Re: Question about vtape size

2006-02-03 Thread Toomas Aas
Jon LaBadie wrote: How are current users sizing their vtapes and what has been their experience in disk usage? I've divided my ~160GB removable disks into 5 vtapes each. I have a total of 8 DLEs, two of which are 40 GB (after compression) and the rest are no larger than 2 GB. On the days

about reuse/no-reuse

2006-02-03 Thread Omer
Hi! Sorry if this has been discussed yet (I found some related topics on the archive but no real answer) but I'm having problems with amadmin reuse/no-reuse. First I noticed that if a DLE is backed up on a tape and then fails for any reason (like an offline host) for a whole dump cycle, this

Re: Amanda server selection advice

2006-02-03 Thread Graeme Humphries
Gene Heskett wrote: So is offloading the compression duties to the client, which has the advantage of reducing the footprint on the networks bandwidth too. You do this in the dumptype with compress client best. It Just Works(TM) :-) Well, like I said in my other e-mail, and I believe this

Re: Amanda server selection advice

2006-02-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 February 2006 09:14, Graeme Humphries wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: So is offloading the compression duties to the client, which has the advantage of reducing the footprint on the networks bandwidth too. You do this in the dumptype with compress client best. It Just Works(TM) :-) Well,

Re: about reuse/no-reuse

2006-02-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 February 2006 09:02, Omer wrote: Hi! Sorry if this has been discussed yet (I found some related topics on the archive but no real answer) but I'm having problems with amadmin reuse/no-reuse. First I noticed that if a DLE is backed up on a tape and then fails for any reason (like

Re: Client just started timing out.

2006-02-03 Thread Stephen Carville
Stephen Carville wrote: Ram TK Krishnamurthy wrote: Does changing the timeout on the server have any effect?` I hadn't thought of that. I increased it to 1800 for tomorrow night's run. I guess is was the timeout. Last night's backup ran as expected. -- Stephen Carville -- polluting the

Re: about reuse/no-reuse

2006-02-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 03:02:11PM +0100, Omer wrote: Hi! Sorry if this has been discussed yet (I found some related topics on the archive but no real answer) but I'm having problems with amadmin reuse/no-reuse. First I noticed that if a DLE is backed up on a tape and then fails for any

install man pages in 2.5.1p1 fails

2006-02-03 Thread Anthony Worrall
Hi Just a small point but when I installed 2.5.1p1 the install-data-hook failed on amanda.conf.5 because it assumed that all the man pages where in section 8. original install-data-hook: @list=$(man_MANS); \ for p in $$list; do \

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.0b2

2006-02-03 Thread Josef Wolf
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 07:31:08PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.5.0b2. It is stable and we hope to release 2.5.0 soon. test it and report it if you find a bug in this release. One more issue here: The new CHUNKSUCCESS

Re: Amanda server selection advice

2006-02-03 Thread Graeme Humphries
Gene Heskett wrote: I'm not sure what you would classify as legacy stuff. Here I'm doing 3 machines including this as the server, and of course this is the fastest box, but the clients are a 500mhz K6-III box I use for firewall, and a 1400 mhz athlon box running my milling machine. This

Re: install man pages in 2.5.1p1 fails

2006-02-03 Thread Paddy Sreenivasan
On 2/3/06, Anthony Worrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Just a small point but when I installed 2.5.1p1 the install-data-hook failed I'm assuming that you are referring to 2.5.0b1. This problem has been fixed in 2.5.0b2. Thanks, Paddy on amanda.conf.5 because it assumed that all the man

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.0b2

2006-02-03 Thread Kevin Till
Josef Wolf wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 12:24:24AM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: Yes a documentation error. tape_splitsize is a dumptype option. Already fixed. Thanks! BTW: I noticed some wired formatting in the documentation. But I don't know whether this problem is related to my tools

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.0b2

2006-02-03 Thread Paddy Sreenivasan
On 2/3/06, Josef Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 07:31:08PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.5.0b2. It is stable and we hope to release 2.5.0 soon. test it and report it if you find a bug in this

Re: about reuse/no-reuse

2006-02-03 Thread Cédric Lucantis
Hi! This sounds like you either are not receiving the reports or have not examined them routinely. It hasn't happend often here, but I recall receiving such notices of last backup of ... scheduled to be overwritten next run. I have examined them carefully and have never seen such a

Re: Client just started timing out.

2006-02-03 Thread Ram \TK\ Krishnamurthy
Good. But, I still think the question remains unanswered, as to what changed that needed the timeout to be increased? If you see other weird symptoms, the answer might be relevant. Thanks tk Stephen Carville wrote: Stephen Carville wrote: Ram TK Krishnamurthy wrote: Does changing the