Re: Backup to SCSI Drives

2004-04-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Konrad, on Donnerstag, 01. April 2004 at 21:48 you wrote to amanda-users: KP> I am new to AMANDA but would like to implement the KP> backupsolution for couple of our Linux servers. My questions is KP> that we do not have atape device in place but I do have couple of KP> ‘free’ 73G SCSI drives

Re: amrecover question

2004-04-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Robert, on Donnerstag, 01. April 2004 at 21:21 you wrote to amanda-users: DRC> What can I do to correctly set the default settape variable in amrecover to /dev/st0? My amrecover tells me: Usage: amrecover [[-C] ] [-s ] [-t ] [-d ] So it would work with: amrecover -d /dev/st0 If yo

Backup to SCSI Drives

2004-04-01 Thread Konrad Pelczar
Hello,   I am new to AMANDA but would like to implement the backup solution for couple of our Linux servers. My questions is that we do not have a tape device in place but I do have couple of ‘free’ 73G SCSI drives available on the server that will host AMANDA. Can I back up my servers to

amrecover question

2004-04-01 Thread Dege, Robert C.
System Stats: Linux - 2.4.22 OS - RedHat 9.0 Amanda - 2.4.4p1 Question: According to the man page for amrecover, the settape default is set to /dev/st0 (my only tape device). However, when I run amrecover & extract, amrestore program fails. When I view the debug info, I see that amrecover pa

Re: Thoughts on wholesale tape replacement methods?

2004-04-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 01 April 2004 12:04, Frank Smith wrote: >I'm retiring 80 tapes in a library and replacing them with new >tapes. Any thoughts on the best way to do it? > One way would be to label the new tapes with the same labels >as the old tapes, and swap the tapes out as they are about to be >use

Re: Thoughts on wholesale tape replacement methods?

2004-04-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Frank, on Donnerstag, 01. April 2004 at 19:04 you wrote to amanda-users: FS> I'm retiring 80 tapes in a library and replacing them with new FS> tapes. Any thoughts on the best way to do it? FS>One way would be to label the new tapes with the same labels FS> as the old tapes, and swap the

Thoughts on wholesale tape replacement methods?

2004-04-01 Thread Frank Smith
I'm retiring 80 tapes in a library and replacing them with new tapes. Any thoughts on the best way to do it? One way would be to label the new tapes with the same labels as the old tapes, and swap the tapes out as they are about to be used (or swap them all out at once, and keep the old tapes a

RE: tape device /dev/st0 not responding - RH9

2004-04-01 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 at 10:46am, Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote > 1. I don't think I have stinit configured; there's no stinit.conf in > /etc/. You don't *have* to have stinit set up. > 2. Using /dev/nst0 works no better than /dev/st0. if I "mt" anything, > using either, the command prompt just returns a

RE: tape device /dev/st0 not responding - RH9

2004-04-01 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Thanks all so far for the help. I am still stuck with this. 1. I don't think I have stinit configured; there's no stinit.conf in /etc/. 2. Using /dev/nst0 works no better than /dev/st0. if I "mt" anything, using either, the command prompt just returns after a second, and no response from the drive

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