Re: impressive :)

2011-02-25 Thread Florian Lengyel
A great pun, given the sparseness of the file (and the pun). On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:53:21 -0500 > Jon LaBadie wrote: > >> Turns out there was a file full of nuthin', only >> null bytes, that was over 10.7 GB. > > In that case, I would be s

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-11 Thread Florian Lengyel
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Florian Lengyel > wrote: > They have had to recover by hand -- see below (there was a disk crash of some kind, but I have been unable to elicit precise details). See below for errors &

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Lengyel
th this. I did learn about VTapes--many thanks. FL On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Charles Curley < charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:43:32 -0400 > Florian Lengyel wrote: > > > I'm not familiar with vtapes, but in any case their amanda.c

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Lengyel
do a self > check before each dump? > Since I have selfcheck log for july 29th > > ---------- > *From:* Florian Lengyel > *To:* ** > *Sent:* Friday, September 10, 2010 12:22:09 > > *Subject:* Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer proble

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Lengyel
_CHANGER_DEVICE@" The file /etc/amanda/DailySet3/changer does not exist. On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Florian Lengyel wrote: > Hi: > > I now have access to the backup system and can run my own checks. > > The report I received that AMANDA does not send email even when

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Lengyel
t 8:02 AM, Florian Lengyel > wrote: > > Shouldn't amcheck -m DailySet3 send email if there is a changer problem? > I'm > > told that amcheck does not send the email. > > Yes, and normally it does, so that's either mistakenly reported or > there's a bug

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Lengyel
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Florian Lengyel > wrote: > > The following is the output of amcheck (version info listed below)--it > > reports a malformed response from the vtape changer and calls this a > &quo

amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Lengyel
Hi, The following is the output of amcheck (version info listed below)--it reports a malformed response from the vtape changer and calls this a "changer problem." On the other hand it ends by reporting "no problems found" and does not send the email address configured to receive notifications that

Re: Advice for holding disk specification for AMANDA system with LTO5 drive

2010-07-18 Thread Florian Lengyel
if this is available.) On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Florian Lengyel > wrote: >> However, a SAS drive can deliver 300 Mb/sec (theoretical); in practice >> 270 Mb/sec >> is more likely. I have neither the driv

Re: Advice for holding disk specification for AMANDA system with LTO5 drive

2010-07-18 Thread Florian Lengyel
ld be suitable for a holding disk with 2 LTO5 drives. Either that or a fully-loaded MD1000 with SATA drives. On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Florian Lengyel > wrote: >> We're attempting to get the specifications for

Advice for holding disk specification for AMANDA system with LTO5 drive

2010-07-15 Thread Florian Lengyel
Hi, We're attempting to get the specifications for the holding disk of an AMANDA server with 6GB SAS controllers that will be connected to an LTO5 drive. We want to know whether 7200 RPM SATA drives would be sufficiently fast for the holding disk (this will be a separate RAID unit), or do we need

Re: More "timeout waiting for ACK" amcheck problems resolved

2006-11-21 Thread Florian Lengyel
is Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A better advice is to configure tcpd instead of removing it. Jean-Louis Florian Lengyel wrote: > FYI: > > I was getting an amcheck ACK timeout error: > > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check > -- > -- >

LTX200G tapetype on Exabyte 2x7 LTO

2006-11-14 Thread Florian Lengyel
Question: is the following tapetype (obtained with amtapetype -o -e 4g -f /dev/nst0 -t LTX200G on an Exabyte 1x7 LTO autoloader) on the list? define tapetype LTX200G { comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression off)" length 201216 mbytes filemark 0 kbytes speed 31371 kp

Re: Wait for dumping

2005-09-18 Thread Florian Lengyel
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:25:48PM -0400, Florian Lengyel wrote: Here's the post-mortem: I've been using a hand-me-dowm Spectra Logic 2K. No matter what tape I tried in drive 0 (the only one of two that my AMANDA configuration seems to recognize) I had I/O error

Re: Wait for dumping

2005-09-17 Thread Florian Lengyel
Here's the post-mortem: I've been using a hand-me-dowm Spectra Logic 2K. No matter what tape I tried in drive 0 (the only one of two that my AMANDA configuration seems to recognize) I had I/O errors. Even an innocuous command such as mt -f /dev/nst0 compression off [by the way, the argument "off