New drive, old problem.

2004-04-06 Thread Gene Heskett
: 17528692 KB disk space available, using 17016692 KB amcheck-server: slot 0: date 20040111 label DailySet1-13 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 1: date 20040406 label DailySet1-11 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 2: date 20040111 label DailySet1-12 (exact label match) NOTE: skipping tape-writable test

Amanda backup strategy thoughts, full and incremental backups to tape once a week.

2004-04-06 Thread William Hargrove
Hello All, I would like to ask a general Amanda backup 'strategy' question here, given by backup 'goals' below. I have a configured and working Amanda set-up but I want to try and fit a backup policy that I believe is best suited to our site around Amanda. I have an 8-tape (DLT 35/70gb each)

TCP Port Usage

2004-04-06 Thread Dean Pullen
Hi all. I have compiled Amanda using the following options: ./configure --with-user=amanda \ --mandir=/usr/share/man \ --prefix=/usr \ --infodir=/usr/share/info \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --libdir=/usr/lib \ --libexecdir=/usr/lib/amanda \ --localstatedir=/var/lib \

Re: Amanda backup strategy thoughts, full and incremental backups to tape once a week.

2004-04-06 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 12:12:05PM +0100, William Hargrove wrote: Hello All, I would like to ask a general Amanda backup 'strategy' question here, given by backup 'goals' below. I have a configured and working Amanda set-up but I want to try and fit a backup policy that I believe is best

Re: Amanda backup strategy thoughts, full and incremental backups to tape once a week.

2004-04-06 Thread Jonathan Dill
Here's a strategy that I implemented about a month ago that is working pretty well so far: 1. run amdump every night to large RAID w/o tape, mix of full and incr 2. run script to separate images to amanda-incr and amanda-full 3. when amanda-full exceeds size of tape, run amflush 4. when RAID

Re: Amanda backup strategy thoughts, full and incremental backups to tape once a week.

2004-04-06 Thread pll+amanda
In a message dated: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 12:12:05 BST William Hargrove said: I was thinking I could do the incremental backups to a hard disk area on the tape server each night and then run Amanda once a week to archive the full backups plus the HDD incremental ones. I did this once, way back when

DDS3 Auto loader on Solaris

2004-04-06 Thread thamara
hello, I'm a newbie to amanda and mtx. I'm running solaris 2.6(sprac). Want to know how to configure the DDS3 autoloader to do backingup. I don't use any commercial software. I need to use the 6 slots of the cartridge for different filesystem backups. Also does amanda support resuming or