change order of hosts to be backed up

2006-05-31 Thread Dennis Ortsen
Hi all, I'm using AMANDA 2.4.5 I've got a configuration question. I wasn't able to find a similar question with Google. I thought I'd try it on the list. I've got a disklist with a few DLE's in it. At the start of an amdump, AMANDA asks the clients for an estimate. When the server has received

Partial full backup configuration for amanda

2006-05-31 Thread silpa kala
Hi, I need some clarification on the usage of the amanda. What parameters need to be congfigured for the partial full backup i.e.,the full backup is divided into according to the dumpcycle and runspercycle. We configured dumpcycle 10 days runspercycle 10 Suppose this is the case,

Re: Partial full backup configuration for amanda

2006-05-31 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 31 May 2006 at 1:50am, silpa kala wrote I need some clarification on the usage of the amanda. What parameters need to be congfigured for the partial full backup i.e.,the full backup is divided into according to the dumpcycle and runspercycle. We configured dumpcycle 10 days

Re: Partial full backup configuration for amanda

2006-05-31 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-31 10:50, silpa kala wrote: Hi, I need some clarification on the usage of the amanda. What parameters need to be congfigured for the partial full backup i.e.,the full backup is divided into according to the dumpcycle and runspercycle. We configured dumpcycle 10 days

Re: change order of hosts to be backed up

2006-05-31 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-31 10:35, Dennis Ortsen wrote: Hi all, I'm using AMANDA 2.4.5 I've got a configuration question. I wasn't able to find a similar question with Google. I thought I'd try it on the list. I've got a disklist with a few DLE's in it. At the start of an amdump, AMANDA asks the clients

RE: Cluster backup

2006-05-31 Thread Paul Haldane
From: Nicola Mauri Sent: 31 May 2006 11:38 We are constantly encountering strange errors whith DLEs that refer to cluster virtual addresses. virtualA /apps/a lev 0 FAILED [data timeout] virtualB /apps/b RESULTS MISSING The disklist contains: node1 /etc full

Re: incremental backups

2006-05-31 Thread Edson
Pavel Pragin wrote: Hello, 1. Can you please post the last log file and the amdump.1 file from the /usr/local/amanda/log/teste directory. 2. Can you also run amadmin x version and post that as well. 3. Can you aslo explain in more detail what you are trying to acomplish from this

Re: incremental backups

2006-05-31 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 31 May 2006 at 9:45am, Edson wrote My intention is perfom a backup schema in 6x1 (6 incremental and 1 full backup) using a LTO tape drive (200gb). My target system is a ext3 partition (/home) in a Suse Linux 9.3 box called alpes, with less than 50gb of size (mailserver). Current Im

Re: Disagreements between amplot, amstatus

2006-05-31 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:50:21PM -0700, Pavel Pragin wrote: But amplot's Bandwidth Allocated graph shows the line mostly pegged at 0% the entire time. From glancing through the amplot scripts, I'm guessing this should be labeled Bandwidth Free? If you run amstatus again what is the

Rif: RE: Cluster backup

2006-05-31 Thread Nicola Mauri
Paul, thanks for your suggestions. On our machines, all network masks appear to be consistent. We'll try to configure different client instance on xinetd. Another frequent message error I didn't mention in my first post is: aborted:nak error: amandad busy which may sometimes lead to:

Re: Rif: RE: Cluster backup

2006-05-31 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:37:44PM +0200, Nicola Mauri enlightened us: Paul, thanks for your suggestions. On our machines, all network masks appear to be consistent. We'll try to configure different client instance on xinetd. Another frequent message error I didn't mention in my first

Re: Rif: RE: Cluster backup

2006-05-31 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-31 16:05, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:37:44PM +0200, Nicola Mauri enlightened us: Paul, thanks for your suggestions. On our machines, all network masks appear to be consistent. We'll try to configure different client instance on xinetd. Another frequent message

Re: Data Timeout

2006-05-31 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-30 10:30, Paul Duncan wrote: Hello, One of our filesystems is failing to get backed up and I am interested in trying to ascertain why. The report entry is: compaqdev2 /export/home lev 0 FAILED [data timeout] In the amdump file I see the following suspicious entries. I get a

Rif: Re: Rif: RE: Cluster backup

2006-05-31 Thread Nicola Mauri
use the interface (aka bind) option in xinetd to run multiple instances of the amanda client each responding on a different address TESTED. Configuring multiple amanda client seems to solve this issue! My new /etc/xinet.d/amanda file has three entries: - The first entry binds to node

Re: Rif: Re: Rif: RE: Cluster backup

2006-05-31 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-31 17:00, Nicola Mauri wrote: use the interface (aka bind) option in xinetd to run multiple instances of the amanda client each responding on a different address TESTED. Configuring multiple amanda client seems to solve this issue! My new /etc/xinet.d/amanda file has three

Re: Partial full backup configuration for amanda

2006-05-31 Thread silpa kala
Hi, Thanks for this information. I gone through the all the threads related to the Partial Full backup configuration for amanda. Partial full backup is happening based on the DLE entries instead of memory occupied for all DLEs.That means If one DLE happens to contain 50% of all data, then one

Re: Partial full backup configuration for amanda

2006-05-31 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:48:07AM -0700, silpa kala wrote: Hi, Thanks for this information. I gone through the all the threads related to the Partial Full backup configuration for amanda. Partial full backup is happening based on the DLE entries instead of memory occupied for all