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Ok, thanks for the response. I think AMANDA is very close to meeting our needs, and the results for small backups were quite satisfactory. Otherwise, I wouldn't have spent so much time getting the...

From all these errors I get the impression that there has either been a serious packaging mistake (perhaps using an old build script) and that there has been no real testing of this package prior to...

amdevcheck fails to run

I can't find Device.pm anywhere on my system, maybe it has been left out of the package?

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/amdevcheck line 4.
Can't locate...

These faults were discovered in the amd64 package of 2.6.0-1

During preinst:

Apr 12 2008 08:55:30: Verifying amandabackup user parameters :
Apr 12 2008 08:55:30: !!! WARNING! WARNING!...

I believe that hardware compression is also disabled. Here is the sequence of events in my setup:

amtapetype
- hardware compression warning is displayed
mt-st /dev/st0 compression off...

amstatus MonthlySet1 gives the following output:

taped : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%)
tape 1 : 0 1958710080k 1958710080k (495.48%) MonthlySet1-8 (934 chunks)...

[email protected]:~$ dpkg --list | grep amanda
ii amanda-client 1:2.5.2p1-2 Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Arc
ii amanda-common ...

I have the following in my dump type:

tape_splitsize 40 Gb
split_diskbuffer "/dumps/amanda/split_diskbuffer"

While running amdump for a 2TB filesystem, it is observed, with iostat, that...