Re: dumporder

2022-10-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.11.18 um 19:18 schrieb Chris Nighswonger: This seems to work: amplot /var/backups/campus/log/amdump.1 Running under the amanda user. However, the issue now is the attempt to write the output to the X11 terminal: gnuplot: unable to open display '' gnuplot: X11 aborted. Not sure what

Re: dumporder

2018-11-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 01:18:15PM -0500, Chris Nighswonger wrote: > This seems to work: > > amplot /var/backups/campus/log/amdump.1 > > Running under the amanda user. > > However, the issue now is the attempt to write the output to the X11 terminal: > > > gnuplot: unable to open display '' >

RE: dumporder

2018-11-06 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
in the holding area and believe it help to improve performance as there were few files and fewer file creates/accesses/deletes later on. From: Chris Nighswonger Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 2:38 PM To: Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) Cc: ned.danie...@duke.edu; amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: dumporder

RE: dumporder

2018-11-06 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
To: ned.danie...@duke.edu Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: dumporder ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails. This seems to work: amplot /var/backups/campus/log/amdump.1 Running under the amanda

Re: dumporder

2018-11-06 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 13:18:15 -0500, Chris Nighswonger wrote: > However, the issue now is the attempt to write the output to the X11 terminal: > > > gnuplot: unable to open display '' > gnuplot: X11 aborted. > > Not sure what all that's about. So I'm doing a bit of hacking on the > gnuplot

Re: dumporder

2018-11-06 Thread Chris Nighswonger
This seems to work: amplot /var/backups/campus/log/amdump.1 Running under the amanda user. However, the issue now is the attempt to write the output to the X11 terminal: gnuplot: unable to open display '' gnuplot: X11 aborted. Not sure what all that's about. So I'm doing a bit of hacking on

AW: dumporder

2018-11-06 Thread Ingo Schaefer
Nighswonger Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. November 2018 17:51 An: brian.cutt...@health.ny.gov Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Betreff: Re: dumporder Digging around a bit, it appears that it might be a reference to a file which is missing. From amplot.g, line 62 we see: # file title has the parameters

Re: dumporder

2018-11-06 Thread Ned Danieley
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 11:50:57AM -0500, Chris Nighswonger wrote: > Digging around a bit, it appears that it might be a reference to a > file which is missing. From amplot.g, line 62 we see: > > # file title has the parameters that this program needs > load 'title' > plot"run_queue" title

Re: dumporder

2018-11-06 Thread Chris Nighswonger
u need to provide the name of the amconfig. I believe it reads > amanda.conf. > > -Original Message- > From: Chris Nighswonger > Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 11:51 AM > To: Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) > Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org > Subject: Re: dumporder >

Re: dumporder

2018-11-06 Thread Ned Danieley
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 11:42:16AM -0500, Chris Nighswonger wrote: > The amplot utility is new to me. Here is what it says when I attempt to run > it: > > root@scriptor:~# amplot > /var/log/amanda/server/campus/amdump.20181106020001.debug > Displaying graph on the screen, for next graph :

RE: dumporder

2018-11-06 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
I think you need to provide the name of the amconfig. I believe it reads amanda.conf. -Original Message- From: Chris Nighswonger Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 11:51 AM To: Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: dumporder ATTENTION: This email came from

Re: dumporder

2018-11-06 Thread Chris Nighswonger
ote: > > It has been a while, title might be the org string from amanda.conf? > I'm sorry, it has been years since I ran it regularly. > > -Original Message- > From: Chris Nighswonger > Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 11:42 AM > To: Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) > C

RE: dumporder

2018-11-06 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
: dumporder ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails. The amplot utility is new to me. Here is what it says when I attempt to run it: root@scriptor:~# amplot /var/log/amanda/server/campus/amdump.20181106020001

Re: dumporder

2018-11-06 Thread Chris Nighswonger
nning a bunch of > large dumps to start off with could constrain dumping later on. > > > -Original Message- > From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org On Behalf > Of Chris Nighswonger > Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 11:02 AM > To: amanda-users@amanda.org > Subjec

