Re: [Amanda-users] Backup incremental files

2015-06-08 Thread Gerrit A. Smit :: TI
Cuttler, Brian (HEALTH) schreef op 08-06-15 om 17:18: I see what you are saying, and while the filesystem may support a method of backing up the file change, gtar isn't the tool to use for recording that delta (zfs is not amenable to DUMP, nor would that meet the request). I am told that with

Re: [Amanda-users] Backup incremental files

2015-06-08 Thread Gerrit A. Smit :: TI
Op 08-06-15 om 16:20 schreef Taz_Tasmania: 2.) I have a big file (25GB) and each day becomes the file to end a piece longer. Can Amanda backup the difference from this file and not the complete file by incremental? AFIK Amanda does things on file system level, not file level. Gerrit

Re: [Amanda-users] Backup incremental files/ Barcode band-autoloader

2015-06-08 Thread Gerrit A. Smit :: TI
Op 08-06-15 om 16:20 schreef Taz_Tasmania: 1.) Can Amanada work with a barcode band-autoloader? https://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?2224-How-amanda-interact-with-barcodes

Re: [Amanda-users] Backup incremental files

2015-06-08 Thread Gerrit A. Smit :: TI
Op 08-06-15 om 17:01 schreef Cuttler, Brian (HEALTH): Amanda manages DLE (DiskList Entries) at the file system level, the tools used to back up the file systems are all native to the OS (of the amanda client) were the file system lives. The only tools I've seen used for backup are GTAR, STAR

Re: Package for Opensuse 11.3 ?

2014-12-09 Thread Gerrit A. Smit :: TI
Op 09-12-14 om 17:16 schreef Stefan G. Weichinger: Is there an official package for amanda on opensuse 11.3 ? I don't have access to that server yet, so I ask in advance. amanda.org only shows packages for SLES ... And the customer prefers packages over installing from source, I assume ;-)

Re: Understanding disklist format

2014-02-16 Thread Gerrit A. Smit - TI
Charles Stroom schreef op 16-02-14 15:29: include ./* exclude ./Canon_800IS/* exclude ./Canon_G2/* Maybe you need to exclude first? Met vriendelijke groeten, AT COMPUTING Gerrit A. Smit Beheer Technische Infrastructuur -- AT Computing Telefoon: +31 24 352 72 22

Re: 'labelstr' param in amanda.conf

2014-01-09 Thread Gerrit A. Smit TI
op 09-01-14 19:47, Michael Stauffer schreef: Does this mean that if I have multiple configurations in order to break up a large 30TB data set into managable chunks, each configuration will have to have a particular set of tapes assigned to it? That seems very awkward if so. Why would you make

Re: Splitting a DLE with regex

2013-07-31 Thread Gerrit A. Smit TI
Op 31-07-13 18:56, Mike Neimoyer schreef: include ./[a-c].* Maybe you should first try an existing pathname (so no wildcard), just to be sure the ./ is correct here. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, AT COMPUTING Gerrit A. Smit Beheer Technische Infrastructuur AT Computing Telefoon:

Re: Splitting a DLE with regex

2013-07-31 Thread Gerrit A. Smit TI
For compile time options: $ /usr/sbin/amadmin '' version Look for the values of DUMP en RESTORE Gerrit

Re: Splitting a DLE with regex

2013-07-31 Thread Gerrit A. Smit TI
Op 31-07-13 19:58, Gerrit A. Smit TI schreef: For compile time options: $ /usr/sbin/amadmin '' version Look for the values of DUMP en RESTORE Sorry, look for GNUTAR. I think ... Gerrit

Re: Splitting a DLE with regex

2013-07-31 Thread Gerrit A. Smit - TI
Jean-Louis Martineau schreef op 31-07-13 23:02: On 07/31/2013 04:00 PM, Mike Neimoyer wrote: However, as the amandabackup user, when I cd /home and then ls -lah I get a permission denied. This could be the reason the glob directive is failing, since it cannot scan the contents of that

Re: amgetconf: not found

2009-03-18 Thread Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
Op di 17mrt09 om 18:33 schreef Dustin J. Mitchell: 2009/3/17 Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com: I am in the dark because it is a configuration that was previously done by someone else and I have not had a lot of expierience with amanda (it ran very well). Perhaps amgetconf was

Re: Is support for multiple, simultaneous tape drives on the roadmap?

