Re: holding disk too small? -- holding disk RAID configuration

2019-12-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 25 December 2019 19:33:04 Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 11:51:11PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 23 December 2019 21:16:26 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 11:47:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > The first, /dev/sda contains

Re: holding disk too small? -- holding disk RAID configuration

2019-12-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 11:51:11PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 23 December 2019 21:16:26 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 11:47:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > The first, /dev/sda contains the current operating system. This > > > includes /usr/dumps as

Re: holding disk too small? -- bumpmult

2019-12-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 December 2019 10:40:39 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 23:51:11 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Sounds good, so I'll try it. Also, where is the best explanation > > for "bumpmult"? I don't seem to be getting the results I expect. > > I'm only aware of these

Re: holding disk too small? -- bumpmult

2019-12-24 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 23:51:11 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Sounds good, so I'll try it. Also, where is the best explanation > for "bumpmult"? I don't seem to be getting the results I expect. I'm only aware of these parameters being explained in the amanda.conf man page However, did you

Re: holding disk too small? -- holding disk RAID configuration

2019-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 23 December 2019 23:51:11 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 23 December 2019 21:16:26 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 11:47:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > The first, /dev/sda contains the current operating system. This > > > includes /usr/dumps as a

Re: holding disk too small? -- holding disk RAID configuration

2019-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 23 December 2019 21:16:26 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 11:47:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The first, /dev/sda contains the current operating system. This > > includes /usr/dumps as a holding disk area. > > > > The next box of rust, /dev/sdb, is the

Re: holding disk too small? -- holding disk RAID configuration

2019-12-23 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 11:47:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > The first, /dev/sda contains the current operating system. This > includes /usr/dumps as a holding disk area. > > The next box of rust, /dev/sdb, is the previous os, kept in case I need > to go get something I forgot to copy over

Re: holding disk too small? -- holding disk RAID configuration

2019-12-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 05 December 2019 16:16:58 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 15:43:10 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > I consider recreating that holding disk array (currently RAID1 of 2 > > disks) as RAID0 .. > > Just focusing on this one aspect of your question:

Re: holding disk too small?

2019-12-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 03:27:13PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 05.12.19 um 21:47 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > Am 03.12.19 um 15:43 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> > >> Another naive question: > >> > >> Does the holdingdisk have to be bigger than the size of one tape? > > > >

Re: holding disk too small?

2019-12-10 Thread Debra S Baddorf
> On Dec 10, 2019, at 8:27 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Am 05.12.19 um 21:47 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> Am 03.12.19 um 15:43 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >>> >>> Another naive question: >>> >>> Does the holdingdisk have to be bigger than the size of one tape? >> >> As there

Re: holding disk too small?

2019-12-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.12.19 um 21:47 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 03.12.19 um 15:43 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> >> Another naive question: >> >> Does the holdingdisk have to be bigger than the size of one tape? > > As there were multiple replies to my original posting and as I am way > too busy right

Re: holding disk too small? -- holding disk RAID configuration

2019-12-05 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 15:43:10 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > I consider recreating that holding disk array (currently RAID1 of 2 > disks) as RAID0 .. Just focusing on this one aspect of your question: assuming the filesystem in question doesn't have anything other than the Amanda

Re: holding disk too small?

2019-12-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.12.19 um 15:43 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > Another naive question: > > Does the holdingdisk have to be bigger than the size of one tape? As there were multiple replies to my original posting and as I am way too busy right now: a quick "thanks" to all the people who replied. So far

Re: holding disk too small?

2019-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 05 December 2019 10:50:34 Charles Curley wrote: And I replied back on the list where this belongs, even if some of it is me blowing my own horn. > On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 00:00:24 -0500 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Lesson #2, I just learned today that the raspbian AND debian buster > >

Re: holding disk too small?

2019-12-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 04:43:15 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > > # systemctl status amanda.socket > pi@rpi4:/etc $ sudo systemctl status amanda.socket > Unit amanda.socket could not be found. Same on Debian 10.2. Also, it appears that no Debian 10.2 package provides amanda.service: charles@hawk:~$

Re: holding disk too small?

2019-12-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 00:00:24 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > Lesson #2, I just learned today that the raspbian AND debian buster > 10.2 versions have NO inetd or xinetd. Ditto for RH. I don't know where you get that idea, as far as Debian goes. root@jhegaala:~# cat /etc/debian_version 10.2

Re: holding disk too small?

2019-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 05 December 2019 02:12:52 Uwe Menges wrote: > On 2019-12-05 06:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Lesson #2, I just learned today that the raspbian AND debian buster > > 10.2 versions have NO inetd or xinetd. Ditto for RH. > > I think that's along with other stuff moving to systemd. > On

Re: holding disk too small?

2019-12-04 Thread Uwe Menges
On 2019-12-05 06:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > Lesson #2, I just learned today that the raspbian AND debian buster 10.2 > versions have NO inetd or xinetd. Ditto for RH. I think that's along with other stuff moving to systemd. On Fedora 30, I have # systemctl status amanda.socket ● amanda.socket -

Re: holding disk too small?

2019-12-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 03 December 2019 20:23:04 Olivier wrote: > "Stefan G. Weichinger" writes: > > So far it works but maybe not optimal. I consider recreating that > > holding disk array (currently RAID1 of 2 disks) as RAID0 .. > > Unless your backups are super critical, you may not need RAID 1 for >

Re: holding disk too small?

2019-12-03 Thread Olivier
"Stefan G. Weichinger" writes: > So far it works but maybe not optimal. I consider recreating that > holding disk array (currently RAID1 of 2 disks) as RAID0 .. Unless your backups are super critical, you may not need RAID 1 for holding disk. Also consider that holding dick puts a lot of

RE: holding disk too small?

2019-12-03 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
Stefan, In order for the holding disk to be used it has to be bigger than the largest DLE. To get parallelism in dumping it has to be large enough to hold more than one DLE at a time, ideally I suppose the number of in parallel dumps, and then some more so that you can begin spooling to tape