RE Monthly archival tapes

2006-08-09 Thread Cyrille Bollu
The usual way to go is to create a second amanda configuration for monthly archival only. From the doc: To do periodic archival full dumps, create a new Amanda configuration with its own set of tapes but the same disklist as the normal configuration (e.g. symlink them together). Copy

Re: amanda-2.5.0p2 hanging on smbclient with configure

2006-08-09 Thread Gavin Henry
quote who=Gavin Henry quote who=Gavin Henry quote who=Gavin Henry quote who=Paul Bijnens On 2006-08-08 16:17, Gavin Henry wrote: Currently trying to compile 2.5.0p2 with: ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk --with-ssh-security --with-config=Suretec

RE: Next Tapes are Offsite

2006-08-09 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
-Original Message- From: Jon LaBadie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 4:32 PM To: McGraw, Robert P. Subject: Re: Next Tapes are Offsite On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 03:58:21PM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: If Amanda's behavior hasn't changed (I'm

Re: Next Tapes are Offsite

2006-08-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-08-09 14:59, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: Not from what I see. I always reverse sort my tape list so that the oldest and lowest number is at the bottom. zorn-[537] cat tapelist 0 D00010 reuse 0 D9 reuse 0 D8 reuse 0 D7 reuse 0 D6 reuse 0 D5 reuse 0 D4 reuse 0

amcheck and BIG holding disks

2006-08-09 Thread Gavin Henry
Dear all, We've put Amandas Holding disk on a NAS, which has 6.6T free on it: df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 73G 6.0G 67G 9% / tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdb 6.9T 263G 6.6T 4% /storage

Re: AMRESTORE

2006-08-09 Thread James Wilson
Never mind I found the -C option and that worked fine. Thanks for any replies. James Wilson wrote: I am trying to do a test restore from amanda and I get this error Could not read config file /etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda.conf! I don't have a DailySet1 directory. Where do I change the path

Re: amcheck and BIG holding disks

2006-08-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:41:29PM +0100, Gavin Henry wrote: Dear all, We've put Amandas Holding disk on a NAS, which has 6.6T free on it: df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 73G 6.0G 67G 9% / tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G

Re: Monthly archival tapes

2006-08-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:22:20PM +0100, Alan Pearson wrote: Guys, On this subject, I'd like to do something similar. Unfortunately my backups don't fit on one tape ! How can I take a _complete_ backup off site in this situation, and how can I identify which tapes I need to take ?

Re: amcheck and BIG holding disks

2006-08-09 Thread Gavin Henry
quote who=Jon LaBadie On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:41:29PM +0100, Gavin Henry wrote: Dear all, We've put Amandas Holding disk on a NAS, which has 6.6T free on it: df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 73G 6.0G 67G 9% / tmpfs

Re: amcheck and BIG holding disks

2006-08-09 Thread Gavin Henry
quote who=Gavin Henry quote who=Jon LaBadie On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:41:29PM +0100, Gavin Henry wrote: Dear all, We've put Amandas Holding disk on a NAS, which has 6.6T free on it: df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 73G 6.0G 67G 9% /

Re: amlabel: writing label: Device or resource busy

2006-08-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 05:22:37PM +0200, Franz-Heinrich Massmann wrote: Hi, The same problem as Sven reported on 02-Aug has been seen with Novell Suse 10.1/Qualstar TLS46120/Amanda 2.5.0. Six out of 20 tapes have been labelled some time ago, but no way to label another one. Does

Re: Support for DVD-RAM?

2006-08-09 Thread Chris Dennis
mario wrote: Hello Chris, Hello Sebastian, On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 01:00 +0100, Chris Dennis wrote: Hello folks I use DVD-RAMs successfully with Amanda too, accessing them directly as though they were tapes. The key is the tapedev file:/dvdram line in the configuration file, and NOT

Amcheck doesn't work as well as it used to

2006-08-09 Thread Chris Dennis
Hello folks I'm using Amanda with DVD-RAM disks on my home network, and it's working fine. One slight irritation is that when I use 'amcheck -ta' (via a cron job) to tell me which disk to use next, I get the following emailed to me: == Subject: 76awd AMCHECK REPORT: NO PROBLEMS FOUND

Re: amcheck and BIG holding disks

2006-08-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 12:05, Gavin Henry wrote: quote who=Gavin Henry quote who=Jon LaBadie On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:41:29PM +0100, Gavin Henry wrote: Dear all, We've put Amandas Holding disk on a NAS, which has 6.6T free on it: df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use%

Re: Monthly archival tapes

2006-08-09 Thread Alan Pearson
On 9 Aug 2006, at 15:15, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:22:20PM +0100, Alan Pearson wrote: Guys, On this subject, I'd like to do something similar. Unfortunately my backups don't fit on one tape ! How can I take a _complete_ backup off site in this situation, and how can I

Re: Monthly archival tapes

2006-08-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 10:27:36PM +0100, Alan Pearson wrote: On 9 Aug 2006, at 15:15, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:22:20PM +0100, Alan Pearson wrote: Guys, On this subject, I'd like to do something similar. Unfortunately my backups don't fit on one tape ! How can I