dumpers busy

2004-08-03 Thread Ranveer Attalia
Title: Message Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought thatif the backup has failed from the night before and Ithen run: amcleanup config amflush config and then kill off all the remaining processes from ps -ef |grep amanda then I run thecommand amstatus config, it should just bring back

recycling an amanda tape

2004-08-03 Thread Ranveer Attalia
Title: Message My backup failed last night because I left the night befores tapes in there labelled Jul01. and Jul0.2 I assumed that the tapes would be overwritten. If there a parameter in the amanda.conf file that I can set in order for it to do this? Thanks again - Ranveer

Re: recycling an amanda tape

2004-08-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 at 11:11am, Ranveer Attalia wrote My backup failed last night because I left the night befores tapes in there labelled Jul01. and Jul0.2 I assumed that the tapes would be overwritten. If there a parameter in the amanda.conf file that I can set in order for it to do this?

RE: recycling an amanda tape

2004-08-03 Thread Ranveer Attalia
Sorry I forgot to mention - the previous nights backup failed, so I was hoping that if I set the backup to the same config as the night before so that I could use the same tape labels, those tapes would be just overwritten when I came in this morning No. I take it there's no way around

RE: recycling an amanda tape

2004-08-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 at 2:27pm, Ranveer Attalia wrote I forgot to mention - the previous nights backup failed, so I was hoping that if I set the backup to the same config as the night before so that I could use the same tape labels, those tapes would be just overwritten when I came in this

Re: recycling an amanda tape

2004-08-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:27:13PM +0100, Ranveer Attalia wrote: Sorry I forgot to mention - the previous nights backup failed, so I was hoping that if I set the backup to the same config as the night before so that I could use the same tape labels, those tapes would be just overwritten when

Re: dumpers busy

2004-08-03 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, August 03, 2004 10:55:54 +0100 Ranveer Attalia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that if the backup has failed from the night before and I then run: amcleanup config amflush config and then kill off all the remaining processes from ps -ef |grep

Tapeless recovery - where did my files go?!

2004-08-03 Thread Kris Vassallo
I have used tar to do my backups, FYI. The issue that I am encountering is that when I try to recover files I get the following response amrecover list TAPE DailySet106 LEVEL 3 DATE 2004-08-02 /qa/.bashrc /qa/.bash_history amrecover settape localhost:file:/backup/amandadumps/tape06 Using

Re: Tapeless recovery - where did my files go?!

2004-08-03 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, August 03, 2004 13:59:01 -0700 Kris Vassallo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have used tar to do my backups, FYI. The issue that I am encountering is that when I try to recover files I get the following response amrecover list TAPE DailySet106 LEVEL 3 DATE 2004-08-02

amrecover hangs

2004-08-03 Thread Kris Vassallo
I am still trying to get amrecover to work, but now I have a different issue which is that amrecover is hanging. I am recovering files on the client which is the same machine as the server and I am using a disk-tar backup. Here is what I typed in... amrecover add .bash_profile Added

AMANDA Documentation at www.oops.co.at

2004-08-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hello, amanda-users, about one month has gone now, since I put a pre-release of The Official AMANDA Documentation online at http://www.oops.co.at/AMANDA-docs/index.html This was just meant as a ground for discussion (for amanda-core-members), but it seems to hit the needs of several more

Problem with amrecover

2004-08-03 Thread Alvaro Rosales
Hi guys, I finally had been able to make backups with mi amanda sever, but when I try to run amrecover I get this error: amindexd: time 0.093: check failed: [access as operator not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] lim951-2.pe.yr.com.] amandahostsauth failed My client .amandahosts file list the