Re: [Amanda-users] amzfs-sendrecv - restore how?

2015-08-07 Thread Gary Cowell
Doing add . extract worked! Had to rename my zfs filesystem in the none-global zone first, but , it did work. Thank you for the pointer. On 5 August 2015 at 12:55, Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote: On 31/07/15 02:51 AM, harpingon wrote: Hello This is probably a stupid

Re: [Amanda-users] amzfs-sendrecv - restore how?

2015-08-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 31/07/15 02:51 AM, harpingon wrote: Hello This is probably a stupid question, but I'm not finding the answer by searching I'm backing up a SPARC/Solaris 11 server with amzfs-sendrecv via pfexec , and I do get my dumps okay. They show up on the amanda server tape files as ZFS shapshot

[Amanda-users] amzfs-sendrecv - restore how?

2015-08-04 Thread harpingon
Hello This is probably a stupid question, but I'm not finding the answer by searching I'm backing up a SPARC/Solaris 11 server with amzfs-sendrecv via pfexec , and I do get my dumps okay. They show up on the amanda server tape files as ZFS shapshot (big-endian machine), version 145, type:

Re: [Amanda-users] amzfs-sendrecv - restore how?

2015-08-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 11:51:29PM -0700, harpingon wrote: Hello This is probably a stupid question, but I'm not finding the answer by searching I'm backing up a SPARC/Solaris 11 server with amzfs-sendrecv via pfexec , and I do get my dumps okay. They show up on the amanda server tape

Re: [Amanda-users] Backup incremental files

2015-06-08 Thread Gerrit A. Smit :: TI
Cuttler, Brian (HEALTH) schreef op 08-06-15 om 17:18: I see what you are saying, and while the filesystem may support a method of backing up the file change, gtar isn't the tool to use for recording that delta (zfs is not amenable to DUMP, nor would that meet the request). I am told that with

[Amanda-users] Backup incremental files/ Barcode band-autoloader

2015-06-08 Thread Taz_Tasmania
Hello, i have two to ask to Amanda. I have installed a Debian 7. In the packages are the version 3.3.1 from Amanda. 1.) Can Amanada work with a barcode band-autoloader? 2.) I have a big file (25GB) and each day becomes the file to end a piece longer. Can Amanda backup the difference from this

Re: [Amanda-users] Backup incremental files

2015-06-08 Thread Gerrit A. Smit :: TI
Op 08-06-15 om 16:20 schreef Taz_Tasmania: 2.) I have a big file (25GB) and each day becomes the file to end a piece longer. Can Amanda backup the difference from this file and not the complete file by incremental? AFIK Amanda does things on file system level, not file level. Gerrit

Re: [Amanda-users] Backup incremental files/ Barcode band-autoloader

2015-06-08 Thread Gerrit A. Smit :: TI
Op 08-06-15 om 16:20 schreef Taz_Tasmania: 1.) Can Amanada work with a barcode band-autoloader? https://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?2224-How-amanda-interact-with-barcodes

Re: [Amanda-users] Backup incremental files

2015-06-08 Thread Gerrit A. Smit :: TI
Op 08-06-15 om 17:01 schreef Cuttler, Brian (HEALTH): Amanda manages DLE (DiskList Entries) at the file system level, the tools used to back up the file systems are all native to the OS (of the amanda client) were the file system lives. The only tools I've seen used for backup are GTAR, STAR

AW: [Amanda-users] Attepmt to use amrecover over ssh from client fails

2015-01-29 Thread Schoepflin, Markus
Comparing your setup with my notes, I noticed that I also do the following on the *server*: # sudo -u backup-user ssh client And then abort after accepting the host key. Did you do this as well? Otherwise try to run amrecover -o debug_auth=1 on the client and check the log files. You should now

[Amanda-users] Attepmt to use amrecover over ssh from client fails

2015-01-28 Thread jscarville
Amanda has been happily backing up a half dozen Linux machines for a week now and I can even restore files using amrecover on the server. That part was easy. Using the instructions I found on zmanda wiki -- with appropriate adjustments for my environment -- I tried to get amrecover over ssh

[Amanda-users] any way to Track amvault progress?