RE: dumporder

2018-11-06 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
, 2018 11:11 AM To: Chris Nighswonger ; amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: RE: dumporder ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails. Chris, There is an amplot utility that I used to run a lot, it would show

RE: dumporder

2018-11-06 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
On Behalf Of Chris Nighswonger Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 11:02 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: dumporder ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails. On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 1:31 PM Chris

Re: dumporder

2018-11-06 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 1:31 PM Chris Nighswonger wrote: > > Is there any wisdom available on optimization of dumporder? > After looking over the feedback from Brian and Austin and reviewing the actual sizes of the DLEs, I ended up with this sort of thing: inparallel 15

Re: dumporder

2018-11-05 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 11/5/2018 1:31 PM, Chris Nighswonger wrote: Is there any wisdom available on optimization of dumporder? This is personal experience only, but I find that in general, if all your dumps run at about the same speed and you don't have to worry about bandwidth, using something like

RE: dumporder

2018-11-05 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
is actually reasonable. From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org On Behalf Of Chris Nighswonger Sent: Monday, November 5, 2018 1:31 PM To: amanda-users Subject: dumporder ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected

dumporder

2018-11-05 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Is there any wisdom available on optimization of dumporder? Kind regards, Chris

RE: dumporder parameter

2008-07-23 Thread Johan Booysen
on where I can find this information? Thank you. Johan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johan Booysen Sent: 22 July 2008 17:07 To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: RE: dumporder parameter Hi, No worries - I thought maybe my question

Re: dumporder parameter

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
Johan Booysen wrote: Another question: How can I verify that those DLE entries were in fact only dumped after 05:00? In the Amanda email report I can see when the backups completed, and can more or less work out from that when writing to tape started for them. But I'd like to check when they

RE: dumporder parameter

2008-07-23 Thread Johan Booysen
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 July 2008 12:35 To: Johan Booysen Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: dumporder parameter Johan Booysen wrote: Another question: How can I verify that those DLE entries were in fact only dumped after 05:00? In the Amanda email report I can see when

Re: dumporder parameter

2008-07-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2008-07-22 10:37, Johan Booysen wrote: Hi, I got no reply so apologies if it was a stupid question. I'm now simply using dumporder Ssss, and Amanda seems to be dumping disklist entries starting from largest to smallest, which will work just fine for me. I'm doing level 0 backups each night

Re: dumporder parameter

2008-07-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 09:37:17AM +0100, Johan Booysen wrote: Hi, I got no reply so apologies if it was a stupid question. I'm now simply using dumporder Ssss, and Amanda seems to be dumping disklist entries starting from largest to smallest, which will work just fine for me. I'm doing

Another dumporder parameter question.

2008-07-22 Thread McGraw, Robert P
When I backup I would like all my larger size files to be put on the first part of the tape and work down to the smaller size files toward the end of the tape. This I believe and hope will provide better tape usage. If large size files are dumped last to tape there is a good chance that it will

Re: Another dumporder parameter question.

2008-07-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
Amanda get the size of all the backup files and then figure the order that it will write to tape? Amanda does an estimate of each DLE, and from those figures decides on which dumps to choose first (dumporder). 2) will Amanda get the size of the tape and then figure the order that it will write

dumporder parameter

2008-07-18 Thread Johan Booysen
I have a question about the dumporder parameter in amanda.conf. I want to back up 4 servers. The volumes of data on disk are as follows: Server1 /dir1 298G /dir2 74G /dir3 66G Server2 /dir4/backups/backup1 57G Server3 /dir5/backups/backup2 28G Server4 /dir6/backups/backup3

Question about dumporder

2007-11-16 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Hello, I have a question about the dumporder parameter. To what are the two bandwidth options (B and b) related? Client/Server connection (e. g. 1Gbit)? Or the real bandwith between server and client? I have a client that is connected by a 1Gbit LAN-card to it's subnet in our branch office

Re: Question about dumporder

2007-11-16 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Jean-Louis Martineau schrieb: bandwidth estimation is done using the previous backup of the DLE, You can get the 'dump rates' with: amadmin config info Would be cool if this short info could be added to the dumporder option of the amanda.conf manpage. I didn't found this information. Thanks

