Re: Is gnu tar as safe as dump ?

2005-05-10 Thread Brian Cuttler
(we haven't done this at our site). --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773

Re: Keeping backups on holding disk after writing to tape

2005-05-10 Thread Brian Cuttler
think about it I totally agree with this being a great function. I would immediatly configure my system to leave the last nights backups on disk until the next job starts, then it could purge yesterdays data if it was successfully written to tape. /Andreas --- Brian R Cuttler

Re: Is gnu tar as safe as dump ?

2005-05-10 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:07:18AM -0700, Scott Mcdermott wrote: Brian Cuttler on Tue 10/05 11:18 -0400: I'd understood that the OS native dump could handle correctly certain types of files that tar couldn't. Not an issue of binaries but rather other types of special files

Re: largest fit peculiarities

2005-05-02 Thread Brian Cuttler
Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773

Re: largest fit peculiarities

2005-05-02 Thread Brian Cuttler
of the DLE - but I now understand that it is a non-issue. Thanks for the explaination. Brian On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:44:03AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Mon, 2 May 2005 at 11:24am, Brian Cuttler wrote silly question - if you hit EOT while

Force next tape ?

2005-04-20 Thread Brian Cuttler
? I'd also like to save this DLE for last, how is that best accomplished ? thank you, Brian --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697

Re: Error: dump larger than tape

2005-04-19 Thread Brian Cuttler
with 12GB (I don't have more). Amdump always sends me this error: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: sun.moonsm /export lev 0 FAILED [dump larger than tape, 160459105 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk] Where is the problem? Thanks Thomas --- Brian R Cuttler

Re: Error: dump larger than tape

2005-04-19 Thread Brian Cuttler
Thomas, Ok. So I have to invest some time to divide it into usefull pieces :-/ If I can solve it this way it will be ok with me. Glad to be of help (I've gotten my share and more from this list). Brian On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:39:55PM +0400

Re: Amanda Security

2005-04-13 Thread Brian Cuttler
a good answer to this question? I have been using amanda for years and never really thought about it, but I guess its a good and valid question. --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518

Re: Amanda Security

2005-04-13 Thread Brian Cuttler
a tape. Perhaps changing protections on the drive to 770 for either the amanda user or whatever group its in. As far as access to generic data online, its whatever your normal access and protections are. --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v

Re: Large Amanda installations

2005-04-11 Thread Brian Cuttler
of Biomedical Engineering Duke University --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773

Re: amstatus formatting

2005-04-11 Thread Brian Cuttler
choose the units based on field length and appy the designator k, m or g. thank you, Brian On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 12:04:43PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 11 April 2005 10:50, Brian Cuttler wrote

Re: IRIX/amanda, new scsi card (!!!)

2005-04-04 Thread Brian Cuttler
into the dresser... thank you, Brian On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 06:26:22PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 04:42:01PM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: I have since created a file to set

Re: IRIX/amanda, new scsi card (!!!)

2005-04-01 Thread Brian Cuttler
where the pieces where. This will wait until the weekend job finishes, it may take a couple of days. My thanks and apreciation to everyone that helped with the process. Brian On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:28:49PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi

Amanda on Redhat, tape drive question

2005-03-21 Thread Brian Cuttler
? thank you, Brian --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of Health

Re: Amanda on Redhat, tape drive question

2005-03-21 Thread Brian Cuttler
Joshua, On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 02:30:58PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 at 10:38am, Brian Cuttler wrote The system we have attached it to is running kernel 2.4.20-24 on Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike). As an aside, I highly recommend CentOS as an option for RH

Re: Amanda on Redhat, tape drive question

2005-03-21 Thread Brian Cuttler
Joshua, On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:47:16PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 at 3:21pm, Brian Cuttler wrote On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 02:30:58PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 at 10:38am, Brian Cuttler wrote The system we have attached

