incremental backup

2011-04-15 Thread ruslan usifov
I'm new in amanda world so have a question: If i do incremental backup. For example if in very big file changed only few bytes, what amanda do? Send all file, or only changed part of file?

Re: incremental backup

2011-04-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
ruslan usifov wrote: I'm new in amanda world so have a question: If i do incremental backup. For example if in very big file changed only few bytes, what amanda do? Send all file, or only changed part of file? Amanda is file level backup, the complete file will be sent. Jean-Louis

reorganizing backup from old amanda version

2011-04-15 Thread Kai Zimmer
Hi list,i've been using amanda for many years now (stuck at version 2.5.2p1-4). She has been recovering my/our files very reliably for a long time - thanks a lot for that great piece of software! But by the time files and file systems are getting bigger (14TB of data on the main backup server

Re: silly client down question

2011-04-15 Thread Tim Johnson
Just a follow up on this issue, which isnt makeing sense to me at all. I shut down the amanda client via xinetd, and ran the backups and the backups worked perfectly. It went over the client with the report mentioning that the client was not responsive. However, I had someone (by

Re: reorganizing backup from old amanda version

2011-04-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:11:21 + (GMT) Kai Zimmer k...@zimmer.net wrote: Hi list, i've been using amanda for many years now (stuck at version 2.5.2p1-4). She has been recovering my/our files very reliably for a long time - thanks a lot for that great piece of software! But by the time

Re: reorganizing backup from old amanda version

2011-04-15 Thread Brian Cuttler
Kai, Amanda never required splitting DLEs into 20 Gig pieces, my 'guess' as to why your site did so is that you either had very limited amanda work area or a very limited backup/tape device. Amanda for did have a restriction that a DLE could not span an output tape, but that has been lifted

Re: silly client down question

2011-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, April 15, 2011 10:17:50 AM Tim Johnson did opine: Just a follow up on this issue, which isnt makeing sense to me at all. I shut down the amanda client via xinetd, and ran the backups and the backups worked perfectly. It went over the client with the report mentioning that

Re: Bug in 3.2.2: No acceptable volumes found for new labled tapes

2011-04-15 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
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Re: silly client down question

2011-04-15 Thread Tim Johnson
I have already tried changing the etimeout, as stated before the timeouts are : etimeout 8000 (changed from 5000 and the origanal -600) ( the long wait is due to a few of the machines being very old 800 MHz) dtimeout 2800 ctimeout 60 I believe I tried using a -5000 seconds and see if it

Re: silly client down question

2011-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, April 15, 2011 12:39:19 PM Tim Johnson did opine: I have already tried changing the etimeout, as stated before the timeouts are : etimeout 8000 (changed from 5000 and the origanal -600) ( the long wait is due to a few of the machines being very old 800 MHz) dtimeout 2800

Re: Bug in 3.2.2: No acceptable volumes found for new labled tapes

2011-04-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Marc, Can you try the attached patch? Jean-Louis Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Anything new about this bug? diff --git a/perl/Amanda/Changer.pm b/perl/Amanda/Changer.pm index a6857a5..5bc63c6 100644 --- a/perl/Amanda/Changer.pm +++ b/perl/Amanda/Changer.pm @@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ has one of the

Re: silly client down question

2011-04-15 Thread Tim Johnson
Not sure I understand, this really doesnt effect what the problem actually is with the server not responding after 10-12 hours to several days (when I was on vacation) waiting for a down client that will not send an estimate. Even after changing to different timeout Sorry, no mal intent

Perl error while compiling amanda

2011-04-15 Thread Mike Neimoyer
Greetings, all. Attempting to perform a make of amanda-client on a FreeBSD 8.1 system, to update from 2.5.1p2, I receive the following error: checking for perl version greater than or equal to 5.6.0... Segmentation fault (core dumped) However, a real quick (perl -v) check reveals that

Re: silly client down question

2011-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, April 15, 2011 03:07:03 PM Tim Johnson did opine: Not sure I understand, this really doesnt effect what the problem actually is with the server not responding after 10-12 hours to several days (when I was on vacation) waiting for a down client that will not send an estimate.