2015-01-28 Thread frank chow
i am testing to run a amvault to the external storage. is there any way to show the vaulting progress? +-- |This was sent by frank.cho...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.

[Amanda-users] Strange Problem: Failures if one Windows system down

2014-07-18 Thread nschlia
Hi, I am using 3.3.5, but this does not help. PC1 was down, but this caused PC2s backup to fail partially. In other cases, both PC2 and 3 failed. I don't see a reason why, as they are up and running. FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY: planner: ERROR Request to PC1.mynet failed: No route to host

[Amanda-users] Online PDF generator for LTO Ultrium barcode tape labels

2014-03-24 Thread Donna111
Hi there You said that this one is something like a barcode add-in for PDF (http://www.rasteredge.com/how-to/csharp-imaging/pdf-barcode-creating/),I don't think so.There is a online PDF generater for LTO Ultrium barcode tape labels.The barcode Excel plug-in

Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda Backup ssh_security could not find canonical name for

2013-10-09 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
We don't use wins or winbind on our network and recommend that windows users not try to use it. So, I'm not familiar with any details. However, google turns up http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/winbindd.8.html, which indicates the use of both in nsswitch.conf. We run the smbd

[Amanda-users] Amanda Backup ssh_security could not find canonical name for

2013-10-08 Thread jefflau
Dear All, I was learning on Amanda backup and facing issue for below. I planning using it in the workgroup without dns server. I was Using Ubuntu 12 and installed it by using apt-get, by searching many of the issue resolved. Till this stage I do a month can't resolved it. Hope someone able

Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda Backup ssh_security could not find canonical name for

2013-10-08 Thread Debra S Baddorf
Can you send the amanda.conf file?We need a little more information here. [ If you are already discussing this with somebody, then never mind! ] Deb On Oct 8, 2013, at 4:08 AM, jefflau amanda-for...@backupcentral.com wrote: Dear All, I was learning on Amanda backup and facing issue

Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda Backup ssh_security could not find canonical name for

2013-10-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 01:22:49PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Just for reference, if you are running in a private network without dns lookup, then you should put all the machines you want to backup into /etc/hosts. That's what I had to do when my Amanda server was on our private net and had

Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda Backup ssh_security could not find canonical name for

2013-10-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 03:53:18PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: So, two machines that want to talk to one another (e.g. amanda server and amanda client) need to know how to address one another. If you don't have DNS within your private network, and you don't have fixed IPs assigned (that you

Re: [Amanda-users] Backup between restricted networks [server and client not in

2013-03-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:21:49 -0800 mohit amanda-for...@backupcentral.com wrote: We have only ssh connection to the clients, and after reading thru documentations and forum, i understand that amanda uses a port range and 10080 port to take backup, which is not possible in this case. You can

[Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

2013-02-08 Thread neal lawson
here is what i have so far, but i welcome any suggestions or help.. https://github.com/neallawson/Amanda-LVM-snapshot +-- |This was sent by neal.law...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.

Re: [Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

2013-02-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:30:45AM -0800, neal lawson wrote: here is what i have so far, but i welcome any suggestions or help.. https://github.com/neallawson/Amanda-LVM-snapshot Glad to see someone working on this important piece. I question if ruby is a good choice of languages as none of

[Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

2013-02-08 Thread neal lawson
i chose ruby since its a stable modern language i know, and most linux distributions already ship with 1.8.7 +-- |This was sent by neal.law...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.

[Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

2013-02-08 Thread neal lawson
i chose ruby since its a stable modern language i know, and most linux distributions already ship with 1.8.7, further more Amanda should be agnostic to the language that the helper scripts use. If Amanda requires i use perl, it might be time to find another backup solution.

