Re: Compression

2007-04-04 Thread Sebastian Henrich
put the ratio in the dumptype spec? INFO planner Incremental of server:/srv/samba/profile bumped to level 2. INFO planner server /home 20070404 0 [dumps too big, 15459005 KB, full dump delayed] Amanda is configured to do a full backup each time which is impossible at the moment. I tried

Question about backup schedules

2007-04-04 Thread Michael Keightley
I have setup Amanda to backup to vtape. I want to do a full backup once per week, incremental other days (weekdays only), but keep 1 month of backups. I'm a bit confused about how to set this up in amanda.conf. Would this work? dumpcycle 1 weeks runspercycle 5 tapecycle 20 tapes Will having

Re: Question about backup schedules

2007-04-04 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 at 2:48pm, Michael Keightley wrote I have setup Amanda to backup to vtape. I want to do a full backup once per week, incremental other days (weekdays only), but keep 1 month of backups. I'm a bit confused about how to set this up in amanda.conf. Would this work? dumpcycle

Re: Question about backup schedules

2007-04-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 02:48:26PM +0100, Michael Keightley wrote: I have setup Amanda to backup to vtape. I want to do a full backup once per week, incremental other days (weekdays only), but keep 1 month of backups. I'm a bit confused about how to set this up in amanda.conf. Would this

Re: Compression

2007-04-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:01:20AM +0200, Sebastian Henrich wrote: On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Sebastian Henrich wrote: Hello, I'm using amanda 2.4.5 to backup my server. The tape is a HP DAT 72. This drives stores 36 GB of uncompressed data. I switched the hardware compression off and

Re: Compression

2007-04-04 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 at 11:39am, Jon LaBadie wrote On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:01:20AM +0200, Sebastian Henrich wrote: How can I put the ratio in the dumptype spec? Can't. The history of last 3 dumps at full and incremental levels is recorded in the curinfo file for the DLE after a dump. I

Re: Compression

2007-04-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 02:09:52PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 at 11:39am, Jon LaBadie wrote On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:01:20AM +0200, Sebastian Henrich wrote: How can I put the ratio in the dumptype spec? Can't. The history of last 3 dumps at full and

Re: Compression

2007-04-04 Thread Sebastian Henrich
At 17:39 04.04.2007, Jon LaBadie wrote: ... I diabled the hardware compression before I used the tapes for the first time like it's described in the docs. mt shows me that hardware compression is off after inserting a tape. So I think that it's really disabled. The switch may not occur

Re: Compression

2007-04-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:49:15PM +0200, Sebastian Henrich wrote: At 17:39 04.04.2007, Jon LaBadie wrote: ... I diabled the hardware compression before I used the tapes for the first time like it's described in the docs. mt shows me that hardware compression is off after inserting a

Re: Compression

2007-04-04 Thread Sebastian Henrich
At 22:22 04.04.2007, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:49:15PM +0200, Sebastian Henrich wrote: At 17:39 04.04.2007, Jon LaBadie wrote: ... I diabled the hardware compression before I used the tapes for the first time like it's described in the docs. mt shows me that hardware

Re: Compression

2007-04-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:05:47AM +0200, Sebastian Henrich wrote: So the best way will be to delete the configuration and start from the beginning? Does anybody know how this could happened and how to avoid such problems? I don't want to restart the backup from the beginning every 3

RE: SDLT-4 compareded to LTO-3

2007-04-04 Thread Dmitri Joukovski
Hi there, You should consider that DLT technology does not have a future. The CEO of Quantum Rick Belluzzo said in an interview with www.theregister.com that DLT would slide out of the way and there has been massive consolidation onto LTO. The phase out of DLT technology will occur as quickly as

Re: Question about backup schedules

2007-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 04 April 2007, Michael Keightley wrote: I have setup Amanda to backup to vtape. I want to do a full backup once per week, incremental other days (weekdays only), but keep 1 month of backups. I'm a bit confused about how to set this up in amanda.conf. Would this work? dumpcycle 1

Re: Compression

2007-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 04 April 2007, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:01:20AM +0200, Sebastian Henrich wrote: On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Sebastian Henrich wrote: Hello, I'm using amanda 2.4.5 to backup my server. The tape is a HP DAT 72. This drives stores 36 GB of uncompressed