Re: Some questions about Amanda's emailing of backup reports

2005-03-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
L PROTECTED], and I'd like to change this. > > Second, is there a way to have Amanda log its reports to a file > instead of (or in addition to) emailing them? I'd accomplish this by running amanda in a script, and running 'amreport' at the end of the script. See 'man

Re: 20Gb tape not full

2005-03-14 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
nd the 5Gb mark. Here's what I think are the relevant > parts of my amanda.conf: No, it hit EOT at about the 16GB mark as indicated in the line from taper above. That would indicate to me that you have hardware compression enabled in addition to software compression. Don't do that. --

Re: Backup retention time?

2005-03-16 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
y recommended to have tapecycle be at least 1.5 * runspercycle, as amanda *will* overwrite a tape with active images on it (but it will complain loudly about doing so). -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Amanda on Redhat, tape drive question

2005-03-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
, id 0, lun 0, type 8 > Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 > scsi : 2 hosts left. So, your changer is /dev/sg1 and your tape drive should be /dev/{n}st0. Make sure -- what's the output of 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi'? What does 'mtx -f /dev/sg1 status' say? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Amanda on Redhat, tape drive question

2005-03-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 at 3:21pm, Brian Cuttler wrote > On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 02:30:58PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 at 10:38am, Brian Cuttler wrote > > > > > The system we have attached it to is running kernel 2.4.20-24 on > > >

Re: Amanda on Redhat, tape drive question

2005-03-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
a line in there like this: alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx If that is in there, again, check /var/log/messages for SCSI errors. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Amanda on Redhat, tape drive question

2005-03-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
mediate makedev command that should have but didn't > run when it was expected to ? The whole problem is that the drivers *aren't* loaded now. If you just 'modprobe aic7xxx' then all should be well. I'm just not sure why they seem to have been loaded upon boot, but

Re: Amanda on Redhat, tape drive question

2005-03-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
fused about. The line in modules.conf should be enough -- although you may need to do an 'mkinitrd' to "make it stick". Enjoy. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

RE: Amanda on Redhat, tape drive question

2005-03-22 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
ade symlinks for /dev/changer which points to > /dev/sg3 and /dev/tape which points to /dev/nst0. The mtx and mt > commands will default to these devices (/dev/changer and /dev/tape) > respectively. You can also use environment variables -- $CHANGER for mtx and $TAPE for mt. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Determining appropriate backup strategy

2005-04-01 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
protection. Note also that all of the above assumes runtapes=1. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: your mail

2005-04-04 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
returns that RTFEM. You're trying to use dump to backup something that isn't a full filesystem. Don't do that. Use tar instead. And search the archives, this is a FAQ. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Difference between amrecover and amrestore

2005-04-05 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
> 2) for bad knowledge amanda, I the beginner > Thankful in advance for the answer. Read docs/RESTORE in the amanda tarball. It explains how to restore data using everything from amrecover to mt/dd. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: amreport formatting email

2005-04-05 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
KB/s MMM:SS KB/s > -- - > localhost/home/SAMBA 0 3120322019940572 63.9 131:152532.1 131:152532.0 > > I would like to switch output values to gigabyte or > set up more space so the digits don't get messed up. FAQ. Look for "columnspec" in your ama

Re: If the owner not amanda.......

2005-04-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
; script. For dump backups, you need to make sure the amanda user has read permissions on the raw disk devices. On Linux, e.g., I do this by putting the amanda user in the 'disk' group. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Bacula comparison

2005-04-09 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
need to get over that issue even sticking with amanda and investigate the spanning patch (given tools like Knoppix with room to spare for new utilities), but it's just such a comforting feeling. Anyway, that's my $0.02. I looked, but didn't even come close to leaping. -- Joshua

RE: Large Amanda installations

2005-04-09 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
s, two configs, and runtapes=1, they're always done in the early AM. As to the original question, I've got ~4.8TB of used space over 4 servers (out of ~5.2GB formatted space), and back it up using a 2 drive, 19 slot AIT3 changer. With a new 6TB server arriving Monday, I'm look

Re: Tar versions

2005-04-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
ores, but if there > are some subtle changes I might not notice until it's too late ;-). ISTR some discussions in the past of 1.14 being OK. Check the archives -- I think it was Gene. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

RE: Large Amanda installations

2005-04-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
now without juke. Native support would indeed be nice. One limitation of my current setup is that any one client can only be in one of the configs. Well, you could get around that by compiling two amanda binaries on such clients as well as the server, but that's a bit ugly. -- Joshua Baker

Re: splitting DLE's

2005-04-12 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
anda think it is a pathname to the device/directory. Perhaps > if there is no leading slash it will pick up the 3rd field as the device. My 4 part DLEs have slashes in fields 2 and 3, so it should work. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Please check and confirm my Daily Config and Monthly Config.

