ideal dumpcicle

2004-03-17 Thread Sergio Pereira
Hi list, I'm trying to setup amanda to backup 52 weeks with incremental daily and every week a full backup. My amanda.conf shows like: dumpcycle 7 runspercycle 5 tapecycle 55 tapes for sure I'm doing something wrong .. what is it? when I run amadmin to check the due date for each disk I get:

Re: ideal dumpcicle

2004-03-17 Thread Sergio Pereira
ok. but doesn't amanda get confuse with two configs? sergio On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 13:32, Frank Smith wrote: --On Friday, March 21, 2003 13:13:06 -0500 Sergio Pereira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I'm trying to setup amanda to backup 52 weeks with incremental daily and every week

amrecover error

2004-03-16 Thread Sergio Pereira
Hi List, when trying to recover a file using amrecover I get this error message: Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? EOF, check amidxtaped.timestamp.debug file on bkpserver. amrecover: short block 0 bytes UNKNOWN file amrecover: Can't read file header extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1 what is

Re: amrecover error

2004-03-16 Thread Sergio Pereira
it's a text file with some network configuration, nothing else. I doing some tests with amrecover because I don't want to run into problems when the real recover show up. thx, sergio On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 13:06, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 at 12:57pm, Sergio Pereira wrote

Re: amrecover error

2004-03-16 Thread Sergio Pereira
finish time Tue Mar 16 13:53:41 2004 On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 13:26, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Please respond below quoted text -- it makes it easier to follow the conversation. On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 at 1:26pm, Sergio Pereira wrote On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 13:06, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote

Re: retrieving 1 year old file

2004-03-12 Thread Sergio Pereira
Hi list, I did some thinking last night and here is my conclusion: wouldn't be easier to have all the 52 weeks backed up using level 0 instead of having two configurations (daily+monthly)? I mean, the total of space utilized will be the same at the end. I can setup amanda to look for the vtapes

retrieving 1 year old file

2004-03-11 Thread Sergio Pereira
Hi list, I'm starting to play win amanda (2.4.4p2) on rh9 and using external hard disk as virtual tapes. I was wondering how do I setup amanda to be able to retrieve a 1 year old file? in other words, I want to have 1 year bkp with level 0 weekly. If someone has any other idea .. pls share.:-)

Re: retrieving 1 year old file

2004-03-11 Thread Sergio Pereira
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 12:11, Frank Smith wrote: --On Thursday, March 11, 2004 11:46:16 -0500 Sergio Pereira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I'm starting to play win amanda (2.4.4p2) on rh9 and using external hard disk as virtual tapes. I was wondering how do I setup amanda

amanda behind firewall

2001-03-20 Thread Sergio Pereira
Hi all, I'm using amanda-2.4.2p1 and I used to compile ./configure --with-portrange=1000,1005 --with-udpportrange=850,854 --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk but ... when I'm trying to do a backup my firewall response: --cut-- DENY eth2 PROTO=6 207.245.14.66:3267 207.245.14.71:32886 --cut--

Trying to use GNUTAR

2001-02-16 Thread Sergio Pereira
Hi, first of all thanks for the people that help me. So, now I'm trying to use gnutar because when I try to use dump a error message appear on the log file : --cut-- (client side) sendbackup: debug 1 pid 25232 ruid 502 euid 502 start time Fri Feb 16 11:16:52 2001