Why would anybody want to do this? If a tape containing vital
information is in the drive at the time amlabel will still label the
tape for use with AMANDA. Then, if you follow through and actually allow
AMANDA to write to that tape you will have lost that vital information.
I have an Oracle 9i database that I am backing up frequently. I have
enough tapes for a two week cycle plus one pre-labeled and ready to go.
It really does NOT take that long to prepare this many tapes in a single
sitting. Once they're labelled you can pretty much forget about them
aside from cycling new tapes into the pool as they age.
D. Keith Higgs <mailto:dkh2 AT cwru DOT edu> x0559
Case Western Reserve University, Webmaster - University Library
Additional Information at http://www.cwru.edu/UL/ and
http://keith.cwru.edu/
"Follow the white rabbit."
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of Mitch Collinsworth
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 09:50 PM
> To: David.Lee AT arvatousa DOT com
> Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: RE: speed problem
>
>
>
> Hi David,
>
> Sun hardware is really not my area of expertise, but I'm sure
> there are
> others on amanda-users who can answer this. If your Sun
> boxes will only
> do 10 Mbps/half-duplex then just make sure your switch ports
> are set to
> either auto/auto or 10/half and you'll be fine.
>
> -Mitch
>
>
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 David.Lee AT arvatousa DOT com wrote:
>
> > Mitch.
> > Here is the version of my Sun OS:
> > "SunOS gitpocs02 5.7 Generic_106541-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10"
> > The /dev/hme is "FEPS Ethernet Driver v1.115"
> > The host seems too old to support 100/full-duplex.
> > Do you agree?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > David
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mitch Collinsworth [mailto:mitch AT ccmr.cornell DOT edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 7:18 PM
> > To: David.Lee AT arvatousa DOT com
> > Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> > Subject: Re: speed problem
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 David.Lee AT arvatousa DOT com wrote:
> >
> > > My tape server is a Linux host (Redhat 7.3).
> > > My clients are either Linux hosts or Sun Solaris hosts.
> > > All client hosts are on the same domain.
> > > When I run 'amdump' to backup Linux hosts, the speed is
> pretty good.
> > > When I run 'amdump' to backup Sun Solaris hosts, the
> speed is extremely
> > > slow.
> > > It seems not a network or hardware issue.
> >
> > Seems? You don't sound particularly sure on this point... In my
> > experience one thing that is a frequent cause of deadly slow network
> > backups is a duplex mismatch between a backup client and
> the ethernet
> > switch it connects to. I've seen systems that the user had
> been happily
> > using without complaint for weeks or months before asking
> for backups.
> > When their backup went painfully slow I'd check their
> network settings
> > and invariably find a duplex mismatch.
> >
> > Another cause of slowness can be doing client compression,
> especially
> > "client best" on slow hardware. How old/slow are your
> Solaris boxen?
> >
> > -Mitch
> >
>
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