Re: backup very hit or miss

2009-11-18 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 16:56:47 -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > Yes, I saw what you saw in the gtar report - I can only > surmize that the error is written in a confusing mannor. > > /proc is definitely a directory that contains files that > are named for process ids that can be found on the sys

Re: backup very hit or miss

2009-11-18 Thread Brian Cuttler
Nathan, Yes, I saw what you saw in the gtar report - I can only surmize that the error is written in a confusing mannor. /proc is definitely a directory that contains files that are named for process ids that can be found on the system. I've updated the exclude command... we'll see if it helps.

Re: backup very hit or miss

2009-11-18 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 16:27:44 -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: [...] > I had an exclude for "./root/proc/*", which may have been invalid > and found nothing, I've changed it to "./root/proc" and will keep > my fingers crossed for tonight. [...] > > > - Forwarded message from Amanda on Gat0 ---

Re: backup very hit or miss

2009-11-18 Thread Brian Cuttler
Frank, Dustin suggested the same, just checked and to my suprise the switch was present, up'd it from 1800 to 2400 (seconds). It was the only DLE in the test though and had progressed to 70% the last time I'd checked. I don't think it was idle... I had an exclude for "./root/proc/*", which may

Re: backup very hit or miss

2009-11-18 Thread Frank Smith
Brian Cuttler wrote: > Amanda users, > > The backup of this particular DLE is pretty much hit or miss, > it'll run great for a week and then fail for a week, I haven't > been able to disern a pattern nor reason. > > The amanda server is old, 2.4.4 on a Solaris/Sparc system, > the newest client is

Re: backup very hit or miss

2009-11-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Brian Cuttler wrote: > Other than etimeout, what knobs do I have it 2.4.4 ? I would think dtimeout would be the knob to tweak. I have no idea if that was present in 2.4.4 though. > How did your talk go ? Well attendance ? Interesting questions ? The talk went w

Re: backup very hit or miss

2009-11-18 Thread Brian Cuttler
Hi Dustin, On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 03:02:54PM -0600, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > The backup of this particular DLE is pretty much hit or miss, > > it'll run great for a week and then fail for a week, I haven't > > been able to disern a pat

Re: backup very hit or miss

2009-11-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Brian Cuttler wrote: > The backup of this particular DLE is pretty much hit or miss, > it'll run great for a week and then fail for a week, I haven't > been able to disern a pattern nor reason. It looks like a timeout of some sort. Have you increased the various

backup very hit or miss

2009-11-18 Thread Brian Cuttler
Amanda users, The backup of this particular DLE is pretty much hit or miss, it'll run great for a week and then fail for a week, I haven't been able to disern a pattern nor reason. The amanda server is old, 2.4.4 on a Solaris/Sparc system, the newest client is a Solaris/x86 with a current version

Re: Dump failures

2009-11-18 Thread Toomas Aas
Mike R wrote: NOTE: skipping tape-writable test Tape daily-010 label ok Server check took 0.410 seconds The flush worked but I think I screwed up the labeling of the vtapes in the process So should I be concerned about this? Are the tapes alright based on the results of the relabeling an

Re: [Amanda-users] Newbie - Confused on How to Backup My WinXP PC to USB Disk

2009-11-18 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 11/18/2009 12:02 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Paul Bijnens schrieb: On 2009-11-17 02:18, Yadda wrote: Total Newbie with Amanda. I only want to backup my WinXP PC to an external USB drive and am lost on how to set this up. Please help!!! :( Airports are where airplaines land, not a

Re: Dump failures

2009-11-18 Thread Mike R
/usr/sbin/amlabel daily daily-0$i slot $i; done Now my amcheck is showing the following Holding disk /opt/dumps: 1246830 MB disk space available, using 1246730 MB slot 25: read label `daily-025', date `20091118' slot 1: read label `daily-01', date `20091109' slot 2: read la

Re: Dump failures

2009-11-18 Thread Mike R
daily daily-0$i slot $i; done Now my amcheck is showing the following Holding disk /opt/dumps: 1246830 MB disk space available, using 1246730 MB slot 25: read label `daily-025', date `20091118' slot 1: read label `daily-01', date `20091109' slot 2: read label `daily-02&#x

Re: Dump failures

2009-11-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What are in those slots? use 'amlabel' to label them. Jean-Louis slot 10: not an amanda tape (Read 0 bytes) slot 11: not an amanda tape (Read 0 bytes) slot 12: not an amanda tape (Read 0 bytes) slot 13: not an amanda tape (Read 0 bytes) slot 14: not an amanda tape (Read 0 bytes) slot 15: not an

Re: Dump failures

2009-11-18 Thread Mike R
ect?) [r...@sigma daily]# su - amanda -bash-3.2$ /usr/sbin/amflush daily Scanning /opt/dumps... 20091117010001: found Amanda directory. 20091118010001: found Amanda directory. Multiple Amanda directories, please pick one by letter: A. 20091117010001 B. 20091118010001 Select directori

Re: Dump failures

2009-11-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
u - amanda -bash-3.2$ /usr/sbin/amflush daily Scanning /opt/dumps... 20091117010001: found Amanda directory. 20091118010001: found Amanda directory. Multiple Amanda directories, please pick one by letter: A. 20091117010001 B. 20091118010001 Select directories to flush [A..B]: [ALL] Today

Re: Dump failures

2009-11-18 Thread Mike R
20091117010001: found Amanda directory. 20091118010001: found Amanda directory. Multiple Amanda directories, please pick one by letter: A. 20091117010001 B. 20091118010001 Select directories to flush [A..B]: [ALL] Today is: 20091118 Flushing dumps in 20091117010001, 20091118010001 using ta

Re: Dump failures

2009-11-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What is your tapecycle? How many vtapes do you have? What is the output of amcheck? Jean-Louis Mike R wrote: Good day all. I'm a fairly new amanda user, I used the 15 minute backup guide for my setup. During the first week my backups seemed to have gone off without a hitch as indicated by the

Dump failures

2009-11-18 Thread Mike R
Good day all. I'm a fairly new amanda user, I used the 15 minute backup guide for my setup. During the first week my backups seemed to have gone off without a hitch as indicated by the backup reports. Now beginning on Monday I've been getting failed backup reports, as follows: *** A TAPE ERROR

Re: SL48 autoloader

2009-11-18 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Gunnarsson, Gunnar wrote: Hi I'm trying to configure Sun SL48 autloader with Amanda on Solaris 10 10/09 sparc system. SL48 library is connected to our SAN switches and disk are beeing used and configured on the SAN but I'm not seeing the the tape driver. # ls /dev/rmt/ # # /usr/sbin