confused and concerned about virtual tape sizes

2006-11-15 Thread René Kanters
Hi, I also posted this on the forum, but I am not sure whether that was the right place to go. I don't understand the message mailed to me regarding the amount of disk space taken up by the test backups to files. Actually we plan to run amanda with backup to files anyway, so this is an

Re: Exclude Lists - Amanda 2.5.0

2006-11-15 Thread Steve Newcomb
If your situation permits, you could use an administrator-friendly, rational operating system, such as Linux or Mach, that permits you to backup a working system comprehensively, and, after a disk crash, fire, or other mishap, to quickly restore a *working* system from a *comprehensive* backup

Re: More Debian Amanda package upgrade issues (this time with amdump)

2006-11-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Frank Smith wrote: Thanks to Jean-Louis for the reply on my amcheck issues. I got some really strange results from my first amdump run last night after my upgrade. I updated my home Amanda server and clients (Debian etch packages) from 2.5.0p2-2.1 to 2.5.1p1-2, and tar from 1.15.91-2 to

I would like to backup bi-weekly/fornightly a full backup to the external USB 250GB hard drive.

2006-11-15 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi List I have a Daily Config and Monthly archive Config (Last Friday of every month script) backup running using SuSE SLES 9, Amanda version 2.4.4p2 on the DAT 4MM*150MM tape server and 4 clients but version 2.5 on a new client I added to the DLE. Anyway I for now dont want to update my main

HARD-DISK tapedev and compression

2006-11-15 Thread Joe Little
I've googled and otherwise searched for an answer, but I'm not finding out one disables the chunker from executing gzip --fast when writing to a tape dev. I don't want compression for my virtual tapes since its on a DataDomain box and any compression on my end defeats the better compression to be

Re: Wildcards in disklist--revisited, only using exclusions:

2006-11-15 Thread Ian R. Justman
Ian R. Justman wrote: Hello. Tried using includes again, and still I'm having the same problem. It's backing up nothing. In fact, one item was still using the exclude method and it still backed up everything. And for what it's worth, the version of GNU tar that's running on that machine

Re: questions regarding incremental backup sizes

2006-11-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 07:50, René Kanters wrote: I've added the list back, please use 'reply all' when replying to any mailing list. That way, the list archives can be searched with a very high probability of finding an answer to the problem you have because someone else already had it

Re: Wildcards in disklist--revisited, only using exclusions:

2006-11-15 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hi there, * Ian R. Justman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20061115 12:39]: Ian R. Justman wrote: Hello. Tried using includes again, and still I'm having the same problem. It's backing up nothing. In fact, one item was still using the exclude method and it still backed up everything

Re: HARD-DISK tapedev and compression

2006-11-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 08:58:07AM -0800, Joe Little wrote: I've googled and otherwise searched for an answer, but I'm not finding out one disables the chunker from executing gzip --fast when writing to a tape dev. I don't want compression for my virtual tapes since its on a DataDomain box and

Re: confused and concerned about virtual tape sizes

2006-11-15 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 02:43:13PM -0500, René Kanters wrote: I backup a small directory (/home/rene at about 2.1MB) and when I run amdump I get messages with (excerpts): [snip] i.e., the full size of my (compressed) /home/rene You're running up against Amanda being too smart! Since it

2.5.1: underscores in diskname lead to full backup upon upgrade

2006-11-15 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hello, Upgrading from 2.4.5 to 2.5.1p1 and 2.5.1p2 I've noticed that if a DLE has a diskname with an underscore in it then amcheck will complain that the index and info files do no exit and amanda will then schedule a full backup for those DLEs the first time the new version runs. Not nice when

Re: More Debian Amanda package upgrade issues (this time with amdump)

2006-11-15 Thread Frank Smith
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: It's a tar bug that it cross filesystem boundaries, you will have to use exclude as workaround. OK, I've added to my excludes the secondary drives and NFS mounts, but I see this causing problems in the future when Debian flips the testing distribution to stable

Re: HARD-DISK tapedev and compression

2006-11-15 Thread Joe Little
This was for the tapedev specification, and not the dumptype. It may be the index gzip as mentioned.. On 11/15/06, Paddy Sreenivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please set compress none in amanda.conf. See http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda.conf#DUMPTYPE_SECTION for more information. Paddy

Amanda presentation in New York on Friday

2006-11-15 Thread Ian Turner
Hello all, I'll be giving a presentation on Amanda, its user and development communities, and the ways that all three have interacted with the growth of Zmanda as a company and as a central provider of commercial support. The talk will be this Friday, November 17, at 5:30 PM as part of the