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Amanda users,

do you see anything in below report that raises your eyebrows?
This is just test, no production cycle yet.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR February 9, 2004
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 15:36:20 +0100 (MET)
From: Amanda Operator <amanda < at > u03.infochem.de>
Reply-To: amanda < at > u03.infochem.de
To: amanda < at > u03.infochem.com

These dumps were to tape DailySet111.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape.


STATISTICS:
Total Full Daily
-------- -------- --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:20
Run Time (hrs:min) 1:08
Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:46 0:39 0:07
Output Size (meg) 331.3 316.9 14.5
Original Size (meg) 1032.8 813.7 219.1
Avg Compressed Size (%) 32.1 38.9 6.6 (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Dumped 9 3 6 (1:5 2:1)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 123.3 139.5 34.8

Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:06 0:06 0:01
Tape Size (meg) 331.3 316.9 14.5
Tape Used (%) 2.9 2.7 0.1 (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Taped 9 3 6 (1:5 2:1)
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 918.9 964.9 449.4

USAGE BY TAPE:
Label Time Size % Nb
DailySet111 0:06 331.3 2.9 9


NOTES:
planner: Full dump of u03:/var promoted from 25 days ahead.
planner: Full dump of u07:/var promoted from 25 days ahead.
planner: Full dump of u03:/usr promoted from 24 days ahead.
taper: tape DailySet111 kb 339744 fm 9 [OK]


DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
u03 -xport/home 1 29370 3297 11.2 2:53 19.1 0:04 753.3
u03 /opt 2 174590 9691 5.6 3:34 45.2 0:11 873.0
u03 /usr 0 503910 158394 31.4 24:42 106.9 2:43 974.5
u03 -sr/openwin 1 720 47 6.5 0:07 6.3 0:001149.1
u03 /var 0 245600 129929 52.9 13:09 164.7 2:17 950.6
u07 -xport/home 1 3670 140 3.8 0:03 45.0 0:002079.7
u07 /home 1 10 1 10.0 0:00 0.0 0:00 4.0
u07 /usr 1 15950 1635 10.3 0:28 58.4 0:17 95.5
u07 /var 0 83740 36156 43.2 0:56 649.5 0:37 975.8

(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p1)

Eugen Leitl wrote:

do you see anything in below report that raises your eyebrows?
This is just test, no production cycle yet.

All fine.

planner: Full dump of u03:/var promoted from 25 days ahead.

Are you sure you want to run with a dumpcycle that large?
Dumpcyle != tapecycle. Actually tapecycle is best at least twice
the dumpcycle.

DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
u03 -xport/home 1 29370 3297 11.2 2:53 19.1 0:04 753.3
u03 /opt 2 174590 9691 5.6 3:34 45.2 0:11 873.0
u03 /usr 0 503910 158394 31.4 24:42 106.9 2:43 974.5
u03 -sr/openwin 1 720 47 6.5 0:07 6.3 0:001149.1

Have a look at the "colspec" parameter in amanda.conf. It avoids
running the columns together. When going production, you numbers will
even be larger.

(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p1)

2.4.4p2 is out too :-)

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On Monday 09 February 2004 09:57, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Amanda users,

do you see anything in below report that raises your eyebrows?
This is just test, no production cycle yet.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR February 9, 2004
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 15:36:20 +0100 (MET)
From: Amanda Operator <amanda < at > u03.infochem.de>
Reply-To: amanda < at > u03.infochem.de
To: amanda < at > u03.infochem.com

These dumps were to tape DailySet111.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape.


STATISTICS:
Total Full Daily
-------- -------- --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:20
Run Time (hrs:min) 1:08
Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:46 0:39 0:07
Output Size (meg) 331.3 316.9 14.5
Original Size (meg) 1032.8 813.7 219.1
Avg Compressed Size (%) 32.1 38.9 6.6
(level:#disks ...) Filesystems Dumped 9 3
6 (1:5 2:1) Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 123.3 139.5
34.8

Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:06 0:06 0:01
Tape Size (meg) 331.3 316.9 14.5
Tape Used (%) 2.9 2.7 0.1
(level:#disks ...) Filesystems Taped 9 3
6 (1:5 2:1) Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 918.9 964.9
449.4

USAGE BY TAPE:
Label Time Size % Nb
DailySet111 0:06 331.3 2.9 9


NOTES:
planner: Full dump of u03:/var promoted from 25 days ahead.
planner: Full dump of u07:/var promoted from 25 days ahead.
planner: Full dump of u03:/usr promoted from 24 days ahead.
taper: tape DailySet111 kb 339744 fm 9 [OK]


DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATS TAPER
STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s
MMM:SS KB/s --------------------------
--------------------------------- ------------ u03
-xport/home 1 29370 3297 11.2 2:53 19.1 0:04 753.3 u03
/opt 2 174590 9691 5.6 3:34 45.2 0:11 873.0
u03 /usr 0 503910 158394 31.4 24:42 106.9 2:43
974.5 u03 -sr/openwin 1 720 47 6.5 0:07 6.3
0:001149.1 u03 /var 0 245600 129929 52.9 13:09
164.7 2:17 950.6 u07 -xport/home 1 3670 140 3.8
0:03 45.0 0:002079.7 u07 /home 1 10 1
10.0 0:00 0.0 0:00 4.0 u07 /usr 1 15950
1635 10.3 0:28 58.4 0:17 95.5 u07 /var 0
83740 36156 43.2 0:56 649.5 0:37 975.8

(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p1)

Looks fine (before my word wrap got to it that is)

Now is the time to start adding the rest of the DLE's to the disklist.

--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
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by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.

On Monday 09 February 2004 10:57, Paul Bijnens wrote:
Eugen Leitl wrote:
do you see anything in below report that raises your eyebrows?
This is just test, no production cycle yet.

All fine.

planner: Full dump of u03:/var promoted from 25 days ahead.

Are you sure you want to run with a dumpcycle that large?
Dumpcyle != tapecycle. Actually tapecycle is best at least twice
the dumpcycle.

DUMPER STATS TAPER
STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s
MMM:SS KB/s --------------------------
--------------------------------- ------------ u03
-xport/home 1 29370 3297 11.2 2:53 19.1 0:04 753.3 u03
/opt 2 174590 9691 5.6 3:34 45.2 0:11
873.0 u03 /usr 0 503910 158394 31.4 24:42 106.9
2:43 974.5 u03 -sr/openwin 1 720 47 6.5
0:07 6.3 0:001149.1

Have a look at the "colspec" parameter in amanda.conf. It avoids
running the columns together. When going production, you numbers
will even be larger.

(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p1)

2.4.4p2 is out too :-)

So is 2.4.5p1, works great here. :-)

--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
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by Gene Heskett are:
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Hi, Gene,

on Montag, 09. Februar 2004 at 17:03 you wrote to amanda-users:

(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p1)

2.4.4p2 is out too :-)

GH> So is 2.4.5p1, works great here. :-)

I only see 2.4.5b1 here ... are you ahead of us?
--
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Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor < at > oops.co.at

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:57:31PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:

Amanda users,

do you see anything in below report that raises your eyebrows?
This is just test, no production cycle yet.

-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
u03 -xport/home 1 29370 3297 11.2 2:53 19.1 0:04 753.3
u03 /opt 2 174590 9691 5.6 3:34 45.2 0:11 873.0
u03 /usr 0 503910 158394 31.4 24:42 106.9 2:43 974.5
u03 -sr/openwin 1 720 47 6.5 0:07 6.3 0:001149.1
u03 /var 0 245600 129929 52.9 13:09 164.7 2:17 950.6
u07 -xport/home 1 3670 140 3.8 0:03 45.0 0:002079.7
u07 /home 1 10 1 10.0 0:00 0.0 0:00 4.0
u07 /usr 1 15950 1635 10.3 0:28 58.4 0:17 95.5
u07 /var 0 83740 36156 43.2 0:56 649.5 0:37 975.8


Aside from what has already been noted;
you might read up on the "columnspec" setting to adjust the spacing
of your report columns.

I also go into the source and change the columns with single decimal digits
to having zero decimal digits and no decimal point. Do I really care if
the tape rate was 975.8 KB/sec as compared to 976? Or that u07's /var FS
compressed to 43.2 percent of its original size vs 43%?

--
Jon H. LaBadie jon < at > jgcomp.com
JG Computing
4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159
Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 11:51am, Jon LaBadie wrote

I also go into the source and change the columns with single decimal digits
to having zero decimal digits and no decimal point. Do I really care if
the tape rate was 975.8 KB/sec as compared to 976? Or that u07's /var FS
compressed to 43.2 percent of its original size vs 43%?

YES! For $DEITY's sake, man, don't carelessly toss away
precious significant digits!

Ahem. This aside has been brought to you by my type A, engineering past.

--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:58:03AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 11:51am, Jon LaBadie wrote

I also go into the source and change the columns with single decimal digits
to having zero decimal digits and no decimal point. Do I really care if
the tape rate was 975.8 KB/sec as compared to 976? Or that u07's /var FS
compressed to 43.2 percent of its original size vs 43%?

YES! For $DEITY's sake, man, don't carelessly toss away
precious significant digits!

Ahem. This aside has been brought to you by my type A, engineering past.


The $NETHERDEITY you say! The digits are not tossed, just not reported.
They are recoverable by dividing two other columns. ;)

--
Jon H. LaBadie jon < at > jgcomp.com
JG Computing
4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159
Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)

On Monday 09 February 2004 11:09, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Hi, Gene,

on Montag, 09. Februar 2004 at 17:03 you wrote to amanda-users:
(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p1)

2.4.4p2 is out too :-)

GH> So is 2.4.5p1, works great here. :-)

I only see 2.4.5b1 here ... are you ahead of us?