Re: amcheck error

2005-03-17 Thread Brian Cuttler
Kevin, dumb question - all binaries, /usr/local/libexec/* /usr/local/sbin/* are local to the machine ? There is no worry about NFS mounts accessing things as nobody (since you used the root account for the amanda user) ? On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 11:11:30AM -0800, Kevin Chen wrote: Brian: I

Re: amcheck error

2005-03-17 Thread Brian Cuttler
: Brian Cuttler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 11:23 AM To: Brian Cuttler Cc: Kevin Chen; amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: amcheck error Kevin, I don't recall - what where the contents of the files in the /tmp/amanda directory ? On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 02

Re: tapecycle and the doc

2005-03-16 Thread Brian Cuttler
While amanda is always willing to use a new tape in its rotation, TS it refuses to reuse a tape until at least 'tapecycle-1' number of TS other tapes have been used. 10 points for that. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Brian R Cuttler

Re: amcheck error

2005-03-16 Thread Brian Cuttler
to solve my problem. Any help would be really appreciated. Kevin --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473

Re: tapecycle and the doc

2005-03-15 Thread Brian Cuttler
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Re: amplot interpretation problem

2005-03-02 Thread Brian Cuttler
directory /amanda/daily use -50 Mb chunksize 4 Gb (...) } Can force the backup order so this partition is the first one to be backup ? thanks ! Brian Cuttler wrote: No bandwidth utilized ? Seem to have pleanty of holding disk. I think I missed the start

Re: amplot interpretation problem

2005-03-02 Thread Brian Cuttler
? --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773

Re: Dump larger than tape error

2005-02-28 Thread Brian Cuttler
the filesystem containing /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists was full, not your vtape filesystem. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) --- Brian R Cuttler

Re: Amanda - unable to create temporary directory

2005-02-24 Thread Brian Cuttler
/ ? / But when I manually accessed the server as Amanda user - I had no problem creating a folder under /tmp as well as /var/tmp/ ! Any thoughts why am I getting this message? Additionally, can somebody tell me what files does Amada writes under /tmp folder? Many thanks, gil --- Brian R

Re: Switching to GNUTAR - RE: Amanda - unable to create temporary directory

2005-02-24 Thread Brian Cuttler
). -Todd --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773

Re: forcing skipped incrementals into holding disk

2005-02-15 Thread Brian Cuttler
in the work area. --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773

Re: AMLABEL

2005-02-08 Thread Brian Cuttler
) 683-7220 (fax) --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773

Re: mounting/identifying a new tape drive

2005-02-03 Thread Brian Cuttler
, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus. - Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS

Re: Very, very slow backup

2005-01-26 Thread Brian Cuttler
* *** --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773

Dump level, behaviour change

2005-01-21 Thread Brian Cuttler
. thanks, Brian - Forwarded message from Brian Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] - On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:35:36AM -0500, Quei-Len Lee wrote: Something needs to be fixed that for several days, I see level 1 or 2 backups

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-21 Thread Brian Cuttler
, Brian --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773

Re: Dump level, behaviour change

2005-01-21 Thread Brian Cuttler
size of 5 rather than 3 blocks. I guess there aren't enough files to make a difference in this case since there are few databases but they are relatively large. It too is a non-issue. thank you, Brian

Re: Level clarification.

2005-01-19 Thread Brian Cuttler
level 0 is a full back-up and level 1 is incremental, but what then is level 2 (and up)? If it's in the docs, please tell me where I can find it. -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-19 Thread Brian Cuttler
the cover on the jukebox and have a look inside. Major imporvement though still below the acceptable threshold. Definitely looking like it was never an amanda issue, this looks to be an underlying architecture problem. --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-11 Thread Brian Cuttler
, so we need to make certain that the live port on the box hits the SDLT before we reach (electically) the robot. Hopefully this will have a positive effect on both SDLT drives. --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-11 Thread Brian Cuttler
for at the moment is to get the narrowest bus as far away from the cpu as I can. thanks, Brian On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 04:40:40PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: Not a scsi expert here, but if you terminate the jukebox

