Re: Avg Dump Rate and Compression

2004-03-29 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 at 12:49pm, Fernando Serto wrote > My doubt is... isn't 324.7 K/s for dump rate too slow? I was backing up 1Gb > of data and it's taking almost 1 hour! does that mean that for 12Gb I'll get > something close to 12 hours? > > my tapetype is: > > define tapetype DDS-3 { > c

Re: Spectra Logic 6100 AIT library, tape settings ?

2004-03-29 Thread Stephen Carville
On Monday March 29 2004 08:32 am, Mark W4CHL wrote: > Have recently acquired a Spectra Logic AIT 6100 library, but don't see > any definitions for setting up the tape gripper in the library. Before > we get another one of these things as a spare, anyone have some hints > or tips to getting this thi

Re: parallel tape usage/ RAIT or what else?

2004-03-29 Thread Brian Cuttler
Joshua, Thanks - understanding grows daily. I'd previously (and erroniously) understood that concurrent amanda-server usage on a single amanda-server would cause socket conflict if not configured to use separate amanda binaries with different port ranges. My understanding that no single client

Re: parallel tape usage/ RAIT or what else?

2004-03-29 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 at 12:12pm, Brian Cuttler wrote > Isn't there a possiblity of port conflict on the server ? Not that I'm aware of. The server checks for open ports before telling the clients (in the UDP packets) what ports to communicate with the server on. There *is* the possibility of p

Re: parallel tape usage/ RAIT or what else?

2004-03-29 Thread Brian Cuttler
Isn't there a possiblity of port conflict on the server ? Don't you have to have separate binaries on the server for the different configs if they are accessing the same ethernet interface ? I got around this on my site by having one config backup local disks and another config backing up disks

Re: Spectra Logic 6100 AIT library, tape settings ?

2004-03-29 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 at 4:32pm, Mark W4CHL wrote > Have recently acquired a Spectra Logic AIT 6100 library, but don't see > any definitions for setting up the tape gripper in the library. Before > we get another one of these things as a spare, anyone have some hints > or tips to getting this thing

Re: parallel tape usage/ RAIT or what else?

2004-03-29 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 at 12:25pm, Toni Mueller wrote > I'm looking for the best way to have several drives backing up a > network in parallel. Eg. while one drive makes a backup of machine M1, > the next drive saves data from machine M2 and so on. All drives will be > contained in one library, serve

Spectra Logic 6100 AIT library, tape settings ?

2004-03-29 Thread Mark W4CHL
Have recently acquired a Spectra Logic AIT 6100 library, but don't see any definitions for setting up the tape gripper in the library. Before we get another one of these things as a spare, anyone have some hints or tips to getting this thing working ? Seems this is an early version of the Spectra

Re: amoverview; history database

2004-03-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
Urs Forster wrote: Ok, I deletet all indexes, all curinfo, removed all extra tapes from changer.conf, ran amrmtape, amtape update, amcheckdb and I found out what fell swoop means (rather than swell foop; that was the harder part ;-). Despite all of those, amoverview still shows around 90 days acro

Re: amoverview; history database

2004-03-29 Thread Urs Forster
> >On Thursday 25 March 2004 10:57, Urs Forster wrote: >>Hi >> >>>From: Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:58:16 -0500 >>> >>>On Thursday 25 March 2004 08:14, Urs Forster wrote: Hi When using amoverview I get a wide output (more than 3 month). This is not