speed of amdump

2003-01-24 Thread dalton
Hi, the speed of our hp surestore seems to be ok, but the amdump takes too much time (6 hours for 23 GB, we want to use now client fast compression). So we have a suspicion (someone just has installed it, but this person is not here any more :-(: In amanda.conf: netusage 600 Kbps # maximum

Re: speed of amdump

2003-01-24 Thread dalton
Lars Segerlund schrieb: have you checked the options for parrallell dumpers ? Yes i have 4. You should be able to have multiple connections to clients, and your time seem's looong ! We have just one client (the file server) and the backup server. And the interface-values and

Re: Backup is too slow - configuration?

2003-01-24 Thread Harri Haataja
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:55:32PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 22 January 2003 09:05, hochenaw wrote: we have an HP Surestore dlt vs80e and use hp dlt IV tapes (capacity 40/80GB) under linux. ... How can i activate software or hardware compression (cant find an entry in

Re: speed of amdump

2003-01-24 Thread Scott Mcdermott
dalton on Fri 24/01 09:59 +0100: But we have a 100mbit LAN, so there should be 10240 kbps, thats right? just being picky, $ bc -ql 100 * (2^10)^2 / 8 / 2^10 12800. :) of course if you actually hit that wire speed I'll be amazed.

GNUTAR

2003-01-24 Thread Simon Young
Hi, I'm using tar for backup, but my DLEs refer to device names. For example, henry /dev/sda1 root-tar henry /dev/sda2 user-tar I'm also trying to use exclude lists, but these don't seem to be working as I would expect them to (it looks like they're being ignored). The

Re: Backup is too slow - configuration?

2003-01-24 Thread Scott Mcdermott
Harri Haataja on Fri 24/01 12:31 +0200: Hardware depends on the os in use. Some os's have a choice of compressed or uncompressed drives in the device list and will turn the drives compression on and off according to the devicename you used to address it. Linux does not however, so one

Re: GNUTAR

2003-01-24 Thread Simon Young
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:20:04PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: Simon Young wrote: The question is, should I be refering to paths rather than devices when using tar? Like this: henry / root-tar henry /usruser-tar Yes. You may even use path for if you use dump

Re: Backup is too slow - configuration?

2003-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 January 2003 05:31, Harri Haataja wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:55:32PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 22 January 2003 09:05, hochenaw wrote: we have an HP Surestore dlt vs80e and use hp dlt IV tapes (capacity 40/80GB) under linux. ... How can i activate software

Re: speed of amdump

2003-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 January 2003 05:35, Scott Mcdermott wrote: dalton on Fri 24/01 09:59 +0100: But we have a 100mbit LAN, so there should be 10240 kbps, thats right? just being picky, $ bc -ql 100 * (2^10)^2 / 8 / 2^10 12800. :) of course if you actually hit that wire speed I'll

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Re: GNUTAR

2003-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 January 2003 06:00, Simon Young wrote: Hi, I'm using tar for backup, but my DLEs refer to device names. For example, henry /dev/sda1 root-tar henry /dev/sda2 user-tar I'm also trying to use exclude lists, but these don't seem to be working as I would expect them to

LTO Ultrium

2003-01-24 Thread Martin Oehler
Hi! I've run tapetype on a LTO Ultrium drive and some questions concerning the results. The tapetype test has been made twice, once with hardware compression (HC) turned on (by mistake) and once with HC turned off. The OS is Linux and 'mt' is telling me actually: # mt -f /dev/nst0

Re: speed of amdump

2003-01-24 Thread Scott Mcdermott
Gene Heskett on Fri 24/01 08:34 -0500: But we have a 100mbit LAN, so there should be 10240 kbps, thats right? $ bc -ql 100 * (2^10)^2 / 8 / 2^10 12800. I don't believe this is quite correct. Thats a serial protocol, and AFAIK it still uses start and stop bits,

RE: speed of amdump

2003-01-24 Thread donald . ritchey
And if any of us can RELIABLY exceed 30 percent usage on an Ethernet network, I want to see it. For networks, plan on using about 10 percent of the available bandwidth in your capacity planning and you should be safe. For 10 Mbit Ethernet, figure 100 KB/sec, for 100 Mbit Ethernet, figure 1

