Re: Amanda-friendly distro?

2010-03-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Well, TBT Dustin, other than the rather terse ChangeLog, no one seems to be > using much ink bragging about the newest bells and whistles.  Some timely > article submissions to the review sites might let them know that the old girl > hasn't tu

Re: Amanda-friendly distro?

2010-03-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Steve Wray wrote: >> Can anyone suggest a distro that tracks Amanda upstream reasonably well? >> Ie doesn't include bug-ridden versions in their stable releases... > >I'm a Gentoo user, and they're up to date: >

Re: Amanda-friendly distro?

2010-03-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Steve Wray wrote: > Can anyone suggest a distro that tracks Amanda upstream reasonably well? Ie > doesn't include bug-ridden versions in their stable releases... I'm a Gentoo user, and they're up to date: http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-backup/amanda Stefa

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-03-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Steve Wray wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Steve Wray wrote: Right, so the LATEST most up-to-date version of Debian uses a 3 year old version of amanda. Fantastic, thanks Debi

Re: [Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 09 March 2010, rory_f wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 09 March 2010, rory_f wrote: >> >> If the card is wide scsi, perhaps a cabling issue or termination issue >> has caused it to fall back to scsi-II width and speeds? I have read that >> some cards do this, and a reboot once

Amanda-friendly distro?

2010-03-09 Thread Steve Wray
Hi there I've been looking at the state of Amanda in a few distros. Ubuntu and Centos so far seem to have pretty old versions of Amanda. Can anyone suggest a distro that tracks Amanda upstream reasonably well? Ie doesn't include bug-ridden versions in their stable releases... Not that I'm ac

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-03-09 Thread Steve Wray
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Steve Wray wrote: Right, so the LATEST most up-to-date version of Debian uses a 3 year old version of amanda. Fantastic, thanks Debian for keeping things so 'stable'. To be fair, that's exa

[Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-09 Thread rory_f
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:55 AM, rory_f > backupcentral.com> wrote: > > > One question; i don't have to run amtapetype every time i do this do i? For > > instance, say the speed problems are resolved, will amdump pick up on this > > automatically or does it stick t

Re: [Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:55 AM, rory_f wrote: > One question; i don't have to run amtapetype every time i do this do i? For > instance, say the speed problems are resolved, will amdump pick up on this > automatically or does it stick to the tape speed given in amtapetype > absolutely? Amdump j

[Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-09 Thread rory_f
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 09 March 2010, rory_f wrote: > > If the card is wide scsi, perhaps a cabling issue or termination issue has > caused it to fall back to scsi-II width and speeds? I have read that some > cards do this, and a reboot once the problem is solved, might bring back t

Re: [Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 09 March 2010, rory_f wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 08 March 2010, rory_f wrote: >> >> Please do. It could be something I missed, or it could be a brand new >> phenomenon to file away in my trivia file. > >gene, > >ama...@backup tor]$ amtapetype -o -f /dev/nst0 -e 400G >Writi

[Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-09 Thread rory_f
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 08 March 2010, rory_f wrote: > > Please do. It could be something I missed, or it could be a brand new > phenomenon to file away in my trivia file. > > gene, ama...@backup tor]$ amtapetype -o -f /dev/nst0 -e 400G Writing 1024 Mbyte compresseable data: 31