Re: No backup after shutdown

2006-10-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 21:27, you wrote: > > Err, I see a successful backup. What exactly do you think went wrong? I panicked at all those 'No space left on device' messages. After reading your reply I looked again at the reports printed out, and realised that all it's saying is that it sh

Re: labelling of reused tapes

2006-10-10 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 03:00:32PM -0400, Steven Settlemyre enlightened us: > I have a monthly backup config with runtapes=3 and 59 tapes in the > tapecycle. The instructions I was originally given say to run a script > that looks in tapelist, find the highest # then label the next 3 tapes > sta

Re: No backup after shutdown

2006-10-10 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 at 8:52pm, Anne Wilson wrote My server and client have been shut down for a week, and today should have been the first backup after restarting. This is the report: Total Full Incr. E

No backup after shutdown

2006-10-10 Thread Anne Wilson
My server and client have been shut down for a week, and today should have been the first backup after restarting. This is the report: These dumps were to tapes Dailys-3, Dailys-4, Dailys-5, Dailys-6. The next 10 tapes Amanda expects to use are: Dailys-7, Dailys-8, Dailys-9, Dailys-10, Dailys-1

labelling of reused tapes

2006-10-10 Thread Steven Settlemyre
I have a monthly backup config with runtapes=3 and 59 tapes in the tapecycle. The instructions I was originally given say to run a script that looks in tapelist, find the highest # then label the next 3 tapes starting from there. This seems wrong because then it wouldn't be a cycle. My question

Congrats on Amanda 2.5.1p1

2006-10-10 Thread Gavin Henry
Hi All, I must say 2.5.1p1 is much better than 2.5.0. amcheck now doesn't complain about having 6.4TB free! "Holding disk /storage/amanda: 6443 GB disk space available, using 500 GB as requested" It used to through a fit about this. Everything is now upgraded, after a few headaches because of n

Re: amdump reports tape usage over 100%

2006-10-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-10-10 16:36, Steven Settlemyre wrote: > Dear List, > > I have recently stepped into an admin role where amanda is already set > up. I have a lot of questions, but I'll try to limit myself. I'm running > Amanda 2.5.0p2 on a Debian system. With an 8-tape changer. > > 1) How do I find out if

amdump reports tape usage over 100%

2006-10-10 Thread Steven Settlemyre
Dear List, I have recently stepped into an admin role where amanda is already set up. I have a lot of questions, but I'll try to limit myself. I'm running Amanda 2.5.0p2 on a Debian system. With an 8-tape changer. 1) How do I find out if hardware compression is turned on? 2) Why does the amr

Re: long-term archiving

2006-10-10 Thread Sascha
okay, thanks for your help!!! --- Martin Hepworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sascha wrote: > > Hey list, > > > > we currently running daily backups with amanda. > Now we > > need to add > > monthly/yearly backups. What is the best way to do > > this? I already > > searched the net but couldnt

RE: Mac OSX & dump

2006-10-10 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
I am trying to backup an apple server. I started out using tar and it works just fine but tar will not backup special file systems just date. So there is no way to backup an Apple server system and restore it to it original state from the backup. I wonder how sites with a lot of Apple servers b

Re: long-term archiving

2006-10-10 Thread Iñaki Sánchez
Hello, We have a different backup set (separate config, tape set, etc.) that run in a monthly basis,  with dumpcycle=0 (allways perform full backup), and is running great for us. In the docs you have more info on this. Best regards, Inaki Sanchez2006/10/10, Sascha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hey list,w