2005-04-20 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
# the number of days in the normal dump cycle > # (full backup at start of month, automatically) > runspercycle 0 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days > # (0 means identical to dumpcycle) > tapecycle 12 tapes# the number of tapes in rotation 12

Re: amanda daily and monthly crontab -e entries

2005-04-20 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
su amanda -c /local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin/amcheck > MonthlySet1 Again -- you're running your amcheck *after* the amdump... -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: very large dumps in holding area

2005-04-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
-- the line in the NOTES section from taper. What's that line look like? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: very large dumps in holding area

2005-04-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
/c they are estimated to be bigger than 'tapelength' in your tapetype. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: very large dumps in holding area

2005-04-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
ufacturers' claims of 2X compression (or 2.6X in the case of Sony and AIT) are, in general, a pipe dream. The advantage of hardware compression is the saved CPU cycles. Clearer? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Exclude list and disklist

2005-04-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
t amdump run redo the dump not to include that directory or only only > when it detects more changes in that directory? Would it exclude the > list, or I should restart some of the amanda processes? Amanda leaves no processes running between dumps. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Exclude list and disklist

2005-04-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
this is entered: exclude list ".amanda.excludes" the actual file use would be /var/.amanda.excludes for a backup of /var, /usr/local/.amanda.excludes for a backup of /usr/local, and so on. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Amanda and Star

2005-04-25 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
ves acl's. Not yet. If you look on <http://dump.sourceforge.net/>, there's a patch in testing that's supports EA/ACL, but it's not in mainline yet. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Amanda and Star

2005-04-25 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
ls.txt $DIR_WITH_ACLS'. Of course, I also make sure that /home/amanda is getting backed up -- otherwise put the ACL file somewhere else. If I have a whole FS that's not too big and needs ACLs, I'll often format it XFS and use xfsdump for just this reason. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Amrecover: No index records for disk for specified date

2005-04-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
in the tarball. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: largest fit peculiarities

2005-05-02 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
;t trust tape drives enough to do anything but write linearly. In addition, your statement isn't necessarily true. If you're using hardware compression, then a different DLE will compress with a different ratio, and may or may not fit in the number of blocks of the "failed"

Re: Still evaluating amanda, more questions

2005-05-12 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
;out of date" and can be > safely "removed" from the rotation ? You can do this on a per-DLE basis via amadmin. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda

2005-05-12 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
#x27;s. > > But if the include is so seldom used, maybe there better ways of doing > backup. I haven't been following this closely, I must admit, but I use include in several DLEs. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda

2005-05-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
dware compression in the scsi > tape device? Is there any way of doing so within amanda? This is OS dependent and independent of amanda. In Linux, look at the 'mt' command. For Solaries, it's often controlled by which device you use. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Does the gnutar method exclude mount points ?

2005-05-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
"--one-file-system" flag. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: iptables script

2005-05-14 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
le to > backup this client? If you haven't compiled with any "portrange" options, you'll have to do something like this: -A INPUT -p udp -s $AMANDA_SERVER -d 0/0 --dport 10080 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp -s $AMANDA_SERVER -d 0/0 --dport 1025:65535 -j ACCEPT -- Jo

Re: amrecover Error 500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed

2005-05-16 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
ess not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed You need the line: server.domain.co.uk root in ~amanda/.amandahosts. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: amrecover Error 500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed

2005-05-16 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 16 May 2005 at 11:31am, Chuck Amadi wrote > On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 06:15 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > On Mon, 16 May 2005 at 10:38am, Chuck Amadi wrote > > > > > server:/local/sw/amanda/bckup # /local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin/amrecover -C > > &

Re: Errors when running amcheck - # su amanda -c "/usr/sbin/amcheck possible configure issue.

