Re: many dumps in parallel

2005-06-20 Thread Vects
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 23:50 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Vects wrote: > > I did grep on amstatus output, see below > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ amstatus Full1 | grep dumping > > comp1:/dev/md0 0 2168626k wait for dumping > > comp1:/dev/md3 0 7042137k wait for dumping > > comp2:/dev/md

Re: many dumps in parallel

2005-06-20 Thread Paul Bijnens
Vects wrote: I changed inparallel and maxdumps but it didn't help. See below the configuration files of amanda. I would like to have the amdump.XX file too, and maybe the the full amstatus output. (You may send it to me privately if you don't want to post the file in the public.) One "strange

Re: many dumps in parallel

2005-06-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Vects wrote: > I changed inparallel and maxdumps but it didn't help. > See below the configuration files of amanda. > > inparallel 10 > define dumptype global { > comment "Global definitions" > index yes > record no > maxdumps 10 > } > > define dumptype act-full { > global >

Re: many dumps in parallel

2005-06-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:37:11PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Vects wrote: > > > I changed inparallel and maxdumps but it didn't help. > > See below the configuration files of amanda. > > > > inparallel 10 > > > define dumptype global { > > comment "Global definitions" > > inde

Re: lvm and amanda?

2005-06-20 Thread Oscar Ricardo Silva
I thought I would respond to the various suggestions in one message and included my original message at the end for reference. I also realized that I wasn't clear when I displayed the permissions on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 device. When the machine boots, permissions are: drwxr

Re: many dumps in parallel

2005-06-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Jon LaBadie wrote: >>"maxdumps" limits the number of dumper processes per DLE, while >>"inparallel" limits the overall number of dumper processes running in >>parallel. > > Is that dumper procs per DLE? Or per host? > Seems to me that any DLE should only have one dumper assigned. dumper-procs p

Re: lvm and amanda?

2005-06-20 Thread Paul Bijnens
Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote: At 05:02 AM 6/18/2005, you wrote: Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 Jun 6 03:58 /dev/mapper brw-r- 1 root disk 253, 0 Jun 6 03:58 VolGroup00-LogVol00 Maybe I did not sleep very well, or I am missing something obvious or did not drink

Re: lvm and amanda?

2005-06-20 Thread Paul Bijnens
Following up on myself... (as usual on mondays)... Paul Bijnens wrote: The good news is that Redhat just fixed this very recently. in device-mapper-1.01.01-1.RHEL4, which you can install by up2date or "yum update device-mapper". https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-188.html says: > [..

RE: lvm and amanda?

2005-06-20 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: lvm and amanda? Do you have an SELinux setting of "targeted" on that box? This may be related to permissions--I must check this. I have amanda installed on a CentOS box, and I have an RHEL 4 server with a similar RAID volume /dev entries.  Following up on myself... (as usual on

awstats and amnda

2005-06-20 Thread Anthony Worrall
Hi As anyone tried using something like awstats to display statics about how amanda is doing? It would need a script to get the amdump file into a format that awstat could be told about i.e. something like an xferlog. Before I start hacking I thought I would ask if anyone else has already don

Re: DDS-3 tapetype ???

2005-06-20 Thread Michael Loftis
As an FYI here's what I got with my DAT7000 (Quantum) drives ~# mtx load 28 1 ; sleep 160 ; mt -f /dev/nst1 datcompression 2 ; amtapetype -f /dev/nst1 -t DAT7000_Compressed -e 70G ; mt -f /dev/nst1 rewind ; mt -f /dev/nst1 datcompression 0 ; amtapetype -f /dev/nst1 -t DAT7000_UnCompressed

connection refused when trying to recover

2005-06-20 Thread Cam
Hi, I'm trying to recover some files w/ amrecover on one of my hosts. Everything goes good w/ the amrecover utility, up until i want to extract... that part goes like this: amrecover> extract Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host localhost. The following tapes are needed: DailySet1

Re: many dumps in parallel

2005-06-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hello, Jon, you wrote: > Actually I meant that to go to sgw, not the list :( Yeah, I know, all those function-keys ;) > I'm unclear about what maxdumps should do is some settings. > > Suppose I have a general setting of maxdumps of 1, either by > not specifying it in amanda.conf or by setting i

Re: connection refused when trying to recover

2005-06-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Cam wrote: > cannot connect to localhost: Connection refused > amrecover - can't talk to tape server > > I'm assuming this is because i'm running the utility as root (not as > amanda), but iirc, the amanda documentation says i have to be root. Sorry to be that dry: The AMANDA documentation als

Re: connection refused when trying to recover

2005-06-20 Thread Cam
Hi, On 6/20/05, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry to be that dry: > > The AMANDA documentation also says not to use "localhost". I'm not using localhost... i'm trying to restore stuff on my box aspapp2.foo.com from the tape/index server db1.foo.com. My amanda access file o

Re: connection refused when trying to recover

2005-06-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 04:10:56PM -0600, Cam wrote: > Hi, > > On 6/20/05, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry to be that dry: > > > > The AMANDA documentation also says not to use "localhost". > > I'm not using localhost... i'm trying to restore stuff on my box > aspapp2.f

Archival backup problems

2005-06-20 Thread Kevin Dalley
I'm trying to run an archival backup which I run every 6 months or so. I hope to have a full backup of everything every 6 months. This is in addition to my standard backup, which includes incrementals, run almost every week day. It isn't working as I expect. My daily amanda backup, however, is

[off-topip] Better Backup Media

2005-06-20 Thread Fabricio Luiz Machado
Hi. Some of my DDS-4 tapes are bad (I/O error). So... i´m thinking if these tapes are trustworthy... :-/ Are there another better solution, that I can trust more than DDS-4 ? Maybe DLT ? thanks! Fabricio. __

Re: [off-topip] Better Backup Media

2005-06-20 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:17:55PM -0300, Fabricio Luiz Machado wrote: > Hi. > Some of my DDS-4 tapes are bad (I/O error). > So... i?m thinking if these tapes are trustworthy... :-/ > Are there another better solution, that I can trust more than DDS-4 ? > Maybe DLT ? DLT has a good track record, b

Re: awstats and amnda

2005-06-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 20 June 2005 12:03, Anthony Worrall wrote: >Hi > >As anyone tried using something like awstats to display statics > about how amanda is doing? It would need a script to get the amdump > file into a format that awstat could be told about i.e. something > like an xferlog. > >Before I start

Re: Archival backup problems

2005-06-20 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 03:50:41PM -0700, Kevin Dalley enlightened us: > I'm trying to run an archival backup which I run every 6 months or > so. I hope to have a full backup of everything every 6 months. This > is in addition to my standard backup, which includes incrementals, run > almost every