Re: General question about backups

2012-03-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 03/23/2012 10:33 AM, Matt wrote: I would like to be able to make sure that if my backup server dies with a catastrophic hard disk crash, I can get my backups restored from Amazon S3. Right now, I run my backups to Amazon S3. What additional files would I need to copy to another server to mak

Re: General question about backups

2012-03-23 Thread Matt
Thanks all! Another reason I love amanda - the support is incredible! On 23.03.2012 09:58, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > On 3/23/12 10:33 AM, Matt wrote: > >> I would like to be able to make sure that if my backup server dies with a catastrophic hard disk crash, I can get my backups restored fr

Re: General question about backups

2012-03-23 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
On 3/23/12 10:33 AM, Matt wrote: I would like to be able to make sure that if my backup server dies with a catastrophic hard disk crash, I can get my backups restored from Amazon S3. Right now, I run my backups to Amazon S3. What additional files would I need to copy to another server to make su

Re: General question about backups

2012-03-23 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:33:19 -0500 Matt wrote: > I would like to be able to make sure that if my backup server dies > with a catastrophic hard disk crash, I can get my backups restored > from Amazon S3. > Right now, I run my backups to Amazon S3. What additional > files would I need to copy to a

Re: General question about backups

2012-03-23 Thread Brian Cuttler
Matt, You could copy/rsync/whatever your amanda config directory and subdirectories, this will provide index and history. But in worst case you can unpack the amanda dump files without that, you (optionally) decompress the dump file, use the analog of whatever utility created the dump stream (re

General question about backups

2012-03-23 Thread Matt
I would like to be able to make sure that if my backup server dies with a catastrophic hard disk crash, I can get my backups restored from Amazon S3. Right now, I run my backups to Amazon S3. What additional files would I need to copy to another server to make sure I can run amrestore on a sepa

Re: General question on AMANDA

2002-05-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 23 May 2002 at 12:16pm, Almeida Ed wrote > Can someone tell me how AMANDA decides what level backup to do? I'm getting > level 1 everyday of the week. Not that this > is a bad thing, but I'm new to AMANDA and am trying to get a better > understanding of the configuration here. > I thought

General question on AMANDA

2002-05-23 Thread Almeida Ed
Can someone tell me how AMANDA decides what level backup to do? I'm getting level 1 everyday of the week. Not that this is a bad thing, but I'm new to AMANDA and am trying to get a better understanding of the configuration here. I thought AMANDA did incremental backups. Something like Monday level

Re: Amanda general question

2002-03-16 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 at 9:52am, Robert SHEN wrote > >>> 3) if I want to apply the following strategy, what config should I put? > >>> Monday full backup for a directory /home/public > >>> Tuesday->Friday incremental backup of /home/public > >>> > >> AGH! :) Why? This has been discussed *man

Re: General Question

2002-03-15 Thread John R. Jackson
>My AMANDA server is on a private network and the AMANDA clients are on a >publicly accessible network. The public servers cannot route to the >private server because of the non-routable IP. Would this prevent my >backups from working? ... I'm not sure. However, you might get a copy of the la

Re: Amanda general question

2002-03-15 Thread Robert SHEN
Don Potter wrote: > Also if you have duplicate configs make sure to set "record no" in the > global dumptype > Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > >> On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 at 1:35pm, Robert SHEN wrote >> >>> 1) how amanda records how many runs performed in a dumpcycle? Let's >>> say if dumpcycle=7 and

Re: Amanda general question

2002-03-15 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 at 10:38am, Don Potter wrote > Also if you have duplicate configs make sure to set "record no" in the > global dumptype Actually, if you're trying to force amanda's schedule, then you need "record yes" in your Weekly (or whatever) full-only config in order for the Daily in

Re: Amanda general question

2002-03-15 Thread Don Potter
Also if you have duplicate configs make sure to set "record no" in the global dumptype Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 at 1:35pm, Robert SHEN wrote > >>1) how amanda records how many runs performed in a dumpcycle? Let's say >>if dumpcycle=7 and runspercycle = 5 and what happens

Re: Amanda general question

2002-03-15 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 at 1:35pm, Robert SHEN wrote > 1) how amanda records how many runs performed in a dumpcycle? Let's say > if dumpcycle=7 and runspercycle = 5 and what happens if I configure 6 > cron jobs to run from monday to friday Then you'll get extra backups -- I don't think it'll confu

Amanda general question

2002-03-14 Thread Robert SHEN
Here are my questions 1) how amanda records how many runs performed in a dumpcycle? Let's say if dumpcycle=7 and runspercycle = 5 and what happens if I configure 6 cron jobs to run from monday to friday   2) what happens if runspercycle > dumpcycle?   3) if I want to apply the following str

Re: General Question

2002-03-07 Thread Doug Silver
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Jeffrey S. Auerbach wrote: > My AMANDA server is on a private network and the AMANDA clients are on a > publicly accessible network. The public servers cannot route to the > private server because of the non-routable IP. Would this prevent my > backups from working? Does th

General Question

2002-03-07 Thread Jeffrey S. Auerbach
My AMANDA server is on a private network and the AMANDA clients are on a publicly accessible network. The public servers cannot route to the private server because of the non-routable IP. Would this prevent my backups from working? Does the server pull the data off of the clients or do the clie

Re: General question

2000-11-22 Thread Tony Traylor
rovide 'restore from boot' capability. Tony Traylor. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 11/22/00, 2:07:16 PM, John "R." Jackson <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: General question

2000-11-22 Thread John R. Jackson
>I don't think I explained my question properly. >If a hard drive failed I would have to: > >Format the new system drives >Install the operating system >Restore the registry settings >Restore network connections and passwords >Restore installed software >Restore user data > >From what I know I wou

General question

2000-11-22 Thread Martin
I don't think I explained my question properly. If a hard drive failed I would have to: Format the new system drives Install the operating system Restore the registry settings Restore network connections and passwords Restore installed software Restore user data >From what I know I would only be

Re: General question

2000-11-22 Thread Pierre Volcke
> > Can Amanda be used to backup up a Windows Machine, if so when the file is > restored will you have to install Windows first? yes, Amanda can do that but you have to setup the Samba package first. See Samba docs about this. I guess that the files may be restored anywhere if the Windows c

General question

2000-11-22 Thread Martin
Can Amanda be used to backup up a Windows Machine, if so when the file is restored will you have to install Windows first?