Re: does amanda count in days or in tapes?

2004-02-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
Eugen Leitl wrote: I'm trying to simulate a backup cycle in an accelerated manner. If I use multiple tapes/day, does amanda count in tapes or in days, as reckoned using system clock? It's a little bit mixed. The initial design was to run once a day. Planner takes the decisions based on days.

Re: How can I split up a large disk partition?

2004-02-06 Thread stan
I think it is simpler than that. -- first set -- include ./[A-K]* -- second set -- exclude ./[A-K]* Well, I still don't have somethign right here. Here is amstatus from last nights run: Script started on Fri Feb 6 06:39:04 2004 $ amstatus DailyDump black:ads1e/ak 0 planner:

Re: How can I split up a large disk partition?

2004-02-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
stan wrote: define dumptype comp-user-no-compress { comment Non-root partitions on reasonably fast machines index maxdumps 3 priority medium } black ads1e/kz ad1s1e { exclude ./[A-K]* user-tar-no-compress } 2 local You still seem to be referencing

amrecovering extremely slow

2004-02-06 Thread R.M. Evers
amanda-users, after the last problem in my setup (the chg-disk not working, now working fine :-)), i've run into another one. although i don't know whether it's really a problem. i've done the following: 1.- used my brand spanking new amanda backupserver (amanda-2.4.4p2, self-compiled) to

Re: amrecovering extremely slow

2004-02-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Rodi, on Freitag, 06. Februar 2004 at 16:40 you wrote to amanda-users: RME what happened is this. i started the amrecover (-s backupserver -t RME backupserver) session to the backupserver. set the host, disk, added a RME homedir, set the tape to chg-disk (my 'amrecover_changer') and then hit

Re: amrecovering extremely slow

2004-02-06 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 04:40:09PM +0100, R.M. Evers wrote: amanda-users, after the last problem in my setup (the chg-disk not working, now working fine :-)), i've run into another one. although i don't know whether it's really a problem. i've done the following: 1.- used my brand

Re: amrecovering extremely slow

2004-02-06 Thread R.M. Evers
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 17:14, Jon LaBadie wrote: I'm assuming you were recovering something from /home. Yes I think the entire dump file would have to be passed to the client for extraction. It is nice that you are using similar OS's and backup programs (probably gnutar) on both tapeserver

Re: amrecovering extremely slow

2004-02-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
R.M. Evers wrote: extract. then the directory-structure came in. but after that, i had to wait a long time for the actual files to come in (really really long). and during this time, i had a LOT of network traffic between my backupserver and my workstation (i mean like 850kB/s

Re: amrecovering extremely slow

2004-02-06 Thread R.M. Evers
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 17:37, Paul Bijnens wrote: (If you have strong programming skills, you could add an utility to gnutar, that extracts only the wanted files, packs them again on the fly to send them over the network, where another gnutar program accepts only the useful bytes. And while

SGI amanda install

2004-02-06 Thread Brian Cuttler
SGI 6.5.19 (both build and installation systems). Amanda 2.4.4p1 My apologies, I know we've been over this before but I'm not finding the answer in my mailbox and I'm unable to access the search in the yahoo groups (it was ok searching the first few pages and now I can't get the next screen to

Re: amrecovering extremely slow

2004-02-06 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 05:25:49PM +0100, R.M. Evers wrote: On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 17:14, Jon LaBadie wrote: Yes I think the entire dump file would have to be passed to the client for extraction. It is nice that you are using similar OS's and backup programs (probably gnutar) on both

How does the amanda server identify itself to clients?

2004-02-06 Thread Michael Kahle
I am still troubleshooting the RedHat 7.2 client configuration to work with my Debian server installation. If the server (Debian) was configured with the machine name of localhost, is this the identifier that clients use when verifying a machine against the .amandahosts file? Is there any way to

Re: How does the amanda server identify itself to clients?

2004-02-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Michael, on Freitag, 06. Februar 2004 at 18:00 you wrote to amanda-users: MK I am still troubleshooting the RedHat 7.2 client configuration to work with MK my Debian server installation. MK If the server (Debian) was configured with the machine name of localhost, DON'T DO THIS. Use its

RE: How does the amanda server identify itself to clients?

2004-02-06 Thread Michael Kahle
Sorry if I was not clear here. The server itself is/has a fqdn. e.g. fs.internal.com. This is also properly registered with my DNS server. What I am referring to here is in the .amandahosts file, it contains the line (by default): localhost backup What I am wondering is if by me changing that

Re: How does the amanda server identify itself to clients?

2004-02-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Michael, on Freitag, 06. Februar 2004 at 18:00 you wrote to amanda-users: MK I am still troubleshooting the RedHat 7.2 client configuration to work with MK my Debian server installation. MK If the server (Debian) was configured with the machine name of localhost, MK is this the identifier

Re: How does the amanda server identify itself to clients?

