Re: Microsoft & Oracle backups

2006-02-09 Thread Ian Turner
Brett, Today, Amanda has extremely limited support for database and other application backups. You can't use the API interface, but you can create scripts to dump the database somewhere, and then back up that dumped file. Alternatively, with some databases you can just backup the raw data files

Microsoft & Oracle backups

2006-02-09 Thread Brett Marlowe
Hi folks,   I’m looking for a way to back up several different Microsoft applications (Exchange 2003, SQL Server, Active Directory) as well as interfacing Amanda with Oracle RMAN. File level backups via Samba won’t quite cut it; file locking issues, etc. I thought I read somewhere (SysAdm

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.0b2

2006-02-09 Thread Josef Wolf
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 07:04:19PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:48:15AM -0800, Paddy Sreenivasan wrote: > > > > But I am not sure whether I correctly understand the proposal. Is the > > > following the proposed fix? > > Yes. Please add test results to the bug tracker. > I

Re: data timeout error

2006-02-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
Guy Dallaire schreef: One of my DLE fails to backup correctly from time to time. It happened twice this week. This is a bit annoying because it changes everyday (it's an oracle cold/hot backup destination for dabase files) and I really need to get this stuff backed up every day. This is the only

Re: data timeout error

2006-02-09 Thread Guy Dallaire
2006/2/9, Matt Hyclak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:31:11PM -0500, Guy Dallaire enlightened us: > > 2006/2/9, Matt Hyclak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > > Check the setting of your dtimeout value in amanda.conf. > > > > > > You might also want to check out > > > http://www

Re: data timeout error

2006-02-09 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:31:11PM -0500, Guy Dallaire enlightened us: > 2006/2/9, Matt Hyclak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > Check the setting of your dtimeout value in amanda.conf. > > > > You might also want to check out > > http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html#id2551493 if you have a firewall

Re: data timeout error

2006-02-09 Thread Guy Dallaire
2006/2/9, Matt Hyclak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Check the setting of your dtimeout value in amanda.conf.You might also want to check out http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html#id2551493 if you have a firewallconfigured on your CentOS box.   Hum... My dtimeout parameter has already been bumped from 20 minut

Re: data timeout error

2006-02-09 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:12:55PM -0500, Guy Dallaire enlightened us: > One of my DLE fails to backup correctly from time to time. It happened > twice this week. This is a bit annoying because it changes everyday > (it's an oracle cold/hot backup destination for dabase files) and I > really need t

data timeout error

2006-02-09 Thread Guy Dallaire
One of my DLE fails to backup correctly from time to time. It happened twice this week. This is a bit annoying because it changes everyday (it's an oracle cold/hot backup destination for dabase files) and I really need to get this stuff backed up every day. This is the only DLE exhibiting this beha

Re: out of tape with vtapes

2006-02-09 Thread Gene Heskett
d size, Full: 41.6%, 41.6%, 39.1% > Incremental: 20.6%, 9.1%, 20.1% >Dumps: lev datestmp tape file origK compK secs >0 20060202 Daily-05 114 6985920 2903984 4931 >1 20060207 Daily-08 95 1415860 2849

Re: out of tape with vtapes

2006-02-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 February 2006 03:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Dear Listers, > >I have a general question concerning the vtapes mechanisms and vtape > length. > >I configured an amanda server ("minerva", amanda-2.4.5-2, SuSE 10.0) > with "chg-disk" and 14 slots. > >In the beginning there are a lot o

Re: compress client best

2006-02-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 February 2006 03:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Dear Listers, > >yesterday I configured an amanda server with vtapes and client > compression. Now I see that on both machines (client and server) a > gzip process is running and I wonder why. > >The client "hercules" (a samba server, am

Re: DUMP and GNUTAR fail if backup > about 50GB

2006-02-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 07:27:14AM +0100, Sebastian Koesters wrote: >> >> - if a subdirectory, are you using gnutar (program "GNUTAR") >> >> - if you clear out the debug files from /tmp/amanda (or where ever it >> is config'ed to be) on both the server and the client and you comment >> every

AW: Question: does this DLT Drive work?

2006-02-09 Thread Sebastian Koesters
Ok..thanks. Does someone know if this drive will work fine under Linux (Fedora Core 3)? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Geert Uytterhoeven Gesendet: Donnerstag, 9. Februar 2006 11:30 An: Sebastian Koesters Cc: amanda-users@amanda.o

Re: Question: does this DLT Drive work?

2006-02-09 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Sebastian Koesters wrote: > Quantum DLT V4 320 U2W (160GB uncompressed - 320GB compressed) > > Does this drive work good with amanda? If it works with your OS, it works with Amanda. > How do i activate the compression of the drive to get the full 230GB? You don't, and let Am

Re: out of tape with vtapes

2006-02-09 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Paul Bijnens wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > NOTES: > > planner: Adding new disk hercules:/samba/CONTROLLING. > [...] > > planner: Adding new disk hercules:/K_EIN_REST. > > taper: tape slot3 kb 18874336 fm 24 writing file: No space left on device > > Here you see wh

Question: does this DLT Drive work?

2006-02-09 Thread Sebastian Koesters
Quantum DLT V4 320 U2W (160GB uncompressed - 320GB compressed) Does this drive work good with amanda? How do i have to set it up in amanda.conf? How do i activate the compression of the drive to get the full 230GB? Thanks for the Help! Regards Sebastian

Re: out of tape with vtapes

2006-02-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
ily-08 95 1415860 284916 1455 2 20060209 Daily-10 99 1375710 283200 733 The above example has 3 historical values for compression ratio for a full backup and 3 other for incremental backup. The new expected compression ratio is calculated as an weighted averag

RE: compress client best

2006-02-09 Thread uwe . kaufmann
Hello Micheal and Inaki, > The gzip --best process in the server is to compress the > index files, not the data. (a hand smites my forehead) Thanks Uwe Virus checked by G DATA AntiVirusKit Version: AVK 16.5417 from 09.02.2006

out of tape with vtapes

2006-02-09 Thread uwe . kaufmann
Dear Listers, I have a general question concerning the vtapes mechanisms and vtape length. I configured an amanda server ("minerva", amanda-2.4.5-2, SuSE 10.0) with "chg-disk" and 14 slots. In the beginning there are a lot of "lev 0 failed", obviously, because I am dealing with >100G data and ea

Re: compress client best

2006-02-09 Thread Michael Loftis
--On February 9, 2006 9:24:40 AM +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <...> the dumptype 'global' only contains "index yes". Any idea? Indexes are always compressed server-side. Thank you and best regards Uwe Virus checked by G DATA AntiVirusKit Version: AVK 16.5417 from 09.02.2

Re: compress client best

2006-02-09 Thread Inaki Sanchez
Hi: The gzip --best process in the server is to compress the index files, not the data. -- Inaki Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Listers, yesterday I configured an amanda server with vtapes and client compression. Now I see that on both machines (client and server) a gzip process is r

compress client best

2006-02-09 Thread uwe . kaufmann
Dear Listers, yesterday I configured an amanda server with vtapes and client compression. Now I see that on both machines (client and server) a gzip process is running and I wonder why. The client "hercules" (a samba server, amanda-2.4.4p1-62): HERCULES:~ # ps aux | grep amanda amanda/usr/li

AW: AW: DUMP and GNUTAR fail if backup > about 50GB

2006-02-09 Thread Sebastian Koesters
I now created a holding disk. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Stefan G. Weichinger Gesendet: Donnerstag, 9. Februar 2006 08:30 An: Sebastian Koesters Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: DUMP and GNUTAR f