Re: tapetype HP ultrium 3 ?

2005-10-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 06:28:49PM -0400, FM wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Does some of you have the specs for HP ultrium 3 ? Their website is a good starting point. For example: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11739_na/11739_na.html#Technical%20Specifications -- Jon H. LaBadie

Re: amtape show fails.... could not load slot

2005-10-21 Thread Cameron Matheson
So... sorry to reply to my own post. On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 02:15:47PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# su backup -c "env PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH amtape DailySet1 > show" > amtape: scanning all 29 slots in tape-changer rack: > slot 14: date 20051019 label DailySet1025 > amtape:

RE: Generating disklist for large filesystems.

2005-10-21 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: Generating disklist for large filesystems. I use a script documented here: http://research.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/Amanda_configuration_notes_for_the_Spectra_Logic_2K the script is invoked from crontab to define a DLE for each of my home directories on a computational cluster. This

Re: Estimate Disable/tweak patch?

2005-10-21 Thread Michael Loftis
--On October 21, 2005 9:42:13 AM +0200 Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Loftis wrote: This sounds exactly like what I need Do you know if 2.4.5 server and clients can be intermixed with 2.4.4p3 (thereabouts) clients? I Yes, without any problem. Of course, you cannot

Generating disklist for large filesystems.

2005-10-21 Thread Alan Jedlow
Hi, I want to backup terabyte plus file system to a Dell PowerVault 122T library(8 LTO2 tapes). Now I understand that a DLE of "client /home local-tar-high" will fail since Amanda doesn't span tapes... Does anyone have a script example that would split a large filesystem into Amanda managable D

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2005-10-21 Thread Jeanne Case
I see this error several times: sendsize[2308]: time 92.723: runtar: error [must be invoked by amanda] What user is running amdump? -J Robert Tilden wrote: Well, it -looked- like it was fixed. A few days ago I asked for help on an amanda problem on one of our nodes. Backups were failing- the

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2005-10-21 Thread Robert Tilden
Well, it -looked- like it was fixed. A few days ago I asked for help on an amanda problem on one of our nodes. Backups were failing- the mail report included the line: node1 / lev -1 FAILED [no estimate] And other messages in the node's log files such as "runtar: error [must be invoked by am

Re: Some Questions about holding disks and compression

2005-10-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jeff Allison wrote: Also two of my DLE's are the data dirs of server systems that should really be shut down while the backup is in progress, is Amanda capable of this??? http://www.amanda.org/docs/howto-wrapper.html -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.5

Re: Some Questions about holding disks and compression

2005-10-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 at 10:22pm, Jeff Allison wrote Most of the disk that I back up are on the same server that the backups are running on, I'm using comp user tar for most of them, I only have a small holding disk 4GB that most DLE's will fit on but three of them will not. What I really want

Some Questions about holding disks and compression

2005-10-21 Thread Jeff Allison
Hi All I've got Amanda running at home quite well now as a test prior to using it at work but I still have a couple of questions... Most of the disk that I back up are on the same server that the backups are running on, I'm using comp user tar for most of them, I only have a small holding

Re: Backup of client failing

2005-10-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
shoaib r wrote: Your 2nd assumption of a stuck amandad process on the client was correct. I've killed the amanda processes and tried again except this time I've included only one filesystem from the tape server and one from the client server - that completed fine. No problems. But when I incl

Re: Backup of client failing

2005-10-21 Thread shoaib r
Apologies for not keeping my last posting on the list (unintentional - I just hit reply rather than selecting reply-all from the drop-down list)   The client does not have a disklist file and I'm pretty sure its not a server for anything else.   Your 2nd assumption of a stuck amandad process on the

Re: Backup of client failing

2005-10-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
Please keep the discussion on the list, there may be other people with tips of the solution, and it may help other people with the same problem. shoaib r wrote: The debug logs gave me this as the only error: /tmp/amanda/amandad.20051021010122.debug ---

Re: Estimate Disable/tweak patch?

2005-10-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
Michael Loftis wrote: This sounds exactly like what I need Do you know if 2.4.5 server and clients can be intermixed with 2.4.4p3 (thereabouts) clients? I Yes, without any problem. Of course, you cannot use the newer features on a 2.4.4 client like the advanced estimate options. As fa