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-10 Thread Brian Cuttler
received Jan 10 10:58:54 6D:samar tps1d4[234379]: Command aborted by target -- Jan 10 10:58:54 3D:samar tps1d4[234379]: Aborted command --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-10 Thread Brian Cuttler
. offset: 14, WIDE : [5] sync. period: 50 nS, sync. offset: 14, WIDE --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-07 Thread Brian Cuttler
the disklist and amanda.conf, its not like I am likely to lose a working config. thanks, Brian --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-07 Thread Brian Cuttler
# which xfsdump /usr/sbin/xfsdump I'm now going to attempt to run amdump with a much shorter disklist and see if I can't get a rational result on this tape. --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-07 Thread Brian Cuttler
it this is OK, yes. I had intended (and forgot) to write, that I checked the amdump log file and that the paths and names of the programs are correct. I am looking forward to the results ... yah, me too. --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-07 Thread Brian Cuttler
the other outstanding questions/tests where. --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-01 Thread Brian Cuttler
at my site. Those are commands in the 'mt' arsenal Brian. And there have been known to be platform diffs, so consult the manpages for your version, and, make sure you have the latest version. Mine possibly isn't quite fresh and 100% green, but it works and returns: mt-st v. 0.7

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2004-12-30 Thread Brian Cuttler
Gene, Stefan, * I'm gonna remove a lot of text from the middle of this. On Wednesday 29 December 2004 16:29, Brian Cuttler wrote: ## Amanda2.4.4p1-20030716 ## SGI/IRIX 6.5.19m ## mtx 1.3.8 ## 8 Slot jukebox with SDLT 320 (Quantum) ## gnutar1.13.25 ## ## I'm planning to dump 2-3

amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2004-12-29 Thread Brian Cuttler
/rmt/tps1d4nrnsv ie, bus 1, target (SCSI id) 4, non-rewinding, non-bytes-wapping, variable length records. Similar to what I run on other systems. Thank you all for your help, past, present and future, Brian --- Brian R

Re: dumps delayed

2004-12-17 Thread Brian Cuttler
Sorry - I didn't mean to contradict Jon LaBadie or cause confusion. There are two messages which always seem similar to me and I'd believed that I was talking about the correct one. On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 02:00:05PM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: Dump larger than tape is the sum of the dumps

Re: using Amanda remotely

2004-12-13 Thread Brian Cuttler
miss something with the configuration? - I had no problem backing up different servers on the same site. Thanks, gil --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department

Re: Recommendation for tape drives

2004-12-03 Thread Brian Cuttler
wrote: hi, Can someone recommend a tape-drive that works well with Amanda and can backup about 40-60GB. Thx, Gil --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS

Re: Recommendation for tape drives

2004-12-03 Thread Brian Cuttler
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Cuttler Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 1:27 PM To: Gil Naveh Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recommendation for tape drives Gil, Amanda uses native utilities to write the tape drive. If you tell us your OS we might have specific recommendations

Re: Recommendation for tape drives

2004-12-03 Thread Brian Cuttler
you need (mandated ?) to be ready to recover from ? This may be a perfectly reasonable thing to do at your site, or it may not. How many/much of the amanda docs/howto files have you read though ? Brian On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 04:21:12PM -0500, Gil

Re: Samar amanda output (with holding area)

2004-12-02 Thread Brian Cuttler
Eric, Stefan, Eric Siegerman wrote: # On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:37:21PM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: # I unfortunately don't have the resources to create new holding # areas out of old disks [...] # My old disks comment wasn't meant as a specific suggestion, but # only as an example that it's

Re: Samar amanda output (with holding area)

2004-12-02 Thread Brian Cuttler
Eric, On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:52:13PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:54:22AM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: Yup, well aware. At this point, if in fact and EOT signal reschedules a DLE with the dumper then having enough holding disk for the largest DLE after