2005-05-16 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
gt; /usr/share/vim/vim62/syntax/readline.vim It seems to me that you're missing what on Red Hat, e.g., would be the 'readline-devel' RPM, which supplies /usr/include/readline and its contents (including readline.h). You never mentioned OS as far as I recall, but make sure all the appropriate devel packages are installed. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

RE: Make error

2005-05-17 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
ld be a good choice. ;) And do this all in, e.g., ~lzhong/src. 2) Run 'make install' as root. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: [off-topip] Better Backup Media

2005-06-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
perience with S-AIT? According to my vendor, it has the same smart compresser as AIT and a capacity of 500GB/tape (vs. 400GB for LTO-3). LTO-3 looks like it may be the winner on price, but if there's a good reason to go S-AIT, I'm not averse to doing so. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: [off-topip] Better Backup Media

2005-06-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 at 9:36am, Brandon D. Valentine wrote > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:20:45AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > As long as we're talking drives and media (and I'm in the market), does > > anyone have any experience with S-AIT? According to my ven

Re: [off-topip] Better Backup Media

2005-06-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
;However AIT-4 (unlike AIT-1 til -3) appears to write fill bytes onto the tape if it's not fed with data quickly enough, thus wasting lots of capacity." The person said they heard it somewhere and hadn't seen it confirmed. If true, though... yuck. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Departm

Re: [off-topip] Better Backup Media

2005-06-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 at 11:46am, Mitch Collinsworth wrote > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > > Something else I heard on another mailing list: > > > > "However AIT-4 (unlike AIT-1 til -3) appears to write fill > > bytes onto the tape if it

Re: Tape Library Recommendations

2005-06-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
ere I can get equipment for a reasonable cost I'd be > interested in those too! I've used Zzyzx (www.zzyzx.com) for years for this sort of thing, with good luck. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Configuration with IBM Ultrium Tape 2U Autoloader 3581

2005-06-24 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
alking to the loader and tape drive, and then worry about amanda. Look at utlities like mt (for the tape drive) and mtx (for the loader), and, if you have problems, come back with *much more information* (OS and version would be a great start). -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biom

Re: [off-topip] Better Backup Media

2005-06-24 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 at 3:56pm, Mitch Collinsworth wrote > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > > Actually, with LTO3, I'm a bit worried about keeping the tape streaming > > when writing from staged dumps. Native transfer rate of LTO-3 is stated > > as

Re: Interpreting Logs & GNUTAR

2005-06-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
but I'm unsure how to > control when a full backup is done and when an incremental-style dump > level is done, or how it really works out when using GNUTAR. Amanda manipulates tar to work just like dump. And with both, amanda schedules level 0s or level 1s (and, if necessary, level 2s, le

Re: Interpreting Logs & GNUTAR

2005-06-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 at 2:22pm, Graeme Humphries wrote > On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 16:16 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > > Amanda manipulates tar to work just like dump. And with both, amanda > > schedules level 0s or level 1s (and, if necessary, level 2s, level 3s, >

Re: SMBCLIENT program not available

2005-06-29 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
way to force > amanda to the absolute path for smbclient on the command line? You don't happen to have 2 sets of amanda binaries, do you? I.e., is the one compiled before smbclient was installed still hanging around somewhere? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner

2005-06-30 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
ok in /tmp/amanda/amanda*debug and sendsize*debug to see what went wrong there. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Dellâ„¢ PowerVaultâ„¢ 122T LTO-2

2005-07-04 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
nst0: No medium found > mt: The device is offline (not powered on, no tape ?). > # > > Please advice and guide me. Err, was there a tape in the drive? I'm guessing there wasn't. You need to use 'mtx' to manipulate the loader. 'mt' just deals with the t

Re: which tape changer for Qualtstar TLS-4210

2005-07-08 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
e the robotics and 'mt' to drive the tape drive(s). -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: which tape changer for Qualtstar TLS-4210

2005-07-08 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
Please keep responses on the list, so that everyone can chip in. On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 at 12:48pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Quoting Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > What do you mean "mount a drive"? You don't mount tape drives. > > b

Re: runtapes problem

2005-07-14 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
ull dumps every day, and instead of using one tape I would > like to use two tapes. Set dumpcycle 0, runtapes 2, and tapecycle 2 (or 4, or 6, etc). -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: AMRECOVER testing

2005-07-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
gt; Thank you. The file should be in /tmp/amanda on blavalley-l. That's what you need to debug this. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

RE: AMRECOVER testing

2005-07-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
ent you're running amrecover on also the server? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

RE: AMRECOVER testing

2005-07-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
st not > worry about it? On a server I have with *lots* of DLEs that get backed up, /tmp/amanda is 13MB. I don't worry about it. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Checking out amanda

2005-08-02 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
. If your OS can work with the changer, then amanda can. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Checking out amanda

2005-08-02 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
amanda can. mtx is the program that controls the changer via sg0. Amanda then has a changer script which interacts with that called chg-zd-mtx. Alternatively, you can forego mtx and use chg-scsi. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: HD backup strategy ?

