Re: many dumps in parallel

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
Vects wrote: Hello there, I mentioned amanda runs only one dump of computer/partition the same time. Is there any way configure amanda to run many dumps at once for different computers? I have 6 computers to backup in disklist, it's about 4 partitions per computer, backup takes long time to finis

Amanda Statistics.

2005-06-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
Hi, Below the statistics from my last backup. I assume the times are all elapsed times, but why is amanda so wrong in estimating the times? Or is it a bug? STATISTICS: Total Full Daily Estimate Time (hrs:m

Re: Amanda Statistics.

2005-06-16 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Erik P. Olsen schrieb: Hi, Below the statistics from my last backup. I assume the times are all elapsed times, but why is amanda so wrong in estimating the times? Or is it a bug? STATISTICS: Total Full Daily

Re: Amanda Statistics.

2005-06-16 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Below the statistics from my last backup. I assume the times are all elapsed times, but why is amanda so wrong in estimating the times? Or is it a bug? STATISTICS: Total Full Daily -

dump larger than tape, 2867765 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk

2005-06-16 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi I have tried backing up "/" using the disklist with a 20GB DDS-4 150MM DAT tape and I get this error below. The size is only 3GB Is there a level I need to adjust in the amanda.conf file. sever.domain.co.uk:/ 0 planner: [dump larger than tape, 2867765 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk]

dump larger than tape, 2862305 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk

2005-06-16 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
AILED server.smtl.co.uk / 20050616 0 [dump larger than tape, 2862305 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk] delay: Total size now 286. Any Ideas as I am using a 20GB dat tape. -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator Chuck Amadi The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Princess of Wales Hos

Re: dump larger than tape, 2867765 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk

2005-06-16 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator schrieb: Hi I have tried backing up "/" using the disklist with a 20GB DDS-4 150MM DAT tape and I get this error below. The size is only 3GB Is there a level I need to adjust in the amanda.conf file. Um, perhaps the tapesize parameter? Christoph sever.do

Re: R: dump larger than tape, 2867765 KB, but cannot incremental dump newdisk

2005-06-16 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi just posted it When I first configured I did rub the command that took for ever and a day. But I did have a 20gb tape in the drive. Cheers Is there a way to reset it as I have edited the On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 14:20 +0200, Montagni, Giovanni wrote: > Have you ever run amtapetype command? it

Re: dump larger than tape, 2862305 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: DELAYING DUMPS IF NEEDED, total_size 2862734, tape length 1976320 mark Somewhere in your configuration you have a tape length of 1976320 KB == 1930 MB instead of 20gb. Search for 1930 or 1976320 in amanda.conf to see it is defined. Or post the amanda.co

Re: R: dump larger than tape, 2867765 KB, but cannot incremental dump newdisk

2005-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 June 2005 08:28, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: >Hi just posted it Where? It didn't make it to here so we can verify what you have. >When I first configured I did rub the command that took for ever and > a day. > >But I did have a 20gb tape in the drive. Two things Chu

Re: out-of-tape on dump errors

2005-06-16 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Peter Mueller wrote: >>Does anyone now why Amanda might generate an out of tape error in a >>situation where it blatantly isn't anywhere even close to the end of the >>tape? >> > > As I understand it, Amanda interpretes any non-ok result from the tape > device as "out of tape" - as most back

2.5.5 question

2005-06-16 Thread George Kelbley
I just upgraded from 2.4.4p3-2 to 2.5.0 (I need to use calsize to handle a Network Appliance filer). My short test backup worked fine, but when I ran my usual backup last night, amanda skipped more than half my DLE's because it thought it didn't have room on the tape. It failed for some of the D

Backup to Hard Drive

2005-06-16 Thread Cody Holland
I'm a newb to Amanda, and would like to backup everything to a server running Raid0. I'm sure this is very possible, I just cannot find any docs on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Cody

Re: out-of-tape on dump errors

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
Mike Brodbelt wrote: Peter Mueller wrote: As I understand it, Amanda interpretes any non-ok result from the tape device as "out of tape" - as most backup and tape handling software does. That filesystem has since backed up successfully, so I'm writing it down to just a glitch in this case. Th

Re: dump larger than tape, 2862305 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: I got the culprit define tapetype HP-DAT { comment "DAT tape drives" # data provided by Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> length 1930 mbytes filemark 111 kbytes speed 468 kbytes I will edit this bugger. Actually it is more or less c

dumper5 pid 10813 is messed up, ignoring it

2005-06-16 Thread Rebecca Pakish Crum
Title: dumper5 pid 10813 is messed up, ignoring it Hi all - I've searched the archives and did a google search on the above error, and I found an old sourceforge archive from JJ that offered some suggestions, but I still can't get a handle on what's going on. Here's what I have: A server r

Re: Backup to Hard Drive

2005-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 June 2005 10:52, Cody Holland wrote: >I'm a newb to Amanda, and would like to backup everything to a > server running Raid0. I'm sure this is very possible, I just > cannot find any docs on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >Thanks, >Cody See the FILE: tapetype in the d

