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Re: Strange problems with HP Colorado 20GB

2002-11-04 Thread Per Lundberg
Christoph Scheeder wrote: Hey Christoph (& list), from my experience the original HP-Colorado-drives do not work reliable under the newer Linux-kernels. My drives stoped working in the early 2.2.x tree. :-( They seemed to backup fine using the scsi-emulation, but restore was impossible. Th

Re: Performance degrading over time?

2002-11-04 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi all! > Since your dumper and taper times are always nearly identical you probably > aren't using a holding disk and are dumping directly to tape. And since > the rates for one filesystem have remained constant while the other one has > dropped I would look into possible recent changes on the l

Re: Performance degrading over time?

2002-11-04 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Paul Bijnens wrote: > Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > > > Seems like Oracle likes to create a lot of small ".trc" files over > > time. The filesystem in question is littered with thousands of them. > > > > Once we archived and deleted them, backup performance was back to normal. > > > > Would sepa

Re: Restore Problem

2002-11-04 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 at 3:11pm, Bill Hults wrote > The tape server's name is bs1 which is where I want to restore the files to. > I want to restore 2 partitions on fs2. > The set is DailySet1 > All info for bs1 - > There is a listing in /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo for fs2 but not in > '../inde

Re: Performance degrading over time?

2002-11-04 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hello! Jon H. LaBadie wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 03:04:27PM +0100, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > > > So my question is: does a holding-disk speed up this process? I mean, > > Amanda will start a dumper on the filesystem that starts filling > > the holding-disk. At the same time (?) a taper

Re: Performance degrading over time?

2002-11-04 Thread Frank Smith
--On Monday, November 04, 2002 15:04:27 +0100 "Patrick M. Hausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > Seems like Oracle likes to create a lot of small ".trc" files over > time. The filesystem in question is littered with thousands of them. > > Once we arc

Re: Performance degrading over time?

2002-11-04 Thread Niall O Broin
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 03:55:13PM +0100, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > But I need a holding disk at least as large as my largest FS to dump? > So if I have one 170 GB RAID I need one 170 GB holding disk? No - you need a holding disk preferrably as big as your TWO largest disklist entries, which may

Re: Performance degrading over time?

2002-11-04 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi! > > > nothing goes from holding disk to tape unless the dump to holding disk > > > has finished. Then it goes like cat'ting or dd'ing to tape. Small > > > likelyhood of too slow for tape. > > > > Aggreed - cat/dd >/dev/tape will surely be fast enough. > > But I need a holding disk at least

Adding new clients

2002-11-04 Thread Owain Pritchard
Hi, I am reletively new to Amanda but I have taken over responsibility of doing the backups. I have just created a new configuration to run monthly backups and the folder contains copies of the files such as amanda.conf from the other config folder for daily backups. I have added a new client

Re: Performance degrading over time?

2002-11-04 Thread Anthony A. D. Talltree
>or adding 5 internal 36 GB drives in a RAID 0 configuration as a holding >disk. I see that IBM has SCSI disks available up to at least 146G. I'd recommend plunking in two of those instead so you have room to grow.

concerns

2002-11-04 Thread Galen Johnson
After further study of the restore issues I've had with amanda (mostly tar related) I have just today run into what I feel is another problem (I suspect is a combination of tar and amanda in this case). I am concerned with the "incremental" backups. Amanda seems to treat incrementals as diffe