Re: LVM snapshots

2006-07-10 Thread Tobias Bluhm
Just to be clear on the original question, xfs_freeze is not an lvm command. It's part of the xfs package xfsprogs. - toby bluhm philips medical systems, cleveland ohio [EMAIL PROTECTED] 440-483-5323 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/10/2006 03:10

Re: is excluding /usr/local/var/amanda a bad idea ?

2005-11-11 Thread Tobias Bluhm
I exclude the amanda dir from the rest of the backup, set it up so that the amanda dir is a DLE, always full, no record or index, starttime is when I'm sure all the other backups are done. This can have amanda report very long Run Time & Dump Time as it will include the time waiting for 0700 to

Re: D2D2T howto

2005-10-14 Thread Tobias Bluhm
google for "rsync snapshot" - toby bluhm philips medical systems, cleveland ohio [EMAIL PROTECTED] 440-483-5323 Bob Kryger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/14/2005 10:06 AM To Shai Ayal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc amanda-us

Re: AIT2 tape size?

2005-08-18 Thread Tobias Bluhm
Mine will consistenly write in the area of 4400kb , the most so far this year on one tape was 47896576kb. - toby bluhm philips medical systems, cleveland ohio [EMAIL PROTECTED] 440-483-5323 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/18/2005 08:01:09 AM

Re: HD backup strategy ?

2005-08-16 Thread Tobias Bluhm
Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/16/2005 01:02:33 PM: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 at 12:13pm, Jon LaBadie wrote > > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:40:59AM -0400, FM wrote: > > > Hello everybody, > > > > > > My ibm 35810 died and I will cost use 2 CA$ to replace it. So I > > > thing it's t

Re: Different schedules for different machines

2005-08-03 Thread Tobias Bluhm
Add to the DL entry that you want only full baks: skip-incr - toby bluhm philips medical systems, cleveland ohio [EMAIL PROTECTED] 440-483-5323 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/03/2005 08:54:06 AM: > > > Hi, > > I have a few servers to backu

Re: Amanda and PostgreSQL

2005-01-13 Thread tobias . bluhm
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> changed 3 bytes are sent. Plus you have the lastest backup copy in an >Hmm, not exactly true ;-) Rsync operates on blocks. Thanks! - toby bluhm it support, development systems philips medical s

Re: Amanda and PostgreSQL

2005-01-13 Thread tobias . bluhm
Using rsync: shutdown db rsync all data to backup disk/raid/machine start db amanda backup the backup disk/raid/machine The first run of rsync will be the slowest - must send all data to make a complete copy. The next run of rsync will be much faster. rsync only sends new or changed data. So if

Re: changed from hw comp to sw comp

2004-02-04 Thread tobias . bluhm
Joshua Baker-LePain: >amtapetype on a tape drive using hardware compression is rather No, I re-ran amtapetype with hwcomp off - it's just I remember the numbers somehow where a 2x diff in speed/size. I only saved the dumptype portion of amtapetype so I can't "prove" my 2x statement. Anyway,

Re: changed from hw comp to sw comp

2004-02-04 Thread tobias . bluhm
Joshua Baker-LePain: >Your tape write speed would only get cut in half when going to software >compression if the hardware compression had been getting 2:1, which it >almost never does. And gzip is better than just about any hardware So amtapetype reported a ~ 2x difference because of what -

changed from hw comp to sw comp

2004-02-04 Thread tobias . bluhm
I just moved my main amanda server to use software compression instead of hardware compression - got tired of banging my head on EOT. The Dump Time went through the roof, but it still finished within my expected backup window. I'm impressed with the way amanda continues to perform for me - kud

Re: Problem with Changer

2004-01-19 Thread tobias . bluhm
Gene Heskett : >On Monday 19 January 2004 12:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Thomas Corell: >>>I'm running Linux with a 1.6.1 kernel, and amanda 2.4.4p2. >> >>Do you mean kernel 2.6.1? If so, that's somewhat out on the bleeding >>edge and it's still gonna have some kinks in it. Can you drop it >>ba

Re: Problem with Changer

2004-01-19 Thread tobias . bluhm
Thomas Corell: >I'm running Linux with a 1.6.1 kernel, and amanda 2.4.4p2. Do you mean kernel 2.6.1? If so, that's somewhat out on the bleeding edge and it's still gonna have some kinks in it. Can you drop it back to a 2.4 kernel & test? -

Re: Level 1 dumps acting like level 0 dumps

2004-01-16 Thread tobias . bluhm
Steve Manuel: > SM> Amanda has been working great for me except for a problem that I can't > SM> figure out. When I look through the report for the previous nightly > SM> backup I noticed that all my level 1 backups were the approximately > SM> the same size as the level 0 backups. I've scoured t

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-15 Thread tobias . bluhm
eveland ohio [EMAIL PROTECTED] 440-483-5323 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/15/2004 12:37 PM To: Fran Fabrizio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc: Tobias Bluhm/CLE/MS/PHILIPS) Subject:Re: Samba backups failing after

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

2004-01-15 Thread tobias . bluhm
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc: Tobias Bluhm/CLE/MS/PHILIPS) Subject:Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data Classification: > The only question I would be able to come up with Fran, is: > Whats the posibility that the

Re: was: Re: Using amrestore - some help needed

2004-01-09 Thread tobias . bluhm
Martin wrote: > Paul Bijnens wrote: > >>One important point is that you need to REWIND the tape before starting >>amrestore, or you need to MANUALLY position the tape to the beginning >>of your backup image using commands like 'mt ... fsf 123'. >>If using amanda 2.4.4 or later you may add "-f 123

Re: Amanda Schedule

2003-12-31 Thread tobias . bluhm
Jon LaBadie: >>On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:08:10AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Aaron Smith: >> >> >Is there a way to tell Amanda something along the lines >> of "When coming >> >up with your schedule of which machine to back up first, always do THESE >> >two machines first...