RE: Backup to Hard Drive

2005-06-16 Thread Rebecca Pakish Crum
> On Thursday 16 June 2005 10:52, Cody Holland wrote: > >I'm a newb to Amanda, and would like to backup everything to > a server > >running Raid0. I'm sure this is very possible, I just > cannot find any > >docs on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > >Thanks, > >Cody Try looki

Re[2]: Backup to Hard Drive

2005-06-16 Thread sgw
Hello, Rebecca, on 16.06.2005, 21:22 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: > Try looking in the amanda FAQ-omatic, here: > http://amanda.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/fom?_recurse=1&file=25#file_191 > This is the configuration I used and it works like a champ. ;-) And something more up-to-date: htt

Re: dumper5 pid 10813 is messed up, ignoring it

2005-06-16 Thread sgw
Hello, Rebecca, on 16.06.2005, 19:47 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: > Here's what I have: A server running amanda-2.4.4p4 running on RHE3 > intel, and has been for a couple of years. A client running > amanda-2.4.4p1 on Sol9, sparc. > Any suggestions? Is there any reasonable chance of g

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2005-06-16 Thread Nicklas Bondesson
I'm using amanda 2.4.5 to backup some Windows shares using amanda and smbclient. Everything went just fine until I upgraded Debian to the lastest stable (3.1). This upgrade went from Samba 2.2.3a to 3.0.14a. I now get this type of message on all of my Windows shares that I back up from amanda. F

Strange dump details

2005-06-16 Thread Nicklas Bondesson
I'm using amanda 2.4.5 to backup some Windows shares using amanda and smbclient. Everything went just fine until I upgraded Debian to the lastest stable (3.1). This upgrade went from Samba 2.2.3a to 3.0.14a. I now get this type of message on all of my Windows shares that I back up from amanda. F

RE: dumper5 pid 10813 is messed up, ignoring it

2005-06-16 Thread Rebecca Pakish Crum
> Hello, Rebecca, > > on 16.06.2005, 19:47 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: > > > Here's what I have: A server running amanda-2.4.4p4 running on RHE3 > > intel, and has been for a couple of years. A client running > > amanda-2.4.4p1 on Sol9, sparc. > > > Any suggestions? > > Is there any

Re: Backup to Hard Drive

2005-06-16 Thread Mike Delaney
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:24:02PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 16 June 2005 10:52, Cody Holland wrote: > >I'm a newb to Amanda, and would like to backup everything to a > > server running Raid0. I'm sure this is very possible, I just > > cannot find any docs on it. Any help would be

Re: Backup to Hard Drive

2005-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 June 2005 17:50, Mike Delaney wrote: >On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:24:02PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Thursday 16 June 2005 10:52, Cody Holland wrote: >> >I'm a newb to Amanda, and would like to backup everything to a >> > server running Raid0. I'm sure this is very possible, I

Re: Strange dump details

2005-06-16 Thread sgw
Hello, Nicklas, on 16.06.2005, 23:26 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: > ? Domain=[DOMAIN] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] > Any ideas? Ignore it (it's not a problem) or browse the archives of this list for a patch that has been recently posted. Best regards, Stefan G.

Re: Strange dump details

2005-06-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:26:53PM +0200, Nicklas Bondesson wrote: > I'm using amanda 2.4.5 to backup some Windows shares using amanda and > smbclient. > > Everything went just fine until I upgraded Debian to the lastest stable > (3.1). This upgrade went from Samba 2.2.3a to 3.0.14a. > > I now ge

Re: [dump larger than tape, 2866960 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk]

2005-06-16 Thread Toomas Aas
Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: #disklist file #server.domain.co.uk / comp-root-tar #Thought I was using tar. and I get the above error. Whats the best to tackle this still using DSS-4 150mm DAT tapes. and how to cannot incremental dump new disk as above error. Thus can I change from

DDS-3 tapetype ???

2005-06-16 Thread Michael D Schleif
Earlier this year, my HP DAT tape drive had problems, and I replaced it with a Compaq/Sony SDT-9000. Mostly, I am still using the same DDS-3 tapes that I was using, and retired some and added some. My old records show that I was getting nearly the full 12GB uncompressed tape length. Since the ta

Re: Strange dump details

2005-06-16 Thread Frank Smith
--On Thursday, June 16, 2005 20:13:41 -0400 Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Backup programs like dump, tar, smbclient generate lots of > messages that are informational fluff. Amanda has hard coded > lists of things to "not worry about". Others amanda knows > to print error reports a

Re: DDS-3 tapetype ???

2005-06-16 Thread Frank Smith
--On Thursday, June 16, 2005 23:59:28 -0500 Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Earlier this year, my HP DAT tape drive had problems, and I replaced it > with a Compaq/Sony SDT-9000. Mostly, I am still using the same DDS-3 > tapes that I was using, and retired some and added some. My