Re: Samar amanda output (with holding area)

2004-12-01 Thread Brian Cuttler
reliablity to restore root and can't use dump on the raid, too big. I think that was all of the open questions, I can't be certain anymore. Thank you all for your time on this, I apreciate it. Brian --- Brian R Cuttler

Re: Several large partitions, no spool

2004-11-30 Thread Brian Cuttler
Stefan, On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 12:46:17AM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Brian, on Montag, 29. November 2004 at 17:51 you wrote to amanda-users: BC I've broken the raid into DLEs based on the top level directory BC structure of the (single large) partition. The raid is .886

Re: Several large partitions, no spool

2004-11-30 Thread Brian Cuttler
across output/tape volumes ? Would it be effecatious in a direct to tape senario like this one ? Is it ready for prime-time ? thank you, Brian On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:01:19AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote

Re: Several large partitions, no spool

2004-11-30 Thread Brian Cuttler
Stefan, On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:10:22PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Brian, (let's keep this thread inside this list, pls, it's easier to follow things) Of course, had intended to CC the list. on Dienstag, 30. November 2004 at 15:43 you wrote to amanda-users: you mean

Samar amanda output (with holding area)

2004-11-30 Thread Brian Cuttler
:24 12058.5 samar /usr5/tapu 0 2745180 1725077 62.8 13:20 2156.1 2:28 11689.3 (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p1-20030716) - End forwarded message - --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth

Several large partitions, no spool

2004-11-29 Thread Brian Cuttler
it ? Is there a way to force next tape prior to running the larger DLEs ? thank you, Brian --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697

RE: failure and strange dump summary -- disk offline

2004-10-29 Thread Brian Tima
--- -Original Message- From: Stefan G. Weichinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 6:46 PM To: Brian Tima Subject: Re: failure and strange dump summary Hi, Brian, on Freitag, 29. Oktober 2004 at 01:33 you wrote to amanda-users: BT I've been

RE: failure and strange dump summary -- disk offline

2004-10-29 Thread Brian Tima
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Bijnens Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 10:56 AM To: Brian Tima Cc: Amanda Mailing List Subject: Re: failure and strange dump summary -- disk offline Brian Tima wrote: File system is ext3 Which debug file do I check? Here are the files showing

failure and strange dump summary

2004-10-28 Thread Brian Tima
version 2.4.2p2) Thanks in advance! Brian TimaTechnology @ All Cities Mortgage Financial Ph:(952)746-8170TF:(800)488-0772FX:(952)746-8179 www.ALLCITIES.com

RE: failure and strange dump summary

2004-10-28 Thread Brian Tima
Client check: 1 host checked in 0.017 seconds, 0 problems found -Original Message- From: Stefan G. Weichinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 6:46 PM To: Brian Tima Subject: Re: failure and strange dump summary Hi, Brian, on Freitag, 29

RE: failure and strange dump summary

2004-10-28 Thread Brian Tima
Message- From: Stefan G. Weichinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 6:46 PM To: Brian Tima Subject: Re: failure and strange dump summary Hi, Brian, on Freitag, 29. Oktober 2004 at 01:33 you wrote to amanda-users: BT I've been messing with AMANDA now for a couple months

Re: Amanda client on Redhat 2.4.9-31

2004-10-13 Thread Brian Cuttler
(|): DUMP: 75.54% done at 6314 kB/s, finished in 0:24 --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773

Re: Amanda client on Redhat 2.4.9-31

2004-10-13 Thread Brian Cuttler
. thank you, Brian First make sure dtimeout is sufficiently large. (Could it be around 4800 seconds perhaps?) Then, also make sure dump itself doesn't crash when running it by hand with output to /dev/null

Re: Amanda client on Redhat 2.4.9-31

2004-10-13 Thread Brian Cuttler
to remember to differentiate the issues. Still, it would be nice (read convenient) if similar utilities supported a common set of signals and command line switches. thank you, Brian On Wed, Oct 13, 2004

