Monthly Backup Problem

2004-05-02 Thread Kianusch Sayah Karadji
Hi! I use amanda 2.4.3 to make Daily and Monthly Backups to Tapes :) Daily works fine. My Monthly Backup is designed to make a "level 0" from all available Data - which will not fit to one tape anyway - so the plan was to not put in a tape, and have amanda backup everything to the dumps Partitio

Re: Give me my Index Files

2004-05-02 Thread Alexander Feldman
On Sun, 2 May 2004, Jon LaBadie wrote: > [snip] > > Weird! > > First things first, do your dumptypes have the "index yes" directive? Yep. > Does /usr/local/var/amanda/index exist? Reasonable ownership/permissions? The directory is owned by "amanda:backup". Shouldn't be a problem. > > -- > J

Re: New to Amanda- discouraged by some absurd limitations..

2004-05-02 Thread brad
I understand your reaction, and I would likely have posted something similar during my first week or so with Amanda, but I'm a lurker by nature. I figured the answer would show itself sooner or later. I've had all of my questions answered and then some. This is one of the most information rich and

Re: Give me my Index Files

2004-05-02 Thread whargrove
Hello, and thank you for your email. I shall be out of the office until Tuesday 4th May. Should your email require urgent attention, the please contact David Adams or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, William Hargrove

Re: Give me my Index Files

2004-05-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 01:51:18AM +0200, Alexander Feldman wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I have amanda server installed on my SPARC/Solaris 8 box and I can't get > the indices being built. Below is what I get in the debug file (in > /tmp/amanda): > > amtrmidx: debug 1 pid 1014 ruid 1013 euid 1013: start

Give me my Index Files

2004-05-02 Thread Alexander Feldman
Hi Guys, I have amanda server installed on my SPARC/Solaris 8 box and I can't get the indices being built. Below is what I get in the debug file (in /tmp/amanda): amtrmidx: debug 1 pid 1014 ruid 1013 euid 1013: start at Mon May 3 01:18:25 2004 /usr/local/amanda-2.4.4p2/libexec/amtrmidx: version

Re: New to Amanda- discouraged by some absurd limitations..

2004-05-02 Thread whargrove
Hello, and thank you for your email. I shall be out of the office until Tuesday 4th May. Should your email require urgent attention, the please contact David Adams or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, William Hargrove

Re: New to Amanda- discouraged by some absurd limitations..

2004-05-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 12:44:16PM -0600, Justin Gombos wrote: > > > IMHO this was rather rude way to bring up the issue, > > First of all, I did not know whether this was an issue, that's why I > posted here. It was certainly proper to raise an Amanda > issue/question to the amanda-users maili

Re: New to Amanda- discouraged by some absurd limitations..

2004-05-02 Thread Jonathan Dill
Justin Gombos wrote: First of all, I did not know whether this was an issue, that's why I posted here. It was certainly proper to raise an Amanda issue/question to the amanda-users mailing list. Asking, "Can amanda do X?" is one thing, but to complain of "an absurd limitation" is, frankly, ins

Re: New to Amanda- discouraged by some absurd limitations..

2004-05-02 Thread Justin Gombos
* Jonathan Dill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-02 10:27]: > Use FILE-DRIVER and wait until you have enough files to fill up the > CD-R. Or use CD-RW as your "tapes" and keep several that you can rotate > and re-use. Maybe the file-driver will suffice.. I'll have to look into that. > IMHO this wa

Re: New to Amanda- discouraged by some absurd limitations..

2004-05-02 Thread Jonathan Dill
Use FILE-DRIVER and wait until you have enough files to fill up the CD-R. Or use CD-RW as your "tapes" and keep several that you can rotate and re-use. Oh yes, we have designed amanda specifically to satisfy your personal whims, pretty please don't reject it, it will so much hurt my feelings.