Re: level 1 does not behave as level 1 - last message(?)

2014-02-26 Thread Charles Stroom
and this evening the first scheduled backup and it failed miserably with exactly the same symptoms as before: all level 1 DLEs are equal in size to a level 0, with the exception of only 2 DLEs (and heaven may know why!) I think I give up. Regards, Charles On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 00:54:09 +0100 Char

Re: Release of 3.3.6?

2014-02-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 02/26/2014 11:45 AM, Steven Backus wrote: Jean-Louis writes: ...This is already fixed in SVN, the fix will be in 3.3.6 Do we have a date for the blessed event? I have a few patches I need to make sure get in there and I'd like to take that off my to-do list. Our plan is to release 3.3.6 i

Re: tar suddenly hanging, backups near 100% fail

2014-02-26 Thread Markus Iturriaga Woelfel
I missed whether you tried using "strace" and "lsof" (or the /proc file system) to see what system call and/or what file tar might be stuck on? --- Markus A. Iturriaga Woelfel, IT Administrator Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Tennessee Min H. Kao Building, S

Re: Best practise for archive tapes with vtapes?

2014-02-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.02.2014 19:03, schrieb Markus Iturriaga Woelfel: > Stefan, > >> Maybe someday you share your script? ;-) > > If I ever find the time to clean up the script, I'll be happy to > share it. Not sure how useful it'd be to others because it's specific > to our situation. Sometimes it already hel

Re: Best practise for archive tapes with vtapes?

2014-02-26 Thread Markus Iturriaga Woelfel
Stefan, > Maybe someday you share your script? ;-) If I ever find the time to clean up the script, I'll be happy to share it. Not sure how useful it'd be to others because it's specific to our situation. > > For my current job I need/should use external hdds as target media, so I > wonder if

Re: tar suddenly hanging, backups near 100% fail

2014-02-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 26 February 2014 12:19:18 Gene Heskett did opine: > On Wednesday 26 February 2014 10:39:13 Gene Heskett did opine: > > Greetings; > > > > 3 backups ago, with no change to the amanda.conf in months, I have > > awakened to a hung tar task using 100% of a core, more than 5 hours > > aft

Re: is part_cache_max_size shared?

2014-02-26 Thread Michael Stauffer
Thanks, 5 processes failed to terminate the first time so I ran it again. Seems all good now. -M On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > On 02/26/2014 11:17 AM, Michael Stauffer wrote: > >> Thanks! That's very good to know. >> >> As far as aborting the current amdump, d

Release of 3.3.6?

2014-02-26 Thread Steven Backus
> Jean-Louis writes: > > ...This is already fixed in SVN, the fix will be in 3.3.6 Do we have a date for the blessed event? I have a few patches I need to make sure get in there and I'd like to take that off my to-do list. Steve -- Steven J. BackusComputer Systems Manag

Re: Best practise for archive tapes with vtapes?

2014-02-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.02.2014 15:31, schrieb Markus Iturriaga Woelfel: > Here is what we do: > > We use vtapes in our Amanda setup. I wrote a small script that finds > the most recent level 0 backups and uses amvault to dump those to > physical tapes. I run this once a month and then archive those tapes. > The sc

Re: error: "ERROR: fiume.localnet usr: data-path is AMANDA but device do not support it"

2014-02-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Charles, It erroneously report 'data-path is AMANDA but device do not support it' because it didn't find a tape to use. This is already fixed in SVN, the fix will be in 3.3.6 Jean-Louis On 02/18/2014 04:30 AM, Charles Stroom wrote: I noticed the following when I do an amcheck: " Amanda Tape

Re: is part_cache_max_size shared?

2014-02-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 02/26/2014 11:17 AM, Michael Stauffer wrote: Thanks! That's very good to know. As far as aborting the current amdump, do I just SIGINT it and then run amcleanup? use 'amcleanup -k CONF', it should kill all processes on the amanda server. Some process on the amanda client might not be kill

Re: is part_cache_max_size shared?

2014-02-26 Thread Michael Stauffer
Thanks! That's very good to know. As far as aborting the current amdump, do I just SIGINT it and then run amcleanup? -M On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > On 02/25/2014 04:24 PM, Michael Stauffer wrote: > >> Amanda 3.3.4 >> >> Hi, >> >> If amanda is using memory cac

Re: tar suddenly hanging, backups near 100% fail

2014-02-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 26 February 2014 10:39:13 Gene Heskett did opine: > Greetings; > > 3 backups ago, with no change to the amanda.conf in months, I have > awakened to a hung tar task using 100% of a core, more than 5 hours > after it should have completed. > > It is in that state now. How can I find

Re: Best practise for archive tapes with vtapes?

2014-02-26 Thread Markus Iturriaga Woelfel
Here is what we do: We use vtapes in our Amanda setup. I wrote a small script that finds the most recent level 0 backups and uses amvault to dump those to physical tapes. I run this once a month and then archive those tapes. The script was hacked together and if I get the time I'd like to chang

Re: is part_cache_max_size shared?

2014-02-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 02/25/2014 04:24 PM, Michael Stauffer wrote: Amanda 3.3.4 Hi, If amanda is using memory cache for splits, is the cache shared between simultaneous amdump runs, or does each try to grab that much memory? I'm setup like this: part_cache_type memory part_cache_max_size 20G and with ta

Re: Best practise for archive tapes with vtapes?

2014-02-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 21.02.2014 09:13, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > What's the current best practise to somehow have archive "tapes" with > vtapes? > > A customer backs up to vtapes on a NAS and wants to have an additional > USB-driven hdd for archiving weekly/monthly dumps. > > How to achieve that? So amva