Re: [Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

2013-02-08 Thread Markus Iturriaga Woelfel
On Feb 8, 2013, at 5:21 PM, neal lawson amanda-for...@backupcentral.com wrote: i chose ruby since its a stable modern language i know, and most linux distributions already ship with 1.8.7, further more Amanda should be agnostic to the language that the helper scripts use. If Amanda requires

Re: [Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

2013-02-01 Thread Bob Vickers
On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I would also like to see improved scripts, I have the issue at one client that the LVM-snapshots aren't correctly removed sometimes ... that leads to non-working backups and dozens of lurking snapshots ... I had a lot of problems with LVM

Re: [Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

2013-02-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2013-02-01 10:56, schrieb Bob Vickers: On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I would also like to see improved scripts, I have the issue at one client that the LVM-snapshots aren't correctly removed sometimes ... that leads to non-working backups and dozens of lurking snapshots

Re: [Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

2013-01-31 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 28.01.2013 17:48, schrieb Markus Iturriaga Woelfel: I would, however, be interested in seeing an effort to rewrite this from the ground up as there are certainly a lot of things that could be improved/fixed. I would also like to see improved scripts, I have the issue at one client that the

Re: [Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

2013-01-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 01/26/2013 01:33 PM, neal lawson wrote: I've been working on a custom LVM snapshot script, I have the bulk of the script working, but i'm not sure how to message amanand to change the backup location to the snapshot location. and thoughts would be helpful. The script must print the

[Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

2013-01-28 Thread neal lawson
Markus Iturriaga Woelfel, it seems the repo you referenced no longer exists, Markus Iturriaga Woelfel Jean-Louis Martineau, the current scripts seem to be a bit of a disaster, and i did try to fix them, currently i do have a ruby based script that is 99% there i'm just missing the last bit to

[Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

2013-01-28 Thread neal lawson
so the correct link to the repo is https://github.com/marxarelli/amlvm-snapshot the one posted had a trailing ., there are sever versions of this on github, this project seems to be abandoned as it was last updated over 2 years go

Re: [Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

2013-01-28 Thread Markus Iturriaga Woelfel
On Jan 28, 2013, at 11:23 AM, neal lawson amanda-for...@backupcentral.com wrote: so the correct link to the repo is https://github.com/marxarelli/amlvm-snapshot the one posted had a trailing ., there are sever versions of this on github, this project seems to be abandoned as it was last

[Amanda-users] Error message: configuration keyword expected

2013-01-10 Thread bulut
hi everyone, I resolve the problem. I installed system without turkish characters vs. After I reinstall amadna.3.3.x. Now everythink works well. Not: I use same amanda.conf config file without change it. +-- |This was sent by

[Amanda-users] Error message: configuration keyword expected

2013-01-08 Thread bulut
hi everyone, I installed Amanda-3.3.2 on debian (32 bit) from source code. ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=backup --with-rsh-security --with-ssh-security --with-smbclient --with-bsdtcp-security --disable-nls Everytihnks goes fine but I can't run amlabel, amdump or amcheck with -t

Re: [Amanda-users] Error message: configuration keyword expected

2013-01-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
Might your files have passed through a windows system? I'm thinking that each line ends with the M$ style of CR/LF but your OS is expecting only LF. On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 02:59:11PM -0800, bulut wrote: hi everyone, I installed Amanda-3.3.2 on debian (32 bit) from source code.

Re: [Amanda-users] Help in installing Amanda Client in FreeBSD 8.0/9.0

2012-11-22 Thread Olivier Nicole
Jose, Im new to Amanda. I have installed Amanda Server on a CentOS but on trying to install it on the FreeBSD clients I have I am experiencing hitches. Any help you can accord will be highly appreciated. I am not sure what are your problem sin installing amanda client on FreeBSD. Go to

[Amanda-users] Sun StoreEdge L700 with MTX

2011-03-28 Thread therm
Hello @all, yesterday we got a Sun Storedge L700 with 3 Drives LTO4 and 678 slots. I can use mtx for changing the tapes from every slot to every slot, no problem. My problem is that it moans if I want to load these tapes into the drives. But I see people using this autochanger in the internet,

Re: [Amanda-users] backup analysis

2011-03-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 06:17:41PM -0700, upengan78 wrote: Couple of questions: ... Does amoverview work on weeklyfull but not on monthlyfull? no amoverview doesn't work on any of above. Always E. The amoverview output you show indicated errors for 3 weeks of daily runs. What did the

