repost (chg-multi - backup to file and restore)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List, I just downloaded amanda-2.4.4p1 and installedit, but after testing this shiny new amanda I still got the same old problem with amanda and the amanda changer. Here is what I've done: amanda.conf tpchanger chg-multi amrecover_changer chg-multi

Re: repost (chg-multi - backup to file and restore)

Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH wrote: When I want to extract something I try: amrecover -d chg-multi -C finanzbuch -s localhost -t localhost I never tried it like that. I just use a real device, not a chg-multi. In man amrecover, I find: If you want amrecover to use your

Re: amandadrbd

Sterpu Victor wrote: I have succesfuly installed amanda. However, on the servers I have installed drbd. And it seems that amanda does not hork with drbd. Or maybe amanda does not work with reiserfs partitions? Does somewoane succesfuly tried this combination? It's not drbd. It's reiserfs. You

Re: large parts of /tmp/amanda-dbg/* disappear

On 5/07/2003 13:15 Gene Heskett wrote: I was under the impression that these were kept for tapecycle number of runs, so to have all of the 200306xx files go missing without amanda noticeing also surprised me. No they are kept AMANDA_DEBUG_DAYS number of days, default 4. To find out your number

Re: pre/post run commands

Hi! I am using amanda to back up to a hard disk on my system and would like to protect the backed up disk from accidental erasure. I thought one way to do this would be to mount it then run amdump, and then umount it. The disk is going to be vulnerable during the backup period, but safe

Comperession/Tape Size Issues

I am currently experiencing problems with Amanda backup runs completing successfully, supposedly due to running out of tape. I am using Amanda 2.4.3 on a FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE machine, backing up to 35/70GB DLT 7000 drive. Compression is enabled on the drive, and we are also using compression

Re: Comperession/Tape Size Issues

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 at 10:26am, Joshua D. Bello wrote I am currently experiencing problems with Amanda backup runs completing successfully, supposedly due to running out of tape. I am using Amanda 2.4.3 on a FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE machine, backing up to 35/70GB DLT 7000 drive. Compression is

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Thanks for the suggestion. I suppose I would also have to do this when using my amcheck in user backup's crontab. I'll try this out... I also saw the previous suggestion to try not even mounting my /backup disk, that would be cool, but I don't see how I could set up my tapelist to do this

Re: your mail

Toomas, Thanks, I'd seen similar for doing things like putting the tape offline after the amdump completed. I know you can use wrappers for doing similar things on the amanda client (when the client != server) but I've never quite gotten that down correctly and I'm looking to start/stop a

Re: pre/post run commands

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 05:39:09PM -, Scott Petler wrote: I also saw the previous suggestion to try not even mounting my /backup disk, that would be cool, but I don't see how I could set up my tapelist to do this I think that was a misunderstanding. If you're backing up filesystems

Re: repost (chg-multi - backup to file and restore)

Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH wrote: ...[snip]... /etc/amanda/finanzbuch/chg-multi.conf: statefile /etc/amanda/finanzbuch/changer-status firstslot 1 lastslot 10 slot 1 file:/backup/disk1/tape01 ... slot 10 file:/backup/disk1/tape10 How have set up these directories? Following man

Re: Comperession/Tape Size Issues

On Monday 07 July 2003 13:26, Joshua D. Bello wrote: I am currently experiencing problems with Amanda backup runs completing successfully, supposedly due to running out of tape. I am using Amanda 2.4.3 on a FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE machine, backing up to 35/70GB DLT 7000 drive. Compression is

Re: Comperession/Tape Size Issues

7288612k 0k, 0.00% values for everything else wait to flush : 47 7288612kk 7288612k (100.00%) ( 0.00%) 4 dumpers idle, 0 dumpers busy... The amanda log file reports: DISK amflush hades / DISK amflush hades /usr etc, etc... DISK amflush bali.web /var START amflush date 20030707

Re: Comperession/Tape Size Issues

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 03:16:33PM -0700, Joshua D. Bello wrote: I get the same results, whether I pick A, B, or ALL. The amflush report looks like: STATISTICS: big fat 0's for every reported time and size value Avg Compressed Size, Avg Dump Rate and Avg Tp Write Rate all report -- It

Re: Comperession/Tape Size Issues

... DISK amflush bali.web /var START amflush date 20030707 START driver date 20030707 WARNING driver WARNING: /local0/ambackup/nextrials: 104857600 KB requested, but only 61325652 KB available. STATS driver startup time 0.071 START taper datestamp 20030707 label NEXTRIALS026 tape 0 The amflush log