Re: Problem with iso generation (long time and wrong size)

2017-01-06 0:45 GMT+01:00 Bruno Cornec <[email protected]>:

> Hello,
>
> Marco Marino said on Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 01:16:52PM +0100:
> >Hi, I'm new to mondoarchive/mondorescue so I'm sorry if this is a stupid
> >question.
>
> I raely think that people have stupid questions. And honestly if I find
> the question very basic, I do not answer to let other contributors who may
> have more time and enough knowlede to answer do it. But I don't hink your
> questions are that basic, so I answer ;-)
>
> >1) it seems that .iso size is only 2.3G and not 4.4 as indicated by -s .
>
> -s indicates the maximum size a media can have. When reaching that point a
> new media will be created.
>

Ok..... but Why I have 20 files of 2.3G each and 1 file (last file) of
4.2G? I'm just curious....


>
> >2) I have a message: ---progress-form---4--- TASK:  [*...................]
> >  1% done; 2076:54 to go
> >
> >It seems a long time for a disk like this:
>
> Yes I agree. However, sometimes it takes a bit of time for the estimation
> to become correct. And in booth senses. Sometimes it will take a bit/much
> more or sometimes much less.
> Yuo should let it go to at least 5-10% to check.
>
> You're right. Complete image done in around 5 hours. One strange thing is
that there is almost no compression at all: 51GB used on the disk, 49GB of
iso files. On other servers I'm using -6 with a more satisfiable
compression ratio. On probable explanation could be that there are a lot of
"uncompressable" files on the server.



> >more than 30 hours for the iso?? on other servers with similar size it
> >needs only 4/6 hours...  why?
>
> Maybe also you have very large files with holes, that are worngly
> supported by afio, so you may want to use star with -R.
> Can't say for sure without logs.
>

As I told above, full image done in around 5 hours.


>
> >3) In mondoarchive.log I have a lot of
> >File descriptor 5 (/var/log/mondoarchive.log) leaked on lvm invocation.
> >Parent PID 19620: /bin/bash
> >File descriptor 6 (/var/log/mondoarchive.log) leaked on lvm invocation.
> >Parent PID 19620: /bin/bash
>
> Yes. Fixed in 3.3.0 (beta soon available if you want to try under
> ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/test/rhel/5).
>

I need a stable release...... I'm using the software on production software
and unfortunately I cannot do too much tries....


>
> Bruno.
>

Thank you Bruno for you help




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