[Amanda-users] backup analysis

2011-03-15 Thread upengan78
I assume you are using a recent release of amanda? I am sure this is not latest because I went with OpenCSW repository available for solaris platform instead of compiling amanda package myself from source. 3.1.1 is the version of amanda on this system, as shown below. /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -a

[Amanda-users] backup analysis

2011-03-15 Thread upengan78
Could it be because of trying to fill tapes(vtapes in my case) to 100%? following is configured in monthlyfull and weeklyfull amanda configuration, flush-threshold-dumped100 flush-threshold-scheduled 100 taperflush100 autoflush yes

Re: [Amanda-users] backup analysis

2011-03-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 07:23:38AM -0700, upengan78 wrote: Could it be because of trying to fill tapes(vtapes in my case) to 100%? following is configured in monthlyfull and weeklyfull amanda configuration, flush-threshold-dumped100 flush-threshold-scheduled 100 taperflush

[Amanda-users] backup analysis

2011-03-14 Thread upengan78
Hello , I am wondering if there is anything in Amada that can give me information on how old the backup of a DLE exists in the system and similar useful information. I do receive daily AMANDA MAIL REPORT when a job is finished but that doesn't tell me how old the backup of DLE is available for

Re: [Amanda-users] backup analysis

2011-03-14 Thread Brian Cuttler
Upendra, I use the # amadmin subcommands due and find for this type of information. On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 07:11:39AM -0700, upengan78 wrote: Hello , I am wondering if there is anything in Amada that can give me information on how old the backup of a DLE exists in the system and similar

Re: [Amanda-users] backup analysis

2011-03-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 07:11:39AM -0700, upengan78 wrote: Hello , I am wondering if there is anything in Amada that can give me information on how old the backup of a DLE exists in the system and similar useful information. I do receive daily AMANDA MAIL REPORT when a job is finished but

[Amanda-users] backup analysis

2011-03-14 Thread upengan78
Thanks Jon and Brian I will try amadmin, i did however try, amoverview. Do you know how to interpret the o/p from amoverview? /opt/csw/sbin/amoverview monthlyfull date 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 host disk 22 23

Re: [Amanda-users] backup analysis

2011-03-14 Thread Brian Cuttler
Upendra, I found the amoverview man page on the web and it shows the date headers and DLEs down the left side as your email indicates but shows dump levels in the grid rather than the E markings which the man page shows and ran into end of tape . Its more complicated than that, rather than

[Amanda-users] backup analysis

2011-03-14 Thread upengan78
Thanks , I took a look at that man page just now. I tried some other options/switches for amoverview , I always got E or EE while my amanda backup reports were OK most of the times for all DLEs. Just for the sake of trying I tried amadmin weeklyfull find and guess what ! this works a lot

[Amanda-users] backup analysis

2011-03-14 Thread upengan78
Yes it works with monthlyfull as well. It so happened that I just ran amadmin on weeklyfull first so I posted o/p of weeklyfull in my last post while I should have actually posted o/p for monthlyfull. Sorry for creating confusion. /opt/csw/sbin/amadmin monthlyfull find datehost

Re: [Amanda-users] backup analysis

2011-03-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 09:10:07AM -0700, upengan78 wrote: Yes it works with monthlyfull as well. It so happened that I just ran amadmin on weeklyfull first so I posted o/p of weeklyfull in my last post while I should have actually posted o/p for monthlyfull. Sorry for creating confusion.

[Amanda-users] backup analysis

2011-03-14 Thread upengan78
Couple of questions: I assume, that as a test, the monthlyfull config is being run daily? yes monthly full is being run daily. Does amoverview work on weeklyfull but not on monthlyfull? no amoverview doesn't work on any of above. Always E. The amoverview output you show indicated errors for 3

RE: [Amanda-users] LTO5 and LTFS

2011-02-26 Thread Anthony Bouch
...@amanda.org [mailto:owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org] On Behalf Of skolo Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 1:17 PM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: [Amanda-users] LTO5 and LTFS Anthony, I'm starting to get into HP LTFS after getting an Ultrium 3000 Ext Drive connected to a HP DL 365 G5 Server using

