beware of 2.6.21-rc2

2007-03-01 Thread Gene Heskett
Somethings gone all aglay tonight, the backup only got 3 dle's, but was over 11GB, which ran over my tapetype setting so amanda quit. The only thing different was a reboot to 2.6.21-rc2. I'm backing up to 2.6.20-ck1 right now. 21-rc2 has other problems, like horrible scheduling lags, 30 seconds

Re: disk-disk-tape best practices

2007-03-01 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 04:10:33PM -0500, Alastair Neil enlightened us: > >On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:53:43PM -0500, Alastair Neil enlightened us: > >> My experience with amanda in the past is that it will not write level 0 > >> dumps only to holding space - is this incorrect? If this is the case

Re: disk-disk-tape best practices

2007-03-01 Thread Alastair Neil
On 3/1/07, Matt Hyclak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:53:43PM -0500, Alastair Neil enlightened us: > My experience with amanda in the past is that it will not write level 0 > dumps only to holding space - is this incorrect? If this is the case then > indeed my configurati

Re: (repost) 2.5.1: underscores in diskname and index files

2007-03-01 Thread jeffrey d anderson
On Friday 23 February 2007, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > This problem is fixed. > It will use single '_' it it exist, or double '__' if it exist. > If none exist, it will create with a single '_'. > > Jean-louis > > Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I can't seem to find any info on that

Re: disk-disk-tape best practices

2007-03-01 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:53:43PM -0500, Alastair Neil enlightened us: > My experience with amanda in the past is that it will not write level 0 > dumps only to holding space - is this incorrect? If this is the case then > indeed my configuration is overly complicated. I have in the past > maint

Re: disk-disk-tape best practices

2007-03-01 Thread Alastair Neil
My experience with amanda in the past is that it will not write level 0 dumps only to holding space - is this incorrect? If this is the case then indeed my configuration is overly complicated. I have in the past maintained a 9 months backup history - that would be about 270 tapes - a lot of LTO2

"disk was stranded on waitq"/sendsize timed out waiting for REP data

2007-03-01 Thread Toralf Lund
We just started to get a serious problem with our amdump execution (Amanda 2.5.0p2). As usual, we don't thing we have changed anything at all after the last successful dump Symptoms: 1. "amstatus" says fileserv:/scanner0 planner: [hmm, disk was stranded on w

Re: disk-disk-tape best practices

2007-03-01 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2007-02-28 21:09, Alastair Neil wrote: > I have a question regarding how best to manage backups to vtapes and > archival onto tape media. > > First a little history, I used to have a DLT4 9 tape changer and have > been running my backups through this for about 3 years now. This > changer faile