many dumps in parallel

2005-06-16 Thread Vects
Hello there, I mentioned amanda runs only one dump of computer/partition the same time. Is there any way configure amanda to run many dumps at once for different computers? I have 6 computers to backup in disklist, it's about 4 partitions per computer, backup takes long time to finish, I want to

Re: many dumps in parallel

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
Vects wrote: Hello there, I mentioned amanda runs only one dump of computer/partition the same time. Is there any way configure amanda to run many dumps at once for different computers? I have 6 computers to backup in disklist, it's about 4 partitions per computer, backup takes long time to

Amanda Statistics.

2005-06-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
Hi, Below the statistics from my last backup. I assume the times are all elapsed times, but why is amanda so wrong in estimating the times? Or is it a bug? STATISTICS: Total Full Daily Estimate Time

Re: Amanda Statistics.

2005-06-16 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Erik P. Olsen schrieb: Hi, Below the statistics from my last backup. I assume the times are all elapsed times, but why is amanda so wrong in estimating the times? Or is it a bug? STATISTICS: Total Full Daily

Re: Amanda Statistics.

2005-06-16 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Below the statistics from my last backup. I assume the times are all elapsed times, but why is amanda so wrong in estimating the times? Or is it a bug? STATISTICS: Total Full Daily

dump larger than tape, 2867765 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk

2005-06-16 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi I have tried backing up / using the disklist with a 20GB DDS-4 150MM DAT tape and I get this error below. The size is only 3GB Is there a level I need to adjust in the amanda.conf file. sever.domain.co.uk:/ 0 planner: [dump larger than tape, 2867765 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk]

dump larger than tape, 2862305 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk

2005-06-16 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
server.smtl.co.uk / 20050616 0 [dump larger than tape, 2862305 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk] delay: Total size now 286. Any Ideas as I am using a 20GB dat tape. -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator Chuck Amadi The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Princess of Wales Hospital

Re: dump larger than tape, 2867765 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk

2005-06-16 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator schrieb: Hi I have tried backing up / using the disklist with a 20GB DDS-4 150MM DAT tape and I get this error below. The size is only 3GB Is there a level I need to adjust in the amanda.conf file. Um, perhaps the tapesize parameter? Christoph

Re: R: dump larger than tape, 2867765 KB, but cannot incremental dump newdisk

2005-06-16 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi just posted it When I first configured I did rub the command that took for ever and a day. But I did have a 20gb tape in the drive. Cheers Is there a way to reset it as I have edited the On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 14:20 +0200, Montagni, Giovanni wrote: Have you ever run amtapetype command? it

Re: dump larger than tape, 2862305 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: DELAYING DUMPS IF NEEDED, total_size 2862734, tape length 1976320 mark Somewhere in your configuration you have a tape length of 1976320 KB == 1930 MB instead of 20gb. Search for 1930 or 1976320 in amanda.conf to see it is defined. Or post the

Re: R: dump larger than tape, 2867765 KB, but cannot incremental dump newdisk

2005-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 June 2005 08:28, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Hi just posted it Where? It didn't make it to here so we can verify what you have. When I first configured I did rub the command that took for ever and a day. But I did have a 20gb tape in the drive. Two things Chuck:

Re: out-of-tape on dump errors

2005-06-16 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Peter Mueller wrote: Does anyone now why Amanda might generate an out of tape error in a situation where it blatantly isn't anywhere even close to the end of the tape? As I understand it, Amanda interpretes any non-ok result from the tape device as out of tape - as most backup and tape

2.5.5 question

2005-06-16 Thread George Kelbley
I just upgraded from 2.4.4p3-2 to 2.5.0 (I need to use calsize to handle a Network Appliance filer). My short test backup worked fine, but when I ran my usual backup last night, amanda skipped more than half my DLE's because it thought it didn't have room on the tape. It failed for some of the

Backup to Hard Drive

2005-06-16 Thread Cody Holland
I'm a newb to Amanda, and would like to backup everything to a server running Raid0. I'm sure this is very possible, I just cannot find any docs on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Cody

Re: out-of-tape on dump errors

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
Mike Brodbelt wrote: Peter Mueller wrote: As I understand it, Amanda interpretes any non-ok result from the tape device as out of tape - as most backup and tape handling software does. That filesystem has since backed up successfully, so I'm writing it down to just a glitch in this case.

