Re: compression

2002-10-29 Thread Craig Dewick
Hey there Joseph! It's good to see a familiar name here on the list... > I would like to know where and what do I insert into the amanda.conf for > allow tape compression to work. > > the tape unit is a hp1537A in a six stacker based unit. Can it be done with jumers on the drive, or by DIP switc

Re: Performance degrading over time?

2002-10-29 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi all! Jay Lessert wrote: > So the first thing is to look at two AMANDA MAIL > REPORT outputs: one from a "fast" run in June, and one from a "slow" > run yesterday. > > Look at Estimate Time, Dump Time, Tape Time, Dump Rate, and Taper Rate > for your one file system. Where is the increase hap

Re: compression

2002-10-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:41:57PM +1100, Craig Dewick wrote: > Hey there Joseph! > > It's good to see a familiar name here on the list... > > > I would like to know where and what do I insert into the amanda.conf for > > allow tape compression to work. > > > > the tape unit is a hp1537A in a six

Re: tru64 5.1 & 2.4.2p2

2002-10-29 Thread Jeremy Heslop
Toby, I have a few Tru64 5.1 alphas and I got the same error when using amanda 2.4.2p2. I fixed it by commenting out the ruserok line in common-src/amanda.h. #ifndef HAVE_RUSEROK_DECL //extern int ruserok P((const char *rhost, int suser, //const char *ruser, const char *luse

a few backups in to one tape

2002-10-29 Thread Lishtovny Denis
Hello All. My backup data is ~14 Gb I have 6 tapes in backup device per 40 Gb each. Everyday amanda2.4 doing backup into one tape. (one day, one tape). Is it possible to do two or more backups into one tape? (14*2=28 Gb) (two days, one tape). If it is possible, please tell me how. Thanks. Sorry for

New file tape type for backup to disk.

2002-10-29 Thread Brian Kennedy
am_client_privileged: our side is 0.0.0.0.719 amrecover: try_socksize: receive buffer size is 65536 Started amidxtaped with arguments "6 -h -p file:/backup/store ^ns$ ^//haff/mydoc$ 20021029" amrecover: error reading tape: Connection reset by peer amrecover: pid 32699 finish time Tue Oct 2

Re: Performance degrading over time?

2002-10-29 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, October 29, 2002 11:43:30 +0100 "Patrick M. Hausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As you can see from April up until August the dumpsize increased about 1.5 fold while the dump _time_ increased by a factor of about 2.5. Dump rate dropped from 7.5 K/s to 4.6 K/s. From August until no

Re: a few backups in to one tape

2002-10-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 05:23:05PM +0300, Lishtovny Denis wrote: > Everyday amanda2.4 doing backup into one tape. (one day, one tape). > Is it possible to do two or more backups into one tape? (14*2=28 Gb) (two > days, one tape). > If it is possible, please tell me how. Short answer: No. Detaile

Re: New file tape type for backup to disk.

2002-10-29 Thread Niall O Broin
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:29:32AM -0500, Brian Kennedy wrote: > I've got the backups running smoothly, some scripts to change "tapes" > (move symlinks) but I cant get a recover to work. OK - a little background on my setup so that later becomes clear - I have a partition /backup on a server c

Forcing write to tape (or cleaning up tapelist)?

2002-10-29 Thread Charlie Bebber
I guess during the initial tape cycle, the tapes got run in the wrong order. Specifically, we have a tape, sb-prod07, that was in the wrong slot and now every subsequent cycle expects that tape to be the next in sequence. How can I straighten this out? The more I look into it, the more disorgani

chg-zd-mtx-2.4.3b4 problem

2002-10-29 Thread Paul T. Root
disk space available, that's plenty amcheck-server: slot 8: date 20021029 label Aces46 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx-2.4.3b4:: loadslot: not found amcheck-server: slot /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx-2.4.3b4:: loadslot: not found amcheck-server: slot /usr/local

Amanda 2.4.3b4 chio changer problems

2002-10-29 Thread Paul T. Root
wasn't an OS upgrade. I'm running FreeBSD 4.7-Stable. But this was happening in 4.6-Stable for a while too. Any ideas? Paul. Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /amanda/hold: 4659412 KB disk space available, that's plenty amcheck-server:

disk offline

2002-10-29 Thread Chad Morland
I am having some problems getting amanda to run. I have used amanda before and this is the first time that I have encountered this problem. I followed the instuctions from the backup and recovery chapter and amcheck is not reporting any problems. However, when I run amdump I get the following sent

Re: disk offline

2002-10-29 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 at 2:39pm, Chad Morland wrote > backup. /backup lev 0 FAILED [disk /backup offline on > backup.domain.com?] (I have also tried using the device > [/dev/vinum/striped]) > *snip* > > My backup partition is a 430G striped vinum partition on FreeBSD. I have > followed everything

Re: disk offline

2002-10-29 Thread Chad Morland
Error from sendsize*debug: runtar: error [must be invoked by operator] However, amanda is in my operator group. torbackup# id amanda uid=1000(amanda) gid=1000(amanda) groups=1000(amanda), 5(operator) And the from amandad*.debug: (Environment variables cut out) Amanda 2.4 REQ HANDLE 000-00360708

Re: disk offline

2002-10-29 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 at 3:20pm, Chad Morland wrote > Error from sendsize*debug: > runtar: error [must be invoked by operator] > > However, amanda is in my operator group. > torbackup# id amanda > uid=1000(amanda) gid=1000(amanda) groups=1000(amanda), 5(operator) Are you using inetd or xinetd? If

Re: chg-zd-mtx-2.4.3b4 problem

2002-10-29 Thread John Koenig
At 1:09 PM -0600 10/29/02, Paul T. Root wrote: Hi, I have a problem with the zd-mtx script. I traced it down to the point in the script where it decides it needs to run the cleaning tape. Line 968 or so: I do not have a useful answer. Instead, another question. This cleaning stuff is new to m