Re: Are you running snapshots?

2009-08-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: Hmm, well one problem is that that's a snapshot of the the 2.6.1 branch, which is pretty stable at this point. The other problem, which Jean-Louis might be able to address, is that it's now almost 20090812, so we should probably have a new build installed by now

Re: Are you running snapshots?

2009-08-12 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Jean-Louis Martineaumartin...@zmanda.com wrote: There is no new snapshot because there is no commit since 20090805. Ah, so. I've been off my game! Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: Are you running snapshots?

2009-08-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Jean-Louis Martineaumartin...@zmanda.com wrote: There is no new snapshot because there is no commit since 20090805. Ah, so. I've been off my game! Dustin And I'd advise that one should not fix that which

amanda client issue, dumps failing

2009-08-12 Thread Brian Cuttler
Amanda users, For the issue below, we have see several hundred thousand emails move through the system system each day. UFSdump is failing because it seems too many files come and go, queries to continue but can't get a reply (I don't know of a way anyway). We tried to switch the problem DLE to

Re: amanda client issue, dumps failing

2009-08-12 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
yes, /var/mail does tend to be a problem. My mail.log can get to a quarter million lines a day, but that's not the same as getting that number of messages. Typically, my level 1 backups aren't much different from the level 0, because basically everything changes every day. I get by with

2.6.1p1-20090805 snapshot: amtapetype failure

2009-08-12 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Running amtapetype yields: opt/amanda/sbin# ./amtapetype -f /dev/nst1 Can't locate object method new via package Amanda::Header at ./amtapetype line 307. Compiled on: Distributor ID: Debian Description:Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) Release:4.0 Codename: etch Kernel

Re: amanda client issue, dumps failing

2009-08-12 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 02:31:17PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Brian, gtar read the complete directory hierarchy before sending data, it can take a long time if you have a lot of files. Ok, will keep an eye. Looking at the sendfile log we are down to at least ./spool/imap/user/gling,

Re: 2.6.1p1-20090805 snapshot: amtapetype failure

2009-08-12 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Jean-Francois Malouinma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote: Running amtapetype yields: opt/amanda/sbin# ./amtapetype -f /dev/nst1 Can't locate object method new via package Amanda::Header at ./amtapetype line 307. Hey, thanks! Note that you're running the snapshot

[Amanda-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-12 Thread rorycl
I'm going to cross-post this text on the Amanda and Bacula lists. Apologies in advance if you see this twice. Our company is about to provide centralised backups for several pools of backup data of between 1 and 15TB in size. Each pool changes daily but backups to tape will only occur once a

Re: [Amanda-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-12 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
rorycl wrote: An important aspect of the system is that the tapes should be readable for 12 years, by other parties if necessary. From this point of view we like the idea of providing a CD with each tape set of the software needed to extract the contents, together with a listing of the

Re: [Amanda-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:17:17 -0400 rorycl amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: An important aspect of the system is that the tapes should be readable for 12 years, by other parties if necessary. From this point of view we like the idea of providing a CD with each tape set of the software

Re: Off Site Backups of vtapes

2009-08-12 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Thanks, Charles -- I added a link: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Useful_Amanda_Tools Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: [Amanda-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 06:17:17PM -0400, rorycl wrote: I'm going to cross-post this text on the Amanda and Bacula lists. Apologies in advance if you see this twice. Our company is about to provide centralised backups for several pools of backup data of between 1 and 15TB in size. Each