Re: Re:

2005-07-19 Thread Glenn English
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 21:01 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Yes, correct, but you still need ~amanda/.amandahosts instead of > /root/.amandahosts . Or ~backup/.amandahosts on Debian. I'm sure there's a good reason for their doing this... -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG ID: D0D7FF20 signat

Re: Re:

2005-07-20 Thread Graeme Humphries
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 19:07 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 21:01 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > > > Yes, correct, but you still need ~amanda/.amandahosts instead of > > /root/.amandahosts . > > Or ~backup/.amandahosts on Debian. I'm sure there's a good reason for > their doing

RE: Re:

2010-10-07 Thread McGraw, Robert P
uot; "5" property "unload-delay" "5" property "use-slots" "1-30" property "load-poll" "0s poll 5s until 120s" device-property "BLOCK_SIZE" "1024k" } Thanks for all your help. Robert > -Original Mess

Re: Re:

2010-10-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:01 AM, McGraw, Robert P wrote: > I had been using 2048KB, which I had defined in "tapetype",  when I was > running Amanda 2.x and never got this error. Yes, it's a new error for something that used to be handled quietly. Basically, the kernel takes the 2MB write and bre

RE: Re:

2010-10-08 Thread McGraw, Robert P
1024K as follows seemed to resolve the problem. Dustin, thanks very much for your help in resolving this. I will now set taperflush back to 100 so I do not waste tape. Robert > -Original Message- > From: djmit...@gmail.com [mailto:djmit...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > Dustin J. Mit

Re: Re:

2010-10-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:40 AM, McGraw, Robert P wrote: > Dustin, thanks very much for your help in resolving this. Sure thing. Jean-Louis has, in the interim, fixed the problem of not being able to eject when a fatal error occurs in the tape device. So this one is fixed twice :) Dustin -- O

RE: RE exclusions

2007-10-11 Thread Johan Booysen
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 October 2007 16:57 To: Johan Booysen Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE exclusions At first sight it looks very easy: You are currently only doing full-daily backups. So, switch to regular incremental/differential backups and you'll be fi

Re: RE exclusions

2007-10-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 10 October 2007 16:57 *To:* Johan Booysen *Cc:* amanda-users@amanda.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject:* RE exclusions At first sight it looks very easy: You are currently only doing full-daily backups. So, switch to regular incremental/differential backups and you'll

Re: RE exclusions

2007-10-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
ve. (It is better than "bumppercent 100", which would maybe run an estimate for level N+1, which will later be decided as not to be "good" -- too much waste of time + machine load). Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: RE exclusions

2007-10-11 Thread Johan Booysen
riginal Message- From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 October 2007 11:34 To: Johan Booysen Cc: amanda List Subject: Re: RE exclusions On 2007-10-11 12:03, Johan Booysen wrote: > When I say differential I mean a backup that contains everything since > the last full backup

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Lars Segerlund
I have. / Lars Segerlund. Potts, Ross A. wrote: Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that "Someone (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added"? It is dated today.

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, February 18, 2003 06:58:18 -0800 "Potts, Ross A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that "Someone (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added"? It is dated today. Yes, someone evidently tried to subscribe the lis

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Broderick Wood
gt;MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Re-registering? >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >X-Envelope-To: <"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -Y -f- || exit 75 #bmw"> (uid 16045)

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 06:58:18AM -0800, Potts, Ross A. enlightened us: > Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that "Someone > (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added"? > > It is dated today. Yeah, it looks like someone tried to subscribe the list to itsel

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Axel Haenssen
yes, some burb in the listserver I guess. cheers Axel On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 09:58, Potts, Ross A. wrote: > Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that "Someone > (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added"? > > It is dated today. -- Axel Haenssen Department of

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread barryc
>Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that "Someone >(possibly you) has requested that your email address be added"? > >It is dated today. Yup.

