... There is a bug in the above. The free_serial() call needs to be removed since we will see this serial number again. -- Orion Poplawski System...
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Orion Poplawski
orion@...
Aug 9, 2004 10:08 pm
... Just tried something: # amrecover Data -d /dev/nst0l AMRECOVER Version 2.4.5b1-20040510. Contacting server on localhost ... 220 saga AMANDA index server...
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Orion Poplawski
orion@...
Aug 11, 2004 7:51 pm
... John - Have you done any work with amverify? Looks like it chokes using amrestore on the split dumps because tar doesn't recognize the split parts after...
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John Stange
building@...
Aug 11, 2004 10:14 pm
... Nope, haven't looked at it. I'm tied up in some other projects at the moment, but if you haven't gotten to it by the time I'm done with those (a few weeks...
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Christophe Kalt
amanda-hackers@...
Aug 13, 2004 8:23 pm
How much of it is done and how much is left to be done?...
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Ivan Petrovich
laveer@...
Aug 13, 2004 9:14 pm
Hi *, What's the status of the development on the "append to tape" mode? Is anyone working on it at all? And would anyone have any valuable input for me if I...
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Gavin Henry
ghenry@...
Aug 14, 2004 1:12 pm
... Hash: SHA1 Hi, Should we do this for the next release of documentation? http://sourceforge.net/projects/man2docbook/ ...
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Gavin Henry
ghenry@...
Aug 14, 2004 5:41 pm
... Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I've been printing out all the documentation and man pages and I have noticed lots of spelling errors etc. Can I start doing some...
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Stefan G. Weichinger
monitor@...
Aug 14, 2004 6:04 pm
Hello, Gavin, Saturday, August 14, 2004, 19:36 you wrote: GH> I've been printing out all the documentation and man pages and I have noticed GH> lots of...
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Stefan G. Weichinger
monitor@...
Aug 14, 2004 9:01 pm
Hello, amanda-hackers, ... SGW> I will have a look at that ASAP. SGW> [...] SGW> Adding the manpages is a very important thing also, I have to SGW> look at the...
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Marc Mengel
mengel@...
Aug 16, 2004 4:20 pm
... Even though I'm a very minor contributor, I think I can speak for the whole Amana team here: The general feeling of the Amanda team is that appending to...
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Chris Miller
ctodd@...
Aug 16, 2004 4:42 pm
... I'll just throw in a thought I had. If amanda knows how many records are stored on a used tape, then why not rewind the tape prior to appending and "fsf"...
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Marc Mengel
mengel@...
Aug 16, 2004 5:38 pm
... It isn't so much a matter of being unable to find the end of the tape reliably, the problem is: 1) you have several-days-old, possibly un-recreatable data...
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Chris Miller
ctodd@...
Aug 16, 2004 5:52 pm
... I think this is an issue for any backup solution that appends to tape, but there are plenty out there that have this functionality. If I couldn't fill...
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Marc Mengel
mengel@...
Aug 16, 2004 6:26 pm
Chris Miller wrote:> ... I agree, as I think do you, that it is purely a matter of opinion how acceptable such a loss of data would be. The probability is...
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Chris Miller
ctodd@...
Aug 16, 2004 6:45 pm
... I do! ... I have :-( ... That's true if you have a large library at your disposal, but many of us are working with what we have - small changers. There's a...
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Tobias Weingartner
weingart@...
Aug 16, 2004 6:54 pm
... If they are hardware errors, deal the best you can with them in software, and that's it. Give diagnostics, and other means of helping track the error, but...
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Tobias Weingartner
weingart@...
Aug 16, 2004 7:12 pm
... The problem is much greater than that. It's a matter of fragmentation and partition (dump) sizes. Assume you have a 10 tape exabyte changer. Running...
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Marc Mengel
mengel@...
Aug 16, 2004 7:43 pm
... Exactly! Minimizing the potential damage is a Good Thing. ... Sometimes the UPS is the source of such a problem. ... No hardware is perfectly reliable. Of...
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Ivan Petrovich
laveer@...
Aug 16, 2004 8:02 pm
While I am aware of the risks in appending to tapes, I can think of at least two reasons why the holding disk idea is unappealing: We use a jukebox that holds...
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Marc Mengel
mengel@...
Aug 16, 2004 8:23 pm
... Sometimes. Compression numbers are highly data dependant. ... So stripe a few tape drives together, get a bigger logical tape. ... First, if this is...
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Ivan Petrovich
laveer@...
Aug 16, 2004 8:51 pm
... Then why does "append to tape" top the list of "Projects That Need Developers" on the official Amanda website? If the consensus of "the Amanda team" is not...
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Joshua Baker-LePain
jlb17@...
Aug 16, 2004 9:08 pm
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 at 3:21pm, Marc Mengel wrote ... Absolutely. Much of my data doesn't compress at all. 2.5X is a *dream* to me. ... But what if you have a...
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Tobias Weingartner
weingart@...
Aug 16, 2004 9:33 pm
... Certainly they are. I find that the size of a tape is much more the variable in our case. Some tapes get 6.85GB, others only 6.4GB. That is a rough 5-7%...
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Jon LaBadie
jon@...
Aug 17, 2004 5:48 am
... It is called 'blocksize', not record... -- Jon H. LaBadie jon@... JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 ...
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Mitch Collinsworth
mitch@...
Aug 18, 2004 2:22 am
... Well there's an outline of the proposed functionality in docs/DUMPER-API. ... Dated 1998. It's a great idea. But frankly, folks have figured out how to...
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Alex N. Markelov
Alex.Markelov@...
Aug 18, 2004 8:00 pm
Hi Guys! I was fighting to the amanda (amanda-server-2.4.4p2 installed from ports) script on FreeBSD 5.2.1. It didn't won't to load first tape in my HP...
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Joe Rhett
jrhett@...
Aug 20, 2004 11:17 pm
Richard Morse sent me the information on how to solve this problem. I have attached the following patch, which really should be included in 2.4.4p4 ... ...
Hello, better late than never to this thread... ... With all due respect, this is not 1998; in that it appears your hardware (like mine) is out of date and may...
