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/bin/perl)
syntax
amanda.toc.pl /dev/rmt/1n (or whatever the name of your *NO*REWIND*
tapedevice is.)
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* Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 03:48:12PM +0200)
Amanda's estimate phase takes here between 3 and 8 hours (with GNU
tar). So I thought about ways of skipping the extra estimate phase.
Topic comes up periodically. There have been mentions of ways to
substitute your
adress of my linux box , but what are the other 2
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IIRC amanda checks the tapelabel by basically doing
dd if=/dev/tape bs=32k count=1
If you do this manually, what comes back ?
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handy it is until you have to restore the disk
which had all that information on it ;) )
- it can be setup to email when the wrong tape is in the drive a few hours
before the backup starts (amcheck -m)
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the output of getamstatus through it and redirect the output to
a webpage.
It's a quick and dirty hack, and will liekly need some tweaking to get it
to work in your environment, but it does the trick for me ;)
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see my rough outline of what
it takes to turn those flags off, in a previous message earlier
today.
I'm sorry, I made a mistake. The hardware compression was off
all the time. :(
That's exactly what it looked like ;)
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* Orion Poplawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:31:44PM -0700)
Just notice that on at least on of my amanda disk dumps, it is being run
through gzip on client and on the server. The details:
lsof -p 7200:
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICESIZE NODE NAME
gzip7200
* Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:22:10PM -0500)
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 06:44:14PM -0800, kh teoh wrote:
Hi,
I'm using amanda-2.4.3 running on Redhat 7.1(2.4.9). I
managed to backup a raw device(/dev/sda13) using DUMP
but how do I restore it ? That raw device is
* Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:36:05AM -0500)
I'm using amanda-2.4.3 running on Redhat 7.1(2.4.9). I
managed to backup a raw device(/dev/sda13) using DUMP
but how do I restore it ? That raw device is not
mounted to any directory, it is reserved for Informix
use.
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:13:08PM +0100)
Hello,
I have got here a DDS-3 tape drive which has per default hardware
compression enabled and was wondering what is the best deal with AMANDA.
Would you guys suggest hardware compression or should I disable
* Marvin Davenport [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 03:39:00PM -0700)
I am trying to perform a forced full backup on all
disks in disklist to tapetype HARD-DISK
define tapetype HARD-DISK {
length 4 mbytes
}
there is 70GB available on the disk but I get this
error on
-f -
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This is slightly off-topic,
but does anyone know if the new(er) exabyte eliant drives are read/write
compatible with the 85xx (specific the 8505) series ?
Tia
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* Martin Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:33:42AM +0100)
Jonathan
I've got amanda running here to Sunos 4.1.3/4 clients using dump as the
file grabber.
If you wish I can have have a go at getting the latest version compiled
on my systems. My current version of gnutar
* Robert Kearey [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:03:09PM +1000)
I'm sure this is an obvious FAQ, but anyway ...
The time has come when I need greater granularity for our backups, so I
want to switch from dump to gnutar. I gather this isn't a simple
proccess - is there a
his thread earlier, I don;t even have enough
time to follow the amanda mailinglist these days ..)
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* Elmar Kolkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:43:49PM +0200)
We are trying here to make backups of a Linux File Server on a DLT 8000
tapedrive, but we can not get it to streaming mode. We tried everything we
Does anyone have a clue ?
to get the obvious out of the way,
are you
* Grant Basham [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:31:56AM -0400)
I would like a tapetype entry for a Sony AIT3 tape drive. I can just
modify an AIT2 entry, but would like to see the results of a
run of the tapetype utility on an AIT-3 drive. S
Do you have an AIT-3 ?
If so, you can
accessing them normally
(e.g. md5sum X11R6/share/locale/fr)
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in vi and type
[esc]:/^V^M//[enter]
ZZ
(Where ^V means Ctrl-V and ^M means the enter key)
there are dos ^M linebreaks in that file.
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* Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 02:06:51PM -0400)
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 at 11:40am, Terri Eads wrote
I see this in the amanda.conf file:
# Note that the `full pathname' of a file within its
# filesystem starts with `./', because of the way amanda
* Uncle George [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 06:19:19AM -0500)
It seems like when the whole procedure ( whether its labeling tape(s),
amchecking tape, or amdumping ) is complete, the tape is left in the
tape drive in an on-line state.
Is there some reason why the tape is not at
of that.
Thanks for explaining ...
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* Robert Kearey [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:03:09PM +1000)
I'm sure this is an obvious FAQ, but anyway ...
The time has come when I need greater granularity for our backups, so I
want to switch from dump to gnutar. I gather this isn't a simple
proccess - is there a
, if all else fails, I can label each tape before I start the
backup, but I'd rather label them all in one go
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checked on my server and there isn';t anything being
logged there )
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* Ron Stanonik [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 08:45:15AM -0700)
Can amanda be configured to limit the incremental level?
