Re: Question about Amanda features

2002-11-11 Thread Frank Smith
--On Monday, November 11, 2002 08:18:09 +0100 Nicolas Cartron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [sorry i didn't put the object in my previous mail] All, I want to install Amanda on a production environment, backup server on FreeBSD and clients running Linux, Solaris or FreeBSD. I read in the

Re: Question about Amanda features

2002-11-11 Thread Nicolas Cartron
Yes, Amanda normally uses a different tape for each run. If you are feeling lucky and have enough holdingdisk space, then you could just let the backups accumulate on disk and then flush them all to one tape the day before your full backup. that could be a solution for me. You are living

Re: Question about Amanda features

2002-11-11 Thread Nicolas Cartron
Can you explain me what you mean by 'spread the fulls and incrementals around' ? sorry, Jon explained me the hole thing, it's okay, thanks for helping me ! :) -- Nicolas CARTRON

Re: Question about Amanda features

2002-11-11 Thread Frank Smith
--On Monday, November 11, 2002 09:12:33 +0100 Nicolas Cartron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are living dangerously with your current setup. Each time you write a tape you are overwriting the only copy of your data. If you ever have a tape error you have nothing to restore from. And if you

Snapshots on Solaris, wrapper script

2002-11-11 Thread Meik Hellmund
Hi, I would like to use the fssnap facility for snapshots on Solaris and write a wrapper script. It seems to me that the paths to tar and dump are hardcoded to amanda at compile time. Is it possible to avoid recompilation of the amanda client by giving another path to tar/dump at runtime?

Re: Question about Amanda features

2002-11-11 Thread Nicolas Cartron
Can you explain me what you mean by 'spread the fulls and incrementals around' ? For a simple case, assume you back up 7 filesystems that are each about the same size and have about the same amount of changes each day, and Amanda runs 7 days a week with a dumpcycle of 7 days. You would

Re: crash recovery

2002-11-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 at 4:36am, Gene Heskett wrote Anyway, the advise on how to recover useing tar gzip doesn't seem to want to work. The only way to get dd to actually write a disk file is with dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k of=tape.contents.# where the # is a sequence # extension in /tmp. And

Re: Snapshots on Solaris, wrapper script

2002-11-11 Thread Galen Johnson
Meik Hellmund wrote: Hi, I would like to use the fssnap facility for snapshots on Solaris and write a wrapper script. It seems to me that the paths to tar and dump are hardcoded to amanda at compile time. Is it possible to avoid recompilation of the amanda client by giving another path to

MICHAEL

2002-11-11 Thread kam_m10
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multiple drives setup in amanda.conf

2002-11-11 Thread Gustave Eiffel
I have changerdev setup and working but I have 2 DLT8000 drives. What I am wondering is how do I tell amanda about 2 drives? Right now I have this in the amanda.conf: tapedev /dev/st/nh0c0t1l0 # the no-rewind tape device to be used But that is only one of the two. Should this be something

Re: 2.4.3 RPMs available?

2002-11-11 Thread Orion Poplawski
On Saturday 09 November 2002 11:35 am, Gustave Eiffel wrote: I have 2.4.2 installed with RPM's from RedHat 8.0 I understand that 2.4.3 is available. Does anyone know where I could get 2.4.3 RPM's? Thanks all. Mark I've put a set available for anonymous ftp from ftp.colorado-research.com.

Re: using two tape units

2002-11-11 Thread Joseph Sirucka
Hi All trying to setup my two tape units (dds3 autoloaders) and noticed a few problems I have run into on the amanda.conf. for my tape dev I will understand the tapedev rait:{tape:/dev/nst0,tape:/dev/rmt2,null:} but what would the rawtapedev be and also the changerdev. Hope some has these

Re: crash recovery

2002-11-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 11 November 2002 00:20, Frank Smith wrote: --On Monday, November 11, 2002 04:36:12 -0500 Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody; [...] Ideas/hints/elevated noses/scorn/tar for dummys messages ? Proper tar syntax, etc ... will be very much appreciated. So I assume

Re: crash recovery

2002-11-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 11 November 2002 08:20, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 at 4:36am, Gene Heskett wrote Anyway, the advise on how to recover useing tar gzip doesn't seem to want to work. The only way to get dd to actually write a disk file is with dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k

burt

2002-11-11 Thread Joseph Sirucka
Hi Can anyone tell me about the backup and recovery system burt. has anyone used it. It seems to backup across multiple tapes, but it seems not as well designed as amanda, seems a lot os tcl scripting is required before it will work. Also does anyone know if it will handle autoloaders.

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Re: burt

2002-11-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:00:52PM +1100, Joseph Sirucka wrote: Hi Can anyone tell me about the backup and recovery system burt. I presume you got to the BURT home page! http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~jmelski/burt/ Here are a few things I picked up, maybe you saw these too. It is claimed

dump/ufsdump instead of tar/dd

2002-11-11 Thread Joseph Sirucka
Can Amanda use dump/ufsdump instead of tar/dd. regards Joseph

Re: dump/ufsdump instead of tar/dd

2002-11-11 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, November 12, 2002 14:26:05 +1100 Joseph Sirucka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can Amanda use dump/ufsdump instead of tar/dd. Yes. Use 'program DUMP' in your dumptype definition instead of 'program GNUTAR'. Actually, I think it defaults to dump if you don't have a program line in

Re: dump/ufsdump instead of tar/dd

2002-11-11 Thread Joseph Sirucka
Hi Frank I added the dump entries, since its my first go please tell me of any errors you see in relation to dump define dumptype always-full { global comment Full dump of this filesystem always compress none priority high dumpcycle 0 } define dumptype root-dump { global

Cancelling a backup

2002-11-11 Thread Du-Wayne Rood
Hi all can anyone tell me how to cancel a backup that is running, if I kill the amdump, it locks my tape drive and then I have to reboot my backup server

how to cancel a backup

2002-11-11 Thread Du-Wayne Rood
Hi All Can anyone tell me how to cancel a backup, at the moment i'm killing the amdump process but this locks up the tape drive and then I have to reboot the server ??