RE: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Nigel Barker
Segerlund Sent: 18 February 2003 15:27 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Re-registering? I have. / Lars Segerlund. Potts, Ross A. wrote: > Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that "Someone > (possibly you) has requested that your email address be ad

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Christoph Scheeder
yes, i've got it, it was adressed to amanda-useres, so i think someone stupid tryed to register amanda-users to amanda-users. Christoph Potts, Ross A. schrieb: Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that "Someone (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added"? It

RE: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Rebecca Pakish Crum
>Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that "Someone >(possibly you) has requested that your email address be added"? > >It is dated today. Yes, I have, I was wondering about it myself...

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Gordon Pritchard
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 06:58, Potts, Ross A. wrote: > Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that "Someone > (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added"? > > It is dated today. I got this also (timestamped 3:28am). I'm ignoring it, because I am continui

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Richard Morse
On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 09:58 AM, Potts, Ross A. wrote: Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that "Someone (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added"? It is dated today. From the message, it looks as though someone tried to register the amand

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
> On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 09:58 AM, Potts, Ross A. wrote: > > > Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that "Someone > > (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added"? > > > > It is dated today. > > I've notified the list manager in case they are unawa

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Todd Kover
> Looked to me like it was sent to the entire list. > > Now, if anyone replies to that email, I guess the entire list is going to > get a second copy of every single email :( > > Maybe time to unsubscribe As several folks figured out, someone messed up a subscription request FOR amanda-us

Re: Rif: Re: Rif: RE: Cluster backup

2006-05-31 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-31 17:00, Nicola Mauri wrote: >> use the interface (aka bind) option in xinetd to run multiple >> instances of the amanda client each responding on a different address TESTED. Configuring multiple amanda client seems to solve this issue! My new /etc/xinet.d/amanda file has three e

Re: re spanning tapes

2005-11-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 08:52:43PM +1100, Jeff Allison wrote: > > >On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 09:18 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > >> On Monday 31 October 2005 07:13, Jeff Allison wrote: > > > >The biggest DLE is /home/samba which is 11GB uncompressed. > > > > > > ISTR from a previous post of yours, yo

Re: Re: Tapetype Entries

2005-11-03 Thread matilda matilda
Hi Stefan, shall I wait until the Wiki is available? Or is in anyway nobody interested in my tapetype entries? Best regards Andreas Mock

Re: AmrecoverQuestion_Was Re: 2ndRequest_CreatingIndexFile_FromTape

2001-12-12 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 at 6:44am, ThomasRatliffDDS wrote > Thanks! Now I have valid index file I think. Now my problem is with > amrecover. > > indexfile is > /usr/adm/amanda/home/index/mac-pbG3.orthodontists.info/_/20010916_0.gz > > When I sit as root on the client machine mac-pbG3 and run > >

Re: Question re OS...

2002-02-11 Thread John R. Jackson
>My question is, should I go with Linux, FreeBSD, or OpenBSD. ... Why not go with Solaris-x86 since you already have some other Solaris boxes? It's what I'm running on my home machines. >Ricky Morse John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RE Compression usage

2006-07-05 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
Thanks to everyone for your replies. Ok, so what I really wanted to do was to use software compression, and not hardware compression. Cyrille's suggestion sounds like what I need, but again I'm not sure whether using this command will mean that compression is turned off "permanently". I'll look

Re: RE Compression usage

2006-07-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 02:42:14AM -0700, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: > > Thanks to everyone for your replies. > > Ok, so what I really wanted to do was to use software compression, and not > hardware compression. > > Cyrille's suggestion sounds like what I need, but again I'm not sur

Re: RE Compression usage

2006-07-05 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
Thanks for your reply. do you mean that I will see the behaviour you're describing only if I'm reusing tapes with hardware-compressed data? I only have 3 tapes so far, so don't mind erasing them. I find this slightly confusing. My understanding at this stage is that as long as I start with "fr

Re: RE Compression usage

2006-07-06 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
Sorry to be bothersome about this, but will the below work? Joe Donner wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. > > do you mean that I will see the behaviour you're describing only if I'm > reusing tapes with hardware-compressed data? I only have 3 tapes so far, > so don't mind erasing them. > > I

