Re: Splitting a big directory (disklist question)

2003-01-30 Thread Nick Russo
independently, except, of course, for the one which is causing the error. The only drawback I see is that my disklist file and my email reports are longer, but it seems worth it to me. Nick Nick Russo email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[SAGE-AU] Amanda users

2002-09-03 Thread Nick Russo
, so I find it easiest to just decouple the snapshot from the backup on moving filesystems. Nick Nick Russo email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 773.702.3438 Computer Science Department The University of Chicago Associate

Re: Backing up only certain directories?

2002-09-02 Thread Nick Russo
Dale, You can specify any directory. Amanda won't cross partition boundries though, so if you specify / you won't get /var if it's on it's own partition. Nick Nick Russo email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 773.702.3438

Re: Multiple configurations, multiple tape devices?

2002-06-04 Thread Nick Russo
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, eggslammich wrote: I currently have 2 configurations called Full and Incr - Full - Points to DLT as tape device - Does only 0 level backups (using dumpcycle 0 and always-full) - Incr - points to DDS2

Re: Mixed files and sub-dirs in disklist entry

2002-05-30 Thread Nick Russo
You can have a disklist entry for projXXX which excludes certain directories. Then each of those directories can have its own disklist entry. Nick

Re: retain dump files on holding disk

2002-05-29 Thread Nick Russo
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Jon LaBadie wrote: Skyblue thinking. Wouldn't this be just the level 0's you'd want retained? At least that is my antiquated impression of off-site archiving. A level 0 from three days ago won't have a file I created two days ago. A level 1 from one day ago will. So

Re: Getting My Data Back Off The Tape

2002-05-29 Thread Nick Russo
On Wed, 29 May 2002, GIC MLs wrote: I followed your advice and ran the command with the -tvf - flags, which seemed to only give me a listing of directories.: Tar stores all the directories first, so if you are impatient, you might not wait around until the files start showing up :) Nick

retain dump files on holding disk

2002-05-28 Thread Nick Russo
space I have to spare on the holding disk. Does amanda have a built-in way to do this, or does anyone have a hack to accomplish something close? Thanks, Nick Nick Russo email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 773.702.3438 Computer

Re: I know this message... help restore entire system

2002-04-03 Thread Nick Russo
a new drive somewhere. I would mount it on a working client machine and drop the restored data on it. Am I missing some complexity here? Nick Nick Russo email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 773.702.3438 Computer Science Department