.yyy.xx /var/lib/amanda sm-encrypt-compress
zzzzzzz.yyy.xx /usr/libexec/amanda/application sm-encrypt-compress


logs

ANALYZING ESTIMATES...
pondering zzzzzzz.yyy.xx:/usr/libexec/amanda/application... next_level0 
-19335 last_level -1 (due for level 0) (new disk, can't switch to 
degraded mode)
   curr level 0 nsize 300 csize 150 total size 249 total_lev0 150 
balanced-lev0size 21
pondering zzzzzzz.yyy.xx:/var/lib/amanda... next_level0 -19335 
last_level -1 (due for level 0) (new disk, can't switch to degraded mode)
   curr level 0 nsize 390 csize 195 total size 477 total_lev0 345 
balanced-lev0size 48
pondering zzzzzzz.yyy.xx:/usr/local/bin... next_level0 -19335 last_level 
-1 (due for level 0) (new disk, can't switch to degraded mode)
   curr level 0 nsize 10 csize 5 total size 515 total_lev0 350 
balanced-lev0size 48
pondering zzzzzzz.yyy.xx:/etc... next_level0 -19335 last_level -1 (due 
for level 0) (new disk, can't switch to degraded mode)
   curr level 0 nsize 31490 csize 15745 total size 16293 total_lev0 
16095 balanced-lev0size 2297


DUMP zzzzzzz.yyy.xx ffffffff9efefbfffffffffffffff3fffbf79f00 /etc 
20221208211442 19336 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 31490 15745 15 1024 "Skipping: new 
disk can't be dumped in degraded mode"
DUMP zzzzzzz.yyy.xx ffffffff9efefbfffffffffffffff3fffbf79f00 
/var/lib/amanda 20221208211442 19336 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 390 195 0 1024 
"Skipping: new disk can't be dumped in degraded mode"
DUMP zzzzzzz.yyy.xx ffffffff9efefbfffffffffffffff3fffbf79f00 
/usr/libexec/amanda/application 20221208211442 19336 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 
300 150 0 1024 "Skipping: new disk can't be dumped in degraded mode"
DUMP zzzzzzz.yyy.xx ffffffff9efefbfffffffffffffff3fffbf79f00 
/usr/local/bin 20221208211442 19336 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 10 5 0 1024 
"Skipping: new disk can't be dumped in degraded mode"


report


FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY:
zzzzzzz.yyy.xx /etc lev 0  FAILED [can't do degraded dump without 
holding disk]
zzzzzzz.yyy.xx /var/lib/amanda lev 0  FAILED [can't do degraded dump 
without holding disk]
zzzzzzz.yyy.xx /usr/libexec/amanda/application lev 0  FAILED [can't do 
degraded dump without holding disk]

DUMP SUMMARY:
                       DUMPER STATS   TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME                      DISK                            L ORIG-GB  
OUT-GB  COMP%  MMM:SS   KB/s MMM:SS   KB/s
--------------------------------------------------------------- 
---------------------- -------------- -------------
zzzzzzz.yyy.xx /etc          FAILED
zzzzzzz.yyy.xx /usr/libexec/amanda/application           FAILED
zzzzzzz.yyy.xx /usr/local/bin                  0       0       0  10.0  
   0:02    0.4   0:00    0.0
zzzzzzz.yyy.xx /var/lib/amanda           FAILED


Only one of the dlc gets backed up (/usr/local/bin) even though they are 
all on the same host (the amanda server). I've tried running jobs with 
dlc on other servers and the result is the same, only one of the dlc 
gets backed up

Any idea what could be causing this?

Yours

Pablo