Thats a typu, sorry. Been running it 2 days now. Dunno why
Jean-Louis called it a beta though. From the ChangeLog:
2004-02-02 Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau < at > iro.umontreal.ca>

* server-src/driver.c: Build holding disk name with timestamp.
* server-src/holding.c (is_datestr): Check also for timestamp.
* server-src/planner.c: Flush today's dump with autoflush.
* server-src/find.c: Find holding disk with timestamp.
* server-src/find.h (find_result_t): Add timestamp field.
* NEWS: holding disk disk use timestamped directory.
* NEWS: autoflush flush today's dump.

2004-02-02 Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau < at > iro.umontreal.ca>

* changer-src/chg-zd-mtx.sh.in: Works if all slot and tape are
full.

2004-02-02 Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau < at > iro.umontreal.ca>

* server-src/amverifyrun.sh.in: Do not execute amverify if no
tape
to verify.

2004-02-02 Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau < at > iro.umontreal.ca>

* server-src/amdump.sh.in: Do not redirect to /dev/null.

2004-02-02 Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau < at > iro.umontreal.ca>

* config/acinclude.m4i: Define CF_WAIT_INT.
* configure.in: Call CF_WAIT_INT.
* common-src/amanda.h: Try to make waitpid doesn't warn.

2004-02-02 Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau < at > iro.umontreal.ca>

* configure.in: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(amanda, 2.4.5b1).

So it looks like some of the requests for a finer timestamp are being
addressed.

--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 12:21pm, Jon LaBadie wrote

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:58:03AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 11:51am, Jon LaBadie wrote

I also go into the source and change the columns with single decimal digits
to having zero decimal digits and no decimal point. Do I really care if
the tape rate was 975.8 KB/sec as compared to 976? Or that u07's /var FS
compressed to 43.2 percent of its original size vs 43%?

YES! For $DEITY's sake, man, don't carelessly toss away
precious significant digits!

Ahem. This aside has been brought to you by my type A, engineering past.

The $NETHERDEITY you say! The digits are not tossed, just not reported.
They are recoverable by dividing two other columns. ;)

Yeah, but I'm also lazy... ;)

--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

On Monday 09 February 2004 12:21, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:58:03AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 11:51am, Jon LaBadie wrote

I also go into the source and change the columns with single
decimal digits to having zero decimal digits and no decimal
point. Do I really care if the tape rate was 975.8 KB/sec as
compared to 976? Or that u07's /var FS compressed to 43.2
percent of its original size vs 43%?

YES! For $DEITY's sake, man, don't carelessly toss away
precious significant digits!

Ahem. This aside has been brought to you by my type A,
engineering past.

The $NETHERDEITY you say! The digits are not tossed, just not
reported. They are recoverable by dividing two other columns. ;)

Chuckle, I see everyones humor bone is in good shape today.

Actually, I've heard that if its only off by point double ought zip,
"thats close enough for the girls I go with!" :)

With that, if I haven't mentioned it before, I will be out of pocket
for a bit, I'm flying to upstate MI tomorrow morning to apply the
defib paddles to a tv station thats been dark a bit too long and the
license is in danger. Hopefully I can get it to breathing regularly
again. NDI what I'm walking into, but the price & fringies are ok.
I've got my scope, a DVM, a decent soldering iron and some small hand
tools packed, anything else I'll let petty cash buy, & fedex deliver.
I hear the place is toolless. Ick...

I'll likely be around the rest of the evening but will do a gracefull
shutdown late tonight. Asking the nearly computer illiterate missus
to keep the tapes changed runs up my phone bill OTOH, she did it
for a couple of weeks 2 years ago.

I'll resign from the lists, else my 10 meg mailbox will be full in a
day or 2.

--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
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by Gene Heskett are:
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 12:51pm, Gene Heskett wrote

Actually, I've heard that if its only off by point double ought zip,
"thats close enough for the girls I go with!" :)

Around here we can say "good enough for gov't work" and mean it, given
that most of our grants come from the gov't.

With that, if I haven't mentioned it before, I will be out of pocket
for a bit, I'm flying to upstate MI tomorrow morning to apply the

Good luck, and, err, enjoy upstate MI at this time of year... Heh.

--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

On Monday 09 February 2004 12:59, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 12:51pm, Gene Heskett wrote

Actually, I've heard that if its only off by point double ought
zip, "thats close enough for the girls I go with!" :)

Around here we can say "good enough for gov't work" and mean it,
given that most of our grants come from the gov't.

With that, if I haven't mentioned it before, I will be out of
pocket for a bit, I'm flying to upstate MI tomorrow morning to
apply the

Good luck, and, err, enjoy upstate MI at this time of year... Heh.

Yeah, I hear there is a foot+ of white stuff just laying around. When
they specify a + sign, thats when you call for a dozer to come and
make your rented 4wd a trail. Susan, the only employee at the
moment, has been warned. :)

--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message
by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.