... It's not that one, since I don't have a 64-bit system. However, after sending the email I realized the probable cause of the problem: I started using...
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Geert Uytterhoeven
geert@...
Sep 1, 2005 2:15 pm
... After some suggestions from Paul Bijnens, I extracted the following relevant ... So the estimate from the last level 0 was -1K. And the estimate from the...
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Geert Uytterhoeven
geert@...
Sep 4, 2005 11:57 am
... The following patch fixes the issue (at least in the planner output, a real dump is scheduled for tonight): 1. When using server-side estimates, failed...
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Joe Rhett
jrhett@...
Sep 7, 2005 8:26 am
This was discussed on amanda-users, but nobody has stepped up to address this. It's clearly a fairly major bug in the planner code... ... Here's the relevant...
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Joe Rhett
jrhett@...
Sep 7, 2005 8:28 am
I sent this to -users, and got nothing more than a "yeah". What will it take to get this fixed? ... Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:23:12 -0700 From: Joe Rhett...
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Paul Bijnens
paul.bijnens@...
Sep 7, 2005 9:27 am
... A patch attached. yeah :-) Patch is made against amanda version 2.4.5. This patch looses the nice column for the hostname part in the "FAILURE AND...
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Paul Bijnens
paul.bijnens@...
Sep 7, 2005 10:25 am
... Patch attached. yeah :-) The patch is against amanda 2.4.5. This solves the problem that a delayed-full-because-too-large turns into an...
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Gregor Ibic
gregor.ibic@...
Sep 7, 2005 11:03 am
I would like to know if this fixes or is related to my behaviour. I have LTO 200GB(400 compressed) and I try to backup 360 GB of data, and it goes to tape...
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Stefan G. Weichinger
sgw@...
Sep 7, 2005 11:48 am
At last I found some time again and have added recently posted patches to http://www.amanda.org/patches/ These patches have been posted on the...
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Joe Rhett
jrhett@...
Sep 7, 2005 4:15 pm
... And the patch will be provided when...? -- Joe Rhett senior geek meer.net...
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Paul Bijnens
paul.bijnens@...
Sep 7, 2005 5:14 pm
... The patch attached solves the last problem too. It patches amflush and planner (for autoflush) to skip all holdingdisk files that are larger than the size...
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Jean-Louis Martineau
martinea@...
Sep 7, 2005 5:25 pm
I Orion, I commited your tapeleft and updated amoverview patches. I will send another email for he taperwait patch. Stefan, could you update the xml...
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Jean-Louis Martineau
martinea@...
Sep 7, 2005 5:33 pm
I Orion, Your taperwait patch might be useful but it doesn't solve some of the problem in the taper scheduling. eg. 1- I don't want to use a tape every day,...
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Jean-Louis Martineau
martinea@...
Sep 7, 2005 6:01 pm
Hi Paul, ... This can happen anytime for any level if the estimate size is smaller that the dumped size. I think it should be fixed in the driver, not in...
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Jon LaBadie
jon@...
Sep 7, 2005 6:10 pm
... Paul, just a minor question that your wording prompts. Do you mean a "dump of a DLE" that is larger or the individual holding disk files. What I'm...
4584
Paul Bijnens
paul.bijnens@...
Sep 8, 2005 4:17 pm
... I intended to get the size of the complete DLE, i.e. the sum of all chunks (minus the 32K overhead of each chunk, except the first one, which turn into the...
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Jon LaBadie
jon@...
Sep 8, 2005 11:38 pm
A recent thread on amanda-users again raised the issue of amanda's handling of tape 'EOF', determining whether it was a tape error or the end of the media, and...
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Jon LaBadie
jon@...
Sep 9, 2005 2:58 pm
... What is the interaction between autoflush and taperflush? To my recollection, autoflush affects taper's actions at the start of, and perhaps during, an...
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Stefan G. Weichinger
sgw@...
Sep 12, 2005 7:09 pm
I once wrote about a small shellscript that I use to back up AMANDA-metadata and have received some requests to provide it here. At last I have found some time...
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Joe Rhett
jrhett@...
Sep 13, 2005 8:28 am
... Very good ;-) ... Difficult perhaps. But amanda is the *only* backup program that doesn't do this. ... Obvious thoughts 1. Look at what all the other open...
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Tobias Weingartner
weingart@...
Sep 13, 2005 3:01 pm
... Ok, I think we need to look at how some tapes are manufactured. I *seriously* doubt that each tape has exactly the same length of tape material (you know,...
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Jon LaBadie
jon@...
Sep 14, 2005 2:59 pm
On the users list, Guy Dallaire has been asking about his amreport that shows lots of dumper idle time attributed to "no-hold". Like 95% of the time dumpers...
4591
Scott R. Burns
Scott.Burns@...
Sep 15, 2005 2:11 am
Here are some notes on the subject I found on a SunOS 5.8 man page on the "st" driver in case this if of any value. EOT Handling The Emulex drives have only a...
4592
Ian Turner
ian@...
Sep 15, 2005 2:45 am
From a theoretical standpoint, this is an easy problem to solve: You try to re-read the last thing you wrote, and if you get it, then everything is fine. If...
4593
Scott R. Burns
Scott.Burns@...
Sep 15, 2005 3:26 am
I will prefix this with the fact that I retired from 'C' coding a couple of years ago and I only took about 1/2 an hour to look at these tools. I may be way...
4594
Ian Turner
ian@...
Sep 15, 2005 5:02 am
... On some platforms, and on some hardware. But for some combinations of platform and hardware, there is literally no way to tell the difference. ... Spanning...
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Ian Turner
ian@...
Sep 15, 2005 5:03 am
... On some platforms, and on some hardware. But for some combinations of platform and hardware, there is literally no way to tell the difference. ... Spanning...
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Jean-Louis Martineau
martinea@...
Sep 15, 2005 11:07 am
Hi Geert, I commited your patches. I also patched amanda so that the failed dump are not added to the history file. Thanks Jean-Louis ... -- Jean-Louis...
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Tobias Weingartner
weingart@...
Sep 15, 2005 1:19 pm
... Unfortunately, you can't do that. Tape drives cache things too... The only way to ensure that something *is* on tape is to write an EOF mark to the tape....
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Jon LaBadie
jon@...
Sep 15, 2005 1:24 pm
... That jogged some memory cells of old discussions dealing with the backup and read idea. The concern was whether you can just match the last block on tape ...
