On 01/09/2014 01:44 PM, Michael Stauffer wrote:
Hi,
I'm setting up amanda 3.3.4 with a Quantum Scalar i500 tape library.
Regrading compression options, I'll go with the recommendation in the
documentation to let Amanda do the compression client-side.
How can I determine if hardware compre
op 09-01-14 19:47, Michael Stauffer schreef:
> Does this mean that if I have multiple configurations in order to
> break up a large 30TB data set into managable chunks, each
> configuration will have to have a particular set of tapes assigned to
> it? That seems very awkward if so.
Why would you ma
The global changerfile is is a configuration file for the old changer API
The changer changerfile is used as a state file by some of the new changer.
Jean-Louis
On 01/09/2014 01:48 PM, Michael Stauffer wrote:
Hi,
I'm working on setting up a robot tape changer.
The docs for "chg-robot:DEVICE"
On 01/09/2014 01:47 PM, Michael Stauffer wrote:
Hi,
I'm setting up amanda 3.3.4.
Regarding 'labelstr' in amanda.conf:
The documentation says: "If multiple configurations are run from the
same tape server host, it is helpful to set their labels to different
strings (for example, "DAILY[0-9][
Hi,
I'm working on setting up a robot tape changer.
The docs for "chg-robot:DEVICE" say this:"the changerfile parameter can be
used to specify a filename at which it should store its state. Ordinarily,
this state is stored in a file named after the changer device under
$localstatedir/amanda, e.g.,
Hi,
I'm setting up amanda 3.3.4.
Regarding 'labelstr' in amanda.conf:
The documentation says: "If multiple configurations are run from the same
tape server host, it is helpful to set their labels to different strings
(for example, "DAILY[0-9][0-9]*" vs. "ARCHIVE[0-9][0-9]*") to avoid
overwriting
Hi,
I'm setting up amanda 3.3.4 with a Quantum Scalar i500 tape library.
Regrading compression options, I'll go with the recommendation in the
documentation to let Amanda do the compression client-side.
How can I determine if hardware compression is enabled on my tape library?
I can't find any
amanda 3.3 and before do not have crc check.
crc check is already in the development tree and will be included in the
next major release.
Restoring from a corrupted archive depend of the tool used.
gtar can generally restore corrupted archive, some manual
intervention can be required.
so
What mechanisms does amanda provide to guarantee the following:
1) what was on the original drive is what is sent to the backup server
2) what was sent to the backup server is what's written to the archive
3) what's written to the archive is what's rerouted from backup
4) that any errors encounter
