I would like to browse the mailing list archives, but
http://www.amanda.org seems to be broken. It seems to be trying to
connect to sourceforge, but I couldn't find the archives there.
Thanks,
Steve
I was finally able to browse the archives (thanks Johsua) and
couldn't find a mention of my problem so here goes.
I use the 3hole.ps printer definition to print a list of my tape
contents. The pages print fine, but afterwards the data light on
my printer keeps blinking and the job isn't deleted
Matt Hyclak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I do the same thing by just leaving the tape out of the drive. The other
option is to configure amanda to use for example, /dev/amtape as its no
rewind device.
Might want to search the archives for /dev/fridaytape, we've
discussed this before.
Run a
My first toc printout, I'm so excited. Very handy except it
says:
To restore:
position tape at the start of the file and run:
dd if=$TAPE bs=32k skip=1 | zcat | restore -ibf 2 -
^^^
Very unhandy if you're using tar, maybe 3.hole.ps should
Selon Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes;
It helps greatly if there is a TOC of each tape available.
Is there a slick way to create these rather than just print out the
nightly email?
Thanks,
Steve
When trying to write a tape, amanda says:
INFO taper tape genepi000 kb 0 fm 0 writing filemark: Input/output error
Is there a way to test to see if this really is a bad tape? It's a
VXA-2 and they are usually pretty reliable. I'm worried about what
happens when it comes around in my rotation
Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've *never* ever seen anyone doing a bare metal recovery of a
windows machine...
While installing SP 4 (the service pack from hell) my machine went
south and never came back. Using retrospect I was able to format,
re-install and return it to the previous
Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
It couuld also be that you are using a changer, and your tape was
not yet ready when amanda decided to write.
I'm using an exabyte 1x7 VXA-2 autoloader, so this is possible.
In the latest snapshot (even after amanda 2.4.4p1) there is an
extra parameter
I'm thinking of moving some Windows boxes from retrospect to
amanda/samba but I'm concerned about the registry. Under
retrospect you have a utility called regcopy. At a specified
interval it copies your registry out to a file, then if your hard
drive fails and you have to reload it from tape,
Kurt Yoder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No. See FAQ:
http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/32.html
How about an amflush? Say you have more than one tape worth in the
holding disk?
So what does the runtapes parameter do?
Steve
Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The fake tapedev is still needed, or the other runs of amdump during
the week would use the tapedev. So your friday cronjob becomes:
ln -s /dev/rmt/0n /dev/fridaytape; amdump Conf; rm /dev/fridaytape
I'm using a changer though and it complains...
I'd like to do my daily dumps to the holding disk, then amflush
it to the tapes over the weekend. The suggestion I've heard here
is to leave out the tapes, then put them in on Friday night, but
what if I want to take Friday off? Is there a way to do this
automatically?
Thanks,
Steve
Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Actually you're using amanda just the opposite way as intended: in
the normal way she makes backups to tapes, and when you have a day
off, or you're sick, she falls back to the holdingdisk.
Yes but when your tapes cost $100 each and you only have 14, is
Question: If you want to occasionally take a full dump off site
for storage, how does one decide which tape? And when to take it?
The only compression option I can see on my mt is defcompression,
so to turn it off is:
/bin/mt -f device defcompression 0
correct?
Also, when I built amanda I did:
--enable-FEATURE=x
'cuz I thought there's some sort of X interface to amanda. Now I'm
not so sure. What is this x thing?
I've got a VXA autoloader and I'm using linux, I set the drive for
SCSI id 4 and the robot for 5. Then dmesg says:
Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
from reading the archives of this list I should see something like:
Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5,
Thanks for the answer Joshua. It looks like sg0 and sg1 are drives
and sg2 is the changer, mtx -f /dev/sg2 inquiry returns:
Product Type: Medium Changer
Vendor ID: 'EXABYTE '
Product ID: 'Exabyte EZ17'
Revision: '1.11'
Attached Changer: No
But mtx -f /dev/sg2 unload says
Unloading Data
Can someone give me the tapetype entry for VXA-2?
Thanks,
Steve
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