Re: autoflush and amstatus

2007-05-30 Thread James Brown
; Then you should set the "reserve" to a value below > 100. > > With reserve==100, amdump record full dump only once > they are put on > tape, that's why it retry it. > With reserve < 100, amdump record full dump once > they are on holding disk. > > Je

Re: autoflush and amstatus

2007-05-29 Thread James Brown
--- Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Brown wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After enabling 'autoflush' in amanda.conf, and > > starting new amdump, I saw two entries for a > backup > > job that was already on holding disk. One wa

autoflush and amstatus

2007-05-28 Thread James Brown
Hi, After enabling 'autoflush' in amanda.conf, and starting new amdump, I saw two entries for a backup job that was already on holding disk. One was waiting to be flushed, the other was getting estimates. (I had to kill the job since I didn't want to run the 500GB backup again!). With autoflus

RAIT questions

2007-03-12 Thread James Brown
A couple of RAIT questions (Running amanda 2.5.1p2 on solaris10) : 1) The wiki says RAIT with tape changers is not supported. Is this true? 2) Does tape spanning work with RAIT tape mirroring? 3) Anyone used the 'amdd' utility to do mirrored tape backups using native tools (gtar for ex

Amanda should fail "dumps" of directories

2007-01-31 Thread James Brown
Is it possible for amanda to automatically fail backup jobs of directories specified in the disklist with "dump" dumptypes (as opposed to gtar)? A "dump" of a directory completes successfully even though the dump utilitity is meant for filesystems. For me at least, we can not restore from such ba

PARTIAL backups going to tape

2006-11-28 Thread James Brown
Is there a way to stop "PARTIAL" backup jobs from being written to tape? Why does Amanda even keep "PARTIAL" jobs on the /holdingdisk for that matter? As far as I am concerned, backups of this nature are failed jobs. -JB __

Windows archive bit

2006-04-25 Thread James Brown
Hi, Does Amanda samba backups reset the windows archive-bit for each file? If so, is there a way to disable this? My intention is to run redundant full backups of a Windows box. I already have a commercial backup product running full/incrementals on the machine. Thanks, JB __