I almost always have a few level 2's and often a level 3.
I'd like to never see anything higher than level 1. Why?
Restoring is simpler.
My previous
* Michael S. Peek [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 11:36:11AM -0400)
Hello all,
I've been using amanda for, well, years now, and I have never run accross this
problem before. I have one brand new host that is taking *WAY* too long to
back up. Here's the skinny:
[8]
The next
* John E Hein [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:32:57AM -0600)
Thank you very much! We implemented the sendsize file you sent us and it has
cut our Estimate Time in half.
Hmmm... it also seems to not take compression into account (we use gnu
tar with client side compression).
* Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:59:56AM -0400)
In a message dated: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:12:02 +0200
Nicolae Mihalache said:
Hello!
I have a tape changer with 7 tapes and I want to run a dumpcycle of one
month. So only 6 tapes can be used for a full backup
* Brandon Amundson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 02:58:11PM -0400)
First I want to say thanks to all of you who respond to email like mine.
I am trying to test amrecover. when I run amrecover daily, I get the
following error.
AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server on
stuff.
Could you run top/ps -ef or whatever to see what exactly is runnig, and
what is hogging the CPU ?
Are you using ufsdump or tar dump ?
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* Decker, Carla Heiner (DX3) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 07:38:05AM -0400)
We're having a problem with Amanda running on a Solaris 2.6
installation with LDAP services. Whenever Amanda starts, the CPU
utilization goes to 100% and within a short period of time other
system
I said I'd check this in the docs that came wth out DLT8000.
There's a couple of pages about hooking up a DLT to an IRIX box, but upon
closer reading the book only offers instructions for DLT devices upto a
DLT7000 not for a DLT8000 ... ;(
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that sold us
the drive certainly claimed... well, salesmen. ;-)
Well, it might be supported (in fact Im still hugely surprised it's not)
but the docs I have, give no clue as to how to do it ;(
Ah well,
a 2 week holliday coming up in about 5 hours ... ;)
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* John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:44:19PM -0500)
the thing is that it's a taperobot/tapechanger, and I remember reading
discussions that getting that to work is not always a trivial issue.
That's going to be true no matter what. Any time software comes in
contact
* John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:04:47PM -0500)
Does anyone know if that puppy is supported by amanda ?
If it's SCSI, Amanda can do it (or it should be able to so we'll make it).
It is,
the thing is that it's a taperobot/tapechanger, and I remember reading
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 03:09:24PM +0200)
Hello there,
I figure my last mail was less than informative - usually not my
style and I apologize.
ERROR: /dev/sa0: not
an amanda tape.
(expecting a new tape)
I might be wrong here,
but isn't /dev/sa0
Dear all,
Our houston office is going to drastically expand their disksusage
(they're aiming to have betwen 1.5T and 2T (~ 2000 Gigabytes ;) ) of
diskspace before the end of the year.
I'd like to use amanda for their setup as well (makes administrating a lot
easier if all remote offices are
adventures :-).
Which means it's probably a good idea if I get everything out of CVS and
try to amke it wokr with the CVs version.
So how do I get the CVS version (2.4.2 preferably) ?
(I know how to use CVS, I just dont know how to get into amanda CVS)
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* John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:30:37PM -0500)
If I get it working, would you include it ?
Absolutely.
Great.
We would need to link against the libtar.a from tar 1.13.19 alpha though.
Would that be a problem ?
Not if it's done right :-).
I'd suggest something
* John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:40:12AM -0500)
calcsize does all 3 estimates in one go ...
But it does not support exclusion patterns. That's the one major
thing holding me back from supporting it.
It doesn't ?
If you compile with -DBUILTIN_EXCLUDE_SUPPORT it
* John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:53:03PM -0500)
The Apollo fails to return an estimate and fails to backup. The estimates
are taking about 6hrs to complete. ...
Ick. I'm sure that's because GNU tar does not perform estimates as fast
as ufsdump can.
One
* Drew Raines [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:26:30PM -0500)
This might be a question better suited for sunmanagers, but I'll try it
here.
I'm running Solaris 2.7 on an E450, with a DDS-3 changer. amanda's been
calling my tape drive by /dev/rmt/0n, which is the OS default.
* Jonathan Dill [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:43:16AM -0400)
We're on the verge of ordering a DDS drive (this week). It'll probably
be an HP Surestore - but the question is DDS3 or DDS4? There's the
where now some people are getting 75 GB and 180 GB disk drives, and with
new
do not
have permission to overwrite.
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* John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:02:19PM -0500)
I was going to stay out of yet another round of dump vs tar, but what
the hell. Here's a little eye-opener for all you tar folks ...
