Re: lots of level-0 backups

2017-04-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:45:52PM -0400, hymie! wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 04:14:25PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 02:24:52PM -0400, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > > > I'm trying to figure out a way to split my two largest DLEs (one is > > > 100GB and the other

Re: lots of level-0 backups

2017-04-10 Thread hymie!
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 04:14:25PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 02:24:52PM -0400, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out a way to split my two largest DLEs (one is > > 100GB and the other is about 60GB) into several smaller ones. > > > Do you mean yo

Re: amflush

2017-04-10 Thread Ochressandro Rettinger
I'm not sure it's doing anything. [amandabackup@archivist NMHPVPR]$ amstatus NMHPVPR Using: /var/lib/amanda/NMHPVPR/state/log/amdump >From Mon Apr 10 15:21:05 MDT 2017 fileserver2:/Hope_IT 20170408010017 1 1252k flushing (0k done (0.00%)) (15:21:10) fileserver2:/Hope_Secure 2017040

Re: amflush

2017-04-10 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 21:56:40 +, Ochressandro Rettinger wrote: > Is there a way to check to see how far along amflush is? the "amstatus" command. Nathan Nathan Stra

Re: amflush

2017-04-10 Thread Ochressandro Rettinger
:53 PM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: amflush * Debra S Baddorf [20170410 16:46]: > > > On Apr 10, 2017, at 3:43 PM, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > > > > Were there any other tapes “available” for it to use?The one you just > > re-labeled > > will hav

Re: amflush

2017-04-10 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Debra S Baddorf [20170410 16:46]: > > > On Apr 10, 2017, at 3:43 PM, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > > > > Were there any other tapes “available” for it to use?The one you just > > re-labeled > > will have dropped to the last of the list.If it’s the only

Re: amflush

2017-04-10 Thread Debra S Baddorf
> On Apr 10, 2017, at 3:43 PM, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > > Were there any other tapes “available” for it to use?The one you just > re-labeled > will have dropped to the last of the list.If it’s the only one, it’ll > still be the one used. If there are other free tapes that you labe

Re: amflush

2017-04-10 Thread Debra S Baddorf
Were there any other tapes “available” for it to use?The one you just re-labeled will have dropped to the last of the list.If it’s the only one, it’ll still be the one used. If there are other free tapes that you labelled before this one, they’ll be used first. You *CAN* edit the

Re: amflush

2017-04-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 08:17:16PM +, Ochressandro Rettinger wrote: > Yes. It was less effective than I might have hoped. :-/ > > [amandabackup@archivist ~]$ amlabel NMHPVPR NMHPVPR0001 > Reading label... > Found label 'NMHPVPR0001' but it is not in the tapelist file. > Not writing lab

RE: amflush

2017-04-10 Thread Ochressandro Rettinger
I did that, and it worked, but then when I ran amflush again, it didn't list the tape name. [amandabackup@archivist ~]$ amflush NMHPVPR Flushing dumps from 20170408010017 using storage "NMHPVPR", tape changer "tape_drive". Are you sure you want to do this [yN]? Y Running in background,

Re: amflush

2017-04-10 Thread Debra S Baddorf
Try “amlabel -f ….. “ for “force”. Be sure it’s the right tape, but I use it all the time. Deb > On Apr 10, 2017, at 3:17 PM, Ochressandro Rettinger > wrote: > > Yes. It was less effective than I might have hoped. :-/ > > [amandabackup@archivist ~]$ amlabel NMHPVPR NMHPVP

RE: amflush

2017-04-10 Thread Ochressandro Rettinger
Yes. It was less effective than I might have hoped. :-/ [amandabackup@archivist ~]$ amlabel NMHPVPR NMHPVPR0001 Reading label... Found label 'NMHPVPR0001' but it is not in the tapelist file. Not writing label. Not writing label. Do I need to erase the label somehow first?

Re: lots of level-0 backups

2017-04-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 02:24:52PM -0400, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > Jon LaBadie writes: > >On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 09:05:32AM -0400, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > >> Greetings. > >> > >> I seem to be getting an awful lot of full (level-0) backups: > >> > >Not unusual. It a prod

Re: amflush

2017-04-10 Thread Debra S Baddorf
Did you do another “amlabel” after doing “amrmtape”? Deb Baddorf > On Apr 10, 2017, at 2:16 PM, Ochressandro Rettinger > wrote: > > > I’m having problems with amflush and the tapelist. > > My backups didn’t work last night, so I swapped the tape and > ra

amflush

2017-04-10 Thread Ochressandro Rettinger
I'm having problems with amflush and the tapelist. My backups didn't work last night, so I swapped the tape and ran amflush. Amflush hung, so I tried to stop it and run it again, without changing the tape. In order to do that, I ran amrmtape on the tape, and r

Re: lots of level-0 backups

2017-04-10 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 13:57:34 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 09:05:32AM -0400, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > > Greetings. > > > > I seem to be getting an awful lot of full (level-0) backups: [...] > Not unusual. It a product of having a couple of large DLEs and sev

Re: lots of level-0 backups

2017-04-10 Thread hymie
Jon LaBadie writes: >On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 09:05:32AM -0400, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: >> Greetings. >> >> I seem to be getting an awful lot of full (level-0) backups: >> >Not unusual. It a product of having a couple of large DLEs and several, >relatively small DLEs. Amanda tries to

Re: lots of level-0 backups

2017-04-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 09:05:32AM -0400, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > Greetings. > > I seem to be getting an awful lot of full (level-0) backups: > > -rw--- 1 amanda backup 805,089,376 Apr 1 23:04 > slot140/00020.alfred._var.0 > -rw--- 1 amanda backup 805,100,793 Apr 2 23:04

lots of level-0 backups

2017-04-10 Thread hymie
Greetings. I seem to be getting an awful lot of full (level-0) backups: -rw--- 1 amanda backup 805,089,376 Apr 1 23:04 slot140/00020.alfred._var.0 -rw--- 1 amanda backup 805,100,793 Apr 2 23:04 slot141/00021.alfred._var.0 -rw--- 1 amanda backup 805,116,298 Apr 3 23:04 slot142/00021

Re: force an estimate?

2017-04-10 Thread hymie
Nathan Stratton Treadway writes: >On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 07:06:55 -0400, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: >> >> Let's say I have a very recent full (level 0) backup of /home. If I >> split up my /home into two or three DLEs, will Amanda recognize that it >> already has a level-0 backup, and th

Re: force an estimate?

2017-04-10 Thread hymie
Bummer. Thanks. --hymie! Jean-Louis Martineau writes: > >man amadmin: >estimate [ hostname [ disks ]* ]* >Print the server estimate for the dles ... > >The answer is NO, since 'amadmin estimate' only print the server=20 >estimate (based on history). >The best tool is du. > >J

Re: force an estimate?

2017-04-10 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 07:06:55 -0400, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > Separate but related question. > > Let's say I have a very recent full (level 0) backup of /home. If I > split up my /home into two or three DLEs, will Amanda recognize that it > already has a level-0 backup, and then ta

Re: force an estimate?

2017-04-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
man amadmin: estimate [ hostname [ disks ]* ]* Print the server estimate for the dles ... The answer is NO, since 'amadmin estimate' only print the server estimate (based on history). The best tool is du. Jean-Louis On 10/04/17 07:06 AM, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: >

force an estimate?

2017-04-10 Thread hymie
Greetings. I'm experimenting with how I can split up a couple of very large backups into multiple smaller backups. newlaptop.local.net /home/nothymie /home { simple-gnutar-remote exclude "./hymie" estimate client } newlaptop.local.net /home/hymie /home { simple-gnutar-remote includ