Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-06-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-06-14 21:31, Anne Wilson wrote: [...] I've lost the thread here - which file do you want to see, please? Actually, I lost the thread here too. It's been long ago, and I do not keep all those mails. [...] And this would exclude the whole tree under ./anne/Photos etc.? Maybe I

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-06-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 16 June 2006 10:53, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-06-14 21:31, Anne Wilson wrote: [...] I've lost the thread here - which file do you want to see, please? Actually, I lost the thread here too. It's been long ago, and I do not keep all those mails. Understood. [...] And this

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-06-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 12 May 2006 13:27, Paul Bijnens wrote: Sorry for the delay - I've been away for a month. When all else fails, read the manual: (man amanda.conf, exclude...) I've read it so many times, but still am not getting my head around it. Where did you put that file? give the complete path?

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 11 May 2006 19:16, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Show us that you made the change, what is the output of : amadmin CONFIG disklist borg /home amadmin Daily disklist borg /home line 8: host borg: interface default disk /home: program GNUTAR exclude

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-12 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-12 13:40, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 11 May 2006 19:16, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Show us that you made the change, what is the output of : amadmin CONFIG disklist borg /home amadmin Daily disklist borg /home line 8: host borg: interface default disk

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 11 May 2006 13:02, listrcv wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: The vtapes are set to 4GB, so that they will fit onto a DVD. Earlier I Actually, they were defined as 4000 Mb, I've slightly increased it to 4100 Mb, just to give a little more headroom. Check out the runtapes option in

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-11 15:58, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 11 May 2006 13:02, listrcv wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: The vtapes are set to 4GB, so that they will fit onto a DVD. Earlier I Actually, they were defined as 4000 Mb, I've slightly increased it to 4100 Mb, just to give a little more headroom.

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 11 May 2006 15:09, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-05-11 15:58, Anne Wilson wrote: Troubleshooting is incredibly slow because it's not a problem discovered by amcheck, so i have to wait 24 hours every time to see whether I've improved the situation. I'm getting worried, now,

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 21:40, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:16:22PM +0100, Anne Wilson enlightened us: And there is the likely culprit, exclude file vs. exclude list. I.e. you are excluding any file matching the single pattern amanda.exclude. What you want is

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 10 May 2006 21:40, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:16:22PM +0100, Anne Wilson enlightened us: And there is the likely culprit, exclude file vs. exclude list. I.e. you are excluding any file matching the single pattern amanda.exclude. What

Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-10 Thread Anne Wilson
I've been trying for some time to troubleshoot this, without success. Each day I'm seeing a report like this: planner: borg /home 20060510 0 [dump larger than available tape space, 25292190 KB, full dump delayed] planner: Full dump of borg:/home/anne/Photos promoted from 6 days ahead.

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:49:30PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: I've been trying for some time to troubleshoot this, without success. Each day I'm seeing a report like this: ... I am trying to back up /home, using an exclusion file. First question, then - should the exclusion file be in

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 19:01, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:49:30PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: I've been trying for some time to troubleshoot this, without success. Each day I'm seeing a report like this: ... I am trying to back up /home, using an exclusion file. First

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 08:33:16PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 10 May 2006 19:01, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:49:30PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: I've been trying for some time to troubleshoot this, without success. Each day I'm seeing a report like this:

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 21:09, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 08:33:16PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 10 May 2006 19:01, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:49:30PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: I've been trying for some time to troubleshoot this, without

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-10 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:16:22PM +0100, Anne Wilson enlightened us: And there is the likely culprit, exclude file vs. exclude list. I.e. you are excluding any file matching the single pattern amanda.exclude. What you want is to exclude any file matching any pattern in the list of

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 21:40, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:16:22PM +0100, Anne Wilson enlightened us: And there is the likely culprit, exclude file vs. exclude list. I.e. you are excluding any file matching the single pattern amanda.exclude. What you want is

Can't get a level 0 backup.

2005-11-18 Thread Joe
I just set up a new CentOS 4.2 server with Amanda 2.4.4p3. I can't seem to get a level 0 backup. I want a level 0 M-F and when I'm not there S-Sun it is for a degraded backup. I have tried to set everything up correctly and what follows are pieces of amanda.conf and logs...

Re: Can't get a level 0 backup.

2005-11-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Joe wrote: I just set up a new CentOS 4.2 server with Amanda 2.4.4p3. I can't seem to get a level 0 backup. I want a level 0 M-F and when I'm not there S-Sun it is for a degraded backup. I have tried to set everything up correctly and what follows are pieces of amanda.conf and logs...

Re: Can't get a level 0 backup.

2005-11-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 02:42:04PM -0500, Joe wrote: I just set up a new CentOS 4.2 server with Amanda 2.4.4p3. I can't seem to get a level 0 backup. I want a level 0 M-F and when I'm not there S-Sun it is for a degraded backup. I have tried to set everything up correctly and what follows

Re: Can't get a level 0 backup.

2005-11-18 Thread Joe
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Joe wrote: I just set up a new CentOS 4.2 server with Amanda 2.4.4p3. I can't seem to get a level 0 backup. I want a level 0 M-F and when I'm not there S-Sun it is for a degraded backup. I have tried to set everything up correctly and what follows are pieces of

Re: Can't get a level 0 backup.

2005-11-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:52:38PM -0500, Joe wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Where is your amdump log file (amdump.1)? Amanda write in this file why it did a level 3. Jean-Louis Whoops! Bad example. I forgot to change the tape last night. (This server isn't in production) I'll