Re: Understanding Amanda

2011-08-25 Thread Thomas Marko
Am 23.08.2011 um 16:40 schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 13:29:03 -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: >> This seems to be something related to the Lucid version of perl; if I >> move the snapshot file from my Lucid machine to a machine with an older >> version of perl

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-25 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 25, 2011 07:20:20 PM Charles Curley did opine: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:45:38 -0400 > > gene heskett wrote: > > That could be handy if it is easily configured to be used, which I > > have not investigated. > > http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Use_pigz_to_speed_up_comp

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:45:38 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > Making amanda use its parallelism might be a challenging > project however. Actually, not challenging at all. According to the man page, http://www.zlib.net/pigz/pigz.pdf: Pigz compresses using threads to make use of multiple processor

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-25 Thread Brian Cuttler
All we did at my site was to essentially replace the gzip binary. Its wrong and its cheating, but that is what we did. On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 02:21:13PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:45:38 -0400 > gene heskett wrote: > > > That could be handy if it is easily configur

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:45:38 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > That could be handy if it is easily configured to be used, which I > have not investigated. http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Use_pigz_to_speed_up_compression > Making amanda use its parallelism might be a > challenging project howe

3.3.0: amcheck fails

2011-08-25 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Greets ... I see problems with amcheck here. 32bit Gentoo Linux, Kernel 3.0.3, amanda 3.3.0 Tried with 2 different tapes to rule out defectiv media (LTO-2). amcheck fails and lets amcheck-device hang there, hard or not to kill, only via booting. dmesg: INFO: task amcheck-device:5074 blocked

Re: 15min backups

2011-08-25 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
On 8/23/11 11:05 AM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: On 8/22/11 6:48 PM, Horacio Sanson wrote: Thanks for all the answers... very informative and now I am confident that what the client is asking is too much. The application is a custom Ad Server (think adSense, iAd, etc) for mobiles we implemented in J

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-25 Thread Brian Cuttler
As long as we are talking about HW vs SW compression, I should say that we've installed pigz, a parallelized version of gzip, on some of our systems with good result. If you have a system that will support it and SW compression is running long you might want to test it out. On Wed, Aug 24, 2011

Re: Do you use this library

2011-08-25 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 25, 2011 09:17:04 AM Brian Cuttler did opine: > As long as we are talking about HW vs SW compression, I should > say that we've installed pigz, a parallelized version of gzip, > on some of our systems with good result. If you have a system > that will support it and SW compress