Re: Compression again

2007-04-13 Thread Sebastian Henrich
Here is the result after deleting full-comp und incr-comp. DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATSTAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISKL ORIG-kB OUT-kB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s --

Re: Compression again

2007-04-13 Thread Sebastian Henrich
My OS is openSUSE 10.1. server:~ # tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1 server:~ # dump dump 0.4b41 (using libext2fs 1.38 of 30-Jun-2005) The last dendbackup.*.debug is attached. Thanks Sebastian At 13:50 13.04.2007, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: The orig-kb is the size reported by the

Rotate vtapes

2007-04-13 Thread Rodrique Heron
When using the tapetype HARD-DISK, how do I rotate a full vtape ? Will Amanda overwrite the vtape ? Reading through the documentation, I learned that amanda would not overflow the backup onto another tape. Is this still true ? I have 440G dedicated to vtapes, my largest partition to be backed up

Re: Rotate vtapes

2007-04-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 13 April 2007, Rodrique Heron wrote: When using the tapetype HARD-DISK, how do I rotate a full vtape ? Will Amanda overwrite the vtape ? Yes, when it has used up the tapecycle of vtapes. Reading through the documentation, I learned that amanda would not overflow the backup onto another

Re: HELP ! Setting up a RAID-0 holding disk on centos 4.4

2007-04-13 Thread Chris Marble
Guy Dallaire wrote: I finally found the right FM in order to RTFM and proceeded to create the RAID-0 holding disk with 2 250Gb SATA drives in order to try to fix the trhroughput problem with the tape drive. The raidtools have been replaced by the mdadm command. I'm back to square one.

strange behavior when tape drive needs cleaning

2007-04-13 Thread Freels, James D.
I discovered today that my tape drive was dirty and did not realize it. What happened was the drive sent a scsi error to the kernel/OS and somehow the root (/), home (/home), and holding disk area recognized by AMANDA was changed from rw access to ro access. I believe this change was made by

Re: HELP ! Setting up a RAID-0 holding disk on centos 4.4

2007-04-13 Thread Frank Smith
Chris Marble wrote: Guy Dallaire wrote: I really wish there was an easy way to instruct amanda to wait for all the client files, before starting dumping the holding disk to tape, but there isn't. Just run the backup without a tape in the drive and then amflush the backup sometime later.

taperwait/taperstart/taperflush [was Re: HELP ! Setting up ...]

2007-04-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 03:23:12PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: I really wish there was an easy way to instruct amanda to wait for all the client files, before starting dumping the holding disk to tape, but there isn't. New feature ? Several possibilites were suggested, none added to the