Re: Amanda Schedule

2003-12-31 Thread tobias . bluhm
Aaron Smith: >Is there a way to tell Amanda something along the lines of "When coming >up with your schedule of which machine to back up first, always do THESE >two machines first..."? You could use the "starttime" parameter in the DLE and give it an absolute time to start the

Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 Thread tobias . bluhm
Gene Heskett: >And I didn't even get his name right Funny stuff. My wife did a google on my email address recently - she saw some of my public gaffs in all their glory. Ouch . . . . Happy Holidays! - toby bluhm philips medical systems, it

Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 Thread tobias . bluhm
Scott Mcdermott: >There's stuff being saved in gnutar-lists definitely, but >amandates is empty. I'm not using `dump' so does the >`record' option matter? Seems it does. Looking at my system, /etc/amandates has entries for all dle's _except_ for the ones I have "record no" > You can clea

Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 Thread tobias . bluhm
Scott Mcdermott: >record no Is the box saving any historical backup info? Can't do an inc if it has nothing to compare with. /etc/amandates /etc/dumpdates /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/ - toby bluhm philips medical sy

Re: Multiple backup groups (explained)

2003-06-10 Thread tobias . bluhm
ort, mr development, cleveland ohio [EMAIL PROTECTED] 440-483-5323 Daniel Bentley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/09/2003 06:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Tobias Bluhm/CLE/MS/PHILIPS) Subject:Multiple

RE: tapes are doomed

2003-03-13 Thread tobias . bluhm
"wab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >Case in point... My department just approved the purchase of a $4,500 >Iomega NAS server, to replace our NT and Unix tape backup DLT drives. I >will soon be facilitating the use of AMANDA to a NAS server Vs. a SCSI >DLT Tape. I look forward to the challenge/opportun

Re: ACLs

2003-03-10 Thread tobias . bluhm
cc: (bcc: Tobias Bluhm/CLE/MS/PHILIPS) Subject:ACLs Classification: On FreeBSD 5.0 with UFS2 + ACLs, what is my best method for backing up my ACLs along with my files? I am only experimenting with Amanda at this point, but it seems to use the native tar utility,

Re: Win32 Backup?

2003-03-06 Thread tobias . bluhm
"Steve Loughran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> One way I have done it is to use MS's backup program to backup to a >> samba share on a freebsd box. MS backup will happily backup to a samba >> share. Then I just backup all that stuff using amanda. > >beware of backing up via NT Backup to a samba sh

rait attempt

2003-02-24 Thread tobias . bluhm
I've been playing with rait & I haven't been successful yet. Is rait touchy about the tape drives being identical? My 3rd exb8505 was dead from the get go so I tried using an ait-1 in it's place. amlabel & amdump seem to run fine, but I cannot get amrestore to pull the backups off tape. It bypas

Re: Lot of data very small tape!

2002-12-06 Thread tobias . bluhm
Vytas Janusauskas wrote: >Hi Folks, > >Still trying to configure Amanda. I have about 20 WIn 95, Win 98 and NT >computers to archive. > >So as a starting point I have picked 3 computers which in total have drive >capacity of over 530 GB of which 430 GB is used. > >Using Samba I have successful

Re: recommendations for backing up Amanda?

2002-12-06 Thread tobias . bluhm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ># This next SHOULD have been recording the amanda data and configs ># in its previous incarnation but didn't. In fact, it appears that ># there were several directories where the recursion failed. :( ># But of course the missing amanda stuff was magnitudes ># more impor

Re: recommendations for backing up Amanda?

2002-12-05 Thread tobias . bluhm
Niall O Broin wrote: >On Thursday 05 December 2002 17:22, Mark Stosberg wrote: > >> I'm curious how some you have dealt with the catch-22 of backing up >> Amanda's configuration files. Ideally during the restore process Amanda >> is available with all it's configuration files intact. However, if

Re: tru64 5.1 & 2.4.2p2

2002-10-31 Thread tobias . bluhm
land, ohio [EMAIL PROTECTED] 440-483-5323 Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/28/2002 05:19 PM To: Tobias Bluhm/CLE/MS/PHILIPS@AMEC cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: tru64 5.1 & 2.4.2p2 Classification:

Re: tru64 5.1 & 2.4.2p2

2002-10-28 Thread tobias . bluhm
( and user, group,etc. ) -- toby bluhm philips medical systems, mr development, cleveland, ohio [EMAIL PROTECTED] 440-483-5323 Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/28/2002 01:58 PM To: Tobias Bluhm/CLE/MS/PHILIPS@AMEC cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tru64 5.1 & 2.4.2p2

2002-10-28 Thread tobias . bluhm
ut a problem. -- toby bluhm philips medical systems, mr development, cleveland, ohio [EMAIL PROTECTED] 440-483-5323 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/24/2002 12:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Tobias Bluhm/CLE/MS/PHILIPS) Subject:

tru64 5.1 & 2.4.2p2

2002-10-24 Thread tobias . bluhm
amanda 2.4.2p2 on tru64 5.1 - make stops on error: cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../config -I./../regex-src-g -c alloc.c cc: Warning: amanda.h, line 946: In this declaration, parameter 1 has a different type than specified in an earlier declaration of this function. (mismatparam) extern in

Re: Backing up Windows shares...

2002-10-15 Thread tobias . bluhm
There's amanda-win32 at sourceforge. I'm just in testing phase right now, takes a little work to put the pieces together, and I still need to figure out how to automate an install as much as possible. But has a small footprint and seems efficient. I apologize if this message does not come thr