Re: [Bacula-users] RAIT anyone?

2013-05-10 Thread Henry Yen
using a modern-ish SAN, anyway. Another possible idea to consider might be network RAID, Linux-style, using NDB/DRDB/AoE, etc. -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York

Re: [Bacula-users] Bad disk noises - replace the volume without restarting the backup?

2010-11-05 Thread Henry Yen
the physical disk-swap event, but that might depend on how the external enclosure is set up and configured? -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-09 Thread Henry Yen
guess he means the Rate in the job statistics. I believe with spooling, maybe software compression and MD5/SHA checksumms that speed is a little low, but not terrible. Depending on the FD doing the checksumms and compression, he might simply be CPU bound. Agreed. -- Henry Yen

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-05 Thread Henry Yen
instead. -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-05 Thread Henry Yen
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:09:06AM -0400, John Drescher wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Henry Yen he...@aegisinfosys.com wrote: On (at least) Linux, /dev/random will quickly block - use /dev/urandom instead. Since these tend to be slow I would just create a large file from one

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-05 Thread Henry Yen
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 17:17:39PM +0200, Christian Gaul wrote: Am 05.08.2010 16:57, schrieb Henry Yen: First, I welcome this discussion, however arcane (as long as the List permits it, of course) -- I am happy to discover if I'm wrong in my thinking. That said, I'm not (yet) convinced

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't find the tape changer

2010-01-19 Thread Henry Yen
send you a static sg_map, if you want (and you trust me enough to run it...). -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't find the tape changer

2010-01-18 Thread Henry Yen
the failure remain after retrying after a minute or two? I've used some changers that tended to throw errors like the above for the first half-a-minute or so following a reset. Waiting a minute was required for the changer to settle back to normal. -- Henry Yen

Re: [Bacula-users] DDS3 streamer spits out tape time and again (offtopic)

2005-09-12 Thread Henry Yen
it. i blow out the inside of the drive with air duster. that's sometimes enough to get the tapes to load. however, i agree that the once the drive begins to exhibit that behavior on a regular basis, you should look to replace it. -- Henry Yen Aegis Information

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed: Adaptec 29160 card giving errors

2005-09-09 Thread Henry Yen
some soldering work, and if my lab techs ever get around to fixing it, i'll be testing that, too. knoppix 3.9 also runs on this kit. -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Spam on this list

2005-05-17 Thread Henry Yen
). For this, and some other problems with C/R: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/challenge-response.html -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York