John,
Thanks for the reply.
I'll eagerly await your patch to span multiple tapes. How is this project
progressing? Is it available in alpha form via CVS or anything?
In terms of the OS corruption, I believe I found the cause-bad clusters on
the disk. I've gotten so used to newer disks not having any errors that I
basically forgot about bad clusters. Running "chkdsk c: /f" doesn't help
with these, either. One must choose properties of the drive, then tools,
then something like "check disk for errors". After this, the machine
reboots and does a more thorough chkdsk, this time using 5 "stages" instead
of the 3 "stages" it uses when one just does a "chkdsk c: /f". This seems
to have fixed that problem.
Again, thanks for your help and I can't wait for to span multiple tapes!
Sean Noonan
-----Original Message-----
From: John R. Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 12:32 PM
To: Sean Noonan
Cc: Amanda-Users@Amanda. Org
Subject: Re: 2 problems left to solve - size and corruption issue
>... I've removed as many
>programs and data as I can from this box, but there's still
>6.5GB or so to backup. I'm using DDS2 tapes with hardware
>compression turned on. ...
>... Is this because it's NOT
>possible with the current version of Amanda to backup a
>partition/volume/disk that's larger than a single tape
>media? If so that would really suck.
Yes, that's probably the cause. I'm working on that feature right now.
>I've thought of a few things to get around this. I could
>create multiple shares on the box instead of just C$, for
>example //boxname/winnt and //boxname/games. But the
>problem with this is getting files in the root directory
>backed up. The only way I see to do this is via C$ or
>equivalent. No?
I can't think of anything within the current limitations of smbclient
(insufficient exclude capability).
Do the top level items change very often? If not, maybe you could
just zip them once in a while into an area that does get backed up.
Doing a restore will be more painful, but maybe it's better than nothing.
>The second issue is more insidious and may/may not be
>related to the first problem. After every single backup
>attempt to the Windows 2000 box, a dialogue box pops up on
>the 2000 box warning me of data corruption! ...
I think I'd be looking for a new OS vendor :-).
Amanda never really touches your PC. It just runs smbclient. So my
guess is you need to whine loudly at MicroSoft (which will do you no
good whatsoever) and also ask the Samba folks about this.
>Sean Noonan
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
