INFO planner sa03 /terrasky/tslibrary_qr 20041206 0 [dumps too big, full dump delayed

2004-12-07 Thread Madhvi Gokool
Hi I am getting above error message during my Monthly backup. My holding disk is 55 GB - big eneough to accomodate the dump. A level 1 backup is done instead of level 1. Regds M

Re: INFO planner sa03 /terrasky/tslibrary_qr 20041206 0 [dumps too big, full dump delayed

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Bijnens
Madhvi Gokool wrote: Hi I am getting above error message during my Monthly backup. My holding disk is 55 GB - big eneough to accomodate the dump. The size of the tape is what matters. Specify runtapes 2 or maxdumpsize 55g (or whatever appropriate value) to let the overflow accumulate on

Exabyte Packetloader and AMANDA ?

2004-12-07 Thread James D. Freels
Exabyte sells a new and relatively inexpensive auto loader device. Called the VXA-2 PacketLoader 1x10 1U Autoloader. I have no experience with autoloaders and AMANDA as I have been using AMANDA now for years with manually-loaded tapes. I do know from reading the AMANDA docks that some

amanda tape use strategy

2004-12-07 Thread Chris Loken
Apologies if this has come up before. Couldn't find anything relevant. I'm talking about level 0 dumps (not incrementals). Using ait-3 tapes, GNUTAR (not linux dump), a tape library, 104GB holding disk and setting runtapes greater than 1 (I need to dump several tapes-worth of data). NO

Re: amanda tape use strategy

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Bijnens
Chris Loken wrote: Apologies if this has come up before. Couldn't find anything relevant. I'm talking about level 0 dumps (not incrementals). Using ait-3 tapes, GNUTAR (not linux dump), a tape library, 104GB holding disk and setting runtapes greater than 1 (I need to dump several tapes-worth

configuring Amanda with Samba

2004-12-07 Thread Gil Naveh
hi, I am trying to configure Amanda on a Solaris 9 server - I need to backup both Unix computers and Windows computers. I was able to backup the Unix server, BUT I could not backup the Windows machine. I installed SAMBA 3.0.9, HOWEVER when I run amcheck dirname I received the following error

Re: Estimate timeout error

2004-12-07 Thread Nick Danger
Paul Bijnens wrote: But the reply packet never got acknowledged by the server. Somehow it got lost or corrupted. Default route for reverse path not correct? Wrong subnetmask? Try do get a network trace at the client and server, and inbetween (don't know how to accomplish that on a PIX firewall):

Re: configuring Amanda with Samba

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Bijnens
Gil Naveh wrote: I am trying to configure Amanda on a Solaris 9 server - I need to backup both Unix computers and Windows computers. I was able to backup the Unix server, BUT I could not backup the Windows machine. I installed SAMBA 3.0.9, HOWEVER when I run amcheck dirname I received the

Re: amanda tape use strategy

2004-12-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 12:35:29PM -0500, Chris Loken wrote: Apologies if this has come up before. Couldn't find anything relevant. I'm talking about level 0 dumps (not incrementals). Using ait-3 tapes, GNUTAR (not linux dump), a tape library, 104GB holding disk and setting runtapes

Re: amanda tape use strategy

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Bijnens
Frank Smith wrote: How difficult would it be to implement a 'best fit' strategy? The number of possibilities is extremely large, and because the tapecapacity is only an approximation, not worth the cost. My AIT-1 tapes hit end of tape between 33 and 34 Gbyte. And rarely there is one which

Re: amanda tape use strategy

2004-12-07 Thread Chris Loken
Paul Jon - thanks for the tip about using taperalgo. I wasn't aware of this parameter. Will try it out but I'm not sure how well it will work for me - I'm only dumping from one client, there are a lot of filesystems that are large compared to the tape size and there isn't enough space to keep

Question using amflush

2004-12-07 Thread James Marcinek
if the process is still running, which it is. When I do a top command it's using lots of CPU time. It's been runninng for several hours now and my logs haven't been populating since it started. Here's the last few entries: START amflush date 20041207 START driver date 20041207 START taper datestamp 20041207

Re: Question using amflush

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Bijnens
20041207 START driver date 20041207 START taper datestamp 20041207 label Normal18 tape 0 I'm a bit confused because I now see a folder 20041207 in my /var/holding. It's empty, which is good if it's working properly. For flush, that's normal. Why isn't anything being populated too(amflush and log file

Re: Question using amflush

2004-12-07 Thread James Marcinek
still interested in the loop it seems to be in by issuing strace or truss, before killing it. It's been runninng for several hours now and my logs haven't been populating since it started. Here's the last few entries: START amflush date 20041207 START driver date 20041207