Re: fullbackup

2002-09-21 Thread Frank Smith
--On Friday, September 20, 2002 20:58:42 -0400 Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 20 September 2002 16:32, Frank Smith wrote: --On Friday, September 20, 2002 21:46:48 +0200 Marcus Schopen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Smith wrote: --On Friday, September 20, 2002 17:46:28

Re: amanda reports and some questions

2002-09-21 Thread Frank Smith
--On Friday, September 20, 2002 22:35:33 -0500 Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, Looks like my amanda is getting better. :) Take a look at the email report that amanda sent me. http://restricted.dyndns.org/amandareport.txt And here is my new amanda.conf.

Re: Use of tape changers?

2002-09-21 Thread Frank Smith
--On Friday, September 20, 2002 21:19:43 -0400 Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd think that rather than larger tapes, faster drives would be higher on the list, if for no other reason than to get the darned job done before the offices open in the morning. Here, it occasionally

Re: amanda reports and some questions

2002-09-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 20 September 2002 23:35, Neil wrote: Hi guys, Looks like my amanda is getting better. :) Take a look at the email report that amanda sent me. http://restricted.dyndns.org/amandareport.txt Looks good, but it appears from the kb/s rate you are getting, that the drives hardware

Re: Use of tape changers?

2002-09-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 September 2002 02:24, Frank Smith wrote: --On Friday, September 20, 2002 21:19:43 -0400 Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd think that rather than larger tapes, faster drives would be higher on the list, if for no other reason than to get the darned job done before the

Re: Anyone using HP 40x6e changer?

2002-09-21 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hm, what os do u use? we are using a HP 24x6 which should be the same robot, but with a smaler (DDS III) drive in it under linux with chg-scsi (from amanda-2.5, as the one of 2.4.2p2 is buggy) and amanda 2.4p2 since over one year without any problems. Interested in chg-scsi.conf? Christoph Pete

Amanda's tape usage

2002-09-21 Thread Niall O Broin
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:19:43PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: seen it work in practice here, nor do I need it, but my system is only 46gigs, which amanda cheerfully uses about half a 4gig tape per nightly run to back it all up on a 1 week dumpcycle. Gene - I've seen you mention this a few

Re: amanda reports and some questions

2002-09-21 Thread Neil
Gene Heskett writes: Looks good, but it appears from the kb/s rate you are getting, that the drives hardware compression is turned on, which doubles the effective data rate. Thats a maximum of a 400kb/s drive without that. Are you saying that setting hardware compression to off is

backing up commercial apps

2002-09-21 Thread Neil
Good day guys, What is amanda's approach to backup commercial software like Microsoft Exchange 5.5 mail server? It's because in Exchange, they have this public store and private store files. Commercial backup such as BackupExec can backup/restore each mailboxes via agents. Will there be

Re: backing up commercial apps

2002-09-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 07:44:31AM -0500, Neil wrote: Good day guys, What is amanda's approach to backup commercial software like Microsoft Exchange 5.5 mail server? It's because in Exchange, they have this public store and private store files. Commercial backup such as BackupExec can

[amanda 2.4.2p2] tar exclude list not working

2002-09-21 Thread Martin Schwarz
Hello fellow amanda users, I have been using amanda for some time, successfully backing up whole filsystems with dump. Now I'm trying to back up only parts of one (large) filesystem using gnutar and the exclude-list feature. The relevant config snippets are as follows (machine lissy is server

Re: amanda reports and some questions

2002-09-21 Thread Martin Schwarz
Hello Neil, On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 07:38:01AM -0500, Neil wrote: Gene Heskett writes: 3) mt -f /dev/sra0 datcompression off I man mt but didn't find similar option as above. there are different implementations of the mt utlitiy. On my Debian 3.0 system I find: - GNU mt version 2.4.2

Re: [amanda 2.4.2p2] tar exclude list not working

2002-09-21 Thread Martin Schwarz
Hi Christoph, On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 06:32:03PM +0200, Christoph Scheeder wrote: your exclude-list syntax is not correct [...] [/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar] /disk-c1/martin/mac this should read ./mac it is relative to the root stated in your disklist-entry. ah, so absolute paths

Re: Anyone using HP 40x6e changer?

2002-09-21 Thread Pete Lega
Im running redhat 7.3 and amanda 2.4.2p2. I'd appreciate a copy of your amanda.conf, chg-scsi, and chg-scsi.conf! thanks pete At 9/21/2002 05:05 AM, Christoph Scheeder wrote: Hm, what os do u use? we are using a HP 24x6 which should be the same robot, but with a smaler (DDS III) drive in it

Re: [amanda 2.4.2p2] tar exclude list not working

2002-09-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 September 2002 13:05, Martin Schwarz wrote: Hi Christoph, On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 06:32:03PM +0200, Christoph Scheeder wrote: your exclude-list syntax is not correct [...] [/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar] /disk-c1/martin/mac this should read ./mac Correct. it is

Re: amanda reports and some questions

2002-09-21 Thread Neil
Gene Heskett writes: 5) rerun the tapetype and get the true capacity of the tape so you can update that entry in your amanda.conf. It should go up a bit because tapetype uses /dev/urandom as the data source for its test writes, and the data from /dev/urandom is so random that it

Re: [amanda 2.4.2p2] tar exclude list not working

2002-09-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 September 2002 10:59, Martin Schwarz wrote: Hello fellow amanda users, I have been using amanda for some time, successfully backing up whole filsystems with dump. Now I'm trying to back up only parts of one (large) filesystem using gnutar and the exclude-list feature. The

Re: amanda reports and some questions

2002-09-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 September 2002 16:05, Neil wrote: Gene Heskett writes: 5) rerun the tapetype and get the true capacity of the tape so you can update that entry in your amanda.conf. It should go up a bit because tapetype uses /dev/urandom as the data source for its test writes, and the data

Re: backing up commercial apps

2002-09-21 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Neil wrote: What is amanda's approach to backup commercial software like Microsoft Exchange 5.5 mail server? It's because in Exchange, they have this public Jon's reply is a good description of amanda itself. Haven't checked into it yet but I've heard there's another