possible bug in EOT handling

2004-10-26 Thread Gene Heskett
scrambled order: (after an amcheck run) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daily]$ cat tapelist 20041026 Dailys-16 reuse 20041026 Dailys-14 reuse 20041025 Dailys-13 reuse 20041024 Dailys-12 reuse 20041023 Dailys-11 reuse 20041022 Dailys-10 reuse 20041021 Dailys-9 reuse 20041020 Dailys-8 reuse 20041019 Dailys-7 reuse

Collecting dumps bevore tape-writing?

2004-10-26 Thread Thorsten Bremer
Hello, in the normal way, amanda collects the dumps on the holding disk and write them to tape, while amanda dumps another directory in the background and so on. But after installing a new streamer, my computer is too slow for this. I can only dump to the holding disk OR writing data to tape at

Re: Collecting dumps bevore tape-writing?

2004-10-26 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, October 26, 2004 21:31:54 +0200 Thorsten Bremer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, in the normal way, amanda collects the dumps on the holding disk and write them to tape, while amanda dumps another directory in the background and so on. But after installing a new streamer,

Re: Collecting dumps bevore tape-writing?

2004-10-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
Thorsten Bremer wrote: in the normal way, amanda collects the dumps on the holding disk and write them to tape, while amanda dumps another directory in the background and so on. But after installing a new streamer, my computer is too slow for this. I can only dump to the holding disk OR writing

New puzzlement

2004-10-26 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I'm trying to setup a backup of the 9 iso's for the FC3RC1 install I just dl'd from fedora. Here is the revelant section of my disklist: coyote /usr/dlds-misc/FC3-i386-disc1.iso coyote-tar-iso 1 local coyote /usr/dlds-misc/FC3-i386-disk2.iso coyote-tar-iso 1

Re: amanda still doesn't have EOT properly?

2004-10-26 Thread Joe Rhett
On Monday 25 October 2004 17:53, Joe Rhett wrote: In particular, the alpha documentation for amanda indicates that amanda will move on to the next tape for EOT -- this apparently isn't true at all. 11.3.2 End of tape handling As in earlier versions of AMANDA, taper itself does not try to

Re: amanda still doesn't have EOT properly?

2004-10-26 Thread Joe Rhett
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 06:35:44PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: If the file cannot be restarted from byte 1 on the next tape, eg the system cannot back up to the start of the file being written, then something is seriously wrong with the method being used. In the case of no holding disk,

Re: New puzzlement

2004-10-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I'm trying to setup a backup of the 9 iso's for the FC3RC1 install I just dl'd from fedora. Here is the revelant section of my disklist: coyote /usr/dlds-misc/FC3-i386-disc1.iso coyote-tar-iso 1 local The second item must be a directory, not a single

Re: amanda still doesn't have EOT properly?

2004-10-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 17:14, Joe Rhett wrote: On Monday 25 October 2004 17:53, Joe Rhett wrote: In particular, the alpha documentation for amanda indicates that amanda will move on to the next tape for EOT -- this apparently isn't true at all. 11.3.2 End of tape handling As in

Re: amanda still doesn't have EOT properly?

2004-10-26 Thread Joe Rhett
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:45:16PM -0600, John E Hein wrote: Joe Rhett wrote at 14:28 -0700 on Oct 26, 2004: On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 06:35:44PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: If the file cannot be restarted from byte 1 on the next tape, eg the system cannot back up to the start of the

Re: amanda still doesn't have EOT properly?

2004-10-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 17:28, Joe Rhett wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 06:35:44PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: If the file cannot be restarted from byte 1 on the next tape, eg the system cannot back up to the start of the file being written, then something is seriously wrong with the method

Advice for Amanda beginner

2004-10-26 Thread James Marcinek
Hello all, I'm getting ready to start using Amanda as a backup solution. To prepare, I've read the online documentation and I've also read a section in the Red Hat Linux Bible. I also read through the FAQ's. I am a bit confused with some items. Mainly the configuration. The amanda comes with the

Re: amanda still doesn't have EOT properly?

2004-10-26 Thread Joe Rhett
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:57:42PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: So can you please reconcile your statement and the documentation above? Or take an action item to update the documentation if it is wrong? Unforch, I don't have access to the documentation, nor do I read the code so well that

Re: New puzzlement

2004-10-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 17:47, Paul Bijnens wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I'm trying to setup a backup of the 9 iso's for the FC3RC1 install I just dl'd from fedora. Here is the revelant section of my disklist: coyote /usr/dlds-misc/FC3-i386-disc1.iso coyote-tar-iso 1

Re: amanda still doesn't have EOT properly?

2004-10-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 18:09, Joe Rhett wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:57:42PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: So can you please reconcile your statement and the documentation above? Or take an action item to update the documentation if it is wrong? Unforch, I don't have access to the

Re: Advice for Amanda beginner

2004-10-26 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, October 26, 2004 18:07:30 + James Marcinek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I'm getting ready to start using Amanda as a backup solution. To prepare, I've read the online documentation and I've also read a section in the Red Hat Linux Bible. I also read through the

Re: amanda still doesn't have EOT properly?

2004-10-26 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, October 26, 2004 15:09:21 -0700 Joe Rhett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:57:42PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: So can you please reconcile your statement and the documentation above? Or take an action item to update the documentation if it is wrong?

Sony_AIT_Library_LIB_D81_A3EU or other streamer

2004-10-26 Thread TheQL
Hello, I'm quite new to all this tape storage stuff, so please be kind. After some research I came to this streamer with eight AIT-3 tapes. http://www.dealtime.co.uk/xPF-Sony_AIT_Library_LIB_D81_A3_LIBD81A3EU Now I wonder if amanda works fine with it. The system is currently runnig SuSE Linux 8.2

Re: Sony_AIT_Library_LIB_D81_A3EU or other streamer

2004-10-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 01:47:44AM +0200, TheQL° wrote: Hello, I'm quite new to all this tape storage stuff, so please be kind. After some research I came to this streamer with eight AIT-3 tapes. http://www.dealtime.co.uk/xPF-Sony_AIT_Library_LIB_D81_A3_LIBD81A3EU Now I wonder if amanda