Re: Amanda runs out of tape

2005-02-14 Thread Andreas Haumer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Niclas Ember schrieb: | Hi | | I'm trying to run amanda on a Fedora Core 3 server. I use the rpm:s | supplied with the distribution. | I use a HP Surestore WS80 (I think, can't read it now because the tape | is stuck :( ), with a HP DLT IV Data

Re: backup windows clients

2005-02-14 Thread Chantal Rosmuller
Matt Hyclak wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 05:08:12PM +0100, Chantal Rosmuller enlightened us: Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:41:37AM +0100, Chantal Rosmuller wrote: Hi, I have an amanda-windows question: I got amanda running on a linux server with linux clients but

Same problem .... Amanda runs out of tape

2005-02-14 Thread S . Krumme
Hi, I am using a HP Drive 40/80 GB and I am experiencing the same problem. The DLT has been changed twice. Backup was fine for two days and today amanda was running again out of tape. Size of the backup is 12,5 GB what should be no problem. Its exactly as described the backup is running fine for

Re: Amanda runs out of tape

2005-02-14 Thread Niclas Ember
Hi Thank's for your answer. mån 2005-02-14 klockan 09:36 +0100 skrev Andreas Haumer: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Niclas Ember schrieb: | Hi | | I'm trying to run amanda on a Fedora Core 3 server. I use the rpm:s | supplied with the distribution. | I use a HP

Re: Amanda runs out of tape

2005-02-14 Thread Andreas Haumer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Niclas Ember schrieb: | Hi | | Thank's for your answer. | | mån 2005-02-14 klockan 09:36 +0100 skrev Andreas Haumer: | [...] | | a) give amanda a reduced tape size (e.g. 30 or 35GB) and | b) turn off hardware compression and | c) let amanda use

Re: Can tapes be grouped for different types of back-up?

2005-02-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:49:53AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 13 February 2005 16:43, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Until recently I had a DDS3 tape streamer. Then it broke down a few weeks ago and I bought a DDS4 tape streamer. I therefore have a lot of DDS3 tapes which I like to use for

Re: Same problem .... Amanda runs out of tape

2005-02-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:23:59AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using a HP Drive 40/80 GB and I am experiencing the same problem. The DLT has been changed twice. Backup was fine for two days and today amanda was running again out of tape. Size of the backup is 12,5 GB what

Flushed, but not forgotten

2005-02-14 Thread Gaby vanhegan
Hi, I just found a load of old dumps in my holding directory that, for whatever reason, weren't written to tape. I've now flushed all of these to tape but they're still in the holding folder. Is it safe to rm -rf them all now? Gaby -- Uganda Maximum - Enemy of the English Thrust [EMAIL

Re: Same problem .... Amanda runs out of tape

2005-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 February 2005 10:32, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:23:59AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using a HP Drive 40/80 GB and I am experiencing the same problem. The DLT has been changed twice. Backup was fine for two days and today amanda was running again

How chg-multi selects which tape to backup to.....

2005-02-14 Thread Vicki Stanfield
I am using chg-multi with two tape drives. Sometimes my backups only require one tape, other times both. After the weekend, I use amtape current to determine which tape drive is current and put the first of the two tapes asked for by amcheck in it. It doesn't always seem, however, that amanda is

Re: Flushed, but not forgotten

2005-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 February 2005 11:11, Gaby vanhegan wrote: Hi, I just found a load of old dumps in my holding directory that, for whatever reason, weren't written to tape. I've now flushed all of these to tape but they're still in the holding folder. Is it safe to rm -rf them all now? They should

Re: Flushed, but not forgotten

2005-02-14 Thread Gaby vanhegan
On 14 Feb 2005, at 16:57, Gene Heskett wrote: I just found a load of old dumps in my holding directory that, for whatever reason, weren't written to tape. I've now flushed all of these to tape but they're still in the holding folder. Is it safe to rm -rf them all now? They should have been

Re: Flushed, but not fogotten

2005-02-14 Thread Gaby vanhegan
OK... Looking at the files, they were dumps but only contained one, 0 byte file, from a machine that was having problems with access. amflush reports that nothing was written to tape, so I checked the folders and there was no data in them. I've bitten the bullet and removed them, as I know

Re: How chg-multi selects which tape to backup to.....