Re: RE Compression usage

2006-07-07 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
I got these replies by email, which I think clear it up for me. Still not sure about whether I can start from scratch by erasing the existing hardware-compressed tapes, and then issuing mt -f /dev/nst0 defcompression 0 in crontab, but I'm going to try anyway: Software compression is normally rec

Re: RE Compression usage

2006-07-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 01:57:48AM -0700, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: > > I got these replies by email, which I think clear it up for me. Still not > sure about whether I can start from scratch by erasing the existing > hardware-compressed tapes, and then issuing mt -f /dev/nst0 defcom

Re: Re: dd problems

2006-11-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I will be out of the office until Monday, November 13th. I will respond to your e-mail at that time.

Re: RE AS400 & Amanda?

2007-10-03 Thread Francis Galiegue
Le mercredi 03 octobre 2007, Cyrille Bollu a écrit : [...] > > We don't have any Linux partition on our AS400. > What exactly do you call a Linux partition? An ext3 filesystem or a Linux "VM" host? Correct me if I'm wrong but I think it's the latter, because AFAIK, AIX doesn't have a native e

Re: RE AS400 & Amanda?

2007-10-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Francis Galiegue wrote: > Le mercredi 03 octobre 2007, Cyrille Bollu a �crit�: > [...] > > > > We don't have any Linux partition on our AS400. > > > > What exactly do you call a Linux partition? An ext3 filesystem or a Linux > "VM" > host? > > Correct me if I'm wrong but I

Re: RE AS400 & Amanda?

2007-10-03 Thread Francis Galiegue
Le mercredi 03 octobre 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven a écrit : > On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Francis Galiegue wrote: > > Le mercredi 03 octobre 2007, Cyrille Bollu a �crit�: > > [...] > > > > > > We don't have any Linux partition on our AS400. > > > > > > > What exactly do you call a Linux partition? An ext3

Re: RE AS400 & Amanda?

2007-10-03 Thread Cyrille Bollu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit sur 03/10/2007 14:41:23 : > Le mercredi 03 octobre 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven a écrit : > > On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Francis Galiegue wrote: > > > Le mercredi 03 octobre 2007, Cyrille Bollu a ?crit?: > > > [...] > > > > > > > > We don't have any Linux partition on our AS400. >

Re: RE AS400 & Amanda?

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Francis Galiegue wrote: Le mercredi 03 octobre 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven a écrit : On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Francis Galiegue wrote: Le mercredi 03 octobre 2007, Cyrille Bollu a �crit�: [...] We don't have any Linux partition on our AS400. What exactly do you call a Linux pa

Re: Re: Amcheck fails

2004-05-18 Thread Pablo Quinta Vidal
This is the output of ls -l /dev/hda2: brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 2 Nov 30 2000 /dev/hda2 I dont know if the group backup has permissions to access /dev/hda2, I am not the system administrator, how can I know it? Thanks. Pablo. _ Dale

Re: Re-ordering tapelist

2001-05-24 Thread John R. Jackson
> A long time ago, one of my tapes (Dailydumps7) got out of order ... > My question is, how do I get it back in order? ... First, you need to be certain it does not contain any useful backups. One way is to do this: find -name info | xargs grep Dailydumps7 If it finds any matche

RE: Re-ordering tapelist

2001-05-24 Thread Bort, Paul
I still think my method is lazier. ;-) > -Original Message- > From: John R. Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 4:30 PM > To: Justin Ainsworth > Cc: Amanda-Users@Amanda. Org > Subject: Re: Re-ordering tapelist > > > > A

Re: Re-ordering tapelist

2001-05-24 Thread John R. Jackson
>I still think my method is lazier. ;-) While I'm a **big** fan of being lazy :-), your technique has some issues. Assuming you have a tapecycle of N and tapelist has N tapes, which would be the normal situation, as soon as you remove an entry from tapelist, either by deleting the line, using am

Re: Re: database backup

2002-11-27 Thread jordivi
Hi Jerry I will add a database server to the disklist soon. We have mirror disks and Solaris Disk Suit (SDS). This is aplicable also to linux raidtools. I will: - stop oracle; metaoffline a submirror and mount it read-only elsewhere - start oracle - Run amanda (over the off-lined submirror) - St

