Re: Amanda-friendly distro?

2010-03-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Well, TBT Dustin, other than the rather terse ChangeLog, no one seems to be using much ink bragging about the newest bells and whistles. Some timely article

Re: Amanda-friendly distro?

2010-03-10 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
Hi I have never done this before so I am taking a guessing game. Wouldn't it be a good idea to approach the higher ranking (online) magazines, e.g. http://www.linux-magazine.com/ http://www.wired.com/ http://www.zdnet.com/ http://www.linux.org/news/index.html

Re: Amanda-friendly distro?

2010-03-10 Thread Mike Höhn
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: I checked Slackware, but their package browser has been down for as long as I can remember. Slackware doesn't have amanda packages, but www.slackbuilds.org does. Currently 2.6.1p1 is available. And based on that it's really easy to make a package using the 2.6.1p2

[Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-10 Thread rory_f
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 09 March 2010, rory_f wrote: Absolutely no, amanda ignores that. It is for your edification only. One other question: Did you take note of whether or not the drive was streaming steadily, or was it 'shoe shining' occasionally? One can normally hear

Re: Amanda-friendly distro?

2010-03-10 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Jobst Schmalenbach jo...@barrett.com.auwrote: Further how about sending some email to the major distro providers, explaining what the new Amanda can do (compared to the old). I am not sure how they go about (and alert them) producing RPMS/DEPS/packages or

New Tar is out, version 1.23

2010-03-10 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; A new tar is out, the announcement posted this morning on the tar list. I wonder what new and strange 'things' we'll run into? -- 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)

no-reuse tape was written to

2010-03-10 Thread John Hein
Has anyone seen a tape that was marked no-reused get _used_? It happened last night here (amanda-2.6.1p2).

Re: no-reuse tape was written to

2010-03-10 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:44 AM, John Hein jh...@symmetricom.com wrote: Has anyone seen a tape that was marked no-reused get _used_? It happened last night here (amanda-2.6.1p2). To take a guess: label_new_tapes is set and the tape drive encountered an error when try to read the label, thus

Re: [Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 10 March 2010, rory_f wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 09 March 2010, rory_f wrote: Absolutely no, amanda ignores that. It is for your edification only. One other question: Did you take note of whether or not the drive was streaming steadily, or was it 'shoe shining'

Re: no-reuse tape was written to

2010-03-10 Thread John Hein
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote at 12:22 -0600 on Mar 10, 2010: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:44 AM, John Hein jh...@symmetricom.com wrote: Has anyone seen a tape that was marked no-reused get _used_? It happened last night here (amanda-2.6.1p2). To take a guess: label_new_tapes is set and the