Re: DLE splitting

2021-09-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 September 2021 03:44:14 Diego Zuccato wrote: > I'm not an expert but I'd set a tapechanger script that wakes the > vtape by reading or writing something to the disk. > > Il 20/09/2021 05:07, Jon LaBadie ha scritto: > > is there a way to run a user supplied program just > > before

Re: DLE splitting

2021-09-21 Thread Diego Zuccato
I'm not an expert but I'd set a tapechanger script that wakes the vtape by reading or writing something to the disk. Il 20/09/2021 05:07, Jon LaBadie ha scritto: is there a way to run a user supplied program just before amanda's taper opens each tape file?  I.e., before it actually opens and

Re: DLE splitting

2021-09-20 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
With respect to having the current amanda directory backed up, what I do is simply run scripts from a crontab entry: 45 22 * * * /usr/local/adm/backup/daily-amanda; /usr/local/adm/backup/daily-amanda-config The first script runs amanda and then runs a script I wrote called amchanger that

RE: DLE splitting

2021-09-20 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
, but some vtape size tuning may be needed. Thanks, Brian -Original Message- From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org On Behalf Of Debra S Baddorf Sent: Friday, September 17, 2021 5:28 PM To: Charles Curley Cc: Debra S Baddorf ; amanda-users Subject: Re: DLE splitting ATTENTION: This

Re: DLE splitting

2021-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 20 September 2021 08:38:36 Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 01:27:43 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > No one else has publicly discussed how they've handled that so I > > have no clue what others are doing, if anything to prevent a days > > indexes loss if the drive or the

Re: DLE splitting

2021-09-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 01:27:43 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > No one else has publicly discussed how they've handled that so I have > no clue what others are doing, if anything to prevent a days indexes > loss if the drive or the amandatapes drive pukes and you have to > recover to bare metal. An

Re: DLE splitting

2021-09-19 Thread Olivier
Hi, > My GenesAmandaHelper does not do anything to the vtape, all it does is > run amanda as a child so it knows when amanda is done. at which point it > does its thing copyiing the now uptodate indices and configs to that > same vtape amanda just made. so they are valid for the vtape just >

Re: DLE splitting

2021-09-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 19 September 2021 23:07:54 Jon LaBadie wrote: > is there a way to run a user supplied program just > before amanda's taper opens each tape file? I.e., > before it actually opens and creates a new file on > the tape. > > Do I recall correctly that it opens a tmp file on > the vtape and

Re: DLE splitting

2021-09-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
is there a way to run a user supplied program just before amanda's taper opens each tape file? I.e., before it actually opens and creates a new file on the tape. Do I recall correctly that it opens a tmp file on the vtape and when complete renames it? Or am I thinking of the chunks on the

Re: DLE splitting

2021-09-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 18 September 2021 16:21:39 Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 11:55:09AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > >I'm seeing instances of wasted VTape with amanda switching > >to a new tape for the last DLE even though there is room > >left on the current tape. > > > >Here is the

Re: DLE splitting

2021-09-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 11:55:09AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: I'm seeing instances of wasted VTape with amanda switching to a new tape for the last DLE even though there is room left on the current tape. Here is the relevant section from yesterday. USAGE BY TAPE: Label Time

Re: DLE splitting

2021-09-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 21:28:12 + Debra S Baddorf wrote: > Empty space is still owned by the vtape manager. To pick a nit, the vtape manager and any other applications that use that file system. Otherwise, yes. Well stated. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com

Re: DLE splitting

2021-09-17 Thread Debra S Baddorf
> On Sep 17, 2021, at 12:57 PM, Charles Curley > wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:55:09 -0400 > Jon LaBadie wrote: > >> I'm seeing instances of wasted VTape with amanda switching >> to a new tape for the last DLE even though there is room >> left on the current tape. > > I wouldn't worry

Re: DLE splitting

2021-09-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:55:09 -0400 Jon LaBadie wrote: > I'm seeing instances of wasted VTape with amanda switching > to a new tape for the last DLE even though there is room > left on the current tape. I wouldn't worry about it. Unlike physical tapes, vtapes all pull storage out of the same

Re: DLE splitting

2021-09-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 17 September 2021 11:55:09 Jon LaBadie wrote: > I'm seeing instances of wasted VTape with amanda switching > to a new tape for the last DLE even though there is room > left on the current tape. > > Here is the relevant section from yesterday. > > USAGE BY TAPE: >Label

DLE splitting

2021-09-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
I'm seeing instances of wasted VTape with amanda switching to a new tape for the last DLE even though there is room left on the current tape. Here is the relevant section from yesterday. USAGE BY TAPE: Label Time Size % DLEs Parts DS1-010 0:08

Balance after DLE splitting

2018-11-12 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Was "All level 0 on the same run?" The old thread was getting a bit stranded... On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 5:03 PM Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 11:39:58 -0500, Chris Nighswonger wrote: > > I think that is output from one of Gene's systems, but here is the latest > >

DLE splitting problem

2013-04-11 Thread Vytas-JWRL
Hi, I am trying to split a large directory into separate DLEs unfortunately it does not appear to be working. Amanda version is 2.6.1p2 installed using apt-get on a debian server. The following line is from the currently running amdump showing that the estimated dump size is 162gigs,

Re: DLE splitting problem

2013-04-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 04/11/2013 08:04 AM, Vytas-JWRL wrote: Hi, I am trying to split a large directory into separate DLEs unfortunately it does not appear to be working. Amanda version is 2.6.1p2 installed using apt-get on a debian server. The following line is from the currently running amdump showing that

Re: DLE splitting problem

2013-04-11 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:04:47 -0400, Vytas-JWRL wrote: hopper /mnt/raid2/projects/Alberta/PLVI/Source_Files/1210h06 { comp-user-tar exclude file optional ./Line_10/ exclude file append ./Line_11/ I agree with Jean-Louis that you need to remove the trailing / characters from the