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: missing file header

2000-12-07 Thread John R. Jackson
>Can the error appear through a bad termination of the scsi bus??? Bad termination can cause just about anything, so yes. >> $ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind >> $ mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1 >> $ dd if=3D/dev/nst0 bs=3D32k count=3D1 > /tmp/block.0 >> $ ls -l /tmp/block.0 >> $ head -4 < /tmp/block.0 > >Th

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: missing file header

2000-12-07 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, Standard for linux is to use BSD semantics. It is a compile-time-option for scsi-devices located in scsi/st_options.h called ST_SYSV, change it to 1 and you get SYSV semantics. But this should not be aproblem, since i run 5 linux-amanda-servers with the default-setting, without problems for

Re: Re: Re: chg-zd-mtx for TSL-9000

2003-06-13 Thread Jim Rowan
Daniel, Thanks very much! The link turns out to be a patch against the current version of chg-zd-mtx, and it applied cleanly. It does fix my problem. (In my own googles I had seen the link and ignore it because I don't read Japanese... :) Jim > I just came across an interesting page via G

Re: Re: Re: chg-zd-mtx for TSL-9000

2003-06-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jim, Could you try this patch? I will add it to next amanda release if it works. Jean-Louis On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 03:30:54PM -0500, Jim Rowan wrote: > > Daniel, > > Thanks very much! The link turns out to be a patch against the current version of > chg-zd-mtx, and it applied cleanly. It d

Re: Re[2]: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 January 2005 14:59, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >Hello, Gene, > >just now (on 01/27/2005 at 20:58) you wrote: > >GH> I do hope he was able to find gainfull employment, hopefully not >GH> around computers? > >Errm, AFAIK he is some kind of admin for this, errm, big institution Hoo bo

Re: re-indexing virtual tapes

2006-05-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
y full > dumps due to misconfiguration. Now I had to delete some of the backups. > I did not find any other way, than deleting the files within the virtual > tapes. (Only those with backups not the files, amanda created when > labelling the "tapes"). Now, is there a way to re-index th

Re: Rif: RE: Cluster backup

2006-05-31 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:37:44PM +0200, Nicola Mauri enlightened us: > Paul, thanks for your suggestions. > > On our machines, all network masks appear to be consistent. We'll try to > configure different client instance on xinetd. > > Another frequent message error I didn't mention in my firs

Re: Rif: RE: Cluster backup

2006-05-31 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-31 16:05, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:37:44PM +0200, Nicola Mauri enlightened us: Paul, thanks for your suggestions. On our machines, all network masks appear to be consistent. We'll try to configure different client instance on xinetd. Another frequent message e

Re: re-doing bad tapes

2002-01-27 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
> On Friday, amdump wrote my dump images to a tape successfully, but a > subsequent amverify showed that the tape is defective. Now, my dumps have > been removed from the holding disk, but I don't think the images on the > tape are usable. > > Is there any way to re-do

Re: re-doing bad tapes

2002-01-27 Thread John R. Jackson
>Is there any way to re-do this backup onto a good tape or am I hosed? Amanda normally uses the same level as it did on the previous run unless it thinks there will be enough savings to warrant moving to the next level. It's not unusual on a very static file system, for instance, t

Re: re-doing bad tapes

2002-01-28 Thread Chris Marble
Ben Elliston wrote: > > On Friday, amdump wrote my dump images to a tape successfully, but a > subsequent amverify showed that the tape is defective. Now, my dumps have > been removed from the holding disk, but I don't think the images on the > tape are usable. > >

Re: Re[2]: scsi-tape

2002-06-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 12 June 2002 03:30, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >Hallo Gene, > >Tuesday, June 11, 2002, 11:32:29 PM, you wrote: > >GH> So you should be using the /dev/nst(number) descriptor as it > doesn't do GH> an automatic rewind as it closes the path. Amanda > will rewind the tape GH> by herself

