Re: system upgrade broke my installation

2003-06-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-06-17T19:20:28Z, Pete Poggione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > kirk is windowsNT server.. On behalf of people named Kirk everywhere: Kiss my heiny. Couldn't it at least have been a Sun box or something? -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: long estimate and run times

2003-06-17 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 at 3:23pm, Jason Edgecombe wrote > I'm trying to figure out why may backups and estimages take so long. I > have a dual-processor machine with 4GB RAM. / and /boot are two software > RAID1 drives and /home is a RAID5 hardware drive. My tape drive is an > Overland Neo2000 L

long estimate and run times

2003-06-17 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Hi all, I'm trying to figure out why may backups and estimages take so long. I have a dual-processor machine with 4GB RAM. / and /boot are two software RAID1 drives and /home is a RAID5 hardware drive. My tape drive is an Overland Neo2000 LTO2 with 30 tape library. I am using a 200GB holding

system upgrade broke my installation

2003-06-17 Thread Pete Poggione
The subject says it all. My amanda tape server is running Mandrake 9.0. Everything has been running great on this box for about a year backing up a remote linux server and a remote windowsNT server. 2 days ago I did what I thought was an innocent system upgrade to patch some security issues. After

RE: amanda: running forever..update

2003-06-17 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 at 11:16am, Michael Packer wrote > Well this time ... I removed the large disk so I could run it a couple > times today and see what numbers I was getting. I also removed the > holding disk since the tape and drives are all on the same machine... > > Dump time is down a good

RE: amanda: running forever..update

2003-06-17 Thread Michael Packer
Well this time ... I removed the large disk so I could run it a couple times today and see what numbers I was getting. I also removed the holding disk since the tape and drives are all on the same machine... Dump time is down a good bit 1 more question...what is "estimate time"? STATISTI

Restore Problems 2.4.4 - Unexpected EOF

2003-06-17 Thread Adam Kirby
Hi All, I've been using amanda 2.4.1 on Solaris 2.5.1 with a DLT4000 for several years without many problems. I've recently upgraded to Solaris 9, amanda 2.4.4 and a Sun L280 (6-slot DLT7000). Most of the FS's are VxFS with a few UFS. I'm just doing some test restores from the first night product

Re: amdump to many taper retries

2003-06-17 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, June 17, 2003 10:01:23 +0200 Stefan Noll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > 4 months ago I installed amanda 2.4.2p and it worked fine. > but now I get following strange error: > > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > localhost /home/samba/projekte/Laufende lev 0 FAILED [too many

Re: taperalgo largestfit can cause "too many taper retries"

2003-06-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
Sven Rudolph wrote: Some approaches: a) increase the "too many taper retries" limit (or make it configurable): ... b) avoid this by never trying to write anything when a tape is full ... c) don't count taper retries that happen after the tape is full (according to tapetype entry) d) make it onl

taperalgo largestfit can cause "too many taper retries"

2003-06-17 Thread Sven Rudolph
I'm having a problem which seems to be caused by a changed taping order. >From the log file (grepped): DISK planner foo /data SUCCESS dumper foo /data 20030615 0 [sec 10713.506 kb 16686543 kps 1557.5 orig-kb 22953940] INFO taper retrying foo:/data.0 on new tape: [writing file: No space left on d

Re: amanda: running forever..update

2003-06-17 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 at 8:22am, Michael Packer wrote > The changes took it from 8+ hours to 4:45 still would like to get it What changes? > down a bit more... I still have a problem with compsec (made a typo) so > I reformatted it by hand. > > Questions... > > would it be beneficial to bre

Re: amanda: running forever..update

2003-06-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
Michael Packer wrote: The changes took it from 8+ hours to 4:45 still would like to get it down a bit more... I still have a problem with compsec (made a typo) so I reformatted it by hand. The backup itself is now done in 2:35. The rest of the time is done by taping the chunks. You are in the

