another data point on the hfstar file is unchanged; not dumped warning

. The errors have continued. If any other OS X/hfstar users have overcome this, help is appreciated. Thanks! Mark -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark StosbergPrincipal Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Summersault, LLC 765-939-9301 ext 202

help requested designing once a week dump cycle

Hello! I'm interested in some advice on the best way to configure my dump cycle. This cycle will run once a week and performs full backups. Every forth week we take one tape out the cycle for archiving and replace it with a new tape. So is this would this be the optimal amanda.conf settings for

tip for handling multiple dumps in the holding disk

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Mystery: configs seem OK, but almost nothing backed up (withsolution!)

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gotchas to consider when upgrading from 2.4.2 to 2.4.3?

Hello, At my Amanda installation, we have a server and several clients all running 2.4.2p2. I would like to upgrade at least the server to take advantage of some of the features in 2.4.3. I have some questions for veterans of this upgrade: - will the existing amanda config files work directly?

how to handle space ins disklist path names?

Hello, I've been following tis great How To to set up a couple of OS X machines as Amanda clients: http://web.brandeis.edu/pages/view/Bio/AmandaMacOSXCompileNotes It's rather comprehensive, but I've run into a question beyond the scope of the document. In my disklist file, I want to add

backing up OS X with hfstar

Hello, I'm interesting in backing up an OS X client using Amanda. I've already read a couple of useful posts on this topic: http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/support/amandaonosx.txt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/40315 Both noted some problems and work arounds with using dump and

Re: recommendations for backing up Amanda? (thanks)

re: many suggestions for backing up Amanda's config file files. Thanks to you all for your many suggestions on solutions to backing up Amanda's configuration files. It's much appreciated! -mark http://mark.stosberg.com/

Re: Amanda 2.4.2p2 sometimes restoring empty directories

On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:40:16AM -0500, Mark Stosberg wrote: Hello, I recently helped with a restore using Amanda's amrecover tool. Amanda would report that files were present on the tape, but in some, but not all cases, only empty directories