Re: archiving tapes?!

2005-02-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 January 2005 14:16, Michael Loftis wrote: --On Friday, January 28, 2005 11:22 -0700 Mark Costlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The script is fairly generic (I tried not to let it depend on my local environment too much, but there may be some gotchas). I was also lazy about a couple

Re: AW: archiving tapes?!

2005-02-02 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:44:47PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Paul Bijnens wrote: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: what are some good options for long term archival storage? Someone stole my crystal ball... Or did he mean amanda.conf options ? I was inquiring of

Re: AW: archiving tapes?!

2005-02-01 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Paul Bijnens wrote: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: what are some good options for long term archival storage? Someone stole my crystal ball... Or did he mean amanda.conf options ?

Re: AW: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-31 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 06:25:20PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: what are some good options for long term archival storage? Someone stole my crystal ball... ok. :) -- Eric Dantan Rzewnicki | Systems Engineer I Technical Operations Division | Radio Free Asia 2025

Re: AW: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-31 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 01:59:32PM -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: what are some good options for long term archival storage? There's only one: redundancy! I don't know the answer to the question you're actually asking. All the media I know of are either not great under typical,

Re: AW: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: what are some good options for long term archival storage? Someone stole my crystal ball... -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/

Re: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-29 Thread Mark Costlow
In the old tape days, I used to force a level-0 dump when I wanted to do that. This was a pain and never very satisfying. So I wrote a perl script that will extract the most recent full dump for every disk partition out of the vtapes. What a neat idea, and one that works best with

AW: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-28 Thread Sebastian Kösters
to make the labeling stuff automaticly? Thanks! -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Stefan G. Weichinger Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. Januar 2005 19:21 An: amanda-users@amanda.org Betreff: Re: archiving tapes?! Hi, Eric, on Donnerstag

Re: AW: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-28 Thread Paul Bijnens
Sebastian Kösters wrote: Ok. I must label every tape to get a working index. But I only have DailySet100 up to DailySet199. What happened when I'am at 199 and want to label the next tape? I think I have to start at DailySet100 again but what happened with the index/tape that was DailySet100

AW: AW: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-28 Thread Sebastian Kösters
Thank you! Now i only need to know how to make it automaticly ;) -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Paul Bijnens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 28. Januar 2005 12:40 An: Sebastian Kösters Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Betreff: Re: AW: archiving tapes?! Sebastian Kösters wrote

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2005-01-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
: Re: AW: archiving tapes?! [...] If it is really for permanent archiving, you can label the tapes like: ARCH-2005-JAN-30 (there is no requirement that labels must follow numerically or alphabetically): labelstr ARCH-[0-9][0-9][0-9]-[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]-[0-9][0-9] Use the FORMAT feature

Re: AW: AW: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-28 Thread Paul Bijnens
Sebastian Kösters wrote: Now i only need to know how to make it automaticly ;) You still need to manually insert the tape, manually write/print and stick a label on the tape, and manually put the tape in the box of course. Labelling has to be done only once. :-) #!/bin/sh # datelabel: label new

Re: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-28 Thread Mark Costlow
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 06:08:01PM +0100, Sebastian Ksters wrote: Hi, i have a problem. For weekly backups we use Amanda with v-tapes. These tapes get overwritten every week. No problems. Works fine. At Sunday we want Amanda to backup on real tapes. These tapes should not be overwritten

Re: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-28 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 11:22:06AM -0700, Mark Costlow wrote: I have a similar situation here. I recently moved to doing our daily dumps on vtapes (I previously used a 48-tape DLT jukebox). Now periodically (monthly maybe -- haven't set the schedule yet) I want to take a set of off-site

Re: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-27 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 06:08:01PM +0100, Sebastian Kösters wrote: if I want to restore a tape/backup older than the last one this fails. I’am only able to restore the last Backup from tape. I wanted to use the same amlabel for every Sunday because I don’t want the tapelist file become that

Re: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Eric, on Donnerstag, 27. Jänner 2005 at 18:23 you wrote to amanda-users: ES DON'T DON'T DON'T give all your tapes the same label! In once had a customer who ran amlabel as part of his daily backup-procedure. Change tape, run amlabel -f ..., wait for cronjob ... everyday. And he wondered

Re: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 January 2005 13:20, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Eric, on Donnerstag, 27. Jänner 2005 at 18:23 you wrote to amanda-users: ES DON'T DON'T DON'T give all your tapes the same label! In once had a customer who ran amlabel as part of his daily backup-procedure. Change tape, run

Re[2]: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hello, Gene, just now (on 01/27/2005 at 20:58) you wrote: GH I do hope he was able to find gainfull employment, hopefully not GH around computers? Errm, AFAIK he is some kind of admin for this, errm, big institution ... It's always fun to see what jobs I could have ... -- Bye, Stefan

Re: Re[2]: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 January 2005 14:59, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hello, Gene, just now (on 01/27/2005 at 20:58) you wrote: GH I do hope he was able to find gainfull employment, hopefully not GH around computers? Errm, AFAIK he is some kind of admin for this, errm, big institution Hoo boy, this

Re: Proper procedure for archiving tapes

2001-09-01 Thread Christopher McCrory
Hello... Eric Wadsworth wrote: Christopher McCrory wrote: Hello... Eric Wadsworth wrote: Hi, Amanda's been running smoothly for months now. It uses 6 tapes to back up our network. I was thinking it's about time to take a snapshot of the network, and preserve the current 6 tapes, and

Proper procedure for archiving tapes

2001-08-22 Thread Eric Wadsworth
Hi, Amanda's been running smoothly for months now. It uses 6 tapes to back up our network. I was thinking it's about time to take a snapshot of the network, and preserve the current 6 tapes, and start using a new set of 6. The old ones can be an off-site backup. Here's what I was thinking of

Re: Proper procedure for archiving tapes

2001-08-22 Thread Christopher McCrory
Hello... Eric Wadsworth wrote: Hi, Amanda's been running smoothly for months now. It uses 6 tapes to back up our network. I was thinking it's about time to take a snapshot of the network, and preserve the current 6 tapes, and start using a new set of 6. The old ones can be an off-site