Re: Wrong amadmin reports and missing data

2006-03-09 Thread Iulian Topliceanu
> On 2006-03-09 18:14, Iulian Topliceanu wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: >>> Do you have runtapes > 1 ? >>> Or do you run amdump multiple times a day? >> >> Amanda uses sometime more than 1 tape per run. That's why vtape-7 was >> again next. So even if I would have defined runtapes 1, Amanda would

Re: Odd amrecover and amverify issue in 2.5.0b2

2006-03-09 Thread Anthony Valentine
Ian Turner wrote: That is very fascinating. I don't think it is a tar problem, but the nature of the problem is not immediately obvious to me. Perhaps you can do the following: 1) Remove /tmp/amanda 2) Run amrecover (on the server) 3) Attach all the files in /tmp/amanda. It shouldn't be big, b

Re: Wrong amadmin reports and missing data

2006-03-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 March 2006 12:14, Iulian Topliceanu wrote: >> On 2006-03-09 17:19, Iulian Topliceanu wrote: >>> Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-03-09 13:25, Iulian Topliceanu wrote: > The dump definition looks like this: > > dumpcycle 10 day# the number of days in the normal dum

Re: Wrong amadmin reports and missing data

2006-03-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-03-09 18:14, Iulian Topliceanu wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: Do you have runtapes > 1 ? Or do you run amdump multiple times a day? Amanda uses sometime more than 1 tape per run. That's why vtape-7 was again next. So even if I would have defined runtapes 1, Amanda would have used more. A

Re: Wrong amadmin reports and missing data

2006-03-09 Thread Iulian Topliceanu
> On 2006-03-09 17:19, Iulian Topliceanu wrote: >> Paul Bijnens wrote: >>> On 2006-03-09 13:25, Iulian Topliceanu wrote: The dump definition looks like this: dumpcycle 10 day# the number of days in the normal dump cycle runspercycle 8 day# the number of amdump runs

Re: Wrong amadmin reports and missing data

2006-03-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-03-09 17:19, Iulian Topliceanu wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-03-09 13:25, Iulian Topliceanu wrote: The dump definition looks like this: dumpcycle 10 day# the number of days in the normal dump cycle runspercycle 8 day# the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days tapecy

Re: Wrong amadmin reports and missing data

2006-03-09 Thread Iulian Topliceanu
The mail very well formated, so I'm sending it again. Sorry for the duplicate. Paul Bijnens wrote: > On 2006-03-09 13:25, Iulian Topliceanu wrote: >> >> I'm using AMANDA server 2.4.5p1 on a RH 9 having DLT tapes and vtapes as >> well. >> >> All the backup clients are Linux machines using ext3 fs.

Re: Wrong amadmin reports and missing data

2006-03-09 Thread Iulian Topliceanu
Paul Bijnens wrote: > On 2006-03-09 13:25, Iulian Topliceanu wrote: >> >> I'm using AMANDA server 2.4.5p1 on a RH 9 having DLT tapes and vtapes as >> well. >> >> All the backup clients are Linux machines using ext3 fs. >> >> I had two particular problem with a client running CentOS and using >> tar

Re: Which is the correct way to backup windows servers using amanda? Is there one?

2006-03-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 02:43:19PM +0100, Moritz Both wrote: > > Which is the correct way to backup windows servers using amanda? Is > there one? > > First of all, I think this must have been discussed a lot of times on > the list - probably. Unfortunately, I did not have much luck searching >

Re: Which is the correct way to backup windows servers using amanda? Is there one?

2006-03-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-03-09 14:43, Moritz Both wrote: Which is the correct way to backup windows servers using amanda? Is there one? Windows backup is indeed not handled first class, as you noted. Nor it is tested/used extensively either. I did use the smbclient way with Amanda for some time on some serve

Which is the correct way to backup windows servers using amanda? Is there one?

2006-03-09 Thread Moritz Both
Which is the correct way to backup windows servers using amanda? Is there one? First of all, I think this must have been discussed a lot of times on the list - probably. Unfortunately, I did not have much luck searching the archives, only random single statements - We are running amanda fo

Re: Wrong amadmin reports and missing data

2006-03-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-03-09 13:25, Iulian Topliceanu wrote: I'm using AMANDA server 2.4.5p1 on a RH 9 having DLT tapes and vtapes as well. All the backup clients are Linux machines using ext3 fs. I had two particular problem with a client running CentOS and using tar-1.14 and amanda-client 2.4.5p1. The Ce

Wrong amadmin reports and missing data

2006-03-09 Thread Iulian Topliceanu
Hi, I'm using AMANDA server 2.4.5p1 on a RH 9 having DLT tapes and vtapes as well. All the backup clients are Linux machines using ext3 fs. I had two particular problem with a client running CentOS and using tar-1.14 and amanda-client 2.4.5p1. 1: amadmin (and the mail reports as well) reported

Re: If most recent backup is not level 0, recovery fails to bring back all files when directories have been renamed

2006-03-09 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 08.03.2006 at 12:05 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > So, rather than use "listed-incremental" to recognize > it is a renamed directory, gnutar's behavior is to > consider then entire directory tree "changed" and > back up the entire tree. > > Reading this thread reminded me of another on