Re: Amanda 2.5.0 upgrade weirdness

2006-05-17 Thread Brad Willson
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 06:00:31PM -0700, Brad Willson wrote: Where is the changer defined? # ls -l total 68 -rw-rw 1 backup backup 19493 Mar 24 07:42 amanda.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup 1267 May 16 09:35 changer This is from memory, so confirm before

Re: Amanda reporting File shrank by...

2006-05-17 Thread Olivier Nicole
> (I have a script that only sends me the report when this line > apears) so I had one less mail to check. Change your script to filter the body of the email and to drop if the failure is on the mail directory. But it is considered as a good practice to send email even if everything is going fine

Re: Amanda reporting File shrank by...

2006-05-17 Thread Olivier Nicole
> > Today I got this in the report from amanda. In this mail server we > > use mbox and the user just deleted some mails. > > But, wasn't this just a one-time thing that only happened > because "jondoe" happened to be deleting mail at exactly That would depend on the load of the mail server. Fro

Re: Amanda 2.5.0 upgrade weirdness

2006-05-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 06:00:31PM -0700, Brad Willson wrote: > Where is the changer defined? > > # ls -l > total 68 > -rw-rw 1 backup backup 19493 Mar 24 07:42 amanda.conf > -rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup 1267 May 16 09:35 changer This is from memory, so confirm before using: chg-zd-mtx wan

Re: Amanda 2.5.0 upgrade weirdness

2006-05-17 Thread Brad Willson
Where is the changer defined? # ls -l total 68 -rw-rw 1 backup backup 19493 Mar 24 07:42 amanda.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup 1267 May 16 09:35 changer -rw--- 1 backup backup 5 May 17 15:15 changer-access -rw--- 1 backup backup 0 May 16 07:34 changer-barcodes -rw---

Re: Would like to get list's impression on (amanda 4TB backup)

2006-05-17 Thread Paddy Sreenivasan
On 5/17/06, Gordon J. Mills III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Probably most important to me though would be the ability to handle > > Windows backups better. I know that it is not necessarily Amanda's > > fault, but the file permissions (ACLs) cannot currently be > backed up > > with Amanda. A

Re: Would like to get list's impression on (amanda 4TB backup)

2006-05-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:41:57AM -0500, Gordon J. Mills III wrote: > > > How much trouble is it to install amanda on cygwin? > > > > > > > The real problem (as I see it) is support, your support time that is. > > With smbclient nothing needs be done/added to the windows system. > > With c

RE: Would like to get list's impression on (amanda 4TB backup)

2006-05-17 Thread Gordon J. Mills III
> > Paddy, will it only work when using cygwin client on > windows or will > > it also be possible using smbclient from the server? I have > setup the > > backup of several windows servers using the smbclient > method. I have > > not yet attempted a cygwin client, but if it will offer > more

Re: Disabling LTO-2 hardware compression

2006-05-17 Thread Sven Rudolph
"Gordon J. Mills III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sven, if you don't mind my asking...how did you setup stinit? I installed it > but it seems a bit confusing as to what I need to do to have it disable > compression on reboots, etc. Read the stinit manpage, make an entry for your tape drive in /

Re: Would like to get list's impression on (amanda 4TB backup)

2006-05-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:22:02AM -0500, Gordon J. Mills III wrote: > > > > > Probably most important to me though would be the ability to handle > > > Windows backups better. I know that it is not necessarily Amanda's > > > fault, but the file permissions (ACLs) cannot currently be > > backed

Re: Dealing with incompressible data

2006-05-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:20:58AM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > Has anyone given thought to automatically disabling compression on > filesystems where compression performs poorly? I have a large number > of filesystems to back up and my "compression ratio" should be an > "expansion ratio".

Re: Amanda reporting File shrank by...

2006-05-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 04:12:57PM +0200, Luis Rodrigues wrote: > Some times it happens. > > Usually amanda runs at 00:00. But some people take work home and it happens > sometimes. > > It not very important, I just would like it not show on FAILURE AND STRANGE > DUMP SUMMARY > (I have a scrip

RE: Would like to get list's impression on (amanda 4TB backup)

2006-05-17 Thread Gordon J. Mills III
> > > Probably most important to me though would be the ability to handle > > Windows backups better. I know that it is not necessarily Amanda's > > fault, but the file permissions (ACLs) cannot currently be > backed up > > with Amanda. Also, it does not allow exclude lists for windows > > cli

Dealing with incompressible data

2006-05-17 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
Has anyone given thought to automatically disabling compression on filesystems where compression performs poorly? I have a large number of filesystems to back up and my "compression ratio" should be an "expansion ratio". There are some filesystems where it helps quite a bit, however. Rather than

Re: Amanda reporting File shrank by...

2006-05-17 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Some times it happens. Usually amanda runs at 00:00. But some people take work home and it happens sometimes. It not very important, I just would like it not show on FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY (I have a script that only sends me the report when this line apears) so I had one less mail t

Re: Amanda reporting File shrank by...

2006-05-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:44:56AM +0200, Luis Rodrigues wrote: > Today I got this in the report from amanda. In this mail server we use mbox > and the user just deleted some mails. > How can I let amanda know to not report file size changes in this DLE? > > Best regards, > > Luis > > > sendba

Amanda reporting File shrank by...

2006-05-17 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Today I got this in the report from amanda. In this mail server we use mbox and the user just deleted some mails. How can I let amanda know to not report file size changes in this DLE? Best regards, Luis sendbackup: start [mailserver.aa.bb:/var/mail level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar se