Author: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:43:01 -0400
Our shop is running with zfs-snapshots. We don't/haven't attempted ufs-snapshots. Snapshots are great - but not the solution to all problems, files that are open when the snapshots are created are 'o
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:01:47 -0400
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Brian Cuttler<brian AT wadsworth DOT org> wrote: Sorry -- I meant the daily snapshots of the latest and greatest Amanda code. I should have made that clear :) Dustin
Author: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:37:35 -0400
Reviewing the issue. Server, Solaris 10x86, Amanda 2.6.1 (with patches) Client, Solaris 9, Amanda 2.4.4 The problem performing level 0 dumps is that there are a large number of files in flux -- its t
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:48:28 -0400
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Alan Pearson<alandpearson AT yahoo DOT com> wrote: Absolutely -- I hope I did not imply that everyone, or even most people, should be running snapshots! But hopefull
Author: "Alan Pearson" <alandpearson AT yahoo DOT com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:47:49 +0100 (BST)
Hi Dustin You have to appreciate a lot of people have AMANDA in production environments and it is working. We are very reluctant to change it in case it breaks, we don't want the overhead of having t
Author: "Alan Pearson" <alandpearson AT yahoo DOT com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:56:04 +0100 (BST)
Good points and I do appreciate the effort that is put into AMANDA and its backwards compatibility. I guess testing the client is easy, and something I will try to do over the next few weeks and repo
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:56:59 -0400
I have been following the 2.6.2 snapshots, usually within a day or so, for several months. You've heard about it when I have problems, which isn't often. Currently running the 2.6.2-20090805 snapshot
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:19:03 -0400
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Gene Heskett<gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> wrote: Thanks, Gene -- this has been a great help! Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
Author: Jean-Francois Malouin <malin AT bic.mni.mcgill DOT ca>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:48:14 -0400
* Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin AT zmanda DOT com> [20090811 10:34]: Can you elaborate on the new chg-robot: I just downloaded the latest snapshot for 2.6.1 (2.6.1p1-20090805) and I can't find anything
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:20:50 -0400
Hmm, well one problem is that that's a snapshot of the the 2.6.1 branch, which is pretty stable at this point. The other problem, which Jean-Louis might be able to address, is that it's now almost 20
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:41:29 -0400
You are welcome Dustin. But understand I do this with the image of the canary in the coal mine in mind. If my canary dies, its time to yelp. Its been pretty healthy of late so I don't have anything t
Author: Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:13:29 -0400
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: Hmm, well one problem is that that's a snapshot of the the 2.6.1 branch, which is pretty stable at this point. The other problem, which Jean-Louis might be able to address,
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:59:33 -0400
And I'd advise that one should not fix that which is not broken. :) 20090805 is working well here. Of course I probably do not exercise it to the fullest by any means. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four
Author: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:24:35 -0400
Amanda users, For the issue below, we have see several hundred thousand emails move through the system system each day. UFSdump is failing because it seems too many files come and go, queries to "con
Author: Chris Hoogendyk <hoogendyk AT bio.umass DOT edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:21:36 -0400
yes, /var/mail does tend to be a problem. My mail.log can get to a quarter million lines a day, but that's not the same as getting that number of messages. Typically, my level 1 backups aren't much d
Author: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:47:12 -0400
Ok, will keep an eye. Looking at the sendfile log we are down to at least ./spool/imap/user/gling, but if its only headers at this point we could be in for a long run. Snapshots... move to ZFS, let a
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:18:25 -0400
Hey, thanks! Note that you're running the snapshot of the latest release branch, rather than head -- but you've found a bug there all the same. It looks like this was a merge error where one change w
Author: rorycl <amanda-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:17:17 -0400
I'm going to cross-post this text on the Amanda and Bacula lists. Apologies in advance if you see this twice. Our company is about to provide centralised backups for several pools of backup data of b