Re: amdump taking a long time

2001-07-26 Thread John R. Jackson
>So how do I get the CVS version (2.4.2 preferably) ? http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/136.html http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/156.html http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/170.html You want "-ramanda-242-branch". You will need a very recent version of

Re: amdump taking a long time

2001-07-26 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* John R. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:15:42PM -0500) > And remember that when you need to make mods to a Makefile, they need to > be to Makefile.am (which is only in the CVS), not Makefile.in. Which, > in turn, means you need to be conversant with automake (another of li

Re: amdump taking a long time

2001-07-24 Thread John R. Jackson
>>(comments about making configure.in changes) >>... >I haven't, but it should not be too hard >(famous last words ;0 ) No kidding! :-) As I said, poke around for how readline is handled, and steal, steal, steal :-). And remember that when you need to make mods to a Makefile, they need to be t

Re: amdump taking a long time

2001-07-24 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* John R. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:30:37PM -0500) >>If I get it working, would you include it ? > Absolutely. Great. >>We would need to link against the libtar.a from tar 1.13.19 alpha though. >>Would that be a problem ? > Not if it's done right :-). > I'd suggest

Re: amdump taking a long time

2001-07-23 Thread John R. Jackson
>If I get it working, would you include it ? Absolutely. >We would need to link against the libtar.a from tar 1.13.19 alpha though. > >Would that be a problem ? Not if it's done right :-). I'd suggest something like this: * Add library tests to configure.in ala the readline ones to see if

Re: amdump taking a long time

2001-07-23 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* John R. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:40:12AM -0500) >>calcsize does all 3 estimates in one go ... > But it does not support exclusion patterns. That's the one major > thing holding me back from supporting it. It doesn't ? If you compile with -DBUILTIN_EXCLUDE_SUPPORT

Re: amdump taking a long time

2001-07-20 Thread John R. Jackson
>calcsize does all 3 estimates in one go ... But it does not support exclusion patterns. That's the one major thing holding me back from supporting it. Now if someone wants to figure out how to link calcsize with the GNU tar pattern matching code ... :-) > Gerhard John R. Jackson, Techn

Re: amdump taking a long time

2001-07-20 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* John R. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:53:03PM -0500) >>The Apollo fails to return an estimate and fails to backup. The estimates >>are taking about 6hrs to complete. ... > Ick. I'm sure that's because GNU tar does not perform estimates as fast > as ufsdump can. > One

Re: amdump taking a long time

2001-07-19 Thread John R. Jackson
>... The tape >device is a SUN L9 (DLT8000 with autochanger) 40GB (/dev/rmt/1n). ... We'll come back to this later ... >I have managed to backup Helios and parts of Apollo using dump uncompressed. >I want to backup the user partitions compressed with gtar. ... Why do you want to switch to gt

amdump taking a long time

2001-07-18 Thread Sheldon Knight
Hi, I have recently installed amanda and have not as yet managed to successfully obtain a backup to my satisfaction. I have a backup server (Helios) which also has an amanda client and a remote amanda client (Apollo). The tape device is a SUN L9 (DLT8000 with autochanger) 40GB (/dev/rmt/1n). H