2005-08-16 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
that can hold 10 cartridges. > > If the capacity is reasonable for your needs you might have > your HD backup and off-site capability combined. Why does the thought of trusting my backups to anything made by Iomega scare the living [EMAIL PROTECTED] out of me? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: AIT2 tape size?

2005-08-18 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
have a closer look. And I very much doubt that > > the drive will auto-detect compressed data. > > amtapetype will tell you too if hardware compression is on. On Linux (at least), so will 'tapeinfo', which comes with mtx. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

memory allocation error

2005-08-30 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
rease a network buffer somewhere? The server is a dual 2.4GHz Xeon system with 2GB of RAM and an e1000 NIC running centos3. Thanks. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Additional info about time outs: What could take SO LONG

2005-08-30 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
h39 and finished at 6h20 ! It really took a LONG time. > Why, I don't know. We really need more info -- client OS, type of filesystem, etc. Also, are there a lot of small files? Many FSs slow down when there are lots of inodes in use. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Additional info about time outs: What could take SO LONG

2005-08-30 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
Please keep replies on list, so that everyone sees them and can chip in. On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 at 10:21am, Guy Dallaire wrote > 2005/8/30, Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 at 9:39am, Guy Dallaire wrote > > > > > sendbackup: time 60

Re: Estimate timeout

2005-08-30 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
t; /tmp/amanda/sendsize._dev_vx_dsk_homedg_homevol.20050829180002.exclude . Run this command yourself on the command line (as root) and see how long it take to complete. Also, what version of tar are you running? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

RE: Estimate timeout

2005-08-30 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 at 11:38am, LaValley, Brian E wrote > I'll have to get back to you on running the command by itself. My tar > version is: tar (GNU tar) 1.13 Bad, bad, bad. http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html#id2554919 -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engin

Re: Estimate timeout

2005-08-30 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
part I should be looking at? Thank you. > > > Does gnutar follow, and backup symbolic links. I wonder if some of these > monster estimates might be due to circular references. I'm fairly certain it backs them up as links, not as the targest themselves. It'd be easy to test

Re: This is retarded.

2005-09-01 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
ape or how much tape is left. As an aside, I really think you need to rethink your attitude. Your subject line is incredibly unprofessional, as is your general attitude toward the amanda community. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: This is retarded.

2005-09-01 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
e who can really identify the problem. Are you using server-side or client-side estimates? If the latter, look at the sendsize*debug for the 53GB dump to see what amanda thought the size would be at estimate time. > Nice approach. When you come in with the attitude you are, expect nothing else. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: This is retarded.

2005-09-01 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 at 10:10am, Joe Rhett wrote > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:52:29AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > This can happen for a variety of reasons. Sometimes a DLE grows between > > estimate time and dump time. If you're using software compression and >

Re: This is retarded.

2005-09-02 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 at 3:00pm, Joe Rhett wrote > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:06:37PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > *You* are the only one who can really identify the problem. Are you using > > server-side or client-side estimates? If the latter, look at the > > s

Re: Does amdump automatically flush the holding disk ?

2005-09-06 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
gt; > Will it dump the "holded" file systems in addition to it's regular dumps ? This is user-controllable. You need 'autoflush=yes' (or some such) in your amanda.conf. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Restoring without Amanda

2005-09-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
bs=32k skip=1 | /bin/gzip -dc | /bin/gtar -f - Note the trailing hyphen, which tells tar to read from stdin. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Running multiple amdumps in paralell?

2005-09-12 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
sets of binaries with different portranges. Same server, different clients? Sure, no problem. Just watch out for holding disk space. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
g > reporting system that I could search for possible bugs in this area? What is 'netusage' set to in your amanda.conf? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 8:32pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 12:14 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 6:01pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote > > > > > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:50 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > > > I Have had a

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 8:44pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote > I have now cranked up the latter to 3000 kbps, so I'll see tonight how > that behaves. Why so stingy? I'm assuming you have at least a 100Mbps connection? Why let amanda use only 3% of that (0.3% if you're using gigabi

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 10:07pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 15:02 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 8:44pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote > > > > > I have now cranked up the latter to 3000 kbps, so I'll see tonight how > > >

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 10:20pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 16:10 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > We're talking about network bandwidth -- ethernet. And the parameter is > > there in case your backup server and/or clients perform other network > >

