Author: "Neil" <neil-on-amanda AT restricted.dyndns DOT org>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 22:35:33 -0500
Hi guys, Looks like my amanda is getting better. :) Take a look at the email report that amanda sent me. http://restricted.dyndns.org/amandareport.txt And here is my new amanda.conf. http://restricte
If you really want to do what you're saying, your dumpcycle should be 1 day, not 1 week. If at all possible, get more tapes. Every time you start your backup you are destroying the only backup you ha
Author: Gene Heskett <gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 03:36:57 -0400
Looks good, but it appears from the kb/s rate you are getting, that the drives hardware compression is turned on, which doubles the effective data rate. Thats a maximum of a 400kb/s drive without tha
Author: "Neil" <neil-on-amanda AT restricted.dyndns DOT org>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 07:38:01 -0500
Looks good, but it appears from the kb/s rate you are getting, that the drives hardware compression is turned on, which doubles the effective data rate. Thats a maximum of a 400kb/s drive without tha
Author: Gene Heskett <gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 10:43:17 -0400
There are many reasons to shut it off, yes. Software compression can do twice as good or more. The tradeoff is time because gzip at its best compression rate does warm up the cpu unless you are alrea
Author: Martin Schwarz <Martin.Schwarz AT toplink-plannet DOT de>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 18:06:33 +0200
Hello Neil, there are different implementations of the mt utlitiy. On my Debian 3.0 system I find: - GNU mt version 2.4.2 from the cpio package: "... This package also includes rmt, the remote tape s
Author: "Neil" <neil-on-amanda AT restricted.dyndns DOT org>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 15:05:19 -0500
5) rerun the tapetype and get the true capacity of the tape so you can update that entry in your amanda.conf. It should go up a bit because tapetype uses /dev/urandom as the data source for its test
Author: Gene Heskett <gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:23:42 -0400
That looks a bit more like it. No, this 3916 mbytes is the real capacity of *that* tape. Amanda counts byte going to the tape *after* any software compression has been done. The box contains whatever