2005-02-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
Vicki Stanfield wrote: I am using chg-multi with two tape drives. Sometimes my backups only require one tape, other times both. After the weekend, I use amtape current to determine which tape drive is current and put the first of the two tapes asked for by amcheck in it. It doesn't always seem,

Re: Flushed, but not forgotten

2005-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 February 2005 12:05, Gaby vanhegan wrote: On 14 Feb 2005, at 16:57, Gene Heskett wrote: I just found a load of old dumps in my holding directory that, for whatever reason, weren't written to tape. I've now flushed all of these to tape but they're still in the holding folder. Is

Re: How chg-multi selects which tape to backup to.....

2005-02-14 Thread Vicki Stanfield
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 12:07 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: Vicki, just an off-list comment. I don't think chg-multi is used by a large number of installations. I could certainly be wrong there. But if correct, I would not be at all surprised that you may be wringing out a few sticky points.

Re: Flushed, but not forgotten

2005-02-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 05:05:40PM +, Gaby vanhegan wrote: If these dumps on the holding disk get superseded by other, more recent backups, will they automatically be removed from the holding disk? Yes, when they're amflushed. (Unless there's something else preventing it, although I can't

predicting tapes

2005-02-14 Thread Steve Wray
I was wondering if there was any way to predict, say a few days in advance, which tapes amanda would want to use? Thanks!

Re: predicting tapes

2005-02-14 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, February 15, 2005 07:51:33 +1300 Steve Wray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if there was any way to predict, say a few days in advance, which tapes amanda would want to use? Thanks! It depends on how predictable your tape usage is. If your backups always fit on one

Re: VXA-2 packet-loader issues and AMANDA [Fwd: hard luck with the new autoloader]

2005-02-14 Thread James D. Freels
I have the new scsi card (an inexpensive LSILogic LSIU80ALVDB) that fixes the problems I was having. So, the Exabyte tech support was correct and the great advice I got herein this mailing list also said get a separate scsi card ! I am still using the older driver. I will be updating the

Re: VXA-2 packet-loader issues -- a scsi question added

2005-02-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 03:55:31PM -0500, James D. Freels wrote: I have the new scsi card (an inexpensive LSILogic LSIU80ALVDB) that fixes the problems I was having. So, the Exabyte tech support was correct and the great advice I got herein this mailing list also said get a separate scsi card

Re: amdump: timeout

2005-02-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Paul, on Dienstag, 08. Februar 2005 at 19:47 you wrote to amanda-users: PB Parameter etimeout in amanda.conf? PB To see how large to set it to, have a look on the client maxwell in PB the debug files /tmp/amanda/sendsize.DATATIME.debug PB and see how long the estimate did take. This one

Re: VXA-2 packet-loader issues -- a scsi question added

2005-02-14 Thread James D. Freels
this is consistent with what the Exabyte Tech support told me. The tape library comes with scsi id 0 by default while the tape drive had an scsi id = 11. Now how many bootable scsi drives have anything but scsi id=0. So, there was a direct conflict. I changed the scsi id=3 on the library and

RE: amdump: timeout

2005-02-14 Thread Hull, Dave
I have successfully installed and configured Amanda on RHEL servers and clients. I'm trying to install the client bits on a Solaris 8 system. I've downloaded source and run configure with the correct options, but I'm getting the following error during configure: configure: WARNING:

Re: amdump: timeout

2005-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 February 2005 17:19, Hull, Dave wrote: I have successfully installed and configured Amanda on RHEL servers and clients. I'm trying to install the client bits on a Solaris 8 system. I've downloaded source and run configure with the correct options, but I'm getting the following

forcing skipped incrementals into holding disk

2005-02-14 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
We've got one problem machine that has about 90GB in one DLE, and our tapes are 100GB LTO1s. Of course, once a cycle, the server decides it can only write maybe 5 DLES out of 150+ to the tape, because one of them is 80GB+, and so all the other dumps end up being reported as FAILED [dumps way

Re: Flushed, but not forgotten

2005-02-14 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Gaby vanhegan wrote: Hi, I just found a load of old dumps in my holding directory that, for whatever reason, weren't written to tape. I've now flushed all of these to tape but they're still in the holding folder. Is it safe to rm -rf them all now? I've seen one

Re: forcing skipped incrementals into holding disk

2005-02-14 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, February 15, 2005 17:44:32 +1100 Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've got one problem machine that has about 90GB in one DLE, and our tapes are 100GB LTO1s. Of course, once a cycle, the server decides it can only write maybe 5 DLES out of 150+ to the tape, because

Re: forcing skipped incrementals into holding disk

2005-02-14 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Frank Smith wrote: --On Tuesday, February 15, 2005 17:44:32 +1100 Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've got one problem machine that has about 90GB in one DLE, and our tapes are 100GB LTO1s. Of course, once a cycle, the server decides it can only write