2004-02-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Michael, on Freitag, 06. Februar 2004 at 18:56 you wrote to amanda-users: MK Sorry if I was not clear here. The server itself is/has a fqdn. e.g. MK fs.internal.com. This is also properly registered with my DNS server. MK What I am referring to here is in the .amandahosts file, it

RE: How does the amanda server identify itself to clients?

2004-02-06 Thread Michael Kahle
Sorry, my mail reader sucks (outlook)... -Original Message- From: Stefan G. Weichinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How does the amanda server identify itself to clients? snip The server has been compiled with

Re: How does the amanda server identify itself to clients?

2004-02-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Michael, on Freitag, 06. Februar 2004 at 19:13 you wrote to amanda-users: MK I will go compile now... and weep. Why weep? Take the chance and build exactly the binaries YOU need for your site. Try editing .amandahosts first ... That the debian-maintainer builds packages with localhost

Re: How can I split up a large disk partition?

2004-02-06 Thread stan
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 03:48:38PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: stan wrote: define dumptype comp-user-no-compress { comment Non-root partitions on reasonably fast machines index maxdumps 3 priority medium } black ads1e/kz ad1s1e { exclude ./[A-K]*

Re: How can I split up a large disk partition?

2004-02-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 February 2004 07:54, stan wrote: I think it is simpler than that. -- first set -- include ./[A-K]* -- second set -- exclude ./[A-K]* Well, I still don't have somethign right here. Here is amstatus from last nights run: Script started on Fri Feb 6 06:39:04 2004 $

Re: How does the amanda server identify itself to clients?

2004-02-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 February 2004 13:13, Michael Kahle wrote: Sorry, my mail reader sucks (outlook)... I'm glad you said that. :) -Original Message- From: Stefan G. Weichinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How does the

Re: How can I split up a large disk partition?

2004-02-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 February 2004 13:51, stan wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 03:48:38PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: stan wrote: define dumptype comp-user-no-compress { comment Non-root partitions on reasonably fast machines index maxdumps 3 priority medium } black ads1e/kz

RE: How does the amanda server identify itself to clients?

2004-02-06 Thread Michael Kahle
To spare you all the pain of reading Outlook formatted mail, this message has been hand formatted using a text editor. Hope it works. :) On Friday, February 06, 2004 12:28 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Michael, on Freitag, 06. Februar 2004 at 19:13 you wrote to amanda-users: MK I

Re: How can I split up a large disk partition?

2004-02-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
stan wrote: black ads1e/kz ad1s1e { exclude ./[A-K]* user-tar-no-compress } 2 local black ads1e/ak ad1s1e { include ./[A-K]* user-tar-no-compress } 2 local Let's believe what you copy/pasted, but it's better to see what amanda believes. you can find

RE: How does the amanda server identify itself to clients?

2004-02-06 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 at 2:26pm, Michael Kahle wrote To spare you all the pain of reading Outlook formatted mail, this message has been hand formatted using a text editor. Hope it works. :) Thank you. Sincerely. On Friday, February 06, 2004 12:28 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi,

Re: How does the amanda server identify itself to clients?

2004-02-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
Michael Kahle wrote: The discussion about the hard coded stuff is an old one. How old? You would think this would be a fairly high priority fix for newer versions. The stuff that's hardcoded is actually not blocking in your case. There are command line options to change your default server,

Re: Concurrancy - dumping partitions

2004-02-06 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 10:40:45AM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: At this point we discovered netusage was set to a very low value (1200 though I'm uncertain of the units). The units are bytes/second (*not* bits/second), adjusted of course by whatever multiplier you specify. Note 1 on this, I

Re: Concurrancy - dumping partitions

2004-02-06 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 04:29:36PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: You can put multiple interface sections in amanda.conf, with different capacities; then specify for each DLE which interface its data will travel over. I should have made clear that all this is purely descriptive, not

Re: How can I split up a large disk partition?

2004-02-06 Thread stan
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 06:13:22PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:51:32PM -0500, stan wrote: ... black ads2e/ak ad2s1e { include ./[A-K]* user-tar-no-compress } 3 local Stan, just in case it is still not clear to you why people are saying to

Re: Encryption

2004-02-06 Thread Eric Siegerman
[CCing the author of the web page in question, in case she's no longer subscribed] On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:19:26AM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: Long ago, I bookmarked this page: http://security.uchicago.edu/tools/gpg-amanda/ but I never tried it myself... Long ago, it seems I had a small

Re: How can I split up a large disk partition?

2004-02-06 Thread stan
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 02:44:24PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 06 February 2004 13:51, stan wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 03:48:38PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: stan wrote: define dumptype comp-user-no-compress { comment Non-root partitions on reasonably fast machines

Re: How can I split up a large disk partition?

2004-02-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 February 2004 19:49, stan wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 02:44:24PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 06 February 2004 13:51, stan wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 03:48:38PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: stan wrote: define dumptype comp-user-no-compress { comment Non-root