Disaster recovery.

2003-08-10 Thread Ean Kingston
from the most recent backup because they would reflect the state of the tapes from one day earlier (wouldn't they?). I can't find a tool that I can feed the collection of tapes so that it will rebuild the index files. Is there such a thing. Ean Kingston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Analyst Kanetix

Re: building 2.4.4p1 under Solaris 9 with native-built gcc-3.3(fwd)

2003-07-30 Thread Ean Kingston
with the compiler adds the path to the search list built into the binary at build time. Also, have a look at the crle command. It lets you change the default search path for shared libraries at a system level (instead of having to always set LD_LIBRARY_PATH). -- Ean Kingston [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: to compress or not to compress ???

2003-07-03 Thread Ean Kingston
I Have the opposite viewpoint. I prefer hardware compression. It allows me to offload processing required to the tape drive (instead of my computers) Since some of my systems (including the backup server itself) can be slow, this actually speeds things up for me. Also, with hardware

problem with amplot

2003-06-26 Thread Ean Kingston
/amanda/libexec/amplot.gp, line 61: (No such file or directory) So, what should I do to fix this? In case it matters; this is Amanda 2.4.4 built from source on solaris 8 using gcc 3.2.2. Ean Kingston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Analyst Kanetix Ltd. (www.kanetix.com) Phone: (416) 599-9779 x216

RE: Diferential Backup

2003-06-25 Thread Ean Kingston
Hi Roberto, I don't believe so. Amanda uses either the vendor supplied dump program, or GNU tar to do the backup. I know GNU tar does not do differential backup and AFAIK none of the vendor supplied dump programs will do differential backup either (I'm pretty sure for Solaris, AIX, *BSD, and

RE: Need A sample Tapelist file

2003-06-25 Thread Ean Kingston
-Original Message- From: Gene Heskett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 24 June 2003 17:27, Harry Mbang wrote: Hi, I am still trying to get my first successful Amanda backup. Now when I run amcheck, I get an error cannot read/write /usr/local/var/Amanda/gnutar-lists: No

RE: Diferential Backup

2003-06-25 Thread Ean Kingston
-Original Message- On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 at 9:51am, Ean Kingston wrote I don't believe so. Amanda uses either the vendor supplied dump program, or GNU tar to do the backup. I know GNU tar does not do differential backup and AFAIK none of the vendor supplied dump programs

RE: HP DLT1e tapetype

2003-06-23 Thread Ean Kingston
Hi all, Sorry about posting the HW compression version first (especially to anyone who searches the archives). I read more on st.conf (yes it's running under Solaris 8) and played some with the various options. Here is what I got when I used the correct device: $amtapetype -e 40g -f

RE: adding snapshot backups?

2003-06-23 Thread Ean Kingston
It sounds to me like what you want to do is make a new amanda configuration which you run once a week and have it take full backups only. You would then need enough tapes to do say 12 full backups. That way you would have data from about 3 months ago if you needed it. Then, each week, in

how does Amanda decide which tape to use?

2003-06-23 Thread Ean Kingston
TAPE003 July 15 TAPE015 TAPE001 July 16 TAPE001 TAPE002 Any other hints? Ean Kingston (ean_kingston AT kanetix.com) Analyst Kanetix Ltd. (www.kanetix.com) Phone: (416) 599-9779 x216

HP DLT1e tapetype

2003-06-19 Thread Ean Kingston
tapetype HP-DLT1e { comment just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression on) length 34499 mbytes filemark 13 kbytes speed 1399 kps } Ean Kingston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Analyst Kanetix Ltd. (www.kanetix.com) Phone: (416) 599-9779 x216

RE: HP DLT1e tapetype

2003-06-19 Thread Ean Kingston
-Original Message- On Thursday 19 June 2003 11:51, Ean Kingston wrote: I couldn't find this one in the list archives, so here it is. I'm using 40GB DLT tapes (according to the label). Despite what the comment produced says, I used the non-compressed device. I didn't give