Re: Question about dumporder

2007-11-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
bandwidth estimation is done using the previous backup of the DLE, You can get the 'dump rates' with: amadmin config info Jean-Louis Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Hello, I have a question about the dumporder parameter. To what are the two bandwidth options (B and b) related? Client/Server connection

Good option for dumporder

2003-07-08 Thread Bob Zahn
$ 20.4GB server5 C$ 2.97GB server5 D$ 13.7GB If you run the backup on these servers single threaded it takes about 10 hours to backup. I've changed inparallel to 8 and maxdumps to 8 also. The dumporder is sssSsssS. In the latest test, the backup completed in 8 hours and 41 minutes. I'm using amanda

Re: Good option for dumporder

2003-07-08 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 at 11:21am, Bob Zahn wrote I'm trying to set up the options in amanda.conf to improve the performance (this equates to shortest time to backup) of these five Windows NT/2K servers: server1 C$ 2.19GB server1 D$ 35.6GB server2 C$ 1.58GB server2 D$ 12.9GB server3 C$

Re: Good option for dumporder

2003-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
server3 D$ 11.6GB server4 C$ 1.3GB server4 D$ 20.4GB server5 C$ 2.97GB server5 D$ 13.7GB If you run the backup on these servers single threaded it takes about 10 hours to backup. I've changed inparallel to 8 and maxdumps to 8 also. The dumporder is sssSsssS. In the latest test, the backup completed

Re: Good option for dumporder

2003-07-08 Thread Bob Zahn
$ 20.4GB server5 C$ 2.97GB server5 D$ 13.7GB If you run the backup on these servers single threaded it takes about 10 hours to backup. I've changed inparallel to 8 and maxdumps to 8 also. The dumporder is sssSsssS. In the latest test, the backup completed in 8 hours and 41 minutes. I'm using

Re: Good option for dumporder

2003-07-08 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 at 1:46pm, Bob Zahn wrote This is in response to Gene's and Joshua's additional quesitons: 1. I'm only running one Samba server and that's on the amanda host server. You'll want to look at your dumprates before and after increasing maxdumps. 8 may lead to too much

Re: Good option for dumporder

2003-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 14:46, Bob Zahn wrote: This is in response to Gene's and Joshua's additional quesitons: 1. I'm only running one Samba server and that's on the amanda host server. 2. Sorry, disklist looks like: amanda1 //server1/C$ pc-tar 3 ge0 amanda1 //server1/D$ pc-tar 4 ge0 amanda1

Re: amanda-2.4.3b1 / dumporder warning

2001-12-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello Roland, Try this patch. Jean-Louis On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:03:29AM +, Roland E. Lipovits wrote: Roland E. Lipovits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Int the logfile and the report, there are many lines saying | WARNING driver Unknown dumporder character ' The dumporder line

Re: amanda-2.4.3b1 / dumporder warning

2001-12-08 Thread Roland E. Lipovits
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 10:55:27AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Try this patch. I guess I should try this patch with the too short dumporder-string again, right? Regards, Lipo -- They that can give up essential liberty | Roland E. Lipovits to obtain a little temporary safety

Re: amanda-2.4.3b1 / dumporder warning

2001-12-08 Thread Roland E. Lipovits
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:51:21PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: I guess I should try this patch with the too short dumporder-string again, right? Right, it will work with a long dumporder-string but I will appreciate if you can test my patch. Ok, tested with too short dumporder

amanda-2.4.3b1 / dumporder warning

2001-12-07 Thread Roland E. Lipovits
Hi, I've tried the new amanda-2.4.3b1, with a amanda.conf file which had the new keywords (dumporder autoflush) in it, taken from example/amanda.conf. Int the logfile and the report, there are many lines saying | WARNING driver Unknown dumporder character ' The dumporder line in amanda.conf

Re: amanda-2.4.3b1 / dumporder warning

2001-12-07 Thread Roland E. Lipovits
Roland E. Lipovits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Int the logfile and the report, there are many lines saying | WARNING driver Unknown dumporder character ' The dumporder line in amanda.conf is: | dumporder sssS # specify the priority order of each dumper Any ideas why this warning is shown