Amanda didn't take new tape

2009-08-17 Thread Dominik Schips
Hello, I use an Overland PowerLoader (16 tapes) with an LTO-2 device. I do a full backup two times a week. I did an upgrade from amanda 2.4.4p3-3 (Debian sarge) to Amanda 2.5.2p1-4 (Debian lenny). After this upgrade amanda didn't take a new tape if a DLE failed because of emty space on the

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

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: On 14/08/09, Frank Smith (fsm...@hoovers.com) wrote: Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Amanda will do the compression for you. You define it in the dumptype in amanda.conf. If you have a holding disk, then it will compress the data as it goes onto the holding disk.

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

2009-08-17 Thread Cyrille Bollu
I wouldn't put the holding disks in raid. Hu hu... Interesting... I have a 4 disks RAID-0 holding disk, and it isn't fast... I always wondered if I should use seperated (non-RAID) drives... Cyrille Bollu Responsable systèmes Fedasil - ICT tel: +32.2.213.43.49 gsm: +32.478.23.08.15

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

2009-08-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 August 2009, Cyrille Bollu wrote: I wouldn't put the holding disks in raid. Hu hu... Interesting... I have a 4 disks RAID-0 holding disk, and it isn't fast... I always wondered if I should use seperated (non-RAID) drives... Its been my observation that software raids are slower.

Re: Backup issues with OpenBSD 4.5 machines

2009-08-17 Thread stan
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 03:26:10PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Check system log Post complete amandad.*.debug and sendbackup.*.debug. You can try to disable client compression. It still fails with client side compression truned off. -- One of the main causes of the fall of the

Re: Backup issues with OpenBSD 4.5 machines

2009-08-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
And what is the error? It's probably not a gzip: ... Jean-Louis stan wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 03:26:10PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Check system log Post complete amandad.*.debug and sendbackup.*.debug. You can try to disable client compression. It still fails with

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

2009-08-17 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday 17 August 2009, Cyrille Bollu wrote: I wouldn't put the holding disks in raid. Hu hu... Interesting... I have a 4 disks RAID-0 holding disk, and it isn't fast... I always wondered if I should use seperated (non-RAID) drives... To drive an LTO-4 your holding disk needs to read

Re: Backup issues with OpenBSD 4.5 machines

2009-08-17 Thread stan
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:30:51AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: And what is the error? It's probably not a gzip: ... Interesting. I set up a test doing just one of these machine (4 DLE's), and it worked in non-compressed. I will leave a couple of the OpenBSD machines set fro

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

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Cyrille Bollu wrote: Chris Hoogendyk wrote: I wouldn't put the holding disks in raid. Hu hu... Interesting... I have a 4 disks RAID-0 holding disk, and it isn't fast... I always wondered if I should use seperated (non-RAID) drives... Here is an extremely interesting article that everyone

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

2009-08-17 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 17/08/09, Chris Hoogendyk (hoogen...@bio.umass.edu) wrote: Cyrille Bollu wrote: Chris Hoogendyk wrote: I wouldn't put the holding disks in raid. snip http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=484. While this guy is looking at things like database servers and exchange, we ought to be able to