Re: short write even if the dumps are just 10% of the tape size

2005-01-18 Thread Peter Guhl
Hi On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 17:09, Gene Heskett wrote: Is that tape being properly rewound Peter? Most drives will fully rewind a tape before they allow it to be ejected, maybe you should eject it and look at it between each pass. It's probably not rewound, you're right. Eject and look at it

Re: short write even if the dumps are just 10% of the tape size

2005-01-18 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Tuesday, January 18, 2005 10:25 +0100 Peter Guhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 17:09, Gene Heskett wrote: Is that tape being properly rewound Peter? Most drives will fully rewind a tape before they allow it to be ejected, maybe you should eject it and look at it

Re: short write even if the dumps are just 10% of the tape size

2005-01-18 Thread Peter Guhl
Hi On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 10:58, Michael Loftis wrote: Dumb question, maybe already asked, No ;) 1) is any other app using the tape and No. 2) has anyone checked to make sure the mechanism isn't jamming since you're not there to watch it at all. The customer did change tapes, insert

Data loss if configuration of amanda.conf is not right.

2005-01-18 Thread Vicki Stanfield
I have set up an alternate amanda.conf to run with two tape drives instead of the one that I currently have. I am wondering whether there is some way to rerun an incremental backup if I run it and something in my new configuration is out of whack. Since there is stateful data involved which

Backing up Amanda

2005-01-18 Thread Dwight Tovey
I used to work on a system that used Legato NSR as the backup/restore solution. In order to make life a little simpler in case of catastrophic failure, I used to periodically take a tar image of the nsr configuration and index files. This way when I needed to do a full restore of the disk that

Re: short write even if the dumps are just 10% of the tape size

2005-01-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 04:25, Peter Guhl wrote: Hi On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 17:09, Gene Heskett wrote: Is that tape being properly rewound Peter? Most drives will fully rewind a tape before they allow it to be ejected, maybe you should eject it and look at it between each pass. It's

Re: Backing up Amanda

2005-01-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 11:13, Dwight Tovey wrote: I used to work on a system that used Legato NSR as the backup/restore solution. In order to make life a little simpler in case of catastrophic failure, I used to periodically take a tar image of the nsr configuration and index files. This

Re: Backing up Amanda

2005-01-18 Thread Bruce Fletcher
Dwight Tovey wrote: I used to work on a system that used Legato NSR as the backup/restore solution. In order to make life a little simpler in case of catastrophic failure, I used to periodically take a tar image of the nsr configuration and index files. This way when I needed to do a full

Level clarification.

2005-01-18 Thread Erik P. Olsen
Hi, a newbie question. I think I have now managed to customise amanda and I am pretty confident that I can now start taking back-ups of my system. One term that I thought I understood is the level set. Apparently level 0 is a full back-up and level 1 is incremental, but what then is level 2 (and

Re: Level clarification.

2005-01-18 Thread Frank Smith
--On Wednesday, January 19, 2005 00:02:36 +0100 Erik P. Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, a newbie question. I think I have now managed to customise amanda and I am pretty confident that I can now start taking back-ups of my system. One term that I thought I understood is the level set.

Re: Data loss if configuration of amanda.conf is not right.

2005-01-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:39:56AM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote: I have set up an alternate amanda.conf to run with two tape drives instead of the one that I currently have. I am wondering whether there is some way to rerun an incremental backup if I run it and something in my new

Re: Level clarification.

2005-01-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 05:44:07PM -0600, Frank Smith wrote: --On Wednesday, January 19, 2005 00:02:36 +0100 Erik P. Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, a newbie question. I think I have now managed to customise amanda and I am pretty confident that I can now start taking back-ups of

Re: Recommended autochangers

2005-01-18 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 at 10:50am, Gavin Henry wrote Is there am up to date FAQ for this, or could someone just kindly recommended a brand/model? The compatibility list for mtx is as good a list as any. http://mtx.badtux.net/compatibility.php I've had pretty good luck with my Overland