$ gtar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.19
Not to panic you or anything, of
* John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fri, May 04, 2001 at 08:39:24PM -0500)
Ideally amanda should look every time a chunk is written to disk how much
space ios free ...
That's probably a good idea. I've added it to the TODO list.
thanks
that the holding disk should have approx 28G free
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* Bernhard R. Erdmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, May 03, 2001 at 07:34:01PM +0200)
Or you need to use the modified sendsize that uses calcsize to calculate
the sizes ..
calcsize can do estimates at about 500G per hour (and that's full dump,
incremantal current level and incremental next
* Jamie Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 12:20:58PM -0700)
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
:* Daniel David Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:27:11PM -0700)
:
: Why not? Have you seen/had problems with recent versions of gnu tar, or
: Sun's
is a matter of changing the key in
your dumplist.
As for tar being twice as slow as dump,
just use the modified sendsize.c which uses calcsize iso tar to estimate
dumpsizes.
It cuts 4 - 5 hours of my dumptimes.
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a holding disk, and having 2 - 4 fumpers dump to holding disk, and
from holding disk to tape, you can get approx 11/12 Kbps
(4 dumps at 2 -3 Kbps to hodling disk and from HD to tape at 11/12 Kbps)
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enxt holding disk.
No errors, no errors in the syslog.
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I've set amanda.conf to use all of the holding disk, minus 1Gb
holdingdisk hd2 {
comment "smaller holding disk"
directory "/eighteen1/amanda/lto"
use -1Gb
chunksize 250Mb
}
However, I am getting diskfull errors on that disk when amanda is backing
up ..
Now I know there is
* Gerhard den Hollander [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:54:04AM +0200)
I've set amanda.conf to use all of the holding disk, minus 1Gb
holdingdisk hd2 {
comment "smaller holding disk"
directory "/eighteen1/amanda/lto"
use -1Gb
chunksize 250Mb
* John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 11:28:03AM -0500)
Im currently using a single (big) holding disk.
I have 2 smaller disks, that I'd like to use as holding disks.
But the samller disks will not be able to hold the big 0 dumps.
According to the docs, the holding disks are
* John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 07:06:20AM -0500)
Will that work ?
No. I'm planning on getting a job in sales, so I'm just making all
this up. :-)
Good ;)
If I specify a chunksize of 1G, and dump a 9G backup, will it stick 3
chunks on each of the 3 hilding disks
* John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 07:44:09AM -0500)
Or is it more a convenience (as in this case where picking the right
chunksize will have the load indeed split over multiple disks)
The original intent was to support file systems that cannot handle files
larger than
Im currently using a single (big) holding disk.
I have 2 smaller disks, that I'd like to use as holding disks.
But the samller disks will not be able to hold the big 0 dumps.
According to the docs, the holding disks are used in a round-robin way
(dump 1 to HD1, dump 2 - HD 2, dump3 - HD3, dump4
;)
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* Miguel Nuno de Almeida Vasconcelos Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, Apr 05, 2001
at 09:46:35AM +0100)
Can it be done ?
Yes
Can amanda use who tape devices to perform a single backup?
No
What can I expect of it?
Good performance
Where can I find Info ?
Here.
Basically what you do (or what
imates(est);
else
# endif
#endif
generic_calc_estimates(est);
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tems).
So, maybe you need to check if you are using the ciorrect tar version.
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* John Palkovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:04:07PM -0500)
Tar is
coredump:/tmp tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.12
on both server and client. The amanda patches were applied to this tar.
OK,
I remember going to 1.13.19 after someone here suggested that this was
better
d of blindly fsf-ing to image 94 ?
Now that is a handy feature ..
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* Olivier Collet [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:39:21AM
+0100)
Hello,
First I would like to thanks everybody in this mailing list.
I have a doubt. I launched the backup yesterday at 18:00 and today it is
10:35 and it is still not done! I have put 'only' three servers in
* John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 10:31:14AM -0500)
With that all said, he would like to be able to put ANY tape in the drive
and have it succeed, basicly ignoring the tape lables. ...
Then I assume you're not going to be using incrementals but doing a full
dump of
* Carey Jung [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 07:06:26AM -0600)
Could someone please clarify the holding disk/taper semantics? It appears
that amanda deletes files from the holding disk as they are taped off,
rather than after they are ALL successfully taped off. We noticed this when
* Chris Marble [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 07:56:00AM -0800)
radar wrote:
i have a (hp c1537a dds3 125m 4mm) tapedrive
that can hold 12 gig uncompressed and says that it can
compress up to 24. i think you know it all.
my thougts was, hey, let the hardware do the compression
so
* Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:36:20PM -0300)
On Feb 27, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the easiest way to debug sendsize ?
Get the request from amandad.debug and feed it to sendsize's stdin.