Re: poor documentation

2005-09-15 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
nting at a group of volunteers rarely is helpful. Myself, given your, err, complaints, I think that perhaps a quick-start chapter may be in order. Now where did I put those circular tuits? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: poor documentation

2005-09-16 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
gt; > You can always offer to help? > > Here is something I put together: > > http://fedoranews.org/ghenry/amanda/ That looks good. Also, download an older version of amanda, and have a look at docs/INSTALL. That's all I needed to get going, back in the day. -- Joshua Bake

Re: Problem with backup from 64bit Client

2005-09-19 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
timeout. But it's good to know what is taking so long. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: AW: Problem with backup from 64bit Client

2005-09-19 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
on how to exclude, see the documentation, specifically <http://www.amanda.org/docs/exclude.html>. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Failed and strange dump summary

2005-09-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
about missing files ? > > Do you see similar behavior ? You're always going to see that when trying to back up the index directory of an active amanda setup. What I do is run a script after the backups are done which tars up all the config and index dirs and puts them in a f

Re: Failed and strange dump summary

2005-09-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
, I just watch the df > report, trying to keep the drive at 90% or so. > > So my backup has its uptodate indices on the same tape or in the same > dir of a vtape. I sleep better. :-) That is a rather good idea as well. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Overwhelmed...

2005-10-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
unt of time between level 0 dumps of any DLE (disklist entry) runspercycle = # of times you'll run 'amdump' per dumpcycle tapecycle = # of tapes you'll give amanda to use, generally recommended to be >= 1.5*runspercycle -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: estimate timeout

2005-10-10 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
giving up! on my systems where iptables allows established connections, but > 300 seconds timed-out what was considered "established". -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: all estimate failed - problem

2005-10-14 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
written: -1386622976 And there's your problem. tar is returning a *negative* size for /var/mail. You have to figure out why that's happening. Personally, I have no idea. :) -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: all estimate failed - problem

2005-10-14 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
r is this? I'd also have a look at /var/mail. Anything odd -- sparse files, too many inodes in use, etc? How big should it be? Do the estimate tar command in various parts of /var/mail and see if any in particular return negative sizes. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Sony AIT LIB-81 and Amanda

2005-10-17 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
e. For general amanda getting started questions, "the chapter" at <http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html> is a good place to look, as is the documentation on the amanda site itself. Play around, and come back if/when you hit questions you can't answer. -- Joshua Baker

Re: Tandberg LTO

2005-10-18 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
n running x86_64 centos-4 and I'm using an LSI Ultra320 SCSI board. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Some Questions about holding disks and compression

2005-10-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
se clients rather than dump/tar directly. Those scripts would then do the data dir shutdown/backup/restart dance. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Dell Ultrium 3 tapetype

2005-10-26 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
ith-maxtapeblocksize flag at configure time. I'm using 2M blocks. Would it be a good idea to round any of these values down? Generally it's not a bad idea to round the tapelength down a bit, especially if you find yourself hitting EOT frequently. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Dell Ultrium 3 tapetype

2005-10-31 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 at 8:20pm, Jason Castonguay wrote Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 at 4:06pm, Jason Castonguay wrote define tapetype Ultrium3 { length414386 mbytes filemark1889 kbytes speed10881 kps } Not that it's used by amanda for anything

Re: Estimate Timeout Issue - Dump runs fine

2005-11-02 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
actually taking. Also, what do your iptables rules look like on the server? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Estimate Timeout Issue - Dump runs fine

2005-11-02 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
2233.718: waiting for ack: timeout, giving up! amandad: time 2233.718: pid 12319 finish time Wed Nov 2 01:07:14 2005 is that time figure a time in seconds ? Yep. So you can just increase etimeout and/or figure out why "/sbin/dump 1Ssf 1048576 - /dev/sda5" is taking so long. -- Jo

Re: Incrementals even if tape is big enough

2005-11-04 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
e big enough to hold a full dump of all systems every day at the moment. So, why does the planner schedule incremental dumps when he could do full dumps? Amanda's goal is *not* to fill the tapes every night. Its goal is for the backups each night to be the same size. -- Joshua Ba

Re: Antw: Re: Incrementals even if tape is big enough

2005-11-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: more problems with dumper/taper/flush retries failures

2005-11-09 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
is isn't amanda's fault -- it's doing the best it can to get that image on tape. It just won't fit. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: flush and dump to the same tape?

2005-11-22 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 at 6:45am, Yan Seiner wrote Is it possible to flush and dump to the same tape? Set 'autoflush yes' in your amanda.conf, and anything on disk will be flushed when you 'amdump'. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

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