Re: tapelist and amcheck disagree

2004-10-06 Thread Brian Cuttler
for the active tape list? How can I see what amcheck thinks is on ANCHOR3 that is so important still? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697

Amanda client on Redhat 2.4.9-31

2004-10-04 Thread Brian Cuttler
, Brian --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773

Re: Amanda client on Redhat 2.4.9-31

2004-10-04 Thread Brian Cuttler
is pretty much the one you would expect given the amcheck output. ERROR [could not access /dev/sda12 (/iarc/vol): Permission denied] OK /sbin/dump executable --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center

Tape Labeling and Management

2004-10-03 Thread Brian E. Seppanen
. -- Brian E. Seppanen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amanda Compression

2004-09-23 Thread Brian Cuttler
that. -- Linus Torvalds --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773

Re: Amanda Compression

2004-09-23 Thread Brian Cuttler
: Brian Cuttler wrote: As long as you are willing to use two letter symbols why not Kb - 1024 bits KB - 1024 bytes There is an international standard about this, and it is pretty precise about the case sensitivity too: kilo needs to be a lower k in the official standard. However, Ki

Re: Amanda Compression

2004-09-23 Thread Brian Cuttler
promiss, next will have more strictive to list.. this is about as non-amanda as I've ever seen and its all my fault. On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:06:43AM -0400, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: 'Kosher for Passover', I think. -Kevin Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/23/04 10:51AM Brian Cuttler wrote

new to me

2004-08-27 Thread Brian Cuttler
Amanda is admittedly and older version, we will shortly be moving this client to a different server, still, it was an odd enough message that I thought I'd ask the what happend ? thanks, Brian taper

Re: sendbackup file renaming failure

2004-08-26 Thread Brian Cuttler
complicated ? Failing the dump or having to go direct to tape I'd have understood but not the failure of a rename command. thanks, Brian On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:12:11PM -0500, Jim Summers wrote

Re: enabling hardware compression ?

2004-08-23 Thread Brian Cuttler
filemark 0 kbytes speed 13120 kps } I'm gonna use dump instead of tar so I want to enable hardware compression, but I can'y find any in the amanda doc ? Some Hints ?? Thanks -- Frederic Medery System Administrator LexUM, University of Montreal --- Brian

Re: Autoloader SUN L8 with solaris 9 work

2004-08-16 Thread Brian Cuttler
schedule a level 0, 1, 2 of partition /XX for Mon,Tues,Wed. It will appear to you to be more random than that - but really follows a well thought out strategem. On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 12:22:38PM -0700, nyohadi wrote: Hi Brian , Thanks for advice me , i am try trace error from

Re: chg-zd-mtx issue ?

2004-08-13 Thread Brian Cuttler
OFFLINE_BEFORE_UNLOAD=0 driveslot=0 On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 06:52:01PM -0700, nyohadi wrote: Dear Brian Amanda user , can you give me example your amanda.conf and changer file and how to to give driveslot on glue config. thanks and regards hadi Brian Cuttler wrote: Hadi, I

Re: chg-zd-mtx issue ?

2004-08-12 Thread Brian Cuttler
parameters that are listed in the glue script. Make sure you have the current glue script, I have to look back at your email, but the script greatly changed at one point and the new one was more robust than the old. On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 09:07:03AM -0700, nyohadi wrote: Dear Brian amanda user

Re: chg-zd-mtx issue ?

2004-08-11 Thread Brian Cuttler
/local/etc/amanda/ninfo 6 more chg-zd-mtx.conf firstslot=1 lastslot=9 #cleanslot=3 AUTOCLEAN=0 autocleancount=99 havereader=1 offlinestatus=0 OFFLINE_BEFORE_UNLOAD=0 max_drive_wait=300 Please see if adding first/last slot information to your file helps. --- Brian R Cuttler

Re: chg-zd-mtx issue ?

