Slow client

2007-05-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I noticed yesterday that one of my clients suddenly became very slow: by wall clock, seeing the file grows on the holding disk, it takes 9 minutes for 5 MB of GNUTAR level 2. previous run (Apr. 28th) for the same machine, same DLE, same level was 107 KB/s for the dump according to Amanda

Re: Slow client

2007-05-09 Thread Frank Smith
Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I noticed yesterday that one of my clients suddenly became very slow: by wall clock, seeing the file grows on the holding disk, it takes 9 minutes for 5 MB of GNUTAR level 2. previous run (Apr. 28th) for the same machine, same DLE, same level was 107 KB/s for the

Re: Slow client

2007-05-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
Frank, Do you have a duplex mismatch or other errors on the network interface or switch port? No error visible. A manual transfer was also very slow, a reboot of the machine solved that. Are you seeing any system messages about read errors on your disks? Have you recently changed

2.5.2b-20070507 build

2007-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I saw this go by during the build, does it mean anything? Name main::include_list used only once: possible typo at amgtar line 50. Name main::ksize used only once: possible typo at amgtar line 263. Name main::opt_record used only once: possible typo at amgtar line 236. Name

Re: 2.5.2 compilation failure on irix-6.5.x

2007-05-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Pieter Bowman wrote: This is the case on both IRIX and OSF/1. These compilers can't handle: #define vstrallocf(...) debug_vstrallocf(__FILE__,__LINE__,__VA_ARGS__) I fix it in the 2.5.2 tree, but the next release will require that syntax, which is in the C99 standard. Do you

db-based infofiles

2007-05-09 Thread dustin
In working on cleaning up the amanda codebase, I discovered that at least some of the db-based infofile backends (--with-db=gdbm, ndbm, db, dbm) probably don't work. I talked with Jean-Louis Martineau, and he mentioned that they have been deprecated for a long time in favor of the text database.

Backup on DVD-RAM

2007-05-09 Thread Sebastian Marten
Hello, i have a working Amanda configuration which backup on DVD-RAM. (its like writing on a hard disk) The disks are all smaller than 4.3 GB, so a backup is no problem. But what happens if on disk gets greater than 4.3 GB? Can Amanda handle it, and ask for a second DVD to write the dumps on,

Please help... no backups since a week ago (data write: Connection reset by peer)

2007-05-09 Thread Steven Settlemyre
Can someone please help me? Steven Settlemyre wrote: I haven't changed my configs for months and things were running great until last week. Since last tues, none of my dailies have finished, and last night a monthly failed. Looking through the logs I see the problem always seems to start

Re: Please help... no backups since a week ago (data write: Connection reset by peer)

2007-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Steven Settlemyre wrote: Can someone please help me? Steven Settlemyre wrote: I haven't changed my configs for months and things were running great until last week. Since last tues, none of my dailies have finished, and last night a monthly failed. Looking through

Re: amanda upgrade questions

2007-05-09 Thread Guy Dallaire
Replying to myself: It's my second attempt at trying to get any input as to how difficult it may be to upgrade amanda. I have not received any reply on both occasions. Are my questions too dumb ? I would like to read some sort of upgrade guide, but I can't find anything useful in the doc or

Hardware suggestion

2007-05-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am considering replacement for my Amanda server, the guy has been in production for about 6 years now and I want to be ready for the time when the tape drive will die. We currently use SLR100, wich is fine, very little tape failure, but tapes are expensive, a 50 GB (native) 100 GB

Re: amanda upgrade questions

2007-05-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:38:20PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: Replying to myself: It's my second attempt at trying to get any input as to how difficult it may be to upgrade amanda. I have not received any reply on both occasions. Are my questions too dumb ? I would like to read some sort

Re: amanda upgrade questions

2007-05-09 Thread Anthony Ho
Hi, It is actually quite simply to upgrade amanda. All you need to do is to download the latest version of Amanda (for this case amanda 2.5.2), untar it and execute the following commands to clean and recompile the latest build. make distclean ./configure -with-tcpportrange=5,50100