[Amanda-users] LTO5 and LTFS

2011-02-25 Thread skolo
Anthony, I'm starting to get into HP LTFS after getting an Ultrium 3000 Ext Drive connected to a HP DL 365 G5 Server using a HP P411/512 card. I actually tried first off using a Citrix Xen Server 5.6 host with the idea of sharing the LTFS to a dedicated Virtual Machine client. However I was

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda 3.2.1 on Solaris x86 -- open file limit

2011-02-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Sebastian, Thanks for that useful information. The correct fix is probably to also change all u_long variables to u_int32? Jean-Louis shesselbarth wrote: IXDR_GET_U_LONG is defined in /usr/linclude/rpc/xdr.h (on linux) This file is included from /usr/linclude/rpc/rpc.h which is included

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda 3.2.1 on Solaris x86 -- open file limit

2011-02-09 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 07:55:47PM -0500, shesselbarth wrote: IXDR_GET_U_LONG is defined in /usr/linclude/rpc/xdr.h (on linux) This file is included from /usr/linclude/rpc/rpc.h which is included in ndmp-src/ndmp?.h I have a successful build on Solaris 10x86 for 64bit-amanda, I had a

[Amanda-users] amanda 3.2.1 on Solaris x86 -- open file limit

2011-02-08 Thread shesselbarth
IXDR_GET_U_LONG is defined in /usr/linclude/rpc/xdr.h (on linux) This file is included from /usr/linclude/rpc/rpc.h which is included in ndmp-src/ndmp?.h Hi, I just stumbled across the same build issues with 64-bit (open)solaris. After some research on linux and solaris rpc/xdr.h headers I

[Amanda-users] Amanda LIVECD with ztape/ftape suport

2011-02-07 Thread juanato
Hello from Spain. I would apreciate some help about any linux distribution with kernel 2.x support includind ftape/ztape and amanda package included. Maybe livecd for better practices restoring old systems, for evaluate proposites. I would aprecitae some help to dump qic/travan tapes using dd

[Amanda-users] amrecover error :Not found in archive

2011-01-18 Thread upengan78
Just an update. The issue was resolved by modifying all of DLEs in disklist from /export/./abc to /export/abc which means I removed '.' from all DLEs. Now I can recover anyfile/directory using amrecover. Hope this is helpful for people using '.' inside their DLEs. Thanks

[Amanda-users] amrecover error :Not found in archive

2011-01-12 Thread upengan78
Well, I have added one more partition in disklist file - /etc . This sure does not have '.' like /export/./local/ I have started to think that either tar/gtar or amrecove, one of that does not work well with a . in the specified DLE. It may also be version on solaris atleast. I am going

[Amanda-users] amrecover error :Not found in archive

2011-01-11 Thread upengan78
Hi, I have been backing up using amanda for about 1 month and I agree that I should have checked amrestore earlier. Now that I am trying to restore files/directories using amrestore, there is always this error : Not found in archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

[Amanda-users] amrecover error :Not found in archive

2011-01-11 Thread upengan78
If I do grep manually from terminal, I see that file is available. /opt/csw/bin/gzip -dc /opt/csw/etc/amanda/weeklyfull/index/amclient.domain/_export_._local/2011011117_0.gz | grep gcc-3.2-sol8-sparc-local /local/gcc-3.2-sol8-sparc-local

[Amanda-users] Making sure AMANDA does not run over tapesize

2011-01-05 Thread rory_f
Hey, So I've noticed that sometimes Amanda will fill up a tape with more than 400gb (LTO3) - I'm assuming this is down to compression? Is there another way to limit this from happening apart from turning hardware and software compression off? Thanks,

Re: [Amanda-users] Making sure AMANDA does not run over tapesize

2011-01-05 Thread Brian Cuttler
Rory, When I am using tape compression I often...sorry. When using SW tape compression amanda will know what the typical compression is for any given DLE and will (I believe) use the expected compressed size of the data when estimating overall tape usage. When I use HW compression I often lie