RE: amdump to many taper retries

2003-06-17 Thread donald . ritchey
First step: clean the tape drive. Two or three times. Second step: Try accessing the tape from outside Amanda. Using the no-rewind device, dd(1) several dump files from the tape to /dev/null, just to exercise the tape drive and make sure that cleaning the heads has resolved whatever problem wa

amanda: running forever..update

2003-06-17 Thread Michael Packer
The changes took it from 8+ hours to 4:45 still would like to get it down a bit more... I still have a problem with compsec (made a typo) so I reformatted it by hand. Questions... would it be beneficial to break /sda5 down into different disks (I was looking at the sample disklist and saw y

amanda newbie questions

2003-06-17 Thread Blueyonder
Hi   As a newbie to amanda, i plan on running it on linux. Platform is Redhat 8.0. with apache webserver on Intel based server.  Looking to use Redhat 8.0 rpm to install amanda.   Could someone please confirm the following issues:   1.)Is there a hardware compatability list for amanda?  

RE: strange am-label issue

2003-06-17 Thread Ron Bauman
I don't have OFFLINE_BEFORE_UNLOAD=1 Does your tape driver require a # 'mt offline' before mtx unload? in my changer.conf. Did you find for some reason it was needed? Ron -Original Message- From: Tom Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June

unsuscribe

2003-06-17 Thread Mody Ndiaye
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Re: strange am-label issue

2003-06-17 Thread Tom Brown
> $ more chg-zd-mtx.20030617110112.debug > chg-zd-mtx: debug 1 pid 2176 ruid 11 euid 11: start at Tue Jun 17 11:01:12 > 2003 > 11:01:12 Arg info: > $# = 2 > $0 = "/opt/amanda-2.4.4/libexec/chg-zd-mtx" > $1 = "-slot" > $2 = "next" > 11:01:12 Running: /opt/mtx/sbi

Re: amdump to many taper retries

2003-06-17 Thread Alexander JOLK
> NOTES: > taper: tape met053 kb 17996640 fm 21 writing file: No space left on device > taper: retrying localhost:/home/samba/projekte/Laufende.0 on new tape: > [writing file: No space left on device] > taper: tape met055 kb 17488544 fm 1 writing file: Input/output error > taper: retrying localhost

Re: strange am-label issue

2003-06-17 Thread Tom Brown
I had a similar problem with a Sony SDX-500C drive. I found the changer script wasn't waiting for the tape to really become ready. Using 2.4.4, chg-zd-mtx and adding this to changer.conf solved the problem: offlinestatus=1 Set to 0 if 'mt status' gives an #

Re: strange am-label issue

2003-06-17 Thread Tom Brown
I had a similar problem with a Sony SDX-500C drive. I found the changer script wasn't waiting for the tape to really become ready. Using 2.4.4, chg-zd-mtx and adding this to changer.conf solved the problem: offlinestatus=1 Set to 0 if 'mt status' gives an #

Re: reuse of tapes

2003-06-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
Gregor Ibic wrote: I setup amanda config for test environment and enter: dumpcycle 1 runspercycle 1 tapecycle 1 tapes and doing always full backup why I get problems on reusing the tape on the same day several times? If you spell out the units in the parameter above: dumpcycle 1 day runperscycle 1

amdump to many taper retries

2003-06-17 Thread Stefan Noll
hi, 4 months ago I installed amanda 2.4.2p and it worked fine. but now I get following strange error: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: localhost /home/samba/projekte/Laufende lev 0 FAILED [too many taper retries] NOTES: taper: tape met053 kb 17996640 fm 21 writing file: No space left on devic

Re: Force level 0 backup

2003-06-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
M J wrote: So what would be the reason(s) that one would force a level 0 backup? e.g. - You just reorganised a lot of software on a disk, (or reinstalled) and you want to avoid that an incremental level takes just as much as a level 0. - You reorganised the disklist, and what was one entry before (