Re: Amflush failing silently

2003-02-08 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, Jean-Louis Martineau schrieb: On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:32:01PM +0100, Christoph Scheeder wrote: Hi, Thanks, but that can't be the problem, because this patch had been applied *before* the last failing amflush. And it does not show the described symptoms, amflush is not hanging and not

Re: Problem: dump complains: unable to translate LABEL=

2003-02-08 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 at 2:35pm, Greg Maples wrote Anyone have any idea why (on redhat 7.3) dump would be complaining as follows: DUMP: Warning: unable to translate LABEL=/var/spool/amand DUMP: Warning: unable to translate LABEL=/var/spool/backu Are those actually separate filesystems?

Re: Saving holding disk

2003-02-08 Thread John R. Jackson
I have been experiencing problems with some backups lately. Is there a way to tell amanda NOT to delete a dump from the holding disk after running amflush? Not currently, although I've been thinking of adding an amanda.conf entry along the lines of rm_holding_file that would be a callout to a

Re: Amflush failing silently

2003-02-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 08 February 2003 07:27, Christoph Scheeder wrote: [...] From Jean-Louis: Do you have the same problem with 2.4.4b1? this is the main production-server of a customer of us, and i'm a bit scared about installing beta-software on it, so i haven't try'd this yet. If you consider it

How amtapetype determines tape mark size

2003-02-08 Thread John R. Jackson
John, could you refresh us on how tapetype goes about determining the size of a drives filemark? The amtapetype program is actually pretty well commented, but it goes like this. During the first pass, it writes files that are estimated to be 1% of the expected tape capacity. It gets the

Re: features: append, span tapes, compress?

2003-02-08 Thread John R. Jackson
I modified the files in newtonl to reflect the change of path and also to effect the change from /dev/rmt/0cn to 1cn and the change of change from /dev/scsi/changer/c5t4d0 to c6t4d0. The newtonr configuration is working fine. The newtonl configuration is reporting that its unable to deftermine

Re: a very lost changer user

2003-02-08 Thread John R. Jackson
ADIC Scalar 100 - 4x Quantum DLT7000 Drives - the picker has a barcode scanner 120 DLT IV's ... dumpcycle 4 weeks# the number of days in the normal dump cycle Are you sure you want this? It means that each disklist entry (DLE) will only be gauranteed a full backup every 4 weeks. IT

Re: How amtapetype determines tape mark size

2003-02-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:51:28PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote: All sorts of things might have happened to cause the amount of data written to vary enough to generate this file mark size guess. A little more shoe shining because of the additional file marks (and flushes), dirt left on the

Re: a very lost changer user

2003-02-08 Thread Frank Smith
--On Saturday, February 08, 2003 16:12:45 -0500 John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ADIC Scalar 100 - 4x Quantum DLT7000 Drives - the picker has a barcode scanner 120 DLT IV's ... dumpcycle 4 weeks # the number of days in the normal dump cycle Are you sure you want this? It

Amanda, multiple tape drives, and native restores

2003-02-08 Thread Frank Smith
I thought about using RAIT when it was added to Amanda, but didn't since it broke the ability to do native restores in a DR situation. However, I did have an idea on how to use multiple drives to gain backup speed while still being able to do a native restore. Has anyone considered setting up a