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