Very, very slow backup

2005-01-26 Thread ralf . lebeda
Hello, what could be the reason for a very very slow backup? My backup server is a celeron 500 with 128 MB memory and a tandberg slr 24 tape box. My network is 100MB switched. The gamma client is a 800 MHz PIII system. The dv-02 client is a 1,2 GHz Athlon system. I have no explanation for this

Re: Reiserfs?

2005-01-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
Nick Danger wrote: Thanks for the help with the previous problem, I have it backing up all the non reiserfs partitions just fine now. How do I get it to back up reiserfs partitions? I tried root-tar, and comp-root-tar in disklist and neither worked. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:

Re: Very, very slow backup

2005-01-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what could be the reason for a very very slow backup? Actually, I have no idea. Just a few remarks. My backup server is a celeron 500 with 128 MB memory and a tandberg slr 24 tape box. My network is 100MB switched. The gamma client is a 800 MHz PIII system. The dv-02

Re: Reiserfs?

2005-01-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:24:57AM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: Nick Danger wrote: Thanks for the help with the previous problem, I have it backing up all the non reiserfs partitions just fine now. How do I get it to back up reiserfs partitions? I tried root-tar, and comp-root-tar in

Re: Very, very slow backup

2005-01-26 Thread Brian Cuttler
Ralf, In addition to what Paul said, I've begun (after advice from amanda-users) to use amplot, it'll give a good visual that may help to spot the problem. On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:43:59AM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what could be the reason for a very very slow

Re: Reiserfs?

2005-01-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jon LaBadie wrote: It has been a couple of years since I looked at tar, but IIRC two things that give a return code of 2 are file changed as we backed it up file disappeared after we made the list of what to backup These conditions are common on active file systems. Both cause the error

Re: Fedora Core 3 - which version of tar??

2005-01-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, on Donnerstag, 20. Jänner 2005 at 22:22 I wrote to amanda-users: SGW This will be added to the docs: SGW - configure and make as $AMANDAUSER, make install as root SGW - run ldconfig afterwards. I edited the install.xml-file today and tried to take care of the things mentioned in this

Re: Reiserfs?

2005-01-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:51:33PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: It has been a couple of years since I looked at tar, but IIRC two things that give a return code of 2 are file changed as we backed it up file disappeared after we made the list of what to backup These

amanda change ctime

2005-01-26 Thread Nina Pham
I have problem doing incremental backup on mount file. I'm using FC2 systems. The server mount to some files and does incremental backup everyday. The proplem is the ctime some how got changed when backing up, so the files endup archived even though it's not been touched. Any idea? Thanks.

Re: amanda change ctime

2005-01-26 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 at 2:40pm, Nina Pham wrote I have problem doing incremental backup on mount file. I'm using FC2 systems. The server mount to some files and does incremental backup How does the server mount to the files? The canonical way to use amanda is to install it on the client.

Re: amanda change ctime

2005-01-26 Thread Nina Pham
I mount using smbmount Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 at 2:40pm, Nina Pham wrote I have problem doing incremental backup on mount file. I'm using FC2 systems. The server mount to some files and does incremental backup How does the server mount to the files? The

Re: amanda change ctime

2005-01-26 Thread Mike Delaney
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:38:36PM -0800, Nina Pham wrote: I mount using smbmount Don't do that then. Install Amanda on all of the systems that need to be backed up, and let it work the way it was designed.

Re: amanda change ctime

2005-01-26 Thread Nina Pham
The files we are backing up are resigned on more than 1 servers, and we want to store that archive on the same place. Therefore we need to mount. Mike Delaney wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:38:36PM -0800, Nina Pham wrote: I mount using smbmount Don't do that then. Install Amanda on

Re: amanda change ctime

2005-01-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
Nina Pham wrote: I have problem doing incremental backup on mount file. I'm using FC2 systems. The server mount to some files and does incremental backup everyday. The proplem is the ctime some how got changed when backing up, so the files endup archived even though it's not been touched.

Re: amanda change ctime

2005-01-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
Nina Pham wrote: The files we are backing up are resigned on more than 1 servers, and we want to store that archive on the same place. Therefore we need to mount. Can you explain more? I don't understand that. Amanda stores all my archives on the same place :-) -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation

Re: amanda change ctime

2005-01-26 Thread Mike Delaney
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 04:26:07PM -0800, Nina Pham wrote: Mike Delaney wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:38:36PM -0800, Nina Pham wrote: I mount using smbmount Don't do that then. Install Amanda on all of the systems that need to be backed up, and let it work the way it was designed.

Re: amanda change ctime

2005-01-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 19:27, Nina Pham wrote: The files we are backing up are resigned on more than 1 servers, and we want to store that archive on the same place. Therefore we need to mount. Nina: Sorry, but you still need to drop the smbmount as samba itself does not support ctime, it

Re: amanda change ctime

2005-01-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 06:10:19PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 at 2:40pm, Nina Pham wrote The proplem is the ctime some how got changed when backing up, so the files endup archived even though it's not been touched. Any idea? Amanda uses dump and/or tar to