Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 17:26 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: [snip] > > Just a clarification on terminology. > > As your dump progresses, dumpers become available, the dumper has to be > assigned to some DLE, i.e. client/disk pair. It is at this point that > amanda will decide to start a new dump or no

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:41:22PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 10:20pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote > > > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 16:10 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > > We're talking about network bandwidth -- ethernet. And the parameter is > > > there in case your ba

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 10:20pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 16:10 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > We're talking about network bandwidth -- ethernet. And the parameter is > > there in case your backup server and/or clients perform other network > > intensive functions that

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 16:10 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > We're talking about network bandwidth -- ethernet. And the parameter is > there in case your backup server and/or clients perform other network > intensive functions that you don't want to interfere with. Myself, I > consider back

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 10:07pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 15:02 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 8:44pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote > > > > > I have now cranked up the latter to 3000 kbps, so I'll see tonight how > > > that behaves. > > > > Why so stingy?

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 15:02 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 8:44pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote > > > I have now cranked up the latter to 3000 kbps, so I'll see tonight how > > that behaves. > > Why so stingy? I'm assuming you have at least a 100Mbps connection? Why > let am

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 8:44pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote > I have now cranked up the latter to 3000 kbps, so I'll see tonight how > that behaves. Why so stingy? I'm assuming you have at least a 100Mbps connection? Why let amanda use only 3% of that (0.3% if you're using gigabit)? -- Joshua Baker-L

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 13:53 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:01:37PM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:50 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > > I Have had a back-up active since 1 o'clock (this night). When I issue > > > amstatus I can see that it is still a

Re: "no-hold" meaning

2005-09-13 Thread Guy Dallaire
2005/9/13, Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I read it as "don't touch for amanda usage" the last 0.5GB. Work only > with what is above that. Of the part amanda can work with, reserve 30% > for degraded mode. > > If, at the beginning of the dump, you started with 3GB available space > on the ho

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 8:32pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 12:14 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 6:01pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote > > > > > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:50 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > > > I Have had a back-up active since 1 o'clock (this nig

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 12:14 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 6:01pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote > > > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:50 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > > I Have had a back-up active since 1 o'clock (this night). When I issue > > > amstatus I can see that it is still ac

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:01:37PM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:50 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > I Have had a back-up active since 1 o'clock (this night). When I issue > > amstatus I can see that it is still active although apparently doing > > nothing. It reports one du

Re: questions about tunning configuration

2005-09-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Matt Hyclak wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:41:34PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura enlightened us: > > tapecycle is the total number of tapes; only these tapes are rotated, > > right? > > Not exactly. tapecycle is the minimum number of tapes that will be used > before any single t

"no-hold" meaning

2005-09-13 Thread Guy Dallaire
I've read the amstatus docs and the "using amanda" chapter. Somehow, I can't quite figure how to interpret the amstatus output. This morning I did: amstatus DailySet1 and got: --SNIP-- SUMMARY part real estimated size s

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 6:01pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:50 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > I Have had a back-up active since 1 o'clock (this night). When I issue > > amstatus I can see that it is still active although apparently doing > > nothing. It reports one dumper busy w

Re: Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:50 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > I Have had a back-up active since 1 o'clock (this night). When I issue > amstatus I can see that it is still active although apparently doing > nothing. It reports one dumper busy with "no-bandwidth". What ican my > problem be and what is th

Re: questions about tunning configuration

2005-09-13 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:41:34PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura enlightened us: > Hi. There are a couple of parameters on amanda.conf that I can't > figure out exactly their meaning, even after reading the man pages a > thousand times: > > - dumpcycle, in days > - runspercycle, in number of amdumps > -

Re: Index files not being created

2005-09-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
amanda disk 4096 Sep 13 16:56 _/ > drwxr-sr-x 4 amanda disk 4096 Sep 13 16:47 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 4 amanda disk 4096 Sep 13 16:24 ../ > > I have checked the logfiles and they seem fine: > START driver date 20050913 > DISK planner hostname / > START planner date 20050913 > WARN

questions about tunning configuration

2005-09-13 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
Hi. There are a couple of parameters on amanda.conf that I can't figure out exactly their meaning, even after reading the man pages a thousand times: - dumpcycle, in days - runspercycle, in number of amdumps - tapecycle, in number of tapes tapecycle is the total number of tapes; only these tapes

Hanging back-up.

2005-09-13 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I Have had a back-up active since 1 o'clock (this night). When I issue amstatus I can see that it is still active although apparently doing nothing. It reports one dumper busy with "no-bandwidth". What ican my problem be and what is this "no-bandwidth"? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# su amanda -c "/usr/sbi

Re: Index files not being created

2005-09-13 Thread Cameron Beattie
Cameron Beattie wrote: 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