Re: Are you running snapshots?

2009-08-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: Hmm, well one problem is that that's a snapshot of the the 2.6.1 branch, which is pretty stable at this point. The other problem, which Jean-Louis might be able to address, is that it's now almost 20090812, so we should probably have a new build installed by now.

Re: Are you running snapshots?

2009-08-12 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Jean-Louis Martineaumartin...@zmanda.com wrote: There is no new snapshot because there is no commit since 20090805. Ah, so. I've been off my game! Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: Are you running snapshots?

2009-08-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Jean-Louis Martineaumartin...@zmanda.com wrote: There is no new snapshot because there is no commit since 20090805. Ah, so. I've been off my game! Dustin And I'd advise that one should not fix that which

Are you running snapshots?

2009-08-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
I'm curious to know who out there is running the daily Amanda snapshots. A *lot* of new code has gone in since the 2.6.1 release, and I'd like to see it tested now, rather than waiting until the beta process begins. We've rewritten the taper to use the transfer architecture; rewitten all uses of

Re: Are you running snapshots?

2009-08-11 Thread Brian Cuttler
Our shop is running with zfs-snapshots. We don't/haven't attempted ufs-snapshots. Snapshots are great - but not the solution to all problems, files that are open when the snapshots are created are 'open' when you back them up (not everyone here seems to understand this). On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at

Re: Are you running snapshots?

2009-08-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Brian Cuttlerbr...@wadsworth.org wrote: Snapshots are great - but not the solution to all problems, files that are open when the snapshots are created are 'open' when you back them up (not everyone here seems to understand this). Sorry -- I meant the daily

Re: Are you running snapshots?

2009-08-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Alan Pearsonalandpear...@yahoo.com wrote: You have to appreciate a lot of people have AMANDA in production environments and it is working. We are very reluctant to change it in case it breaks, we don't want the overhead of having to fix it. Absolutely -- I

Re: Are you running snapshots?

2009-08-11 Thread Alan Pearson
Hi Dustin You have to appreciate a lot of people have AMANDA in production environments and it is working. We are very reluctant to change it in case it breaks, we don't want the overhead of having to fix it. Example we are deploying a 2.5.2 snapshot that has fixes in it that we raised.

Re: Are you running snapshots?

2009-08-11 Thread Alan Pearson
Good points and I do appreciate the effort that is put into AMANDA and its backwards compatibility. I guess testing the client is easy, and something I will try to do over the next few weeks and report the results, but changing the server side.. well that scares me :) :) -- AlanP On Tue,

Re: Are you running snapshots?

2009-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 August 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: I'm curious to know who out there is running the daily Amanda snapshots. A *lot* of new code has gone in since the 2.6.1 release, and I'd like to see it tested now, rather than waiting until the beta process begins. We've rewritten the taper

Re: Are you running snapshots?

2009-08-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Gene Heskettgene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: I have been following the 2.6.2 snapshots, usually within a day or so, for several months.  You've heard about it when I have problems, which isn't often. Thanks, Gene -- this has been a great help! Dustin -- Open

Re: Are you running snapshots?

2009-08-11 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com [20090811 10:34]: I'm curious to know who out there is running the daily Amanda snapshots. A *lot* of new code has gone in since the 2.6.1 release, and I'd like to see it tested now, rather than waiting until the beta process begins. We've rewritten

Re: Are you running snapshots?

2009-08-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Jean-Francois Malouinma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote: Can you elaborate on the new chg-robot: I just downloaded the latest snapshot for 2.6.1 (2.6.1p1-20090805) and I can't find anything related to that. Hmm, well one problem is that that's a snapshot of the the