Re: How to restore a raw device ?

2002-11-27 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:22:10PM -0500) On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 06:44:14PM -0800, kh teoh wrote: Hi, I'm using amanda-2.4.3 running on Redhat 7.1(2.4.9). I managed to backup a raw device(/dev/sda13) using DUMP but how do I restore it ? That raw device is

gnutar and ext3

2002-11-27 Thread Helas, Stephan
%,-100.0%,-100.0% Incremental: -100.0%,-100.0%,-100.0% Dumps: lev datestmp tape file origK compK secs 0 20021121 Tag02 1 11134710 11134710 2040 1 20021127 Tag06 10 11143360 11143360 8198 Current info

Re: How to restore a raw device ?

2002-11-27 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, big question: What dump do you use to backup that raw device? linux-dump? and this device is used by infomix as a raw data-device without an ext2 filesystem on it? yes? You won't be able to restore something meaningfull from this dumps at all. Linux dump is designed only for dumping ext2

Re: gnutar and ext3

2002-11-27 Thread Christoph Scheeder
: 1359.0, 4614.0, 5333.0 compressed size, Full: -100.0%,-100.0%,-100.0% Incremental: -100.0%,-100.0%,-100.0% Dumps: lev datestmp tape file origK compK secs 0 20021121 Tag02 1 11134710 11134710 2040 1 20021127 Tag06

Re: incremental backup !!

2002-11-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:11:45AM +0530, Nitesh Kumar A. wrote: is there some mechanism to minimize it? y waste the tape.. . Here we go again :)) Everyone wants to do all their level 0's on Sunday and incrementals every other day. Everyone except after seeing Amanda do

Re: How to restore a raw device ?

2002-11-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 06:44:14PM -0800, kh teoh wrote: I'm using amanda-2.4.3 running on Redhat 7.1(2.4.9). I managed to backup a raw device(/dev/sda13) using DUMP but how do I restore it ? That raw device is not mounted to any directory, it is reserved for Informix use. I'm not an Informix

AW: gnutar and ext3

2002-11-27 Thread Helas, Stephan
1 11134710 11134710 2040 1 20021127 Tag06 10 11143360 11143360 8198 Current info for gt1webdev2 /export_java: Stats: dump rates (kps), Full: 2665.0, 1298.0, 2416.0 Incremental: 3019.0, 2730.0, 2501.0 compressed size, Full: -100.0

Re: incremental backup !!

2002-11-27 Thread Nitesh Kumar A.
Hai Gene: I am sorry for the personal mail. Actually, felt that the queries I have might be too trivial and might bother others. So, ... . Now I understand that there are newbies like me too. Anyway, I will write to the group only. ThanQ and regards, Nitesh One (or more) of us will try and

Re: AW: gnutar and ext3

2002-11-27 Thread Christoph Scheeder
origK compK secs 0 20021121 Tag02 1 11134710 11134710 2040 1 20021127 Tag06 10 11143360 11143360 8198 Current info for gt1webdev2 /export_java: Stats: dump rates (kps), Full: 2665.0, 1298.0, 2416.0 Incremental: 3019.0, 2730.0

Re: How to restore a raw device ?

2002-11-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:44:46AM +0100, Gerhard den Hollander wrote: * Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:22:10PM -0500) On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 06:44:14PM -0800, kh teoh wrote: Hi, I'm using amanda-2.4.3 running on Redhat 7.1(2.4.9). I managed to backup a raw

Re: which tpchanger script to use

2002-11-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 03:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am currently setting up an amanda 2.4.3 server on Solaris 9 with a Compaq TSL-9000 DDS-3 tape changer device and was wondering which tpchanger script I should use, will chg-scsi work or do I need to use chg-zd-mtx maybe ?

Re: incremental backup !!

2002-11-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 04:49, Nitesh Kumar A. wrote: Hai Gene: I am sorry for the personal mail. Actually, felt that the queries I have might be too trivial and might bother others. So, ... . Now I understand that there are newbies like me too. Anyway, I will write to the group only.

Re: which tpchanger script to use

2002-11-27 Thread marc . bigler
For a changer device on LUN 1 you need to edit the Solaris's generic SCSI driver /kernel/drv/sgen.conf. This works fine, did some tests with mtx. I was just more wondering what are the criterias to choose between chg-scsi or chg-zd-mtx... Regards Marc

Re: incremental backup !!

