Re: filemark & HP LTO-2 drive

2011-03-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 08:22:21PM +0100, Gour wrote: > On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:48:29 -0500 > Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > 207KB for each filemark? > > > > Wow, what a huge waste!! > > Indeed. > I meant that with sarcasm, hope it came through. > > > > But consider the difference from

Re: Bacula --> Amanda migration

2011-03-03 Thread Gour
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 09:48:22 -0700 John Hein wrote: > Amanda should not have problems. If you hit a snag, ask the list. Cool. > You may hit issues like the mt(1) syntax is different (use mt for > things like setting blocksize and disabling hardware compression > before amanda starts up). That'

Re: Bacula --> Amanda migration

2011-03-03 Thread Gour
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:00:01 -0500 Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > I saw almost exactly the same question on the Bacula list recently, > with respect to migrating from netbackup to Bacula. The short answer > was that there is no way except recovering and then backing up with > the new backup program. :

Re: filemark & HP LTO-2 drive

2011-03-03 Thread Gour
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:48:29 -0500 Jon LaBadie wrote: > 207KB for each filemark? > > Wow, what a huge waste!! Indeed. > > But consider the difference from a 0KB filemark to Amanda's > calculations. If it were to write 1000 separate tape files, > "wasting" 207MB in filemarks, its

Re: Bacula --> Amanda migration

2011-03-03 Thread John Hein
Gour wrote at 16:23 +0100 on Mar 3, 2011: > Is there any concern when migrating Amanda from Linux to FreeBSD? Amanda should not have problems. If you hit a snag, ask the list. You may hit issues like the mt(1) syntax is different (use mt for things like setting blocksize and disabling hardware

Re: Bacula --> Amanda migration

2011-03-03 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
I saw almost exactly the same question on the Bacula list recently, with respect to migrating from netbackup to Bacula. The short answer was that there is no way except recovering and then backing up with the new backup program. Of course, netbackup and Bacula both have their own unique formats

Re: filemark & HP LTO-2 drive

2011-03-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:13:00PM +0100, Gour wrote: > Hello, > > after performing testing of my HP Ultrium 448 drive with: > > amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 > > I got the following result: > > Checking for FSF_AFTER_FILEMARK requirement > Applying heuristic check for compression. > Wrote random (un

Bacula --> Amanda migration

2011-03-03 Thread Gour
Hello! I've 8 LTO-2 tapes filled with raw video (DV) and 4 with raw high-resolution (35mm) scans stored in Bacula & catalog in Postgres database. Now, I'd like to put this data (~1.7TB of video & 700GBs of scans) on the tape backed up by Amanda. I'd also like to do this migration while my deskto

amrecover fails

2011-03-03 Thread Joe Konecny
Running Ubuntu server 10.10 with Amanda 3.1.0 both new installs. Tried to amrecover for a test from a remote machine. The machines are connected with GbE. Here is what happened Any tips? amrecover> extract Extracting files using tape drive changer on host rmt170.rmtohio.com. The follow

filemark & HP LTO-2 drive

2011-03-03 Thread Gour
Hello, after performing testing of my HP Ultrium 448 drive with: amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 I got the following result: Checking for FSF_AFTER_FILEMARK requirement Applying heuristic check for compression. Wrote random (uncompressible) data at 21864712.2580645 bytes/sec Wrote fixed (compressible)