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
Good point - and that is why I need help unravelling what it all means. My question now would be: 0.41% of what? What would 100% of that something represent? Constant streaming of data to tape from holding disk? I've just left it alone to see if I get different results when subsequently runni

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Cyrille Bollu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit sur 17/07/2006 11:36:21 : > > Good point - and that is why I need help unravelling what it all means.  My > question now would be:  0.41% of what?  What would 100% of that something > represent?  Constant streaming of data to tape from holding disk? AFAIK, 100% would

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-07-17 11:36, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: Good point - and that is why I need help unravelling what it all means. My question now would be: 0.41% of what? What would 100% of that something represent? Constant streaming of data to tape from holding disk? of the total elapse

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
Well, one thing I've noticed is that the DLEs in question are the ones with largest overall size: +/- 8GB +/- 9GB +/- 32GB All the other DLEs (except for the two I mentioned, which are in fact hidden files) have successfully been written to tape and are less than approximately 2GB in size...

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
When I execute the top command (Red Hat Enterprise 3) for user Amanda, I get: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 2136 amanda15 0 948 948 836 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 amdump 2145 amanda15 0 1072 1072 844 S 0.0 0.1 0:02 1 driver

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-07-17 13:32, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: and ps -fu amanda outputs: UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD amanda2136 2135 0 Jul14 ?00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/amdump daily amanda2145 2136 0 Jul14 ?00:00:02 /usr/lib/amanda/driver daily a

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
Red Hat Enterprise 3 doesn't seem to have strace as a command. I thought rather than killing the processes manually, I'd reboot the server and see if amcleanup runs as included in /etc/rc.d/rc.local (thought I may as well test that). Now the server came back up, and none of the amanda services a

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
Ok, so I ran amflush again. It flushed 2 of the 3 outstanding DLE's data to daily-1, but the email I received includes: The dumps were flushed to tape daily-1. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: daily-2. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: minerva/usr/local/clients lev 0 FAILED [input:

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Alexander Jolk
Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: minerva/usr/local/clients lev 0 FAILED [input: Can't read data: : Input/output error] And the holding disk still contains a folder with Friday's date and a 30GB file for the DLE mentioned above. Can you try cat'ting

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
Sorry, I've already went and deleted that file... Alexander Jolk wrote: > > Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: >> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: >> minerva/usr/local/clients lev 0 FAILED [input: Can't read data: : >> Input/output error] >> >> And the holding disk still contains a

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-19 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
Well, for what it's worth: I ran a backup job with just the DLEs that failed to backup/flush, and it all went well. I then ran the exact same job I did on Friday, and it succeeded with no errors this time. I'm beginning to think that maybe the tape used on Friday may be damaged in some way. I'

Re: RE Tuning for performance

2006-08-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 at 5:28pm, Cyrille Bollu wrote For the record my BOT system is made of: 1) 1 Dell Poweredge 2850 with 1 1.4TB RAID5 array made of 6 U320 SCSI HD What RAID controller? Have you benchmarked the array itself with something like bonnie++ or tiobench? 2) 1 Dell Power

Re: RE Tuning for performance

2006-08-22 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 at 9:36am, Cyrille Bollu wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit sur 21/08/2006 18:10:56 : What RAID controller? Have you benchmarked the array itself with something like bonnie++ or tiobench? A Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 4e/Di. Yes I benchmarked it using iozone

Re: RE Tuning for performance

2006-08-24 Thread Cyrille Bollu
Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit sur 22/08/2006 15:15:34 : > On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 at 9:36am, Cyrille Bollu wrote > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit sur 21/08/2006 18:10:56 : > >> > >> What RAID controller?  Have you benchmarked the array itself with > >> something like bonnie++ or tio

Re: RE Tuning for performance

2006-08-24 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 at 4:36pm, Cyrille Bollu wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] bonnie++-1.03a]# ./bonnie++ -u 0 (snip) Version 1.03 --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- MachineSize K/sec %C

Re: RE Tuning for performance

2006-08-24 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 at 10:44am, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 at 4:36pm, Cyrille Bollu wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] bonnie++-1.03a]# ./bonnie++ -u 0 (snip) Version 1.03 --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite

Re: RE amanda in domU

2007-10-10 Thread James Wilson
Thanks for the reply. I will look into this. Cyrille Bollu wrote: At home, I'm trying to move my USB printer in a domU xen domain. According to my reading, it's possible but I have to use a kernel command line argument like "pciback.hide=(00:11.0)" in dom0 and add something like "pci = ['00,

Re: Re[2]: NT backup

2003-12-24 Thread vlad f halilow
so, any addition notes for win32 backup. possibly it would be interesting for someone. there are three way to complete order. 1) amanda-win32 client http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda-win32/ is a natie way. this soft is a port of amanda client to win32 platform. but project died(?) two yers ag

Re: Re[2]: NT backup

2003-12-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 14:34, vlad f halilow wrote: >so, any addition notes for win32 backup. possibly it would be >interesting for someone. there are three way to complete >order. > >1) amanda-win32 client http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda-win32/ >is a natie way. this soft is a port of

Re: newbie question re barcodes

2001-03-07 Thread Jason Hollinden
Barcodes are stored in a file showing which amlabel corresponds to which barcode. That way, if you request a specific amlabeled tape with some amanda util, it will check if that name is in the barcode file, then load the matching barcoded tape. Without barcodes, if you ask for a specific amlabel

Re: Silly question re: samba

2001-03-20 Thread John R. Jackson
>Having read the FAQ-O-Matic and not really answering my question ... This has come up a few times recently. The docs/SAMBA file has recently been updated, and I'll see if I can't beef up "the chapter", too. >I have my server lagoon, samba server tamar and client arthur (solaris >2.8) client pr

Re: re-label any tape?

2001-03-28 Thread John R. Jackson
>I apologize if this topic has been discussed recently >(beaten to death, I am sure) but I did too good a job >of delegating, and my colleague who set up our backups is away. >(and I didn't start reading this list when amanda was working >well for us :-) That'll teach 'ya :-). >I changed

Re: re-label any tape?

2001-03-29 Thread Seth Rothenberg
+++ "John R. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +++ > WARNING: skipping tape test because amdump or amflush seem to be running; +++ > WARNING: if they are not, you must run amcleanup. +++ +++ This says there either an amdump/amflush is still running (you might +++ check

Re: re-label any tape?

2001-03-29 Thread John R. Jackson
>There are 6 hosts. 3 of them are IP aliases on one of the hosts, >so four addresses are really the same host. I don't know if that matters. Uh, oh. That definitely matters. When Amanda runs something on a client, it asks the client to start amandad from inetd. Only one copy of amandad may b

Re: re-index old tapes ?

2001-07-16 Thread John R. Jackson
>the problem is: I urgently need to restore files from the old >DAT2 tapes which are, of course, no longer in the current >amanda index. > >Is there a possibility to re-index such tapes, even if >they have the same label as a current one ? ... Amanda does not have a mech

Re: Re-index a tape?

2001-07-23 Thread John R. Jackson
>I want to know what happens if the backup server (where the index >files are stored) crashes. Is there a way for amanda to re-index a >tape? ... The short answer is "no". The longer answer is that this is harder than you might think. In the general case, Amanda would hav

Re: [Fwd: Re: Tape Autoloader]

2008-10-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Prashant Ramhit wrote: Changer problem: mtx command (mtx) doesn't exist changer problem: mtx command (mtx) doesn't exist (expecting a new tape) mtx was not in your when you configured amanda, add it to your PATh and reconfigure amanda. Check the configure output to know if it find it. S

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2005-03-02 Thread Gene Heskett
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2005-04-01 Thread Iulian Topliceanu
Andrés Fernando Argüelles Delgado wrote: I followeb the configuration for making backups on disk instead on tape described in the Amanda-Tape-dirves file but I get the next error when I run amlabel. Couldn´t load tapelist from /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1 no such file or directory I know, accord

