Re: filesys for tape?

2009-07-21 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Hi, normally we use reiserfs on all of our servers. The only reason we decided to use ext3 for the vtapes is that it took several minutes to mount a big (mine is 12 TB) parition with reiserfs. Regards, Marc -- Marc Muehlfeld (Leitung IT) Zentrum fuer Humangenetik und Laboratoriumsmedizin Dr

Re: udp or tcp

2009-07-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Brandon Metcalf wrote: > Is it better to use tcp and stream since with udp there is no error > correction or does Amanda build in the error checking at the > application level?  Any other settings that would be preferred over > what is shown above? If you must use

udp or tcp

2009-07-21 Thread Brandon Metcalf
I have Amanda working with the default settings for the client: service amanda { disable = no socket_type = dgram protocol= udp wait= yes user= backup group = disk groups

Re: filesys for tape?

2009-07-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 07/21/2009 06:11 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:52 AM, rir wrote: What filesystem and mount options are recommended for a tapetype harddisk? Details: The amanda-server is a Debian 5 (lenny) host. The tape size is 40 gigs. The filesystems are about 540, 990, and 95

Re: filesys for tape?

2009-07-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:52 AM, rir wrote: > What filesystem and mount options are recommended for a > tapetype harddisk? > > Details:  The amanda-server is a Debian 5 (lenny) host. > The tape size is 40 gigs.  The filesystems are about > 540, 990, and 950 gigs. > > Not that it much matters but I

filesys for tape?

2009-07-21 Thread rir
What filesystem and mount options are recommended for a tapetype harddisk? Details: The amanda-server is a Debian 5 (lenny) host. The tape size is 40 gigs. The filesystems are about 540, 990, and 950 gigs. Not that it much matters but I run most everything on ext3 filesystems with the relatime