Re: 'no index records...' or Linux -- FreeBSD migration

2014-02-04 Thread Saša Janiška
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 08:42:51 -0500 Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote: A downgrade of the server is not expected to works, the format of the amanda database (log files) might have changed. What's the output of 'amadmin CONF find'? If it report 'no log files found for

Re: 'no index records...' or Linux -- FreeBSD migration

2014-02-04 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Saša Janiška sjani...@gmail.com (Do 30 Jan 2014 09:44:09 CET): Hello! I'm migrating from Linux to Free/PC-BSD and have problem amrecovering backup due to 'no index records'. On Linux amrecover works and I did cp-ed (on smaller USB disk) all my / including amanda setup. The difference

Re: 'no index records...' or Linux -- FreeBSD migration

2014-02-04 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Saša Janiška sjani...@gmail.com (Di 04 Feb 2014 12:51:01 CET): On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 11:48:44 +0100 Heiko Schlittermann h...@schlittermann.de wrote: The directory reported by amgetconf CONFIG INDEXDIR should contain folders named according the DLEs you backed up. (With some

Re: 'no index records...' or Linux -- FreeBSD migration

2014-02-04 Thread Saša Janiška
On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 13:12:49 +0100 Heiko Schlittermann h...@schlittermann.de wrote: The .tmp is somehow suspicious… I'd say the backup broke. At least the indexing broke. That's true, but on Jan 29th I did another full backup which I can restore on Linux, but on Free/PC-BSD. Sincerely, Sasa

Re: amanda and pigz

2014-02-04 Thread Michael Müskens
Am 03.02.2014 um 15:35 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: Newer version have a '-a' option that do not needs human interaction. ah, I see that now, but I still have to move the data-Link to the needed tape? How can I then restore while a backup is running when not using multitape? which is

Tape exclusion

2014-02-04 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
Hi All: We have just setup a monthly backup set to augment our daily and weekly sets. I would like to start a yearly permanent archive tape policy. My initial thoughts were to take the January monthly tape out of the rotation and replace it with a new tape. 1. Is this a reasonable approach or

Re: Tape exclusion

2014-02-04 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 07:24:38AM -0800, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: Hi All: We have just setup a monthly backup set to augment our daily and weekly sets. I would like to start a yearly permanent archive tape policy. My initial thoughts were to take the January monthly tape out of the

Re: autolabel and automatic labeling

2014-02-04 Thread Michael Stauffer
Thanks Jon. What I'm unsure about is this part from the amanda.conf page, about autolabel param: *autolabel* *string* [*any*] [*other-config*] [*non-amanda*] [ *volume-error*] [*empty*] Default: not set. When set, this directive will cause Amanda to automatically write an Amanda tape label to

RE: Tape exclusion

2014-02-04 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Brian Cuttler Sent: February 4, 2014 07:42 Personally I think periodic archives are a good idea. Pulling the January monthly sounds like a reasonable approach. Thanks. It is nice to have confirmation that I am on reasonable track. 2. If we are to use this approach is there a way to

Re: Tape exclusion

2014-02-04 Thread Brian Cuttler
Hugh, Glad to have been of help. Others may weigh in with alternate strategies but it sounds as if you have a satisfactory plan for now. Good luck, Brian On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 09:47:18AM -0800, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Brian Cuttler Sent: February 4, 2014 07:42 Personally I

Re: Tape exclusion

2014-02-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 09:47:18AM -0800, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Brian Cuttler Sent: February 4, 2014 07:42 Personally I think periodic archives are a good idea. Pulling the January monthly sounds like a reasonable approach. Thanks. It is nice to have confirmation that I am on

Re: Tape exclusion

2014-02-04 Thread Debra S Baddorf
On Feb 4, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 09:47:18AM -0800, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Brian Cuttler Sent: February 4, 2014 07:42 Personally I think periodic archives are a good idea. Pulling the January monthly sounds like a reasonable

Re: autolabel and automatic labeling

2014-02-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 11:18:24AM -0500, Michael Stauffer wrote: Thanks Jon. What I'm unsure about is this part from the amanda.conf page, about autolabel param: *autolabel* *string* [*any*] [*other-config*] [*non-amanda*] [ *volume-error*] [*empty*] Default: not set. When set, this

Re: Tape exclusion

2014-02-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 07:26:34PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote: On Feb 4, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 09:47:18AM -0800, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Brian Cuttler Sent: February 4, 2014 07:42 Personally I think periodic archives

Re: Tape exclusion

2014-02-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 03:21:25PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 02/04/2014 02:59 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 07:26:34PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote: On Feb 4, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 09:47:18AM -0800, Hugh E

Re: Tape exclusion

2014-02-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 02/04/2014 03:45 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 03:21:25PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 02/04/2014 02:59 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 07:26:34PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote: On Feb 4, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: On

Re: autolabel and automatic labeling

2014-02-04 Thread Michael Stauffer
OK, thanks Jon. -M On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 11:18:24AM -0500, Michael Stauffer wrote: Thanks Jon. What I'm unsure about is this part from the amanda.conf page, about autolabel param: *autolabel* *string* [*any*]