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Dumper hangs

Hello. Amanda dumper hangs sometimes; and backup fails with data timeout: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: localhost /home lev 0 FAILED [data timeout] The dumper is still there hours later: #ps -fu amanda UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMDamanda 21555 1 0 00:55 ? 00:00:00

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client-side cache space

Hi, I've got two clients with reiserfs filesystems connecting to a server with the tape. Everything works well, but due to compression the transfer rates aren't that high they should be in case of the tape streaming. (needs about 5 MB/s) So, is there any possibility to define an cache space on

Re: Dumper hangs

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 at 10:33am, Vincent GRENET wrote Amanda dumper hangs sometimes; and backup fails with data timeout: I set dtimeout to 3600s; it hangs whether I use a holding disk or not. When the dump succeeds, it runs for 46 minutes. My configuration is a RHS 7.1 (amanda 2.4.2p2).

Is this correct?

Hi all: I have 5 tapes for one HP24DAT SCSI unit. I want to use one tape per day, not including saturday/monday. Is this the correct configuration? dumpcycle 7 days runspercycle 5 days tapecycle 5 tapes thanks

Dumper hangs

Hello. Amanda dumper hangs sometimes; and backup fails with data timeout: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: localhost /home lev 0 FAILED [data timeout] The dumper is still there hours later: #ps -fu amanda UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD amanda 21555 1 0 00:55 ?

Re: is this the amanda-users list?

Thomas C. Robinson wrote: Am I subscribed yet? looks like. :-) Urte -- \|/ @ @ ---oOO-(_)-OOo-

Backing up five days for week

Hi all: I've an Linux RH 7.1 system with an HP-24DAT SCSI. I want to have one tape per day, in a week. I don't understand the dumpcycle theorie. Can someone help me? Thanks

Re: Backing up five days for week

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 at 12:22pm, Adolfo Manuel Pachón Rodríguez wrote I've an Linux RH 7.1 system with an HP-24DAT SCSI. I want to have one tape per day, in a week. I don't understand the dumpcycle theorie. Can someone help me? I don't quite understand what you're asking, but here's a

No such file or directory

Hi, if I run /usr/local/sbin/amcheck -m daily from my bash prompt, there are no errors, however if I run it from the crontab I get the following error /bin/bash: /usr/local/sbin/amcheck -m daily: No such file or directory or /bin/bash: /usr/local/sbin/amcheck -m /etc/amanda/daily: No such

Adding Second Tape Drive

Adding a second tape drive and using two tapes per run has done wonders for our backups. Amanda is now promoting level 0 dumps from as much as 8 days ahead. Here is what amadmin conf balance is reporting : due-date #fs orig KBout KB balance

I don't understand this

Hi all: I have an HP24DAT SCSI over Linux RH 7.1. I want to backup the weekdays only, using 5+1 tapes. I've this in the amanda.conf: dumpcycle 7 runspercycle 5 tapecycle 6 The tapes are labeled: Daily-000 (monday) Daily-001 (tuesday) Daily-002 (wednesday) Daily-003 (thursday) Daily-004

AMANDA on AIX 433

I just wanted to submit a progress report that may help others along the path to AMANDA on the RISC as the information is really scattered all around. I'm running Amanda-2.4.2p2 CC=gcc Running AIX 4.3.3 MR9 on H50 Compiled using directions here: http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html At the

Re: Is this correct?

On Thursday 13 December 2001 07:40 am, Adolfo Manuel Pachón Rodríguez wrote: Hi all: I have 5 tapes for one HP24DAT SCSI unit. I want to use one tape per day, not including saturday/monday. Is this the correct configuration? dumpcycle 7 days runspercycle 5 days tapecycle 5 tapes

Re: Dumper hangs

On Thursday 13 December 2001 07:30 am, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Many people (myself included) have hit this issue with Linux dump (or perhaps the combo of Linux dump and 2.4 kernels). You have two options. You can upgrade to the latest dump/restore versions from dump.sourceforge.net, and

Problem with FAQ-O-Matic?

I was writing another email to the list, and was going to suggest someone add something to FAQ-O-Matic. So, I figured I would just go and do it, but when I tried to add a user login, I got the following error: FAQ::OMatic::Auth::readIDfile: Couldn't read

Re: Amrecover is not working with Gnu Tar: help needed

Greetins, I finally solved what was wrong using amrecover to restore the files; Was a nasty combination of: - Lack of the index yes parameter in my amanda.conf dump definitions. - Bad names on my .amandahosts file. Check your /etc/hosts for inaccurate entries, even if you're using NFS (can be a

corrupt data problem.

Hi all. I've been using Amanda for about 4 years now, on a variety of platforms. I've just found out that the current site I'm at is having corrupt backup problems. The backups complete without errors, but the data on the tape is bad. We're running amanda-2.4.2p2 on a Linux debian stable

Re: No such file or directory

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Tom Beer wrote: /bin/bash: /usr/local/sbin/amcheck -m daily: No such file or directory Bad command line parsing. It's taking that whole command line as a filename. Is $IFS being changed somewhere from the default? -Mitch

Linux dump

=?iso-8859-1?q?Jos=E9=20Vicente=20N=FA=F1ez=20Zuleta?= wrote: Also another of my problems was using Linux dump. Is simply useless with amanda, stick with tar (not very usefull if you have to backup time sensitive files as Rational Clearcase VOB's). I'm doing my backups with Linux dump,

Re: Who has Configset for Autoloader under Linux?

Joerg Klaas wrote: So, does someone have a set of working conf-files for me, to be able to start an backup using: Linux Kernel 2.2x SONY TSL-11000 DAT Tapechanger (8Tapes) I already found 3 devicefiles which seem to be ok, for me side here. They are /dev/sg0 /dev/sg1 /dev/nst0