2002-11-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 at 10:11am, Nitesh Kumar A. wrote Since level 1 backups everything since the last backup, that is level 0, we will get replication of files (redundancy) irrespective of whether the files are modified or not in the subsequent backups on the rest of the days. In the sense on

Re: gnutar and ext3

2002-11-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
that way. i got some strange problem by backup this linux server with ext3. i use normal configuration, but my incremental backup are as big as the full backup. for example i post some info: 0 20021126 Tag05 4 3451500 3451500 1295 1 20021127 Tag06

Re: which tpchanger script to use

2002-11-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:53:31AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am currently setting up an amanda 2.4.3 server on Solaris 9 with a Compaq TSL-9000 DDS-3 tape changer device and was wondering which tpchanger script I should use, will chg-scsi work or do I need to use chg-zd-mtx

Re: How to restore a raw device ?

2002-11-27 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:36:05AM -0500) I'm using amanda-2.4.3 running on Redhat 7.1(2.4.9). I managed to backup a raw device(/dev/sda13) using DUMP but how do I restore it ? That raw device is not mounted to any directory, it is reserved for Informix use.

database backup

2002-11-27 Thread Jerry
I'd like to stop a mysql database for a backup runs, and start it back up after the backup. I was thinking of putting a wrapper around amandad, but I am not sure if that would work because amanda makes a connection to amanadad then runs sendbackup so although I could stop the database, I

AW: gnutar and ext3

2002-11-27 Thread Helas, Stephan
that way. i got some strange problem by backup this linux server with ext3. i use normal configuration, but my incremental backup are as big as the full backup. for example i post some info: 0 20021126 Tag05 4 3451500 3451500 1295 1 20021127 Tag06

Re: database backup

2002-11-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:47:55AM -0800, Jerry wrote: I'd like to stop a mysql database for a backup runs, and start it back up after the backup. I was thinking of putting a wrapper around amandad, but I am not sure if that would work because amanda makes a connection to amanadad then runs

Re: database backup

2002-11-27 Thread Andreas Baier
Hi Jerry, what a about a very different idea? ... of putting a wrapper around amandad, have you ever tried the Logical Volume Manager? - shut down the mysql before amanda is going to run - issue a snapshot and restart your database - mount that snapshot to a specific mountpoint - now let

file not found on Tape

2002-11-27 Thread Axel Haenssen
Hi Guys, I am running amanda on a linux cluster. The backup reports no errors but when I try to restore amanda tells me that the requested file is not on the tape (It should be there since I can see it with the ls command under amrecover). Following is the amidxtaped.debug report: amidxtaped:

Re: file not found on Tape

2002-11-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:55:58PM -0500, Axel Haenssen wrote: Hi Guys, I am running amanda on a linux cluster. The backup reports no errors but when I try to restore amanda tells me that the requested file is not on the tape (It should be there since I can see it with the ls command under

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RE: file not found on Tape

2002-11-27 Thread Rebecca Pakish Crum
What do you see when you run this command as root: su amanda -c amadmin configname find clientcomputername filenameyouwanttorestore Is it, in fact, listed as being backed up to the tape you're using? Is the tape rewound? (sounds stupid, but this has gotten me before...) Is this dump or tar? If

Re: database backup

2002-11-27 Thread Niall O Broin
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 15:47, Jerry wrote: I'd like to stop a mysql database for a backup runs, and start it back up after the backup. Someone else has suggested using mysqldump which is fine, though the dumped files are much bigger than the databases and depending on your database,

RE: file not found on Tape

2002-11-27 Thread Rebecca Pakish Crum
Okay, that was my mistake...I forgot you can't find individual files listed...just the disks you wanted to do su amanda -c amadmin configname find clientcomputername disk ...that was my fault. So it looks like your last level 0 was to DMP004 on 11-23, has the file changed since then? Would it

Re: Re: database backup

2002-11-27 Thread jordivi
Hi Jerry I will add a database server to the disklist soon. We have mirror disks and Solaris Disk Suit (SDS). This is aplicable also to linux raidtools. I will: - stop oracle; metaoffline a submirror and mount it read-only elsewhere - start oracle - Run amanda (over the off-lined submirror) -

Re: file not found on Tape

2002-11-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:38:10PM -0600, Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote: Okay, that was my mistake...I forgot you can't find individual files listed...just the disks you wanted to do su amanda -c amadmin configname find clientcomputername disk What version of gnu-tar comes with RH7.1? Can

backups mirrored to remote tape (or just host)

2002-11-27 Thread Paul Jakma
hi, we use amanda extensively for backups, and are very pleased with it (thanks!). we have a disaster recovery site, and we would like somehow to get our daily backups sent over to our DR site and onto the tape library there (in addition to our local library). however, i'm stumped as to the