taper port open

2006-04-10 Thread stan
My Amanda run is part of a larger backup scheme that is driven from a remote machine. I've been testing for a while running from the Amand host, and mostly have teh bugs worked out. Today I tried my first run from the rmote machine, and pretty much everyhting failed. Here is an example from amsta

RE: Planning to use Amanda and have a few questions.

2006-04-10 Thread Gordon J. Mills III
> > Hello all, > > I am working for a middle-size company and we are planning to deploy a backup solution for our systems. > Most of our servers are MS 2003 based servers (like DC, Exchange, SQL and some Web servers). > > I just wondered if there are some o

Re: maxpromoteday

2006-04-10 Thread Toomas Aas
04/10/06 kirjutas Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The Amanda planner schedules a level 0 of a DLE on the "due" date. To see which one that is, do "amadmin config due". Then Amanda looks at the total amount of level 0's, and compares it to the "balanced" amount (total amount / runspercycle). If

Re: maxpromoteday

2006-04-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-04-10 07:02, Toomas Aas wrote: Hello! I'm trying to avoid the situation where some DLEs get multiple level0 backups during the dumpcycle. This is because I'm running with vtapes that are somewhat "over-drafting" the actual capacity of the backup-harddisk. It seems from the documenta

Re: maxpromoteday

2006-04-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 08:02:18AM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hello! > > I'm trying to avoid the situation where some DLEs get multiple level0 > backups during the dumpcycle. This is because I'm running with vtapes > that are somewhat "over-drafting" the actual capacity of the > backup-harddisk

New error (to me anyway)

2006-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; A fair share of this box didn't get backed up last night, with a relatively odd log.20060410etc ending stanza: FATAL chunker error [bad command after RQ-MORE-DISK: "QUIT"] INFO taper tape Dailys-17 kb 6425920 fm 31 [OK] FAIL dumper coyote /tmp 20060410004501 1 [data write: Broken pipe

Re: Planning to use Amanda and have a few questions.

2006-04-10 Thread Graeme Humphries
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wondered if there are some other amanda users who backup their MS based servers lik Exchange, SQL and etc. with amanda? We are, both Exchange 2003, and SQL Server 2000. Are there any specific problems using amanda with Windows Servers? Are they h

Re: snapshot volume using LVM2 and gnutar as dump program timeout?

2006-04-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-04-06 16:49, Dennis Ortsen wrote: Hi all, I'm using amanda 2.4.5 (RPM package from Fedora Core 4). I've got amanda running for a few months now, and am ready to move all hosts from the old backup server (BackupExec) to the server running amanda. On a few servers we used to work with LVM

Re: number of drives in a RAIT system?

2006-04-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-04-10 07:11, Toomas Aas wrote: stan wrote: I'm wondering if I can do something with, say, 5 old DDS2 drives to give me a decent size? AFAIK, and if I may loosely compare RAIT to RAID, there is no RAIT0, so to speak. Meaning that RAIT doesn't give you a larger 'virtual' backup media,