Re: Trying to figure out why unchanged file gets backed up in level 1 backup

2004-09-01 Thread Michael Loftis
Decisions on individual files and directories to backup are not the case of Amanda, but are under the sole control of the dump program, in this case I'm assuming GNU tar. Now fair warning is that RedHat modifies pretty much everything that goes into it's offering, so, the problem you're having

Re: Why am I client constrained?

2004-09-01 Thread Michael Loftis
maxdumps in your dumptypes, defaults to one, sets the number of parallel dumps per client. --On Wednesday, September 01, 2004 12:29 -0700 Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Right now, most of everything is on one file server, but I'd like to have some DLEs SW compress on the server, and

Re: Restore buffer?

2004-08-25 Thread Michael Loftis
amrecover and amrestore can be used to recover or restore arbitrary parts of the backup tape( s ) to arbitrary places...assuming the machine you're running them from has the appropriate tools available (IE gnutar and/or the particular 'dump' programs needed) -- so the generic answer is 'yes' --

Re: Compression apparently ALWAYS happening as --best *AND* on tape host/server!!!!

2004-08-19 Thread Michael Loftis
Ah my bad, thanks. Hadn't realised the indexes were compressed. --On Friday, August 20, 2004 02:12 -0400 Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 at 11:51pm, Michael Loftis wrote just gettign amanda going on a new install and from what i can tell, the da

Compression apparently ALWAYS happening as --best *AND* on tape host/server!!!!

2004-08-19 Thread Michael Loftis
just gettign amanda going on a new install and from what i can tell, the dang thing is ALWAYS running compression server side, and in --best mode DESPITE the dumptypes defining compression to be done on the clients, and in --fast! The tape host really does not have the CPU to do this i'll i

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