Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-06-01 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:10:54AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > The only thing I've come up with is "Enough 'Fine' Data Already", but > that's just reusing the joke of the 3rd name. I'm open to suggestions... DINE -- does it never end? -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-06-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 10:20, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:10:54AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >>> instead an internal IDE drive, they went out and got a 250GB >>> drive and installed it before I revisited. Until now I've >>> never seen a 240GB file system :)) >> >> Bah: >

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-06-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 10:10, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 at 10:02am, Gene Heskett wrote > >> >Even More F..ing Data ? >> >> Are we allowed to chuckle here? From the nameing convention used, >> that would be the next logical progression. But now I wonder what >> the 4th lashup

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-06-01 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 at 10:20am, Jon LaBadie wrote > BRAGGART!! :)) Actually, it's more of a plea for sympathy. They keep filling it all up, the little bastards. > > The only thing I've come up with is "Enough 'Fine' Data Already", but > > that's just reusing the joke of the 3rd name. I'm ope

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-06-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:10:54AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > >> instead an internal IDE drive, they went out and got a 250GB >> drive and installed it before I revisited. Until now I've >> never seen a 240GB file system :)) > > Bah: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] jlb]$ df -h > Filesystem

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-06-01 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 at 10:02am, Gene Heskett wrote > >Even More F..ing Data ? > > Are we allowed to chuckle here? From the nameing convention used, > that would be the next logical progression. But now I wonder what > the 4th lashup will be called if and when its needed? I hope you are > pla

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-06-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 09:24, Paul Bijnens wrote: >Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] jlb]$ df -h >> FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> *snip* >> philip:/data 535G 396G 140G 74% /data >> fluffy:/moredata 1.8T 1.3T 543G 71% /moredata >> buckbe

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-06-01 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 at 3:24pm, Paul Bijnens wrote > Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] jlb]$ df -h > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > *snip* > > philip:/data 535G 396G 140G 74% /data > > fluffy:/moredata 1.8T 1.3T 543G 71% /moredata >

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-06-01 Thread Paul Bijnens
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jlb]$ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on *snip* philip:/data 535G 396G 140G 74% /data fluffy:/moredata 1.8T 1.3T 543G 71% /moredata buckbeak:/emfd2.0T 1.2T 822G 60% /emfd ;) 3 guesses on what "emf

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-06-01 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Sat, 29 May 2004 at 2:07pm, Jon LaBadie wrote > I think they are going to want to backup to disk, at least > primarily. To that end they are willing to get an external > usb drive (does RH 7.3 support that?) and when I suggested I'm fairly certain it does. The kernel versions for 7.3, 8, and

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-05-31 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 02:07:22PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > I see gcc 2.96 is already installed as is a libreadline (don't > hold me to it, but I think 4.3). Stupidly I forgot to check the > tar version. Any thoughts on the compiler and readline versions? I compiled Amanda with whatever was a

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-05-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 05:08:22PM -0700, John Bossert wrote: > I'd suggest getting the DBA involved. If the database is running in > ARCHIVEMODE, backing up the redo logfiles should be very doable, even > with such a slow/small tapedrive. Depending, of course, on transaction > volume. RMAN m

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-05-29 Thread John Bossert
I'd suggest getting the DBA involved. If the database is running in ARCHIVEMODE, backing up the redo logfiles should be very doable, even with such a slow/small tapedrive. Depending, of course, on transaction volume. RMAN may be useful (though I have no experience (yet) in implementing it wi

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-05-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 May 2004 17:14, Paul Bijnens wrote: >Jon LaBadie wrote: >> Until now I've never seen a 240GB file system :)) > >Me neither, up to last week, when they called me for advice >how to backup a 800 GB filesystem (4 x 200 GB SATA disks), > containing one large Oracle database. The hardwar

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-05-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 11:14:26PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote: > >Until now I've never seen a 240GB file system :)) > > Me neither, up to last week, when they called me for advice > how to backup a 800 GB filesystem (4 x 200 GB SATA disks), containing > one large Oracle databas

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-05-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jon LaBadie wrote: Until now I've never seen a 240GB file system :)) Me neither, up to last week, when they called me for advice how to backup a 800 GB filesystem (4 x 200 GB SATA disks), containing one large Oracle database. The hardware was completely configured already, so was the database, so

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-05-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jon LaBadie wrote: I see gcc 2.96 is already installed as is a libreadline (don't hold me to it, but I think 4.3). Stupidly I forgot to check the tar version. Any thoughts on the compiler and readline versions? Might installing newer compiler and libs upset the vendor's app? I must avoid that at

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-05-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Jon, on Samstag, 29. Mai 2004 at 20:07 you wrote to amanda-users: JL> Until now I've never seen a 240GB file system :)) How do you feel about that ? ;-) JL> Part of my concern is the age of the OS and the components. JL> Don't suggest an OS upgrade, they use it for a very costly JL> applica

suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-05-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
A client has about 4 or 5 nearly identical HP workstations (xeon's) running RH 7.3 linux. They are looking for a backup solution and before I make any concrete recommendations I'd like to ask a few questions. Most of their disk space is SCSI, generally 36GB, but a couple of larger ones, include o