Amanda Backup

2004-07-21 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi All Wanted to know about amanda tape viz to check what will be the next run for a particular hostname, diskname. How do i check that Any Help -- Regards, Kaushal Shriyan Technical Engineer Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd. Tel : +91-22-22881326/27 Fax : +91-22-22881318

Re: Speed up 400GB backup?

2004-07-21 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 at 12:00am, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote [...] Kris, I think that you need to some performance testing/optimizing of your system. What controllers are you using? Have you tested with bonnie++ and/or tiobench? Are there mount parameters to ext3 you

Re: Amanda Backup

2004-07-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 at 11:39am, Kaushal Shriyan wrote Wanted to know about amanda tape viz to check what will be the next run for a particular hostname, diskname. How do i check that I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but I'm sure your answers lie in 'man amadmin'. It can tell what

Re: Amanda Backup

2004-07-21 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:22:11AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain enlightened us: Wanted to know about amanda tape viz to check what will be the next run for a particular hostname, diskname. How do i check that I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but I'm sure your answers lie in

Re: Speed up 400GB backup?

2004-07-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Paul Bijnens wrote: If you install dump for ext2, then you should also try out that one. Dump takes only a few seconds or minutes compared to gnutar for such filesystems. I thought you do not want to use dump on Linux, since it's unsafe? Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Re: Looking for sample config files

2004-07-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 at 4:35pm, CPH wrote On Wednesday 21 July 2004 16:12, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 at 4:08pm, CPH wrote Hi, I have very simple needs for an amanda installation : - backup one server which also contains the tape drive; - incremental nightly

Re: Speed up 400GB backup?

2004-07-21 Thread Kris Vassallo
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 17:28, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 at 12:00am, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote Hi, Kris, on Dienstag, 20. Juli 2004 at 23:14 you wrote to amanda-users: KV The box is running redhat 9 with 2.4.20 kernel and ext3 filesystem. KV Below is the most

Re: Speed up 400GB backup?

2004-07-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 at 12:17pm, Kris Vassallo wrote On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 17:28, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Actually, both of those are *very* slow. Remember, those are estimates, and they write to /dev/null. When tar does that, it doesn't actually read the bits off the spindles, it

Re: Speed up 400GB backup?

2004-07-21 Thread Kris Vassallo
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 16:05, Frank Smith wrote: --On Tuesday, July 20, 2004 14:35:53 -0700 Kris Vassallo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NOTES: driver: WARNING: /tmp: not 102400 KB free. I overlooked this last night. I've never seen this message myself, but perhaps it is relevant. Any

Tape device not rewinding after amanda dumps finished

2004-07-21 Thread Brian Sebby
We recently upgraded our Amanda server to a new machine, and migrated from Amanda 2.4.0 to 2.4.4p2. However, while our old server used to rewind the tape after the dumps were finished, our backup administrator has discovered that the new machine does not. We're using the same tape drives, and

Re: Speed up 400GB backup?

2004-07-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Paul Bijnens wrote: If you install dump for ext2, then you should also try out that one. Dump takes only a few seconds or minutes compared to gnutar for such filesystems. I thought you do not want to use dump on Linux, since it's unsafe? Dump should

Re: Speed up 400GB backup?

2004-07-21 Thread Mike Fedyk
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Is it too disruptive to just reboot the system? It'd be nice to try a Boo! I sincerely doubt rebooting will help unless there is a kernel problem. couple of other kernels, like a vanilla 2.4.26. Also, I'd ask on a redhat list and/or an ext2/3 list about any