Tape Library Recommendations

2005-06-23 Thread James Marcinek
Hello Everyone, I've been supporting Amanda for a customer for about a year now. I currently have only used a single tape device as the client was leary about leaving any media onsite as well as the fact that it would require more involvment than just switching out tapes as most are not too

Still need help with amflush!!!

2004-12-10 Thread James Marcinek
Does anyone have experience dealing with issues regarding the amflush not working properly? The system in a RH9 box. I know there's more recent versions than what's being used but I cannot find the later rpm's that are necessary. I can provide what ever information is necessary to help: The

Re: Question using amflush

2004-12-08 Thread James Marcinek
are waiting to be flushed, which are already flushed and lots of other info's. Christoph James Marcinek schrieb: I initially just straced the parent process (22802 amflush normal) which didn't output anything: Here's the ps -ef again with the trace commands for each PID involved: ps

Re: Question using amflush

2004-12-08 Thread James Marcinek
somewhat... Paul Bijnens lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote: James Marcinek wrote: I've recently deployed amanda. The client forgot tapes on several occasions and I've got 4 backups in my holding area. I initiated the amflush command and followed the instructions. The job kicked off

Question using amflush

2004-12-07 Thread James Marcinek
Hello Everyone, I've recently deployed amanda. The client forgot tapes on several occasions and I've got 4 backups in my holding area. I initiated the amflush command and followed the instructions. The job kicked off in the background and I've been using: ps -ef |grep amanda to see if the

Re: Question using amflush

2004-12-07 Thread James Marcinek
. If this isn't normal then I guess I should kill it. Then I need to know what the Root Cause is so I can fix it. On another matter, could of I just deleted these directories if I didn't want to flush them or would that cause problems? Thanks, James Paul Bijnens lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote: James

Problems with DLE for large filesystem

2004-11-05 Thread James Marcinek
Hello Everyone, I'm finally starting my backup on the server with the large file system. I'm receiving errors and the DLE did not run as the excludes never took affect. Here's excerpts from the amdump log: /etc/amanda/normal/disklist, line 21: dump type parameter expected

Re: Question about backing up (multiple tapes per session on one device)

2004-11-04 Thread James Marcinek
by default (I'm using tapedev, not tpchanger) so I think it's configured properly. I'm new to this backup application so I appreciate any input. Thanks, James Frank Thanks everyone, James -- James Marcinek Systems Engineer JEMConsult.biz, Inc 813.416.1324

Re: Problems backup up hde5 (/)

2004-11-03 Thread James Marcinek
? Thanks, James Joshua Baker-LePain lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote: On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 at 10:11pm, James Marcinek wrote Finally doing the backups. This is my first run and it's on a client. I'm having a problem backup up the / partition (/dev/hde5). Here's the line in the logfile: FAIL

Re: Problems backup up hde5 (/)

2004-11-03 Thread James Marcinek
indications are present. thanks for the help everyone! Joshua Baker-LePain lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote: On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 at 10:11pm, James Marcinek wrote Finally doing the backups. This is my first run and it's on a client. I'm having a problem backup up the / partition (/dev/hde5). Here's

Re: Problems backup up hde5 (/)

2004-11-03 Thread James Marcinek
You just put the directory name in place of the device, e.g. domino / $DUMPTYPE OK but if it's the / partion, will it also try to backup the other filesystems (such /var, /usr, etc) or do I have to define an exclusion list? The examples I've patterned the diskfile showed somthing like the

Re: Problems backup up hde5 (/)

2004-11-03 Thread James Marcinek
OK I got you. Could I still add options, enclosing them with them within the '{}' fields (eg exlcude /var/holding ) servername /var root-tar { exclude /var/holding } or can I only do this in the amanda.conf. Thanks, James I've patterned the diskfile showed somthing like the example:

Question about backing up (multiple tapes per session on one device)

2004-11-03 Thread James Marcinek
On to the next hurdle hopefully one of the last. I have one tape device. I will be working with multiple systems so I know that some backups will require multiple tapes. Since the backups will be eventually done on cron, how does one know that a tape change is needed? Will amanda send out an

Problems backup up hde5 (/)

2004-11-02 Thread James Marcinek
Hello everyone, Finally doing the backups. This is my first run and it's on a client. I'm having a problem backup up the / partition (/dev/hde5). Here's the line in the logfile: FAIL planner domino /dev/hde5 20041102 0 [disk /dev/hde5 offline on domino?] Here's my disklist entry: ## domino

Re: Advice for Amanda beginner

2004-10-29 Thread James Marcinek
Ok, So this brings up 2 questions: 1. Since I want to be able to implement this without impacting everything else I read that it was possible to call directories by modifying the disklist in the following example: Try to redefine your disklist as in the following example: fatboy

Re: Advice for Amanda beginner

2004-10-28 Thread James Marcinek
beginning? Thanks, James Frank Smith lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote: --On Tuesday, October 26, 2004 18:07:30 + James Marcinek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I'm getting ready to start using Amanda as a backup solution. To prepare, I've read the online documentation

Advice for Amanda beginner

2004-10-26 Thread James Marcinek
Hello all, I'm getting ready to start using Amanda as a backup solution. To prepare, I've read the online documentation and I've also read a section in the Red Hat Linux Bible. I also read through the FAQ's. I am a bit confused with some items. Mainly the configuration. The amanda comes with the