Re: Index files not being created

2005-09-13 Thread Cameron Beattie
Cameron Beattie wrote: I am having trouble getting amanda to create index files. I have set index to yes in the dumptype. I don't believe there is a permissions problem: ls -laF /var/lib/amanda/normal/index/hostname drwxr-sr-x 2 amanda disk 4096 Sep 13 16:56 _/ drwxr-sr-x 4 amanda disk

Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I Have had a back-up active since 1 o'clock (this night). When I issue amstatus I can see that it is still active although apparently doing nothing. It reports one dumper busy with no-bandwidth. What ican my problem be and what is this no-bandwidth? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# su amanda -c

questions about tunning configuration

2005-09-13 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
Hi. There are a couple of parameters on amanda.conf that I can't figure out exactly their meaning, even after reading the man pages a thousand times: - dumpcycle, in days - runspercycle, in number of amdumps - tapecycle, in number of tapes tapecycle is the total number of tapes; only these

Re: Index files not being created

2005-09-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
13 16:56 _/ drwxr-sr-x 4 amanda disk 4096 Sep 13 16:47 ./ drwxr-xr-x 4 amanda disk 4096 Sep 13 16:24 ../ I have checked the logfiles and they seem fine: START driver date 20050913 DISK planner hostname / START planner date 20050913 WARNING planner tapecycle (3) = runspercycle (10

Re: questions about tunning configuration

2005-09-13 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:41:34PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura enlightened us: Hi. There are a couple of parameters on amanda.conf that I can't figure out exactly their meaning, even after reading the man pages a thousand times: - dumpcycle, in days - runspercycle, in number of amdumps -

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:50 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I Have had a back-up active since 1 o'clock (this night). When I issue amstatus I can see that it is still active although apparently doing nothing. It reports one dumper busy with no-bandwidth. What ican my problem be and what is this

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 6:01pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:50 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I Have had a back-up active since 1 o'clock (this night). When I issue amstatus I can see that it is still active although apparently doing nothing. It reports one dumper busy with

no-hold meaning

2005-09-13 Thread Guy Dallaire
I've read the amstatus docs and the using amanda chapter. Somehow, I can't quite figure how to interpret the amstatus output. This morning I did: amstatus DailySet1 and got: --SNIP-- SUMMARY part real estimated size

Re: questions about tunning configuration

2005-09-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:41:34PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura enlightened us: tapecycle is the total number of tapes; only these tapes are rotated, right? Not exactly. tapecycle is the minimum number of tapes that will be used before any single tape can

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:01:37PM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:50 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I Have had a back-up active since 1 o'clock (this night). When I issue amstatus I can see that it is still active although apparently doing nothing. It reports one dumper

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 12:14 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 6:01pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:50 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I Have had a back-up active since 1 o'clock (this night). When I issue amstatus I can see that it is still active

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 8:32pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 12:14 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 6:01pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:50 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I Have had a back-up active since 1 o'clock (this night). When I

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 13:53 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:01:37PM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:50 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I Have had a back-up active since 1 o'clock (this night). When I issue amstatus I can see that it is still active

Re: no-hold meaning

2005-09-13 Thread Guy Dallaire
2005/9/13, Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I read it as don't touch for amanda usage the last 0.5GB. Work only with what is above that. Of the part amanda can work with, reserve 30% for degraded mode. If, at the beginning of the dump, you started with 3GB available space on the holding

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 8:44pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote I have now cranked up the latter to 3000 kbps, so I'll see tonight how that behaves. Why so stingy? I'm assuming you have at least a 100Mbps connection? Why let amanda use only 3% of that (0.3% if you're using gigabit)? -- Joshua

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 15:02 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 8:44pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote I have now cranked up the latter to 3000 kbps, so I'll see tonight how that behaves. Why so stingy? I'm assuming you have at least a 100Mbps connection? Why let amanda use

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 10:07pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 15:02 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 8:44pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote I have now cranked up the latter to 3000 kbps, so I'll see tonight how that behaves. Why so stingy? I'm assuming

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 16:10 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: We're talking about network bandwidth -- ethernet. And the parameter is there in case your backup server and/or clients perform other network intensive functions that you don't want to interfere with. Myself, I consider backups

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 10:20pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 16:10 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: We're talking about network bandwidth -- ethernet. And the parameter is there in case your backup server and/or clients perform other network intensive functions that you

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:41:22PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 10:20pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 16:10 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: We're talking about network bandwidth -- ethernet. And the parameter is there in case your backup

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 17:26 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: [snip] Just a clarification on terminology. As your dump progresses, dumpers become available, the dumper has to be assigned to some DLE, i.e. client/disk pair. It is at this point that amanda will decide to start a new dump or not,