Re: Christoph Pospiech/Germany/IBM is out of the office.

2004-02-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
Can list admin please remove this user from the mailing list? I complained several times both the user and the postmasters, to no avail. Out of office autoresponders on mailing list, and a repeat offense at that. Christoph Pospiech wrote: I will be out of the office starting February 16, 2004

Re: how to fit backup on 1 tape

2004-02-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
Madhvi Gokool wrote: I have a18G filesystem that needs to be backed up and do not have a tape changer. I have tried the following :- [...] When I run amdump WeeklySet1, it asks me to load tapes repeatedly. Fine, just as expected. But does it make any backups? Or what exactly is your problem?

Re: how to fit backup on 1 tape

2004-02-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 10:35:08AM +0400, Madhvi Gokool wrote: Hello I have a18G filesystem that needs to be backed up and do not have a tape changer. I have tried the following :- runtapes 2 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump tpchanger chg-manual # the

Re: script to calculate tape parameters

2004-02-16 Thread Kurt Yoder
Kurt Yoder said: Hello list I wasn't sure I understood how to set the Amanda dumpcycle, runspercycle, runtapes, and tapecycle correctly, so I wrote a small perl script to check my logic. It asks a few questions about the number of backups within a certain time period, whether a changer will

Re: Making two copies of a backup -- CONCLUSION

2004-02-16 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:01:21PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: I want to make two identical copies of an Amanda backup. I have enough holding-disk space to hold all of the client's DLEs at once, so what I'm thinking is this: 1. Build a new Amanda configuration that backs up only the