[Amanda-users] Making sure AMANDA does not run over tapesize

2011-01-05 Thread rory_f
I want to ensure tapes are filled 100% each time where possible. I've written a script in python to look at directory, figure out size, and create a disklist which will ensure a round about size for each disklist file - so for instance it will try to create a disklist file that contains entries

[Amanda-users] Making sure AMANDA does not run over tapesize

2011-01-05 Thread rory_f
choogendyk wrote: On 1/5/11 12:00 PM, rory_f wrote: I want to ensure tapes are filled 100% each time where possible. I've written a script in python to look at directory, figure out size, and create a disklist which will ensure a round about size for each disklist file - so for

Re: [Amanda-users] Making sure AMANDA does not run over tapesize

2011-01-05 Thread Brian Cuttler
Rory, On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 12:00:40PM -0500, rory_f wrote: I want to ensure tapes are filled 100% each time where possible. I've written a script in python to look at directory, figure out size, and create a disklist which will ensure a round about size for each disklist file - so for

[Amanda-users] Making sure AMANDA does not run over tapesize

2011-01-05 Thread rory_f
Charles Curley wrote: On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:19:42 -0500 rory_f amanda-forum at backupcentral.com wrote: Perhaps what i'm looking to do is guarantee the most economical way of filling the tapes. Which is more valuable, a few terabytes of tape space, or your time? --

Re: [Amanda-users] Making sure AMANDA does not run over tapesize

2011-01-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:19:42 -0500 rory_f amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Perhaps what i'm looking to do is guarantee the most economical way of filling the tapes. Which is more valuable, a few terabytes of tape space, or your time? -- Charles Curley /\ASCII

Re: [Amanda-users] Making sure AMANDA does not run over tapesize

2011-01-05 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
On 1/5/11 12:00 PM, rory_f wrote: I want to ensure tapes are filled 100% each time where possible. I've written a script in python to look at directory, figure out size, and create a disklist which will ensure a round about size for each disklist file - so for instance it will try to create

[Amanda-users] Solaris ZFS Amanda *compressed* GNUTAR SLOWWWWWWW

2010-12-21 Thread NetWatchman
# date Tue Dec 21 20#58;51#58;33 EST 2010 # ls -ltr /amandadump/dmp001/20101221004214 | tail -rw---nbsp; nbsp;1 amandanbsp; nbsp;sysnbsp; nbsp; nbsp; 1073741824 Dec 21 20#58;36 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.598.tmp -rw---nbsp; nbsp;1 amandanbsp; nbsp;sysnbsp; nbsp; nbsp; 1073741824 Dec 21

[Amanda-users] Solaris ZFS Amanda *compressed* GNUTAR SLOWWWWWWW

2010-12-21 Thread NetWatchman
# date Tue Dec 21 20#58;51#58;33 EST 2010 # ls -ltr /amandadump/dmp001/20101221004214 | tail -rw---nbsp; nbsp;1 amandanbsp; nbsp;sysnbsp; nbsp; nbsp; 1073741824 Dec 21 20#58;36 zulu01._rz2pool_mace.0.598.tmp -rw---nbsp; nbsp;1 amandanbsp; nbsp;sysnbsp; nbsp; nbsp; 1073741824 Dec 21

[Amanda-users] Backing up 50TB (ZFS) with Amanda using disk to disk

2010-12-18 Thread NetWatchman
[quote=Jean-Louis Martineau] set: flush-threshold-dumped 100 flush-threshold-scheduled 100 taperflush 100 OK...I see that as documented here: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/FAQ:Why_does_Amanda_not_append_to_a_tape%3F This would seem to allow full tape utilization without having to

[Amanda-users] Backing up 50TB (ZFS) with Amanda using disk to disk

2010-12-18 Thread NetWatchman
OK...I see that as documented here: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/FAQ:Why_does_Amanda_not_append_to_a_tape%3F This would seem to allow full tape utilization without having to resort to vtapes...I'm pretty sure I was already doing this and it didn't work reliably...will try again. As I

