Re: error compiling amanda on FreeBSD 6.3 x86_64

. Kind regards, Patrick M. Hausen Leiter Netzwerke und Sicherheit -- punkt.de GmbH * Vorholzstr. 25 * 76137 Karlsruhe Tel. 0721 9109 0 * Fax 0721 9109 100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.punkt.de Gf: Jürgen Egeling AG Mannheim 108285

Re: error compiling amanda on FreeBSD 6.3 x86_64

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Re: Backing up VMware-VMs

Hi, all, On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 01:27:11PM -0500, Curtis Preston wrote: Unless you're coordinating with the OS, then taking a VMware snapshot and copying it is equivalent to pulling the power plug on a server. Will it power back up without corruption? 99.9% of the time, yes. Has anyone who

Re: Backing up VMware-VMs

Hello, On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 07:40:26PM +, Rodrigo Ventura wrote: On Feb 27, 2008, at 7:00 PM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Does anyone know the reason why you cannot snapshot powered off machines? Hum, only the obvious answer pops to mind: because there is no state to snapshot

Re: Backing up VMware-VMs

of backup media. HTH, Patrick M. Hausen Leiter Netzwerke und Sicherheit -- punkt.de GmbH * Vorholzstr. 25 * 76137 Karlsruhe Tel. 0721 9109 0 * Fax 0721 9109 100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.punkt.de Gf: Jürgen Egeling AG Mannheim 108285

Restore scenarios, architecture plans?

need to restore a couple of systems at once on bare hardware with just fresh OS installed? Any suggestions and lively discussion welcome. Thanks, Patrick M. Hausen Leiter Netzwerke und Sicherheit -- punkt.de GmbH * Vorholzstr. 25 * 76137 Karlsruhe Tel. 0721 9109 0 * Fax 0721 9109 100 [EMAIL

Re: Question to: Friday tape question - Top 10

is in fact added at the end of the list after one full cycle? Amanda may reorder tapes to be used any time, anyway. Set up a cron job that executes amcheck every morning and sends you the ouput via email. It contains the information which tape Amanda expects next. HTH, Patrick M. Hausen Leiter

Re: wrapper for ufsdump with snapshots

=1.2content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup Looks like just client-src/sendbackup-dump.c is patched and at least for dump on FreeBSD you simply need to add the L option to the dumpkeys string. Line 378 and below. Probably it's the same option for ufsdump on Solaris. HTH, Patrick M. Hausen Leiter Netzwerke und

Re: wrapper for ufsdump with snapshots

implementation but favours HFS+ with their new logging extensions. HTH, Patrick M. Hausen Leiter Netzwerke und Sicherheit -- punkt.de GmbH * Vorholzstr. 25 * 76137 Karlsruhe Tel. 0721 9109 0 * Fax 0721 9109 100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.punkt.de Gf: Jürgen Egeling AG Mannheim 108285

Speeding up your backups - strategies?

Hi, all! We installed a disk based backup system a couple of months ago, because we have been hitting the capacity of our tape changer on almost every nightly run - and we did not even backup everything. So a new system was in called for. The backup server features 2 GB of main memory, a

inparallel 1 without holding disk?

Hi, all! We are running Amanda 2.5.1p2 with vtapes for disk based backup. To speed up the nightly runs, I'd like to dump multiple DLEs concurrently. From what I read in the docs, any value for inparallel that is bigger than 1 requires the presence of a holding disk. Is this correct? Is there a

Re: Changing dump arguments/parameters in Amanda client

particular clients? I can't seem to find any way in the docs to do this. If you install Amanda via the FreeBSD port, there's an option to use snapshots with dump. HTH, Patrick M. Hausen Leiter Netzwerke und Sicherheit -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Vorholzstr

Excluding with Samba

exclusions if one is using Samba? The above syntax I tried is correct for Unix hosts with gnutar, but I could not find an example for Windows. Thanks, Patrick M. Hausen Leiter Netzwerke und Sicherheit -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Vorholzstr. 25Tel. 0721 9109

Re: upgrade to Amanda 2.5.1p1 issues

the syntax look like for the only_from section for inetd, or if it's even needed? man hosts.allow inetd in FreeBSD has got tcpwrappers built in. Example: amandad : 1.2.3.4 : allow amandad : ALL : deny HTH, Patrick M. Hausen Leiter Netzwerke und Sicherheit -- punkt.de GmbH Internet

Re: upgrade to Amanda 2.5.1p1 issues

Hi! On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 07:50:11AM -0800, Steffan Vigano wrote: Nov 6 07:18:40 phatb inetd[82282]: /usr/local/libexec/amandad[82539]: exit status 0x100 Nov 6 07:18:40 phatb inetd[82282]: /usr/local/libexec/amandad[82540]: exit status 0x100 Nov 6 07:18:40 phatb

Re: Performance degrading over time?

at the moment) help in a configuration like this? Additionally I'd suggest deleting the trace (?) files in a nightly run - seems like nobody needs them, anyway. Thanks for your help, Patrick M. Hausen Technical Director -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Scheffelstr. 17

Re: Performance degrading over time?