OK, full output of the amandad.debug
* Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:22:10AM -0300)
On Feb 28, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
GNUTAR sda6 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 -1 exclude-list=/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar
GNUTAR sda6 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 -1 exclude-list=/usr/local/lib/amanda
/md/dsk/d0MISSING
host /dev/md/dsk/d6MISSING
host /dev/md/dsk/d0MISSING
(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.1p1)
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* John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 12:14:38PM -0500)
The list of tapes needed may be maintained several ways:
* You could set up lbl-templ in amanda.conf to (e.g.) 3hole.ps and
save the paper copies Amanda will generate after every run.
The exa,dat,LTO .ps files
* Ross Macintyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:57:54AM +)
I wonder if someone can help me here?
I'm still tyring to get someone else's setup of amanda running and I
feel I'm nearly there. But I'm confused by this:
2 night's worth of dumps failed (because I hadn't the correct
* Patrick LIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 07:53:53AM -0500)
hi,
the directory spoon exist and the directory c1t5d0s0 too
but something is strange some file is empty .
20010215_0 is empty
but 20010215_0.gz is ther too and not empty
strange
been there, done that, bought
* Chris Marble [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:51:32PM -0800)
Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
Since it's a linux box , you may want to look into using reiserFS.
I found that file access with Reiser is faster than ext2 (although nothing
shocking) esp. when going through a lot
* Monserrat Seisdedos Nuez [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:13:06AM
+0100)
Hello everybody:
I'm wondering, if my entire system crash, and i have to
built it again, just with a clean disk., i could do it from my last
system amanda backup???
0) Don't panic
1)
* Ben Elliston [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:17:58PM +1100)
Is there any easy way to force a level 0 backup of every disk in the
disklist?
amadmin config force hostname
repeat for each hostname
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* John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:53:20PM -0500)
Next we need to examine the driver algorithm in more detail. Some of
the base information is in the usenix paper on the ftp.amanda.org site.
[8]
If inparallel is set to three (or less), you don't have any "big"
* Denyce Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 08:18:46AM -0700)
Thinking about purchasing one want to make sure it will work before
spending the large amount of money.
Buy an LTO ..
100G uncompressed for roughly the same price
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* Chris Marble [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 07:59:17PM -0800)
Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
I noticed when looking through the logs that the *dumper* performance is
around the 1Kps (or less) on my system ,
whereas the *taper* gets a performance of about 7 Kps.
So apparently
W suse 7.0 ships with amanda-2.4.1p1-157 you might wanna upgrade to
2.4.2p2.
Kind regards,
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Gerhard den Hollander Phone +31-10.280.1515
Technical Support Jason Geosystems BV Fax +31-10.280.1511
(When calling please note: we
* Joseph Del Corso [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:03:16AM -0500)
Is it possible to amlabel an entire rack of tapes without
doing it manually for each tape?
Specifically I have roughly 35 tapes that I'd like to label
in some kind of automated fashion all at once. Besides
Please find attached a small perl script I wrote today.
It parses the output of amadmin config find and generates an html page
out of the result listing for the last 7 days the dump results for all
disks that amadmin find is able to locate.
It uses the Date::Calc perl module available from CPAN
* David Klasinc [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:53:33AM +0100)
Banzai!
I get the above message when trying to backup one specific host. Client and
You get a message saying Banzai !
Did you install the WWII - japanese slang add-on to Amanda ?
[Just kidding]
server are bot
This is probably something trivial.
in my amanda.conf I have
dumpcycle 1 week# the number of days in the normal dump cycle
runspercycle 5 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
# (4 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week -- just
#
* Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 08:39:21AM -0200)
On Feb 13, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have indeed 25 tapes in my tapelist.
Im lazy, and Id like to have a list of 5 tapes (so that I can take the
tapes for a whole week, stack them
* John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:14:26PM -0500)
Now, am not 100% certain on how taper does write the files to tape ...
Very quick review:
Rewind
Read the label and verify
Rewind
Write a new label and tapemark
Write a header, image and
* Simon Mayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 01:20:52PM +0100)
What would it take to have some sort of config option that did exactly
that? ...
Nothing. It's already there. Just leave the tape out of the drive and
make as many runs as you want into the holding disk.
eg
* Simon Mayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 03:28:07PM +0100)
how do you non-interactivly amflush ?
echo "all" | amflush -f whatever-your-config-is
(I think , I haven't tried it )
at my site, we do something like that, but instead of flushing (as it
should be) we leave the
* Simon Mayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:14:39PM +0100)
something like
echo -en "A\nY\n" | /path/to/amflush -f config
is working. ( Arrrgh again! ;)
Allright ...
What about the amanda database if i set up a "flush to nirvana" config
with /dev/null. Would it do any better
* The Hermit Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:26:09PM -0400)
If i have a file system that is, when compressed, larger then my tape
size, what happens? from what I read, it can't span a file system across
two tapes, but I might be mis-remembering what I read ...
If you're
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