[Amanda-users] Backing up 50TB (ZFS) with Amanda using disk to disk

2010-12-16 Thread NetWatchman
I've embraced centralized storage in a big way with the hopes that it would facilitate the backup process (e.g. if you have all the data and boot images on one system you don't even worry about doing network backups). In the last six months I've deployed 3 Solaris/ZFS storage servers to handle

Re: [Amanda-users] Backing up 50TB (ZFS) with Amanda using disk to disk

2010-12-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
NetWatchman wrote: Here are some of the challenges/questions: My full backups are huge (multi-TB) so filling tapes is not a problem. However, daily incremental might only be 20-30GB. Since I'm using 1.5 and/or 2TB drive for tapes I'm able to get good filling of the tapes when doing full

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-12-15 Thread upengan78
Hello again, I think I am starting to realize that something needs to be configured properly in order to Fill the tapes to their MAX capacity. I'd like some advise on that. I can create another thread for that however, it may be something to do with existing configuration so I am continuing

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-12-15 Thread Brian Cuttler
Upendra, I don't recall how large your holding area is or if you end up with multiple DLE in holding waiting for tape or not. I've had good success with taperalgo and selecting the largestfit option. This seems to fill my (non-spanning physical) tapes pretty close to 100%. If you have lots of

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-12-15 Thread upengan78
Thanks for your quick advise Brian, I still want to post my DLEs and their sizes, may be you or someone can throw additional ideas. weeklyfull ~ total size about 58GB pluto.ece.iit.edu /export/./abc /export {12G comp-tar include ./abc } -1 pluto.ece.iit.edu /export/./def

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-12-15 Thread upengan78
Thanks for your quick advise Brian, I still want to post my DLEs and their sizes, may be you or someone can throw additional ideas. weeklyfull ~ total size about 58GB client.domain.com /export/./abc /export {12G comp-tar include ./abc } -1 client.domain.com /export/./def

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-12-14 Thread upengan78
Thank you Jon and everyone who have helped me understand a lot of things in Amanda. I have been able to split DLEs into multiple DLEs for the sake for distributing them in proper schedule. I also tried using inparallel and maxdump in amanda config and was successful only after configuring

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2010-12-14 Thread k anderson3454
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[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-12-03 Thread upengan78
Ok guys, I got busier with other tasks so could not reply. sorry about that. I did manage upgrading to Amanda 3.x version on solaris amanda server and solaris amanda client. I tried amcheck and it worked. So I tried amdump. However it seems to me I really need to adjust the numbers because I

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-12-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 09:55:14AM -0500, upengan78 wrote: Ok guys, I got busier with other tasks so could not reply. sorry about that. I did manage upgrading to Amanda 3.x version on solaris amanda server and solaris amanda client. I tried amcheck and it worked. So I tried amdump.

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-12-03 Thread upengan78
#Congratulations on a successful amdump! Wow, tell you what I am so happy to see those words! Thanks much! By the time I saw your reply, I had impatiently split my single DLE into 9 DLEs which also includes the last one for excluding all 8 DLEs on the top. I did see same message again in the

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-12-03 Thread Brian Cuttler
dispite the multiple DLEs the wall clock time is not shorter than the dumptime, check use of inparallel and maxdump and you should be able to get some concurrency, not that running into the work day is an issue with this config, but its good to practice and now about it later. On Fri, Dec 03,

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-12-03 Thread upengan78
Oh, it looks like when I add splitdisk_buffer, it shows me below error on amcheck, amcheck test /opt/csw/etc/amanda/test/amanda.conf, line 43: dumptype parameter expected /opt/csw/etc/amanda/test/amanda.conf, line 43: end of line is expected amcheck: errors processing config file Relevant

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-12-03 Thread upengan78
Actually the reason I decided to split DLE into multiple DLEs because I thought it is tar/gzipping 31GB data in one go and it might cause lower i/o speed and also feared if it 'd use more server resources. Although , I am actually looking to make best use of 16GB memory on amanda server and 8

