amanda taking way to long to finish

I am running amanda 2.6.1P2 on a Solaris 10 X86 system. I have recently upgraded to 2.6.1P2 as the amanda server and move from a SPARC to a X86 system running Solaris 10. Compared to when it was running on an old SPARC system, I am finding that amanda is taking way to long to finish an using

Re: amanda taking way to long to finish

We had an issue where the incrementals where about the same size as the level 0 dumps. The snapshots where causing the files to have different device id numbers each night, and so appeared as new files. If you'd like I can dig out my notes on the issue, we updated our version of gtar and set

RE: runtar error that I do not understand

I am not sure if this got sent to the group so I an fordwarding. This explains what is going on in the gtar code to cause gtar to seg fault. All the accolades should go to my SA partner Chapman Flack. He is in the process of sending this to bug-tar as suggested. Robert Apparently under

Using multiple changers

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Re: amanda taking way to long to finish

Robert, You are using calcsize for the estimate, it doesn't use check the device number. But when you do the backup, tar check the device, as you mount it every time, it have different device number and it backup all files. Set the CHECK-DEVICE property of amgtar to NO. (man amgtar)

RE: runtar error that I do not understand

As a workaround, perhaps you could unhide the snapshot directory. man zfs. McGraw, Robert P wrote at 11:23 -0400 on Jun 2, 2010: I am not sure if this got sent to the group so I an fordwarding. This explains what is going on in the gtar code to cause gtar to seg fault. All the

Re: amanda taking way to long to finish

Robert, We have the following code in our amanda.conf, as Jean-Louis said the new line is the check-device property. define application-tool app_amgtar { comment amgtar plugin amgtar property ATIME-PRESERVE no property CHECK-DEVICE no # property PFEXEC YES # property PFEXEC-PATH

Re: Using multiple changers

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RE: amanda taking way to long to finish

Jean-Louis, At present I do not have amgtar set up, but something that I plan to do. I have changed the estimate to client so do I need to set CHECK-DEVICE property of amgtar to NO in this case. Robert -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martin...@zmanda.com]