Re: planner: balance per host?

2004-03-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
Mathias Koerber wrote: is there a way to influence the planner not only such that it balances out the space across all days, but also that it tries spreading out level 0s across all hosts per day, so that I not end up having one host dump all fs's at L0 one day, then the next host on the next day?

Re: planner: balance per host?

2004-03-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:56:30AM +0800, Mathias Koerber wrote: is there a way to influence the planner not only such that it balances out the space across all days, but also that it tries spreading out level 0s across all hosts per day That's what amanda try to do since amanda-2.4.4. If

Reporting Question

2004-03-26 Thread Thomas Brand
Hi amanda users I receive reports from our amanda backup system every day by mail: ... DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATSTAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISKL ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s --

Re: Reporting Question

2004-03-26 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 at 2:59pm, Thomas Brand wrote is there a way to customize the reporting format? For example it would be nice to have the full name of the disks, not just the last part. I see two possible solutions (please correct me) to achieve this. a) the reporting format can be

post-only access to the lists??

2004-03-26 Thread Mathias Körber
Hi all, I would like to read amanda-users and amanda-hackers in daily digest format. Only, the amanda.org Majordomo does not offer those options. But hey, there still the Yahoo Groups copies, which do provide daily digests. Only problem is that to post to the lists I have tio subscribe to

Re: Reporting Question

2004-03-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 March 2004 08:59, Thomas Brand wrote: Hi amanda users I receive reports from our amanda backup system every day by mail: ... DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATSTAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISKL ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s

big dump compare to tape size

2004-03-26 Thread BRINER Cedric
hi, I'm having problem with amanda when it backups big partition compared to what a tape can contain. the tapes are 70Gb and some dumps are about 30Gb I've set the autoflush to yes. Some times a get : + These dumps were to tape WeeklySet076. + *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file:

Samba and strange dumps revisited

2004-03-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
Well, good news and bad news... The good news is that, after an apt-get upgrade on the tapehost[1] last week, the dumps from my samba DLEs seem to be reliable and complete. The bad news is that amanda still reports them as strange, with the strange dump summary consisting of several variations

dumps too big

2004-03-26 Thread Brian Cuttler
Hi amanda users, Just to confirm that I'm understanding what I'm seeing. dumps too big - the planner decided that there wasn't enough room on the tape for all of the partitions given its estimates so it decided to skip this one partition for the day. out of tape means that the planner

Re: dumps too big

2004-03-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 March 2004 10:18, Brian Cuttler wrote: Hi amanda users, Just to confirm that I'm understanding what I'm seeing. dumps too big - the planner decided that there wasn't enough room on the tape for all of the partitions given its estimates so it decided to skip this one partition for

Re: dumps too big

2004-03-26 Thread Brian Cuttler
Gene, The saga on TAR was that I've just put in place a (newer) version of amanda what was compiled to know about gnu tar. This was installed on the SGI/IRIX that serves /usr/local to (most) of the sgi systems on sight. This allowed me to create a new amanda server on a system that had no

Re: big dump compare to tape size

2004-03-26 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 04:04:05PM +0100, BRINER Cedric wrote: the tapes are 70Gb Is that 70 GB native, or with hardware compression taken into account? (If the latter, it can only be approximate; depends how compressible the data is.) Do you in fact have hardware compression enabled? (See

Re: Samba and strange dumps revisited

2004-03-26 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 09:10:53AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: Where do I go to tell amanda that these SUCCESS... messages should be considered normal? It's a hard-coded list. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would

Re: Samba and strange dumps revisited

2004-03-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:35:43PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 09:10:53AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: Where do I go to tell amanda that these SUCCESS... messages should be considered normal? It's a hard-coded list. Then how about a (reasonably) simple way to wrap

Re: big dump compare to tape size

2004-03-26 Thread Eric Siegerman
[sorry about that half-a-reply, folks; clumsy fingers...] On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 04:04:05PM +0100, BRINER Cedric wrote: + These dumps were to tape WeeklySet076. + *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: short write]]. so the tape have for example 45Gb already on it, when it tries to

Re: dumps too big

2004-03-26 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:18:36AM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: dumps too big - the planner decided that there wasn't enough room on the tape for all of the partitions given its estimates so it decided to skip this one partition for the day. Sort of. The complete message was, dumps too big,

Re: dumps too big

2004-03-26 Thread Brian Cuttler
Eric, Thank you, I should have been more complete... The flush finally finished just a minutes ago, 31Gig to DLT 8000 took 4:44 (hours:minutes). I'm not sure I will not have to divide the tar into smaller pieces, the one tar of the partition took up 85% of the tape capacity. Got to say though,

Re: dumps too big

2004-03-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 March 2004 11:25, Brian Cuttler wrote: Gene, The saga on TAR was that I've just put in place a (newer) version of amanda what was compiled to know about gnu tar. This was installed on the SGI/IRIX that serves /usr/local to (most) of the sgi systems on sight. This allowed me to

Re: Samba and strange dumps revisited

2004-03-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:35:43PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 09:10:53AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: Where do I go to tell amanda that these SUCCESS... messages should be considered normal? It's a hard-coded list. But easily extended. See the source in