Re: Amanda on Gentoo Linux?

2007-03-20 Thread Linda Pahdoco
My backup server is Gentoo, as are a couple of other servers and workstations it backs up. It's been running steady as a rock for years. The only issue we've hit recently is not being able to get incrementals on machines with updated tar packages. We get Level 0 every night. We stay pretty

Re: Amanda on Gentoo Linux?

2007-03-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 March 2007, Linda Pahdoco wrote: My backup server is Gentoo, as are a couple of other servers and workstations it backs up. It's been running steady as a rock for years. The only issue we've hit recently is not being able to get incrementals on machines with updated tar packages.

Re: Amanda on Gentoo Linux?

2007-03-20 Thread dustin
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:21:07AM -0500, Linda Pahdoco wrote: The only issue we've hit recently is not being able to get incrementals on machines with updated tar packages. We get Level 0 every night. We stay pretty on top of patches from Gentoo, and we've seen it on multiple systems.

Re: Amanda on Gentoo Linux?

2007-03-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Pretty much my only substantive gripe with Gentoo is that it encourages its users to live on the edge, which isn't really appropriate for production systems. gentoo doesn't encourage to do that, it only provides the choice to do so. If you look at the

Re: Amanda on Gentoo Linux?

2007-03-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 March 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:21:07AM -0500, Linda Pahdoco wrote: The only issue we've hit recently is not being able to get incrementals on machines with updated tar packages. We get Level 0 every night. We stay pretty on top of patches from

Re: Amanda on Gentoo Linux?

2007-03-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 March 2007, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Pretty much my only substantive gripe with Gentoo is that it encourages its users to live on the edge, which isn't really appropriate for production systems. gentoo doesn't encourage to do that, it only provides

Re: Amanda on Gentoo Linux?

2007-03-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Gene Heskett schrieb: Some history please, because you are not the only sufferer of this problem. Send tar version, kernel version please. My report here: app-arch/tar-1.16-r2 (stable) # cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 (stable) app-backup/amanda-2.5.1_p3-r2 (unstable, but

Re: Amanda on Gentoo Linux?

2007-03-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 March 2007, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Gene Heskett schrieb: Some history please, because you are not the only sufferer of this problem. Send tar version, kernel version please. My report here: app-arch/tar-1.16-r2 (stable) Humm, may be suspect. I wish gentoo would not change

Re: Amanda on Gentoo Linux?

2007-03-20 Thread dustin
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:41:20PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Humm, may be suspect. I wish gentoo would not change the version numbers rather willy-nilly so that those of us used to the gnu.org version numbers applied to the tarballs (this IS the src of tar BTW) among the various distro's.

Amanda on Gentoo Linux?

2007-03-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Any amanda-users here who use the gentoo-ebuilds of amanda? Anyone who runs amanda on Gentoo Linux in productive/professional environments? I would like to hear some feedback on this, thanks (off-list comments welcome as well, if preferred). Stefan

Re: Amanda on Gentoo Linux?

2007-03-18 Thread dustin
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 09:41:33PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Any amanda-users here who use the gentoo-ebuilds of amanda? Anyone who runs amanda on Gentoo Linux in productive/professional environments? I would like to hear some feedback on this, thanks (off-list comments welcome