2004-08-11 Thread Brian Cuttler
? On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:16:25AM -0700, nyohadi wrote: Dear Brian , thanks for reply my email , i change as your recomend , now when i am issue command get error bash-2.05$ /usr/local/sbin/amlabel -f daily DailySet1-001 slot 1 amlabel: could not load

Tape device not rewinding after amanda dumps finished

2004-07-21 Thread Brian Sebby
be appreciated. Thanks! Brian -- Brian Sebby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Distributed Computing Administration Phone: +1 630.252.9935| Computing and Instrumentation Solutions Fax: +1 630.252.4601| Argonne National Laboratory

Re: Issues with tape changers

2004-07-14 Thread Brian Cuttler
by default -- it steps you through the config process. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384

Re: advice to optimise backup time

2004-07-09 Thread Brian Cuttler
University --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773

warning - last level 0 overwritten

2004-06-15 Thread Brian Cuttler
, Brian --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773

Re: Wiping tape label - how?

2004-06-01 Thread Brian Cuttler
not labeled This, even after running amrmtape default DailySet100 So, how do I 1) tell Amanda to forget about DailySet100; and 2) wipe the label from/relabel the tape? Thanks, -john --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697

Re: Solaris 2.8 Bianry?

2004-05-10 Thread Brian Cuttler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) -- --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center

Re: Full system backups on Fridays

2004-05-07 Thread Brian Cuttler
My site generally follows the amanda scheduling policy but we've one or two systems where they really want complete offsite backups once/week. We added a line to cron that executes on fridays only that does an amadmin force of the partitions. The general result is that we need to run flushes

Re: Problem configuring full dump

2004-04-22 Thread Brian Cuttler
Gertjan, Stupid idea to try - maybe planner will not try to size the level 1 until min-days for the dump level are passed ? I think the parameter is bumpdays, min days at a level before amanda will try to change the dump level. Increase that value, do it in the always-full rather than the

Re: GNUTAR program not available

2004-03-30 Thread Brian Cuttler
site runs amanda across architectures. I even have a client on Solaris x86. --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773 [PGP

Re: parallel tape usage/ RAIT or what else?

2004-03-29 Thread Brian Cuttler
Isn't there a possiblity of port conflict on the server ? Don't you have to have separate binaries on the server for the different configs if they are accessing the same ethernet interface ? I got around this on my site by having one config backup local disks and another config backing up disks

Re: parallel tape usage/ RAIT or what else?

2004-03-29 Thread Brian Cuttler
A,B,F,G and the other C,D,E,H, as they complete ? Or I guess an equiv would be a single jukebox with two active tape drives ? thanks, Brian On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 at 12:12pm, Brian Cuttler wrote

dumps too big

2004-03-26 Thread Brian Cuttler
great, haven't been able to backup /usr3 in a year. thanks, Brian --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center

Re: dumps too big

2004-03-26 Thread Brian Cuttler
, Brian On Friday 26 March 2004 10:18, Brian Cuttler wrote: Hi amanda users, Just to confirm that I'm understanding what I'm seeing. dumps too big - the planner decided that there wasn't enough room on the tape for all of the partitions given its

Re: dumps too big

2004-03-26 Thread Brian Cuttler
, I was resistant but its already more than worth building tar into amanda. Now I have to try my hand at a restore. good weekend, Brian On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:18:36AM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: dumps too big

Amanda on Samar (fwd)

2004-03-25 Thread Brian Cuttler
and distribution list. thank you, Brian --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS

build - gtar

2004-03-17 Thread Brian Cuttler
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Re: build - gtar

2004-03-17 Thread Brian Cuttler
to make sure I was on the right track. I wouldn't know what we would do without amanda. thanks, Brian On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 at 4:39pm, Brian Cuttler wrote I don't know how to get amanda on the new

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