Re: how large must the data volume be...

2008-11-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Olivier Nicole wrote: ...so that tape drives become more cost-effective than storing everything on HD's? From my past experience, 50GB SLR100 tape costs $100 while for that price I can have a 500GB disk... Recently I asked our sysadmin at work how much an LTO tape

Backing up autofs/NFS shares

2008-11-20 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi All, I use amanda 2.5.0p2 for our backup requirements with RHEL3 Linux being the OS of the amanda server. Till now we have been backing up only one directory on our fileserver which contains the home directories- say /vol/vol1/home. More importantly, the backup client and the backup

Re: Quantum SuperLoader 3

2008-11-20 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Nick Brockner schrieb: it is this one: EC-L2DAA-YF LTO-3 16 Slots/2 Magazine The tapetype definition from my StorageLoader LTO3 I added to the wiki some time ago http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Tapetype_definitions#Tandberg_StorageLoader_LTO3_.2820_Slot.29 I think this could work for you,

Re: Quantum SuperLoader 3

2008-11-20 Thread Nick Brockner
Hi Marc, it is this one: EC-L2DAA-YF LTO-3 16 Slots/2 Magazine Thanks! -Nick Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Nick Brockner schrieb: Is anyone here using a Quantum Superloader 3 (I know at least one person is) and care to share your config details with me? Specifically, how did you set up

Re: Backing up autofs/NFS shares

2008-11-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:37:41AM -0800, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hi All, I referred the doc at http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Backup_Partitions_Mounted_via_NFS I just need to confirm whether whatever I have understood from this doc is correct. What I understand is that I

Backing up virtual machines

2008-11-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
Just dipping my toe into virtual machines and wondering how others are doing backups of them. I'm using VirtualBox with a host of Fedora 9. My guest is WinXP Pro. The objective is to no longer need to dual-boot this machine. The virtual guest does appear on my network as a separate host and

Re: Backing up virtual machines

2008-11-20 Thread Michael Loftis
--On November 20, 2008 2:51:24 PM -0500 Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just dipping my toe into virtual machines and wondering how others are doing backups of them. I'm using VirtualBox with a host of Fedora 9. My guest is WinXP Pro. The objective is to no longer need to dual-boot

Re: Backing up virtual machines

2008-11-20 Thread Brian Cuttler
I've been backing up virtual hosts on Solaris. There are a couple of ways... If the virtual, er, lets use the proper vendor terms because they connote specific non-transferable things. In some cases I can backup my non-global zones from the global zone amanda client. This is fine if the whole

Re: Backing up virtual machines

2008-11-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:04:33PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: --On November 20, 2008 2:51:24 PM -0500 Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just dipping my toe into virtual machines and wondering how others are doing backups of them. I'm using VirtualBox with a host of Fedora 9. My

Re: Backing up virtual machines - Off topic question about LVM snapshots

2008-11-20 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Jon LaBadie schrieb: Backing up the vdi's requires the machine be down. Why is this a requirement Michael? Is it because the VDI is changing while being backed up? Currently the VDI is not on a FS that can be snapshot'ted. If it was, for example an LVM file system on Linux, would the VDI

Re: Installing 2.6.0p2 on Ubuntu

2008-11-20 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Matt Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AMRECOVER Version 2.6.0p2. Contacting server on ubuntu ... [request failed: timeout waiting for ACK] Is there another configure directive to find the original files? This can be because amrecover is using the wrong auth

Re: Backing up virtual machines

2008-11-20 Thread Michael Loftis
--On November 20, 2008 4:40:28 PM -0500 Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:04:33PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: --On November 20, 2008 2:51:24 PM -0500 Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just dipping my toe into virtual machines and wondering how others

Re: only one slot recognized

2008-11-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's in your changer config file? What's the output of : mtx -f /dev/sg? status What's in the debug file? Jean-Louis Nicholas Brockner wrote: Hi All, I have been banging my head against this all day: I have a superloader3 16 slot LTO3 unit I am trying to set up. For some reason, the glue

Re: only one slot recognized

2008-11-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:32:55PM -0500, Nicholas Brockner wrote: Hi All, I have been banging my head against this all day: I have a superloader3 16 slot LTO3 unit I am trying to set up. For some reason, the glue script only sees one slot (slot 1): -sh-3.2$

Re: Backing up autofs/NFS shares

2008-11-20 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hello, Jon, Thanks for going through my long email. And thanks a lot for the suggestions. Regards, Yogesh Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:37:41AM -0800, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hi All, I referred the doc at