2008-10-06 Thread Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
Op vr 03okt08 om 17:38 schreef Terry Burton: And as an aside, would anybody please care to comment about their experience of running a split configuration on a single backup host using a single changer library. For example, does chg-zd-mtx play nicely with multiple accessors, or are there

Re: Changer policy

2008-08-21 Thread Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
I use tpchanger chg-disk# VTAPES the tape-changer glue script # This changer script is based on a directory structure like: # slot_root_dir -| # |- info # |- data - slot1 # |- slot1 # |- slot2 #

Re: 2.6 upgrade file locations

2008-08-11 Thread Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
Op ma 11aug08 om 09:26 schreef stan: Since I install each application in /opt/{APP_NAME}, I'd prefer not to have the 2n'r amanda levels. In the past I used dirctives like: --sbindir=/opt/amanda/sbin Will doing this still work? If so, what all do I need to specif? In the past it was:

Re: Out of space problem

2008-05-07 Thread Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
Op di 06mei08 om 10:28 schreef Paul Bijnens: Or better, use amtapetape -e 35g /dev/yourtapedrive to get an estimate (takes about 3-5 hours normally). I got/use: define tapetype HP-DAT72 { comment HP-DAT72x10 Autoloader (AE313A) # data provided by Gerrit A. Smit [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amrecover: Extractor child exited with status 2

2008-05-05 Thread Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
Op vr 02mei08 om 05:59 schreef Yogesh Hasabnis: ... I observe the following error for every tape cartridge: tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. amrecover: Extractor child exited with status 2 extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1 I want to know about how

Re: Does amanda only check free holdingdiskspace at startup?

2008-01-07 Thread Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
Op ma 07jan08 om 07:45 schreef Marc Muehlfeld: last saturday my monthly off-site backup started. But at the starttime, the holding disk was full of scrap. Maybe you have to be careful with scrap, especially when made by Amanda: did you run amcleanup? Gerrit

Re: amanda non interactive or automated restore/recover

2008-01-03 Thread Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
Op wo 02jan08 om 21:02 schreef fedora: Every end of month I have to recover databases to burn it into DVD. The command that I used is amrecover. For amrecover I have to give an input so that amanda can recover databases (interactive). It will be wasting my time to recover one by one for the

amdump doesn't listen to -o option

2007-11-19 Thread Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
We have a tape-robot with tapes to dump on, but sometimes I don't want to dump to tape directly: the data of some small clients, which are available during the Monday morning meeting of their users, should be hold, to be flushed to tape as side-effect of the nightly dumps of the other clients.

Re: Copying data to new tapes

2007-11-12 Thread Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
Op ma 12nov07 om 15:29 schreef Marc Muehlfeld: we used a Tandberg Superloader DLT Autoloader for offsite backups. Now I ordered a Tandberg Storageloader LTO3. Does anybody of you see a way to get the data of the old DTL to the new LTO3 tapes? Doing a 1-to-1 copy is wasting many space and

How do I tell amanda a tape is not onsite?

2007-08-07 Thread Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
Hello, I'm using amanda and all is OK. But, now I want to implement level null dumps to be made say every first monday of the month (piece of cake in crontab). From the Status Update for July 2007 I learned to simply say amanda config force to get a level null dump for all hosts and

Re: How do I tell amanda a tape is not onsite?

2007-08-07 Thread Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
Gerrit A. Smit wrote: I would like a way to tell amrecover that those tapes are off site without too much fiddling around with setdate. This question remains unsolved, I think. By telling Amanda not to re-use a tape, she will refrain from using that tape for dumping, but IMHO this doen't

Re: How do I tell amanda a tape is not onsite?

2007-08-07 Thread Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Gerrit A. Smit wrote: By telling Amanda not to re-use a tape, she will refrain from using that tape for dumping, but IMHO this doesn't change anything for other operations. amrecover will still use the tape for reading when needed according to the set time, and I