Re: Hardware suggestion

2007-05-11 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Olivier Nicole wrote: Normal hot swap bay for hard disk are not designed for daily use, they are designed for maintenance only, and would break soon if I swaped the disk every day. You might want to try some (external) eSata devices. The connectors seem more

Re: Since 2.5.2: Timeout waiting for ACK

2007-05-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2007-05-11 14:11, Donofrio, Lewis wrote: [...] Two Amanda runs moving data from clients to holding disk then from holding disk to vtapes. Another job to migrate the data from the vtapes to the holding disk to physical tapes (old ati2 w/tls4440 jukebox). I'm not completely sure I

Re: Since 2.5.2: Timeout waiting for ACK

2007-05-11 Thread Donofrio, Lewis
Yes that sounds about right, I thought rait required like devices to stripe to? __ Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: (734) 323-8776 - Original Message - From: Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Donofrio, Lewis; Amanda List

Re: Since 2.5.2: Timeout waiting for ACK

2007-05-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2007-05-11 14:36, Donofrio, Lewis wrote: Yes that sounds about right, I thought rait required like devices to stripe to? It's not the first time people are pleasantly surprised by the power of the amanda backup programs :-) From the wiki page, I mentioned: RAIT with only two drives,

Re: to disk to tape?

2007-05-11 Thread R Ransbottom
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 07:08:02PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 10 May 2007, R Ransbottom wrote: The web docs suggest splitting up your vtape space Amanda handles vtape with the same intelligence it uses on a regular fixed size tape. Amanda will promote a full backup that isn't

Re: no backups since a week ago (data write: Connection reset by peer)

2007-05-11 Thread Steven Settlemyre
Thanks for all the help... I upgraded my amanda-server version to 2.5.2 and that seems to have fixed the problem. Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Steven Settlemyre wrote: From amdump log: This similar flow happens every time it fails. At first I was worried about the not enough diskspace

Re: to disk to tape?

2007-05-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 11 May 2007, R Ransbottom wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 07:08:02PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 10 May 2007, R Ransbottom wrote: The web docs suggest splitting up your vtape space Amanda handles vtape with the same intelligence it uses on a regular fixed size tape.

Re: Since 2.5.2: Timeout waiting for ACK

2007-05-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 11 May 2007, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2007-05-11 14:36, Donofrio, Lewis wrote: Yes that sounds about right, I thought rait required like devices to stripe to? It's not the first time people are pleasantly surprised by the power of the amanda backup programs :-) From the wiki page, I

how to even tape over multi tapes.

2007-05-11 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
My archive backups are taking 4 tapes but I think I could get by with 3 if my files were more evenly spread over the tapes. I am using dumporder BTBTBTBTBT NOTES: taper: tape A00021 kb 337870752 fm 39 writing file: short write taper: retrying zorn:/export/users-d.0 on new

Re: how to even tape over multi tapes.

2007-05-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:53:12PM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: My archive backups are taking 4 tapes but I think I could get by with 3 if my files were more evenly spread over the tapes. Consider using the tape spanning feature, at least for your large DLE. Your tape seems to be

Re: how to even tape over multi tapes.

2007-05-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
McGraw, Robert P. schreef: My archive backups are taking 4 tapes but I think I could get by with 3 if my files were more evenly spread over the tapes. I am using dumporder BTBTBTBTBT NOTES: taper: tape A00021 kb 337870752 fm 39 writing file: short write taper: retrying