Re: odd dump timeout symptoms

2005-08-17 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:16:48AM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >> >> Another data point though; this backup today started at 1:30am (it's now >> 10:15am) and is only 35% through -- about 20GiB. This is pretty abnormal >> (well, compared back to w

Re: odd dump timeout symptoms

2005-08-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:16:48AM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > > Another data point though; this backup today started at 1:30am (it's now > 10:15am) and is only 35% through -- about 20GiB. This is pretty abnormal > (well, compared back to when it used to run -- it would on a bad day be > fini

Re: odd dump timeout symptoms

2005-08-17 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jon LaBadie wrote: >As I noted, I was uncertain of the details, someone understanding more >about the networking aspects can comment more. But just for clarification >of the way I worded that: > >- I did not say anything about the backup data stream over udp >- Your lo

Re: odd dump timeout symptoms

2005-08-17 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Scott R. Burns wrote: >Can the version of GNU tar you are using handle single archives of this size >? There were some older versions that used signed long internals that >overflowed on me in the past and caused problems. It's 1.13.25 from RHEL 3. I havne't seen anyth

Re: Has anyone a script for Monthly/Daily backups

2005-08-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
Paul Bijnens wrote: == cut here == Version 2, using one subprocess only #!/bin/sh # First friday of the month case `date +%d%a` in [1-7]Fri) amdump monthly ;; *) amdump daily ;; esac == cut here Oops, "date +%d" results in a zero padded two digit date, so that should be: > ===

Re: Has anyone a script for Monthly/Daily backups

2005-08-17 Thread chuck.amadi
He is my previous Boss hack if you look at the third script would it be a simple process to just add amanda amcheck and amdump after the first two scripts have confirmed the true date being a daily or monthly backup. Or would you suggest to keep it simple use paul bijnens script . Please note I

Re: HD backup strategy ?

2005-08-17 Thread Mike Delaney
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 03:03:59PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote: > > >Haven't seen anyone on the list mention using it, but Iomega > >introduced some interesting hardware last year. I think they > >call it "Rev", basically a small, removalble hard drive > >cartridge. Think high c

Re: Has anyone a script for Monthly/Daily backups

2005-08-17 Thread chuck.amadi
To all thanks I had a previous hack from our old Boss crafted backup hack solution I do know Python and I like shell scripting So I got a few scripts excellent list. Cheers Chuck

Re: Has anyone a script for Monthly/Daily backups

2005-08-17 Thread Frank Smith
--On Wednesday, August 17, 2005 17:58:30 +0100 "chuck.amadi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone a script that will check for the last friday of the month and if > So run the monthly config backup or if not the usually daily config. If you have gnu date available (the one used by Linux and

Re: Has anyone a script for Monthly/Daily backups

2005-08-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
chuck.amadi wrote: Has anyone a script that will check for the last friday of the month and if So run the monthly config backup or if not the usually daily config. I am currently looking at hacking something together as I was just going to edit the crontab and comment and uncomment between dai

Re: Backup too long with windows client

2005-08-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
tanguy yoann wrote: Hi, I have a problem with a backup: it puts too much time. I do not backup many data but that takes a long time. I made this backup before and that lasted only a few seconds. I backup a Windows share by smbclient. I do not understand the problem. So I send to you

Re: Has anyone a script for Monthly/Daily backups

2005-08-17 Thread Graeme Humphries
chuck.amadi wrote: Has anyone a script that will check for the last friday of the month and if So run the monthly config backup or if not the usually daily config. I'm using the following. In crontab: 45 15 * * 5 root/root/monthly-date-check.py && /usr/sbin/amdump monthly

Has anyone a script for Monthly/Daily backups

2005-08-17 Thread chuck.amadi
Has anyone a script that will check for the last friday of the month and if So run the monthly config backup or if not the usually daily config. I am currently looking at hacking something together as I was just going to edit the crontab and comment and uncomment between daily and monthly. I

Re: Duration Of Backup

2005-08-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:13:22AM -0400, Mangala Gunadasa wrote: [...] backup takes 9hrs to finish. We have tried to make it more efficient by changing the parameters "interface", and "net usage" of the amanda.conf and did not succeed( Probably those parameters do not matte

Enterprise: Backup to tape

2005-08-17 Thread Seth Rothenberg
Can anyone point me to information (especially if it is in a FAQ) We presently use Amanda to back up 60 disks on 11 servers, distributed across 34 virtual hostnames. Meanwhile, I have a colleague who shopping for an enterprise Central-backup-to-disk solutionand they are apparently willing to

Re: Duration Of Backup

2005-08-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:13:22AM -0400, Mangala Gunadasa wrote: > Greetings > > We have been using amanda for many years. Our capacity had grown and > currently we are backing up 60 file systems across 12 servers. The > backup takes 9hrs to finish. We have tried to make it more efficient by > ch

Re: Duration Of Backup

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Ewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 17.08.2005 at 09:13 -0400, Mangala Gunadasa wrote: > We have been using amanda for many years. Our capacity had grown and > currently we are backing up 60 file systems across 12 servers. The > backup takes 9hrs to finish. We have tried t

Re: Duration Of Backup

2005-08-17 Thread Mangala Gunadasa
Greetings We have been using amanda for many years. Our capacity had grown and currently we are backing up 60 file systems across 12 servers. The backup takes 9hrs to finish. We have tried to make it more efficient by changing the parameters "interface", and "net usage" of the amanda.conf and did

Backup too long with windows client

2005-08-17 Thread tanguy yoann
Hi, I have a problem with a backup: it puts too much time. I do not backup many data but that takes a long time. I made this backup before and that lasted only a few seconds. I backup a Windows share by smbclient. I do not understand the problem. So I send to you files of debug to see

Re: odd dump timeout symptoms

2005-08-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 03:05:01PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Jon LaBadie wrote: > >Search back over the list archives for details that I don't remember. > > Thanks :) > > >I think some have had this symptom when there was some sort of network > >timeout setting

Re: HD backup strategy ?

2005-08-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 03:03:59PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote: > > >Haven't seen anyone on the list mention using it, but Iomega > >introduced some interesting hardware last year. I think they > >call it "Rev", basically a small, removalble hard drive > >cartridge. Think high c

Re: HD backup strategy ?

2005-08-17 Thread Toomas Aas
Jon LaBadie wrote: Haven't seen anyone on the list mention using it, but Iomega introduced some interesting hardware last year. I think they call it "Rev", basically a small, removalble hard drive cartridge. Think high capacity, tiny zip drive as it has 35GB native capacity and a builtin compr