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-12-03 Thread Thomas Marko
Hi! amcheck test /opt/csw/etc/amanda/test/amanda.conf, line 43: dumptype parameter expected /opt/csw/etc/amanda/test/amanda.conf, line 43: end of line is expected amcheck: errors processing config file I think you mean the split_diskbuffer parameter: See example amanda.conf: #

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-12-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 04:29:59PM -0500, upengan78 wrote: Oh, it looks like when I add splitdisk_buffer, it shows me below error on amcheck, amcheck test /opt/csw/etc/amanda/test/amanda.conf, line 43: dumptype parameter expected /opt/csw/etc/amanda/test/amanda.conf, line 43: end of line

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-12-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 04:04:16PM -0500, upengan78 wrote: Now I am thinking about, removing runtapes option completely, and add splitdisk_buffer option to the holding disk, I am confused about one thing, why you mentioned that looks like your splits are about 0.5GB. I have actually set

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-11-29 Thread upengan78
Sorry for being late to reply as I was away from computer for last 5 days. Has this system successfully passed an amcheck configname? Yes, It works fine always. No errors found. Here is the o/p Holding disk /random//amanda/amandahold/test: 3881997 kB disk space available, using 3881997 kB

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-11-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:08:04AM -0500, upengan78 wrote: @ Jon, It doesn't show me 3.1.1 version available in CSW which I am using here. See below, /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -c amanda Checking catalog integrity with gpg. gpg: Signature made Sun Oct 17 21:35:22 2010 CDT using DSA key ID

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-11-29 Thread upengan78
Sorry for being late to reply as I was away from computer for last 5 days. Has this system successfully passed an amcheck configname? Yes, It works fine always. No errors found. Here is the o/p Holding disk /random//amanda/amandahold/test: 3881997 kB disk space available, using 3881997 kB

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-11-29 Thread upengan78
Sorry for double reply. I pressed back button on Midori and forum reposted/resent my reply earlier. Thanks for that info JL. I was completely unaware of OpenCSW. I will try to use Opencsw and see if I can get Amanda to 3.1.1 and proceed from there which will be best thing to do. Anyhow I

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-11-24 Thread upengan78
I have made some changed to amanda.conf. First I have changed disk size to 10GB, then number of Vtapes/slots = 29 and also added runtapes = 6 My amanda.conf dumpcycle 7 runspercycle 7 tapecycle 29 runtapes 6 dumpuser amanda tpchanger chg-disk# a virtual tape changer

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-11-24 Thread Brian Cuttler
Nothing strickes me as wrong with your new config but... I'm sorry, I can't actually comment on spanning, never configured it on any of my amanda servers. Just for the sake of argument I'm going to include an extract of my disklist file. Originally we backed up a 1Tbyte drive, this was

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-11-24 Thread upengan78
Hello Brian, Thanks again. I just ran amdump test and looks like there is some issue which I am not able to understand why it's happening. Here is ther email from Amanda Admin. These dumps were to tape TEST-1. The next 6 tapes Amanda expects to use are: 6 new tapes. The next 6 new tapes

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-11-24 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 02:22:52PM -0500, upengan78 wrote: Hello Brian, Thanks again. I just ran amdump test and looks like there is some issue which I am not able to understand why it's happening. Here is ther email from Amanda Admin. These dumps were to tape TEST-1. The next 6

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-11-24 Thread upengan78
Hi, I just had to create those slots directories (29) and then I edited amanda.conf and modified length as length 10240 MB in tapetype defination. After this ran amlabel to label 29 slots and then amcheck test which did not find problems. Only thing I had not done was restart Amanda server

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-11-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:37:31AM -0500, upengan78 wrote: I have made some changed to amanda.conf. First I have changed disk size to 10GB, then number of Vtapes/slots = 29 and also added runtapes = 6 My amanda.conf dumpcycle 7 runspercycle 7 tapecycle 29 runtapes 6 dumpuser amanda

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-11-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:27:15AM -0500, upengan78 wrote: Hi, Using Amanda on Solaris 10 2.5.2p1,REV=2008.05.21 and amanda client on a solaris 8 which I beleive has same version of Amanda. OpenCSW shows amanda version 3.1.1. Why are you using such an old version? Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie

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