Re: mixed full / incremental backup...

2004-03-11 Thread Kristian Rink
Hi Stefan et al,... ...and at first, thanks for all the input - much appreciated! :) On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 11:17:26 +0100 Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wrong syntax there ... Doesn't amcheck complain ?? Not really, everything seems to be fine, though I made some

mixed full / incremental backup...

2004-03-09 Thread Kristian Rink
Hi all,... Since people around here still are stuck wanting to have a friday-full/rest-of-the-week-incremental backup strategy, I read through http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda-19.html created two amanda configurations with the same disklist for full and for incremental backup, labeled my

Re: mixed full / incremental backup...

2004-03-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Kristian, on Dienstag, 09. März 2004 at 09:41 you wrote to amanda-users: *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [label Back06 or new tape not found in rack]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. KR This is strange - tape Back06 actually _is_ inside the changer and KR labeled correctly.

Re: mixed full / incremental backup...

2004-03-09 Thread Kristian Rink
Hi Stefan, ...and at first, thanks for your reply. On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 10:02:59 +0100 Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KR This is strange - tape Back06 actually _is_ inside the changer KR and labeled correctly. Does amcheck run through fine ? Is Back06 in your tapelist?

Re: mixed full / incremental backup...

2004-03-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Kristian, on Dienstag, 09. März 2004 at 10:24 you wrote to amanda-users: At first let me tell you that you should not use localhost in your DLEs. Use the fully qualified hostname (FQDN) instead. localhost bites you at recovery time. KR Okay, thanks for the hint. Anyhow, I am just running

Re: mixed full / incremental backup...

2004-03-09 Thread Kristian Rink
Hi again,... On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 10:52:02 +0100 Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KR Okay, thanks for the hint. Anyhow, I am just running amanda to KR back up files from this one host; is the naming likely to get KR me into trouble even this way? amrecover will not work as

Re: mixed full / incremental backup...

2004-03-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Kristian, on Dienstag, 09. März 2004 at 10:57 you wrote to amanda-users: You have in your disklist: localhost work/04 /backup/PlanC3/bf381/docs/work { I am not sure but I would not use something like work/04 as diskname. KR The diskfile is the same for the incremental and the full

Re: mixed full / incremental backup...

2004-03-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:41:56AM +0100, Kristian Rink wrote: Hi all,... Since people around here still are stuck wanting to have a friday-full/rest-of-the-week-incremental backup strategy, I read through ... created two amanda configurations with the same disklist for full and for

Re: mixed full / incremental backup...

2004-03-09 Thread Jonathan Dill
Here's a very simple solution: 1. reserve 100 in amanda.conf (or comment out reserve line) 2. leave out the tape during the week (*or change dev to /no/such/tape) 3. run amflush before Friday backups In this case, amanda should try to do degraded mode backups during the week while there is no