Re: dump larger than tape, 2862305 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: I got the culprit define tapetype HP-DAT { comment DAT tape drives # data provided by Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] length 1930 mbytes filemark 111 kbytes speed 468 kbytes I will edit this bugger. Actually it is more or less

dumper5 pid 10813 is messed up, ignoring it

2005-06-16 Thread Rebecca Pakish Crum
Title: dumper5 pid 10813 is messed up, ignoring it Hi all - I've searched the archives and did a google search on the above error, and I found an old sourceforge archive from JJ that offered some suggestions, but I still can't get a handle on what's going on. Here's what I have: A server

Re: Backup to Hard Drive

2005-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 June 2005 10:52, Cody Holland wrote: I'm a newb to Amanda, and would like to backup everything to a server running Raid0. I'm sure this is very possible, I just cannot find any docs on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Cody See the FILE: tapetype in the docs

RE: Backup to Hard Drive

2005-06-16 Thread Rebecca Pakish Crum
On Thursday 16 June 2005 10:52, Cody Holland wrote: I'm a newb to Amanda, and would like to backup everything to a server running Raid0. I'm sure this is very possible, I just cannot find any docs on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Cody Try looking in the

Re[2]: Backup to Hard Drive

2005-06-16 Thread sgw
Hello, Rebecca, on 16.06.2005, 21:22 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: Try looking in the amanda FAQ-omatic, here: http://amanda.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/fom?_recurse=1file=25#file_191 This is the configuration I used and it works like a champ. ;-) And something more up-to-date:

Re: dumper5 pid 10813 is messed up, ignoring it

2005-06-16 Thread sgw
Hello, Rebecca, on 16.06.2005, 19:47 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: Here's what I have: A server running amanda-2.4.4p4 running on RHE3 intel, and has been for a couple of years. A client running amanda-2.4.4p1 on Sol9, sparc. Any suggestions? Is there any reasonable chance of

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2005-06-16 Thread Nicklas Bondesson
I'm using amanda 2.4.5 to backup some Windows shares using amanda and smbclient. Everything went just fine until I upgraded Debian to the lastest stable (3.1). This upgrade went from Samba 2.2.3a to 3.0.14a. I now get this type of message on all of my Windows shares that I back up from amanda.

Strange dump details

2005-06-16 Thread Nicklas Bondesson
I'm using amanda 2.4.5 to backup some Windows shares using amanda and smbclient. Everything went just fine until I upgraded Debian to the lastest stable (3.1). This upgrade went from Samba 2.2.3a to 3.0.14a. I now get this type of message on all of my Windows shares that I back up from amanda.

RE: dumper5 pid 10813 is messed up, ignoring it

2005-06-16 Thread Rebecca Pakish Crum
Hello, Rebecca, on 16.06.2005, 19:47 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: Here's what I have: A server running amanda-2.4.4p4 running on RHE3 intel, and has been for a couple of years. A client running amanda-2.4.4p1 on Sol9, sparc. Any suggestions? Is there any reasonable

Re: Backup to Hard Drive

2005-06-16 Thread Mike Delaney
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:24:02PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 16 June 2005 10:52, Cody Holland wrote: I'm a newb to Amanda, and would like to backup everything to a server running Raid0. I'm sure this is very possible, I just cannot find any docs on it. Any help would be

Re: Backup to Hard Drive

2005-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 June 2005 17:50, Mike Delaney wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:24:02PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 16 June 2005 10:52, Cody Holland wrote: I'm a newb to Amanda, and would like to backup everything to a server running Raid0. I'm sure this is very possible, I just

Re: Strange dump details

2005-06-16 Thread sgw
Hello, Nicklas, on 16.06.2005, 23:26 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: ? Domain=[DOMAIN] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] Any ideas? Ignore it (it's not a problem) or browse the archives of this list for a patch that has been recently posted. Best regards, Stefan G.

Re: Strange dump details

2005-06-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:26:53PM +0200, Nicklas Bondesson wrote: I'm using amanda 2.4.5 to backup some Windows shares using amanda and smbclient. Everything went just fine until I upgraded Debian to the lastest stable (3.1). This upgrade went from Samba 2.2.3a to 3.0.14a. I now get this

Re: [dump larger than tape, 2866960 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk]

2005-06-16 Thread Toomas Aas
Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: #disklist file #server.domain.co.uk / comp-root-tar #Thought I was using tar. and I get the above error. Whats the best to tackle this still using DSS-4 150mm DAT tapes. and how to cannot incremental dump new disk as above error. Thus can I change

DDS-3 tapetype ???

2005-06-16 Thread Michael D Schleif
Earlier this year, my HP DAT tape drive had problems, and I replaced it with a Compaq/Sony SDT-9000. Mostly, I am still using the same DDS-3 tapes that I was using, and retired some and added some. My old records show that I was getting nearly the full 12GB uncompressed tape length. Since the

Re: Strange dump details

2005-06-16 Thread Frank Smith
--On Thursday, June 16, 2005 20:13:41 -0400 Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Backup programs like dump, tar, smbclient generate lots of messages that are informational fluff. Amanda has hard coded lists of things to not worry about. Others amanda knows to print error reports about.