backup levels clarification needed

2005-01-12 Thread Shai Ayal
Hi all, I have a working amanda setup. I use a 14d dumpcycle and 20 tapecycle with daily backups. I just want to conmfirm my understanding: When issuing an amovervie I get the following (excuse the text wrap) date 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01

Re: backup levels clarification needed

2005-01-12 Thread Paul Bijnens
Shai Ayal wrote: Hi all, I have a working amanda setup. I use a 14d dumpcycle and 20 tapecycle with daily backups. I just want to conmfirm my understanding: When issuing an amovervie I get the following (excuse the text wrap) date 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 01 01 01 01

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-12 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 16:40, Jon LaBadie wrote: Also, I think that if both types of devices exist on the same bus, the lower performance one determines the performance of the entire bus. In theory, this is *not* the case. One of the (many) selling points of SCSI over IDE is supposed to be

Re: amrecover not listing all files in backup.

2005-01-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 06:12:55PM -0700, Dwight Tovey wrote: Hello all - I've recently started using Amanda for my backup strategy, and I'm having a problem with amrecover. Frank seems to have set you on the correct path, replacing your tar version. So just a hint about using amrecover.

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:18:00AM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: On Tuesday 11 January 2005 16:40, Jon LaBadie wrote: Also, I think that if both types of devices exist on the same bus, the lower performance one determines the performance of the entire bus. In theory, this is *not* the case.

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-12 Thread Joe Lewandoski
Google says: voltage standing wave ratio To many folks forget that a a scsi bus is indeed an rf transmission line, subject to the usual rules about vswr. From the context it's pretty clear what vswr means, but what does it stand for? /off-topic Wondered too, as I'm posting

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 14:55, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:04, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:18:00AM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: On Tuesday 11 January 2005 16:40, Jon LaBadie wrote: Also, I think that if both types of devices exist on the same bus,

Re: amrecover not listing all files in backup.

2005-01-12 Thread Dwight Tovey
Frank Smith said: --On Tuesday, January 11, 2005 21:55:45 -0700 Dwight Tovey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this problem with the index files the only problem? In other words, can I fix the index files by passing them through sed to remove that random number and then expect every thing else

Amanda and PostgreSQL

2005-01-12 Thread Germán C. Basisty
Title: Amanda and PostgreSQL Hi! I have Amanda server running on a Linux box. In another machine, I have Solaris 9 running Amanda client and PostgreSQL. I would like to know if someone has experience backupping PostgreSQL with Amanda. I have thought the following solutions: 1. Making a

amanda.8 manpage

2005-01-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hello, amanda-users, enjoy the updated version of the main amanda.8-manpage at http://www.amanda.org/docs/amanda.8.html (The updates are NOT YET available as pdf ...) There were quite a few things to correct, check the CVS-diff if you want ... ;-) Let me know if there are still things to

Re: Amanda and PostgreSQL

2005-01-12 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, [iso-8859-1] Germán C. Basisty wrote: 2. To use pg_dump to get a hot snapshot of the desired DB, put it on some directory and then backup that directory with amanda. We use pg_dump. We just run it from cron in advance of amanda's start time. -Mitch

Re: Amanda and PostgreSQL

2005-01-12 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Germán C. Basisty wrote: Hi! I have Amanda server running on a Linux box. In another machine, I have Solaris 9 running Amanda client and PostgreSQL. I would like to know if someone has experience backupping PostgreSQL with Amanda. I have thought the following

Re: Amanda and PostgreSQL

2005-01-12 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: So I had a crazy idea that hasn't yet been implemented, a pg dumper similar in appearance to GNUTAR and DUMP on the client machine. Your DLE would look somethign like: host database/table pg where pg would be the dumptype telling amanda to use the pg

Re: Amanda and PostgreSQL

2005-01-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 20:57, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Germán C. Basisty wrote: Hi! I have Amanda server running on a Linux box. In another machine, I have Solaris 9 running Amanda client and PostgreSQL. I would like to know if someone has experience backupping

Re: Amanda and PostgreSQL

2005-01-12 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 20:57, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Germán C. Basisty wrote: Hi! I have Amanda server running on a Linux box. In another machine, I have Solaris 9 running Amanda client and PostgreSQL. I would

Re: Amanda and PostgreSQL

2005-01-12 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:09:42PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: Because the database being dumped is not on the machine that runs amdump, and adding another RPC that duplicates the one already in amanda is unjustifiable. It would be a bit of a hack, but if you're already writing a shell

Re: Amanda and PostgreSQL

2005-01-12 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Skylar Thompson wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:09:42PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: Because the database being dumped is not on the machine that runs amdump, and adding another RPC that duplicates the one already in amanda is unjustifiable. It would be a bit