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2005-04-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Andrés Fernando Argüelles Delgado, on Montag, 04. April 2005 at 06:38 you wrote to amanda-users: AFAD> I have followed the part of the amanda document to tape-drive for AFAD> configuring aamanda for tapeless operation but when I try to label the AFAD> tape I have created with amlabel it retun

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2005-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 04 April 2005 02:44, Andrés Fernando Argüelles Delgado wrote: >I finally made my amanda configuration work, The amcheck results are >fine, but when I run amdump for a test it sends to >/var/lib/amanda/dead.letter a error report: > >>From amanda Mon Apr 4 01:36:18 2005 >Return-Path: >Re

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2005-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 04 April 2005 02:44, Andrés Fernando Argüelles Delgado wrote: >I finally made my amanda configuration work, The amcheck results are >fine, but when I run amdump for a test it sends to >/var/lib/amanda/dead.letter a error report: > >>From amanda Mon Apr 4 01:36:18 2005 >Return-Path: >Re

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2005-04-04 Thread donald . ritchey
Amanda told you the problem: You cannot use dump to back up a subdirectory of a file system. Dump cannot maintain 'dumpdates', the information about the last full or partial dump on a file system, for subdirectories. It can only do partial backups on entire file systems. If you want to back up

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2005-07-19 Thread Paul Bijnens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You see, I had 127.0.0.1 configured for user amanda for amdump. Amrecover HAS to be run as root. Yes, correct, but you still need ~amanda/.amandahosts instead of /root/.amandahosts . -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Tec

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2005-07-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
Graeme Humphries wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 19:07 -0600, Glenn English wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 21:01 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: Yes, correct, but you still need ~amanda/.amandahosts instead of /root/.amandahosts . Or ~backup/.amandahosts on Debian. I'm sure there's a good reason for

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2005-10-21 Thread Jeanne Case
I see this error several times: sendsize[2308]: time 92.723: runtar: error [must be invoked by amanda] What user is running amdump? -J Robert Tilden wrote: Well, it -looked- like it was fixed. A few days ago I asked for help on an amanda problem on one of our nodes. Backups were failing- the

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2001-12-04 Thread harald
Hello, what do you want to tell us? Please describe. I don't know. Bye, Harald. Am Montag, 3. Dezember 2001 12:36 schrieb José Vicente Núñez Zuleta: > = > System Engineer, José Vicente Nuñez Zuleta ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Newbreak System Administrator (http://www.newbreak.com) > Phone: 203-3

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2002-01-09 Thread Pedro Aguayo
Marc, Creo que sin saber una forma de Unix es un poco dificil de comprender, pero te puedo ayudar en lo mas que pueda. Manda me tus preguntas a [EMAIL PROTECTED] y te respondere lo mejor que pueda. Pedro -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Beha

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2002-01-09 Thread R. Bradley Tilley
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 12:58, you wrote: > hola; > > nos e si es una direccion en castellano pero bueno yo lo intento,la cosa es > que tengo que hacer un trabajo sobre amanda y copias de seguridad y no se > mucho sobre linux,por eso me gustaria saber la forma mas sencilla de > utilizar amand

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2002-01-09 Thread Rivera, Edwin
hola marc, amanda es una sistema para hacer "backups" o archivos de la data en tus servidores. Por ejemplo, donde yo trabajo, tengo un servidor principal de Linux con Amanda instalado (y la maquina de DLT conectada a esta maquina) que hace los "backups" a 18 otros servidores de UNIX. Cada ser

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2002-07-17 Thread Bort, Paul
AMANDA is still actively being developed and used around the world. The Book is still a very good starting point, as the core functionality hasn't changed. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 7:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROT

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2002-07-17 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Bort, Paul wrote: >AMANDA is still actively being developed and used around the world. This is a good opportunity to remind everyone to take a few minutes to append their organization to the "Who is using Amanda?" question in the FAQ-O-Matic. http://amanda.sourceforge.net/c

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2002-07-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 17 July 2002 07:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hy, >I already worked with amanda a bit some while ago. Now, working > for a different employer, we're thinking about starting to use it > here, too. > >As i forgeot most of things to know about when using amanda, I was > looking for the B

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