Hello! Jon H. LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 03:04:27PM +0100, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: So my question is: does a holding-disk speed up this process? I mean, Amanda will start a dumper on the filesystem that starts filling the holding-disk. At the same time (?) a taper

Re: Performance degrading over time?

. Sun won't officially support it, but they don't support the HP LTO, either. Thanks to all, end of thread (hopefully) Patrick M. Hausen Technical Director -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Scheffelstr. 17 a Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76135 Karlsruhe http

Re: Performance degrading over time?

Hi all! Jay Lessert wrote: So the first thing is to look at two AMANDA MAIL REPORT outputs: one from a fast run in June, and one from a slow run yesterday. Look at Estimate Time, Dump Time, Tape Time, Dump Rate, and Taper Rate for your one file system. Where is the increase happening?

Performance degrading over time?

in question is around 170 GB and thus only 45% full with the currrent tables. Obviously with a single host connected to a single drive and only so much storage we don't use a holding disk at the moment. Any ideas where to start searching? Thanks, Patrick M. Hausen Technical Director

Re: Performance degrading over time?

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Re: mailing of logreport

sendmail -q30m without -bd option. It won't open a listening socket, so it can't be compromised over the network. HTH, Patrick M. Hausen Technical Director -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Scheffelstr. 17 a Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76135 Karlsruhe http

Re: Mac OSX 10.1.5 and dump ...

from Darwin or ask at some Darwin developers' mailing list. HTH, Patrick M. Hausen Technical Director -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Scheffelstr. 17 a Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76135 Karlsruhe http://punkt.de

Re: BSD restore can restore Solaris ufsdumps?

byte swapping but besides that everything went as it is supposed to. On FreeBSD I always install Amanda via the ports collection, that would be pkgsrc on NetBSD. On Solaris I compiled it myself but can't remember anything special. HTH, Patrick M. Hausen Technical Director -- punkt.de GmbH

Re: filetype

provided by Tandberg Data. Same for the size. An SLR 100 tape holds 5 kbytes, period - worked every time so far ;-) HTH, Patrick M. Hausen Technical Director -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Scheffelstr. 17 a Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76135 Karlsruhe

Re: mailing of logreport

piece of software if sendmail -q30m does the trick? ;-))) Regards, Patrick M. Hausen Technical Director -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Scheffelstr. 17 a Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76135 Karlsruhe http://punkt.de

Re: mailing of logreport

sendmail -q30m without -bd option. It won't open a listening socket, so it can't be compromised over the network. HTH, Patrick M. Hausen Technical Director -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Scheffelstr. 17 a Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76135 Karlsruhe http

Re: Host Down Problem... again.

Hi all! I don't understand why you think inetd isn't trying to run the right thing. When I type netstat -a | grep -i amanda, I get this output: alpha:/etc/rc.d/init.d netstat -a | grep -i amanda tcp0 0 *:amandaidx *:* LISTEN udp0

Re: SLR 100, read while write capability

... It could be a very nice add-on if Amanda could do verify after write, on fly... That capability would have to be added to dump and gtar in the first place. Regards, Patrick -- --- WEB ISS GmbH - Scheffelstr. 17a - 76135 Karlsruhe - 0721/9109-0 --- -- Patrick M. Hausen - Technical

Files not backed up while they should?

Hi all! We are using Amanda for backup a couple of years now and it has never failed for us. But today I encountered something really weird: We have two servers in our internal network, hugo10 and hugo20. hugo20 is the tape server and backup host. Backups are done daily. Today I tried to

Q: tape drives beyond DLT or SLR

are FreeBSD and Solaris, so we are familiar with i386 and Sparc architecture and technology. Thanks in advance for any comments/hints, Patrick -- --- WEB ISS GmbH - Scheffelstr. 17a - 76135 Karlsruhe - 0721/9109-0 --- -- Patrick M. Hausen - Technical Director - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Con

Re: Q: tape drives beyond DLT or SLR

Hi all! Gerhard den Hollander wrote: * Patrick M. Hausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 09:11:36AM +0100) What options do I have for higher capacity drives? Amanda still requires the largest dump to fit on a single tape. With filesystems routinely approaching a couple

Re: Q: tape drives beyond DLT or SLR

Hi! Mitch wrote: On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Unfortunately our customer with the highes capacity needs stores precompressed data of several GB per month and wants them all available on disk. So we need to plan for full dumps of 100 GB and maybe even more. That's why

Re: Q: tape drives beyond DLT or SLR

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