Re: speed of amdump

2003-01-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:59:48AM +0100, dalton wrote: Hi, the speed of our hp surestore seems to be ok, but the amdump takes too much time (6 hours for 23 GB, we want to use now client fast compression). So we have a suspicion (someone just has installed it, but this person is not

Re: LTO Ultrium

2003-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 January 2003 08:53, Martin Oehler wrote: Hi! I've run tapetype on a LTO Ultrium drive and some questions concerning the results. The tapetype test has been made twice, once with hardware compression (HC) turned on (by mistake) and once with HC turned off. The OS is Linux and

Re: LTO Ultrium

2003-01-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:53:26PM +0100, Martin Oehler wrote: Hi! I've run tapetype on a LTO Ultrium drive and some questions concerning the results. The tapetype test has been made twice, once with hardware compression (HC) turned on (by mistake) and once with HC turned off. The OS

Re: GNUTAR

2003-01-24 Thread Frank Smith
--On Friday, January 24, 2003 08:45:24 -0500 Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 24 January 2003 06:00, Simon Young wrote: Hi, I'm using tar for backup, but my DLEs refer to device names. For example, henry /dev/sda1 root-tar henry /dev/sda2 user-tar I'm also

Re: LTO Ultrium

2003-01-24 Thread Martin Oehler
Hi! Am Fre, 2003-01-24 um 16.22 schrieb Gene Heskett: On Friday 24 January 2003 08:53, Martin Oehler wrote: Why is the length the same? Seems like switching the compression modes with mt is not working. It was still on? You didn't say that you had turned it back off above. Maybe this

Re: LTO Ultrium

2003-01-24 Thread Martin Oehler
Hi, Jon! Am Fre, 2003-01-24 um 16.27 schrieb Jon LaBadie: Maybe you hit what Gene describes in another posting today. Once a tape has been written to with HW compression, the drive senses it and automatically switches to HW compression regardless of settings. No, I made a mistake (see my

Volumes Failing: badly formatted response

2003-01-24 Thread John Arthur Kane
My server is running Amanda 2.4.3 (Solaris 2.6) My client (that is having problems) is running Amanda-2.4.1p1 (Solaris 2.6) Due to the size of some of my volume mount points, I have 56 volume entries in my disk list for this server (out of 183 total). I am having amdump fail with the message:

Re: LTO Ultrium

2003-01-24 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hello, * Martin Oehler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20030124 11:52] thus spake: Hi, Jon! Am Fre, 2003-01-24 um 16.27 schrieb Jon LaBadie: Maybe you hit what Gene describes in another posting today. Once a tape has been written to with HW compression, the drive senses it and automatically

Re: LTO Ultrium

2003-01-24 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On 24 Jan 2003 at 5:11pm, Martin Oehler wrote I'm sorry, I made a mistake. The hardware compression was off all the time. :( # mt -f /dev/nrmt0 datcompression 0 Compression off. # mt -f /dev/nrmt0 datcompression 1 Compression off. For my AIT drives, I use 'mt compression 0' and 'mt

HP Ultrium LTO 1 : ERROR taper no-tape

2003-01-24 Thread annefacq
Hello I am configuring amanda-2.4.2p2-9 for a changer HP Ultrium LTO 1 (composed of 6 slots) and I have the following problem : the tape in the next slot is not automatically loaded The main lines of the configuration files are the following : == amanda.conf runtapes 6 tpchanger

Re: speed of amdump [really, speed of ethernet]

2003-01-24 Thread Jay Lessert
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 08:31:19AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if any of us can RELIABLY exceed 30 percent usage on an Ethernet network, I want to see it. Well, one of my amanda clients does two dumps in parallel over 100BaseT at =3MB/s dumper rate (each) every single night. Does that

Re: HP Ultrium LTO 1 : ERROR taper no-tape

2003-01-24 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 at 7:04pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I am configuring amanda-2.4.2p2-9 for a changer HP Ultrium LTO 1 (composed of 6 slots) and I have the following problem : the tape in the next slot is not automatically loaded The exact model would be helpful. Also, note that pre-built

