Re: planner timeout

twork was going on. Is there a way to affect the 30 sec timeout for the planner's ACK timeout? Cheers, René On Nov 29, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2007-11-27 18:13, René Kanters wrote: Hi, I have been running into problems that some of my systems are heavily use

planner timeout

Hi, I have been running into problems that some of my systems are heavily used for long computations making them somewhat less responsive. Last night I ran into the issue that four systems did not send acknowledgments back to the dumper on time during the planning process: planner: ERRO

Re: GNUTAR hanging

Hi Anthony, I have been having issues of gnutar hanging also. In my case I think is has to do with hardware issues with the external Western Digital 1TB drive to which I do the backups. I usually end up having to kill the process on the client, reboot the server and make sure that the HD

Re: Does amrecover automatically use "unflushed" files on the holding disk ?

Does this also suggest that one could set a 1TB hard drive to be the holding disk and only write to that, i.e., never use flush to 'tape' out the data. If that is possible, and the holding disk can be used as a 'fifo' type storage system, might that not be the ideal HD based backup system a

Re: forcing a failed backup to disk to use the same slot

here is no amadmin or amdump argument that allows me to 'reuse' the tape/slot. Would this be a possible feature that I could request for consideration? Rene On Mar 24, 2007, at 4:17 PM, Frank Smith wrote: René Kanters wrote: Hi, I have had some problems that an overnight backup &

forcing a failed backup to disk to use the same slot

Hi, I have had some problems that an overnight backup 'hung up', i.e., a level 0 dump started but never properly finished so backups from other machines did not work either. So far the problem has been with the western digital disk on my Mac amanda server, where a restart of the external

Re: amanda client on MAC, launchd issue

Hi, Has anybody been able to use the Mac as a backup server and do a restore from that? With the instructions I found online (which included the amandad launchd setup described below) I am able to use the Mac (OS X, not even server) as a backup server, but I can't get the amrestore to wor

next tape and next new tape info in reports

Hi, I am getting confused (so what's new) about the first three lines a report emailed by amdump sends me. I did several dumps in a row and got these results. These dumps were to tape DAILY-3. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DAILY-14. The next new tape already labelled is: DAILY-4.

amreport reports wrong results

Hi, I just tried the amreport command and it looks like it is not providing the proper result. The email it generated was that the results were missing for every client and in the summary the line I kept is was repeated for every client too. I checked and indeed there is no log file in the

Re: dump cycles and such

wrote: dumcycle is a number of days? you set it to 4 days. The scheduler work in days, not in number of tapes or run. Jean-Louis René Kanters wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up my test system so that I get on 5 tapes 2 full backups at any time and incremental ones in between them. I thought that I s

dump cycles and such

Hi, I am trying to set up my test system so that I get on 5 tapes 2 full backups at any time and incremental ones in between them. I thought that I should be able to do that using in my amanda.conf these lines: dumpcycle 4 tapes runspercycle 4 tapecycle 5 usetimestamps true # make sure I c

amreport issues

Hi, I noticed that when I issue the amreport command I get an error in the report that it generates: amreport: ERROR could not open log /usr/local/etc/amanda/test/log: No such file or directory that file does indeed not exist, but there are a lot of log.xx.0 files in the usr/local

Re: questions regarding incremental backup sizes

mailing list archives to try to find my answers there? Cheers, René On Nov 15, 2006, at 8:09 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 07:50, René Kanters wrote: I've added the list back, please use 'reply all' when replying to any mailing list. That way, the li

confused and concerned about virtual tape sizes

Hi, I also posted this on the forum, but I am not sure whether that was the right place to go. I don't understand the message mailed to me regarding the amount of disk space taken up by the test backups to files. Actually we plan to run amanda with backup to files anyway, so this is an im

questions regarding incremental backup sizes

Hi, On my backup with dump/runs/tape cycle settings of /4/4/5, I get for every backup done that the size of the dump is the same size as the full backup. When I check the disk files (since I doing backups only to disk) I do indeed see that all the slots have the same sized backup in them.