Re: The Size Question

2006-07-07 Thread Brian Cuttler
I'd imagine the work area was an issue too, for writing. On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 07:30:30PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 05:11:50PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, everyone - > > > > I would like to suggest an update for the answer to the Size Question, one > > of

Re: The Size Question

2006-07-07 Thread Peter Kunst
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 05:11:50PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, everyone - I would like to suggest an update for the answer to the Size Question, one of the top ten questions at http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html. I have also seen this question on the Zmanda forum

Re: The Size Question

2006-07-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 05:11:50PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, everyone - > > I would like to suggest an update for the answer to the Size Question, one > of the top ten questions at http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html. I have > also seen this question on the Zmanda forums; that is, h

Re: LVM snapshots

2006-07-07 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jon LaBadie schreef: On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 12:47:15PM -0600, Michael Loftis wrote: Does anyone use or have knowledge of using LVM snapshots with Amanda backups? ... I'm just wondering what happens during the freeze - how freezing "all activity to and from the filesystem to reduce the risk

The Size Question

2006-07-07 Thread lois
Hi, everyone - I would like to suggest an update for the answer to the Size Question, one of the top ten questions at http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html. I have also seen this question on the Zmanda forums; that is, how to make a single dump image aka disk list entry span multiple tapes. Tradi

Re: LVM snapshots

2006-07-07 Thread Ian Turner
On Friday 07 July 2006 16:52, Jon LaBadie wrote: > Granted the inode for a changed file has to be > copied, but I don't see why the data blocks do. Which is, in fact, what happens. LVM snapshots are implemented at the device level, not the filesystem level, which means copy-on-write takes place

Re: LVM snapshots

2006-07-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 12:47:15PM -0600, Michael Loftis wrote: > > > >Does anyone use or have knowledge of using LVM snapshots with Amanda > >backups? > > ... > >I'm just wondering what happens during the freeze - how freezing "all > >activity to and from the filesystem to reduce the risk of pro

Re: LVM snapshots

2006-07-07 Thread Michael Loftis
--On July 7, 2006 2:35:23 AM -0700 "Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone use or have knowledge of using LVM snapshots with Amanda backups? I believe it to be the same concept as Shadow Volume Copies in Windows 2003, and that is quite useful. A little bit

Re: LVM snapshots

2006-07-07 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 02:35:23AM -0700, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: > I'm just wondering what happens during the freeze - how freezing "all > activity to and from the filesystem to reduce the risk of problems" affects > the system? One would imagine that disk writes are somehow queued

Re: RE Compression usage

2006-07-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 01:57:48AM -0700, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: > > I got these replies by email, which I think clear it up for me. Still not > sure about whether I can start from scratch by erasing the existing > hardware-compressed tapes, and then issuing mt -f /dev/nst0 defcom

Amanda "To many dumper retry" on cygwin client

2006-07-07 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
As indicated in a previous email yesterday I got amcheck working with my cygwin client. Last night the dump ran and I got the sad news from the amanda server logs: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: coriolis /local lev 0 FAILED 20060706 [too many dumper retry] I went to my cy

LVM snapshots

2006-07-07 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
Does anyone use or have knowledge of using LVM snapshots with Amanda backups? I believe it to be the same concept as Shadow Volume Copies in Windows 2003, and that is quite useful. A little bit of info here: http://arstechnica.com/articles/columns/linux/linux-20041013.ars I'm just wondering wh

Re: RE Compression usage

2006-07-07 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
I got these replies by email, which I think clear it up for me. Still not sure about whether I can start from scratch by erasing the existing hardware-compressed tapes, and then issuing mt -f /dev/nst0 defcompression 0 in crontab, but I'm going to try anyway: Software compression is normally rec