Re: HP Ultrium LTO 1 : ERROR taper no-tape

2003-01-24 Thread Brian Cuttler
Anne, I don't know what you mean by automatically loaded. My experience and recent discussion on this list both show that the current tape remains in the drive at the completion of the amanda run, just as the current tape remains in the drive at the completion of an amanda run that does not

Re: GNUTAR

2003-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 January 2003 10:34, Frank Smith wrote: [...] If both the above examples are the same system (i.e. / is /dev/sda1 and /usr is /sda2), then using / for a DLE won't include /usr. Dump limits itself to a single filesystem, and gnutar is called with the --one-file-system option so it

Re: LTO Ultrium

2003-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 January 2003 11:11, Martin Oehler wrote: Hi! Am Fre, 2003-01-24 um 16.22 schrieb Gene Heskett: On Friday 24 January 2003 08:53, Martin Oehler wrote: Why is the length the same? Seems like switching the compression modes with mt is not working. It was still on? You didn't say

Re: LTO Ultrium

2003-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 January 2003 12:11, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hello, * Martin Oehler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20030124 11:52] thus spake: Hi, Jon! Am Fre, 2003-01-24 um 16.27 schrieb Jon LaBadie: Maybe you hit what Gene describes in another posting today. Once a tape has been written

Re: HP Ultrium LTO 1 : ERROR taper no-tape

2003-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 January 2003 13:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am configuring amanda-2.4.2p2-9 for a changer HP Ultrium LTO 1 (composed of 6 slots) and I have the following problem : the tape in the next slot is not automatically loaded The main lines of the configuration files are the

Re: LTO Ultrium

2003-01-24 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 at 2:44pm, Gene Heskett wrote speaking) drive. I'm noteing that Martins drive claimed it needed a 545 kilobyte filemark. That, to me with zero experience with either drive, still seems highly excessive. Well, given that tapetype reported a 5577 kbytes filemark for by

Re: LTO Ultrium

2003-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 January 2003 15:19, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 at 2:44pm, Gene Heskett wrote speaking) drive. I'm noteing that Martins drive claimed it needed a 545 kilobyte filemark. That, to me with zero experience with either drive, still seems highly excessive. Well,

Re: HP Ultrium LTO 1 : ERROR taper no-tape

2003-01-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:04:23PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am configuring amanda-2.4.2p2-9 for a changer HP Ultrium LTO 1 (composed of 6 slots) and I have the following problem : the tape in the next slot is not automatically loaded The main lines of the configuration

Re: amflush surprise

2003-01-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
Responding to myself :) On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:50:19AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: Ran an amflush that for the first time was greater than a single tape capacity. Amflush knows about my changer (shifted to the correct tape) and my config has runtapes set to 2 (this has worked for

Re: speed of amdump

2003-01-24 Thread Anthony A. D. Talltree
the speed of our hp surestore seems to be ok, but the amdump takes too much time (6 hours for 23 GB, we want to use now client fast compression). How fast can you get data off of your disks? If that 23G is one filesystem, you might consider splitting it up so that Amanda can schedule it more

Re: amrestore: could not stat

2003-01-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You try to recover from the device PSI_ASM_DailySet130, amrestore expect a device name, not a label. Use the settape command in amrecover (eg. settape /dev/nst0) Jean-Louis On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:26:57AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello there, I've managed to get a tapeless backup

IBM 120/240 DDS/4 Autoloader

2003-01-24 Thread John Cunningham
Anyone have experience with Amanda on Redhat with an IBM DDS/4 Autoloader? I read that Amanda didn't like autoloaders - just curious. If not, anyone know another product that can deal with this druve under Linux? -JohnDo you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now

Re: IBM 120/240 DDS/4 Autoloader

2003-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 January 2003 19:24, John Cunningham wrote: Anyone have experience with Amanda on Redhat with an IBM DDS/4 Autoloader? I read that Amanda didn't like autoloaders - just curious. If not, anyone know another product that can deal with this druve under Linux? Dunno about the IBM

Re: amflush surprise

2003-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 January 2003 16:22, Jon LaBadie wrote: Responding to myself :) On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:50:19AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: Ran an amflush that for the first time was greater than a single tape capacity. Amflush knows about my changer (shifted to the correct tape) and my config