Re: Amrecover

2004-05-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Marcelo, on Freitag, 28. Mai 2004 at 22:24 you wrote to amanda-users: MLC The amanda movie, part I I like those movies, too ... Your installation says: MLC The following tapes are needed: Employer0 MLC amidxtaped: time 0.001: LABEL=Employer0 MLC argv[4] = Employer0 But

amdump stuck - possible timing problem

2004-05-29 Thread David Trusty
Hi, I have an amdump which is stuck. Here is what I am seeing: ===output of ps=== amanda9110 9109 0 May28 ?00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/amdump Daily amanda9120 9110 0 May28 ?00:00:00 /usr/local/libexec/driver Daily amanda9122 9121 0 May28 ?00:00:01

suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-05-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
A client has about 4 or 5 nearly identical HP workstations (xeon's) running RH 7.3 linux. They are looking for a backup solution and before I make any concrete recommendations I'd like to ask a few questions. Most of their disk space is SCSI, generally 36GB, but a couple of larger ones, include

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-05-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Jon, on Samstag, 29. Mai 2004 at 20:07 you wrote to amanda-users: JL Until now I've never seen a 240GB file system :)) How do you feel about that ? ;-) JL Part of my concern is the age of the OS and the components. JL Don't suggest an OS upgrade, they use it for a very costly JL

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-05-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jon LaBadie wrote: I see gcc 2.96 is already installed as is a libreadline (don't hold me to it, but I think 4.3). Stupidly I forgot to check the tar version. Any thoughts on the compiler and readline versions? Might installing newer compiler and libs upset the vendor's app? I must avoid that at

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-05-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jon LaBadie wrote: Until now I've never seen a 240GB file system :)) Me neither, up to last week, when they called me for advice how to backup a 800 GB filesystem (4 x 200 GB SATA disks), containing one large Oracle database. The hardware was completely configured already, so was the database, so

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-05-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 11:14:26PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: Until now I've never seen a 240GB file system :)) Me neither, up to last week, when they called me for advice how to backup a 800 GB filesystem (4 x 200 GB SATA disks), containing one large Oracle database.

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-05-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 May 2004 17:14, Paul Bijnens wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: Until now I've never seen a 240GB file system :)) Me neither, up to last week, when they called me for advice how to backup a 800 GB filesystem (4 x 200 GB SATA disks), containing one large Oracle database. The hardware was

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-05-29 Thread John Bossert
I'd suggest getting the DBA involved. If the database is running in ARCHIVEMODE, backing up the redo logfiles should be very doable, even with such a slow/small tapedrive. Depending, of course, on transaction volume. RMAN may be useful (though I have no experience (yet) in implementing it

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-05-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 05:08:22PM -0700, John Bossert wrote: I'd suggest getting the DBA involved. If the database is running in ARCHIVEMODE, backing up the redo logfiles should be very doable, even with such a slow/small tapedrive. Depending, of course, on transaction volume. RMAN may