forcing a degraded backup

2002-05-03 Thread Manuel Bouyer
Hi, I'm looking for a way to force a backup to degraded mode, to holding disk with 2.4.3b3. Reading the docs I didn't find anything obvious yet. Here's what I'm trying to do: I have a 14 slots DLT changer. With a runspercycle of 7, I have plenty of space left on tapes, so I'd like to put 2 days

Help with AMANDA.conf

2002-05-03 Thread Kim C. Callis
Hello group, This is my first go around with AMANDA and I needed a little guidance in getting things running smoothly. I am using a QUANTUM 4700 (20G/40G) 7 slot stacker under SuSE Linux 7.3. I have been fooling around with the AMANDA conf file, but I was wondering if anyone had any experience

Tape changers/libraries

2002-05-03 Thread David Flood
This is not really an amanda question but is an excellent place to get input. I have around £2000 to spend on a changer/library does any one have any suggestions, ideally I would like to be able to back up 400GB but I realise this is maybe not possible for 2K so backup capability is the

HP Surestore 1/8

2002-05-03 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
Hi All, I have looked through the Amanda docs and the FAQ to see if a particular autoloader is supported, but I can't find it listed. Does not listed == not supported? The unit is the HP Surestore 1/8 DLT vs80. TIA, Kenny --

How to set up clients

2002-05-03 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hello, How exactly, do I setup a client? I've setup AMANDA on my tape server (I think, at least I've got amcheck liking my setup) but what this exercise is all about is backing up a classroom environment. So, how do I setup a client? Andy

Re: Expanding tapecycle

2002-05-03 Thread Marc Mengel
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 18:08, Brandon Moro wrote: Here's where the problem is (unless you see one above that I have overlooked). I send the tapes from the last week of every month offsite for 1 year. Can I arrange the tapecycle in such a way that I can get amanda to recognize a tape as

Formatting output of amreport

2002-05-03 Thread Wayne Richards
I seem to recall some messages regarding the format of amreport output but have been unable to locate that information. Could someone point me to the proper location? --- Wayne Richards Phone: 330 796-4462 Goodyear Tech CenterFax:330

Re: How to set up clients

2002-05-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 3 May 2002 at 10:43am, Andrew Falanga wrote How exactly, do I setup a client? I've setup AMANDA on my tape server (I think, at least I've got amcheck liking my setup) but what this exercise is all about is backing up a classroom environment. So, how do I setup a client?

Re: How to set up clients

2002-05-03 Thread Doug Silver
If you have 'amcheck CONFIG' working, then you probably have set up the server as a client. Now you just need to duplicate those steps on other clients. Read the INSTALL file that comes with Amanda. If you have problems, let us know what OS you're running and what errors Amanda reports back

lbl-templ

2002-05-03 Thread Wayne Richards
I've setup my tapetype to include lbl-templ 8x11.ps. It generates a nice looking output to the default printer. The only problem I have is that it prints only one page for 90 filesystems. So about line 63, I get 1/2 of a line (the top half) and the rest of the filesystems disappear. Anyone

Re: How to set up clients

2002-05-03 Thread Andrew Falanga
Doug Silver wrote: If you have 'amcheck CONFIG' working, then you probably have set up the server as a client. Now you just need to duplicate those steps on other clients. Read the INSTALL file that comes with Amanda. If you have problems, let us know what OS you're running and what

Re: Tape changers/libraries

2002-05-03 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Fri, 3 May 2002, David Flood wrote: I have around £2000 to spend on a changer/library does any one have any suggestions, ideally I would like to be able to back up 400GB but I realise this is maybe not possible for 2K so backup capability is the most important factor. Hi David. I've been

Re: Formatting output of amreport

2002-05-03 Thread Niall O Broin
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:50:22PM -0400, Wayne Richards wrote: I seem to recall some messages regarding the format of amreport output but have been unable to locate that information. Could someone point me to the proper location? To a certain extent you can format the output by changing

Re: Formatting output of amreport

2002-05-03 Thread Wayne Richards
That's it. Thanks. On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:50:22PM -0400, Wayne Richards wrote: I seem to recall some messages regarding the format of amreport output but have been unable to locate that information. Could someone point me to the proper location? To a certain extent you can

Re: True Tape Overflow

2002-05-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On 3 May 2002 at 2:10pm, Jim Summers wrote One of my file systems is slightly over the 24G limit and has not been able to be backed up on my current config of one tape. I was hoping that when I went to the changer and have 2 tapes per run set that it would continue on to the next tape. Now

Re: True Tape Overflow

2002-05-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 02:10:53PM -0500, Jim Summers wrote: Hello All, I am preparing to re-configure my amanda system. I noticed while reading the man pages that the version (2.4.2p2) of amanda I am using will not do true tape overflow. I have an old DDS3 tape changer I am going to

Failure and Strange Dump Summary

2002-05-03 Thread Michael Kopach
Ok, now I will wave the white flag I am trying to get amanda working for the first time, but am running into same problem over and over. The particulars are: O/S is Slackware 8.0, amanda version is 2.4.3b3. Amcheck runs fine, but when I do an amdump, the following is what I end up with:

Re: Failure and Strange Dump Summary

2002-05-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 3 May 2002 at 2:52pm, Michael Kopach wrote FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: localhost hda5a lev 0 FAILED [missing result for hda5a in localhost response] Two things: o You want to use a hostname. Even if you don't think you do, you do. localhost will more than likely come