Re: Backup during the day, send to tape at night

2011-11-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2011-11-17 10:45, schrieb Bob Vickers: Or you can do it with soft links. You just have one config file which specifies /dev/amandatape as the backup device. Normally /dev/amandatape does not exist, but your flush job does I use amdump daily -o tapedev= for piling up stuff in the

Re: Backup during the day, send to tape at night

2011-11-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Why everybody try to find a workaround, --no-taper is designed exactly for what Matt want. We should try to find why it doesn't works for Matt. Matt, post more informations. Did it work if you run it from command line? Is it amanda or cron that doesn't work? Jean-Louis On 11/16/2011 05:34

Re: Backup during the day, send to tape at night

2011-11-17 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 07:43:34AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Why everybody try to find a workaround, --no-taper is designed exactly for what Matt want. We should try to find why it doesn't works for Matt. Matt, post more informations. Did it work if you run it from command line?

Re: Backup during the day, send to tape at night

2011-11-17 Thread Matt
Sorry it's taken me a bit to get back - I do not get an error - basically says that it runs both amdump and amflush. I've saved copies of both but I thought I originally put the amflush in the original email. Let me know if you need either or both. If I sign onto the server, run sudo to

Re: Backup during the day, send to tape at night

2011-11-17 Thread Matt
This is the report from the amdump --no-tape Hostname: ubuntu Org : Impari Systems Config : dell Date : November 16, 2011 There are 0G of dumps left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: dell-0006. STATISTICS: Total Full Incr. Level:#

Re: Backup during the day, send to tape at night

2011-11-17 Thread Matt
Sorry - but here's the amflush report Hostname: ubuntu Org : Impari Systems Config : dell Date : November 17, 2011 The dumps were flushed to tape dell-0006. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: dell-0007. STATISTICS: Total Full Incr. Level:# Estimate

Re: Backup during the day, send to tape at night

2011-11-17 Thread Brian Cuttler
Sorry, difficult to read, everything is line wrapped when I view it. What is the reserve setting in amanda.conf ? Are no DLEs being selected because they are too big to store ? Ok, this is the cron amdump report ? That is good, it tells me that the amanda user login is valid, else you wouldn't

Re: Backup during the day, send to tape at night

2011-11-17 Thread Brian Cuttler
Matt, Doesn't do much as in, don't collect much data, doesn't seem to use any time, doesn't progress at all ? On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 01:51:28PM -0400, Matt wrote: Sorry it's taken me a bit to get back - I do not get an error - basically says that it runs both amdump and amflush.

Re: Backup during the day, send to tape at night

2011-11-17 Thread Brian Cuttler
Just as difficult to read, but I think more complete and I recognize zeros when I see them. I think you can expect to flush nothing when there is nothing in the holding disk. Personally I'd back burner the amflush report until I saw an amdump report that was more inline with what I was

Re: Backup during the day, send to tape at night

2011-11-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Can you attach them, the inline cutpaste is unreadable. Jean-Louis On 11/17/2011 01:03 PM, Matt wrote: Sorry - but here's the amflush report Hostname: ubuntu Org : Impari Systems Config : dell Date : November 17, 2011 The dumps were flushed to tape dell-0006. The next tape Amanda expects to

Re: Backup during the day, send to tape at night

2011-11-17 Thread Matt
Sorry about that - looked fine on my screen ;) On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:34:36 -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Can you attach them, the inline cutpaste is unreadable. Jean-Louis On 11/17/2011 01:03 PM, Matt wrote: Sorry - but here's the amflush report Hostname: ubuntu Org :

Re: Backup during the day, send to tape at night

2011-11-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 11/17/2011 01:44 PM, Matt wrote: Sorry about that - looked fine on my screen ;) Everything is fine, amdump dumped the 6 dles to holding disk, amflush flushed the 6 dles to tape. What is the problem? Jean-Louis