Re: amanda mini-howto

2004-09-24 Thread Alastair Neil
One important step wrt to amanda on solaris 7 (and 9 for that matter) is that the sun shipped tar is broken, you will need to compile gnu tar 1.13.25 or higher to make tar based backups work. - Original Message - From: Leandro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:39:44 -0300 Subj

Re: Amanda Compression

2004-09-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 September 2004 09:53, Ivan Petrovich wrote: >Gene, > >> I'm puzzled, 4 days, but 5 tapes? Whats the 5th tape? > >I thought that's what you're supposed to do: (tapecycle >= >runspercycle + 1). This will keep the 5th run from writing over the >first tape. > >> Bear in mind that a full b

Re: Amanda Compression

2004-09-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 September 2004 09:26, Ivan Petrovich wrote: >Jon, > >> Hypothetical -- I just checked, my root FS has 100,000 files. >> My level 0 of the / DLE thus is 10 files. Guessing that >> on any one day, maybe 1000 change and appear in incremental >> backups. If I do a level 0, then three

Re: Amanda Compression

2004-09-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 08:53:32AM -0500, Ivan Petrovich wrote: > Gene, > > > I'm puzzled, 4 days, but 5 tapes? Whats the 5th tape? > > I thought that's what you're supposed to do: (tapecycle >= > runspercycle + 1). This will keep the 5th run from writing over the > first tape. > > > Bear in mi

Re: Amanda Compression

2004-09-24 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Ivan Petrovich wrote: > > Bear in mind that a full backup isn't any one tape, but every tape for > > the most recent dumpcycle days will be required to do a full bare > > metal recovery. > > True. I didn't think of that. But this point to what I believe is a > weakness of Am

Re: Amanda Compression

2004-09-24 Thread Ivan Petrovich
Gene, > I'm puzzled, 4 days, but 5 tapes? Whats the 5th tape? I thought that's what you're supposed to do: (tapecycle >= runspercycle + 1). This will keep the 5th run from writing over the first tape. > Bear in mind that a full backup isn't any one tape, but every tape for > the most recent du

Re: not able to compile

2004-09-24 Thread Andreas Putzo
On Friday 24 September 2004 15:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here, i am: i.' ve installed gcc from www.sunfreeware.com , now it seem to > go on further but "configure stops with this message: "configure: error: > C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check" You need to use cpp from the SMCgcc

Re: Amanda Compression

2004-09-24 Thread Ivan Petrovich
Jon, > Hypothetical -- I just checked, my root FS has 100,000 files. > My level 0 of the / DLE thus is 10 files. Guessing that > on any one day, maybe 1000 change and appear in incremental > backups. If I do a level 0, then three incrementals, > WITHOUT the level 0 I only have a 3 in 100 cha

Re: not able to compile

2004-09-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here, i am: i.' ve installed gcc from www.sunfreeware.com , now it seem to go on further but "configure stops with this message: "configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check" The gcc should have installed cpp too. It should be in the same directory as

Re: not able to compile

2004-09-24 Thread teo73
Here, i am: i.' ve installed gcc from www.sunfreeware.com , now it seem to go on further but "configure stops with this message: "configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check" Is C++ needed? thank' s Matteo > Hi, > Am Donnerstag, 23. September 2004 17:22 schrieb [E

Re: amdump timeout, but amcheck OK

2004-09-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
Thomas Buntrock wrote: got result for host file disk /home/cvs: 0 -> 828890K, 1 -> 2840K, -1 -> -1K error result for host www disk /etc: Request to www timed out. Have a look on that host in the files named /tmp/amanda/sendsize.DATETIME.debug to see if there are any obvious errors. Notice how lon

amdump timeout, but amcheck OK

2004-09-24 Thread Thomas Buntrock
Hi there, I am using amanda to backup several hosts. amcheck runs fine, reporting no errors. However, the report of the dump says otherwise. From 6 hosts one host always times out with amdump NOT amcheck. Here are relevant parts of the amdump.1: setting up estimates for www:/etc www:/etc overd