Re: TCP Tuning

2009-10-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Use the amgtar application and set the TAR-BLOCKSIZE to a bigger value (half the STREAM_BUFSIZE. Why do you believe it is bottleneck? Jean-Louis Alan Griffiths wrote: Thanks for the pointer. I've re-compiled with define STREAM_BUFSIZE (NETWORK_BLOCK_BYTES * 16) And I can see that

packet too large

2009-10-21 Thread Brian Cuttler
We hit the problem of the TCP packet being too large with amanda 2.6.1p1, though this threat indicates a fix at 2.5.2. http://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?t=1005 Is the problem corrected or does 2.6.1 require a patch or something ? thanks,

Re: packet too large

2009-10-21 Thread Brian Cuttler
Dustin, At least one problem (the buffer size error, I think) was fixed in 2.5.2 (and thus in 2.6.1 as well), but it may not be the same problem you experienced. Have you upgraded? Does the problem still occur? This system was a new deployment on a the Solaris 10/sparc server that I've

Re: packet too large

2009-10-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: We hit the problem of the TCP packet being too large with amanda 2.6.1p1, though this threat indicates a fix at 2.5.2. http://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?t=1005 Is the problem corrected or does 2.6.1 require a

Re: Fwd: Amreport xml examples

2009-10-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Paul Mantz schrieb: I'd be glad to explain. I'm working on a general update and rewrite of amreport in Perl. Big welcome to that ... One of the components of this rewrite is xml output for better monitoring by other programs. I've been working on an abstraction of the logfile data

Re: Fwd: Amreport xml examples

2009-10-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger s...@amanda.org wrote: Maybe I am offtopic with my thoughts? Nope, those are precisely the right thoughts. What Paul's looking for is to make sure that you could build a tool to get the status you're looking for from the XML his tool

Amanda 2.6 Zip files on Windows corrupted

2009-10-21 Thread Michael Burk
Hi, When I try to restore larger zip ( 4GB?) files from Windows backups, they are corrupted. The Amanda server is Solaris 10 running Amanda 2.6.1p1. The client is Windows Server 2003, and I used the ZWCInstaller-Community-26.zip from April 10. I used amfetchdump with -l on the Amanda server to