Index files not being created

2005-09-12 Thread Cameron Beattie
I am having trouble getting amanda to create index files. I have set index to yes in the dumptype. I don't believe there is a permissions problem: ls -laF /var/lib/amanda/normal/index/hostname drwxr-sr-x 2 amanda disk 4096 Sep 13 16:56 _/ drwxr-sr-x 4 amanda disk 4096 Sep 13 16:47 ./ drwxr-xr-x

Draft of a shell-script for backing up AMANDA-metadata

2005-09-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I once wrote about a small shellscript that I use to back up AMANDA-metadata and have received some requests to provide it here. At last I have found some time to translate it to english and add some small notes. I use this script regularly in some client-setups by wrapping it into rundump.s

Re: Running multiple amdumps in paralell?

2005-09-12 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Toralf Lund wrote: Is it safe to run multiple instances of amdump simultaneously? I mean, with different configs, but possibly the same hosts and disks? Different configs: yes same client hosts: no -Mitch

Re: Running multiple amdumps in paralell?

2005-09-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 07:39:07PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: > Something I've always wondered about: > > Is it safe to run multiple instances of amdump simultaneously? I mean, > with different configs, but possibly the same hosts and disks? No, it is my understanding that multiple configs can ru

Re: Running multiple amdumps in paralell?

2005-09-12 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 at 7:39pm, Toralf Lund wrote > Something I've always wondered about: > > Is it safe to run multiple instances of amdump simultaneously? I mean, > with different configs, but possibly the same hosts and disks? Same clients? No, not unless you compile two sets of binaries wit

Running multiple amdumps in paralell?

2005-09-12 Thread Toralf Lund
Something I've always wondered about: Is it safe to run multiple instances of amdump simultaneously? I mean, with different configs, but possibly the same hosts and disks? - Toralf

Re: Amanda only backup 1st tape in correct size???Help????

2005-09-12 Thread David Golden
On 2005-09-12 09:34:44 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > The speed value is not used inside amanda, never mind. > But it surely shows you have a problem somewhere else in the system, > or connected the tapedrive to a very slow SCSI card. > Yeah. I'm using a PV132T unit and here's what an amtapetype t

Re: Amanda only backup 1st tape in correct size???Help????

2005-09-12 Thread Paul Bijnens
Yung Le wrote: Hi, I am backup the systems using amanda version 2.4.4p2 with tape array DELL Power Vault 132T LTO2 hardware compress (24 tapes inside). The configure of LTO using define tapetype LTO2 { comment "LTO2 tape drives" length 406122 mbytes# 400 Gig tapes filemark 97

Re: planner timeouts

2005-09-12 Thread Paul Bijnens
Charles Sprickman wrote: That did work. I removed a few entries from disklist and got a good run. And that brings up another question... What else is sent in that request? Something seems to vary based on the success of the last run. In the sendsize request Amanda can ask for a level 0,