Re: Leaving dumps on the holding disk?

2015-01-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 01/25/2015 10:27 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: My amanda server has a really large holding disk, because disk is cheap and because lots of disk striping generally equals better write performance. The usual restore operation I have to do is pulling things off of last night's backup, which in

Trouble with libUtil.so

2015-01-26 Thread Jens Berg
Hi list, I compiled amanda 3.3.7 from source which completed successfully. However, each time I run a command which utilizes libUtil.so, e.g. amlabel or amcheck I get the following error message: /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/auto/Amanda/Util/libUtil.so: undefine

Re: Trouble with libUtil.so

2015-01-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jens, Try the attached patch. Jean-Louis On 01/26/2015 10:00 AM, Jens Berg wrote: Hi list, I compiled amanda 3.3.7 from source which completed successfully. However, each time I run a command which utilizes libUtil.so, e.g. amlabel or amcheck I get the following error message: /usr/bin/perl:

Re: Trouble with libUtil.so

2015-01-26 Thread Jens Berg
Dear Jean-Louis, that helped, thank you very much! Best Jens On Mon Jan 26 2015 16:14:52 GMT+0100 martin...@zmanda.com (Jean-Louis Martineau) wrote: > Jens, > > Try the attached patch. > > Jean-Louis > > On 01/26/2015 10:00 AM, Jens Berg wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> I compiled amanda 3.3.7 from

Re: Leaving dumps on the holding disk?

2015-01-26 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "JM" == Jean-Louis Martineau writes: JM> The main problem is that if you leave the dump in the holding disk, JM> amanda will automatically re-flush (autoflush) them on the next run. JM> There is no way to store the information about dump that are already JM> flushed and dump that are not fl

Re: Leaving dumps on the holding disk?

2015-01-26 Thread Debra S Baddorf
I wonder if one could somehow use the AMVAULT command to do this? It serves to make a COPY of a dump tape (as I understand it). At the very least, you could have a cron job copy the tape back *off* of the tape, onto a spare corner of the holding disk that you had labeled as “virtua