portrange 1024???

2001-06-08 Thread Arjan Molenaar
Hi, I'm new to the list and am have a question... Why is it that Amanda wants reserved ports (=1024) for backup and recovery. It clearly has something to do with security, but I do not see the point of not using higher ports. I am not very well educated in IP theory, but maybe someone could

Problem with exb-480 and chg-scsi

2001-06-08 Thread Christoffer Hall-Frederiksen
I have a somewhat strage problem with chg-scsi under linux and I would dearly like som help. The setup is as follows: I have a Exabyte EXB-480 gismo with 4 Exabyte Mammoth EXB-8900 tapedrives in it. Now if I use Eric Lee Green's mtx (1.2.12) the whole thing works just great. I can load and

amanda configuration

2001-06-08 Thread Richard L. Fine
Hello, I'm trying to set up a new installation of Amanda on an SGI running IRIX 6.5.11. First, are there any IRIX idiosyncracies I should know about. Second, this should be a very easy installation (hit me if I'm being too optimistic). All I would like Amanda to do is control a Quantum

Re: amanda config. questions

2001-06-08 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 at 2:21pm, Richard L. Fine wrote I'm trying to set up a new installation of Amanda on an SGI running IRIX 6.5.11. First, are there any IRIX idiosyncracies I should know about. I had no problem building/running 2.4.2p1 on an Indigo2 running 6.5.8. The SGI is a client

Re: predicting full dumps

2001-06-08 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Jonathan Dill wrote: The problem that I'm having is that the dumps are taking too long. It looks like it would probably be a good idea to set up a second amanda server and split up my dumps between them, then the dumps should finish in time. That's certainly one

Is amanda suitable for a single server backup?

2001-06-08 Thread Howard Zhou
If I have a single server to backup with 4Gb of data backed up to a 40-80Gb tape without a tape changer, would amanda do the job? To my understanding, amanda does append to a tape. Without appending, you have to put in a new tape everyday for a small amount of incremental backup data on 40-80Gb