Re: Many thanks and more questions (amrestore/amfetchdump)

2006-07-28 Thread Frank Smith
Ronald Vincent Vazquez wrote: > The next questions are, how will amanda back up a single volume exceeding > 5 TB (10-14 TB) and how long will it take to write it to tape? Should we > be asking an average of how long does amanda takes to collect and write 1 > TB of data to tape and multiply by X?

Many thanks and more questions (amrestore/amfetchdump)

2006-07-28 Thread Ronald Vincent Vazquez
Hello folks: Let me start by saying that a week ago I commited myself to help in documenting the creation of a "Amanda Recovery CD" and I still intend to do it. As you may all suspect, yes, time... I also want to take this opportunity to praise the Amanda development team for a great product. I

REF: amanda cygwin question(s) GOT IT WORKING THANKS

2006-07-06 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
/tmp/amanda to drwxrwx---+ 2 SYSTEM root 0 Jul 6 15:08 amanda I have root the group so I can have access to the directory. You also need to restart inetd. Now I will see if the backup will actually work tonight. Thanks again. Robert MY OLD EMAIL

Re: Still help, thanks!

2006-04-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 07:49:59AM +0200, Stefano Manzi wrote: > Hello, I still need support from you because, unluckily, I was not able to go > on with my program. > Would someone please indicate me (in a new message or with an attached > amanda.conf file) the lines to put in my amanda.conf file

Still help, thanks!

2006-04-25 Thread Stefano Manzi
Hello, I still need support from you because, unluckily, I was not able to go on with my program. Would someone please indicate me (in a new message or with an attached amanda.conf file) the lines to put in my amanda.conf file so that backups can work correctly on floppies or cd-rw?   In case

Re: DAMN! I'm getting the Host down error -Thanks

2005-11-04 Thread todd zenker
Stefan, I tried you're example and other examples for the xinetd.conf file and nothing worked. I'm thinking the OS is a bit old and needs upgrading. (Redhat 7 and Redhat 8) Old version of amanda 2.4.4p1 worked. Maybe I'll try 2.4.4p4 Thanks again. -todd At 04:09 PM 11/2

thanks for the answers

2004-04-27 Thread mogorva
Martin, Paul, Thank your for your answers and your explanations. As I see in my case amanda won't be the solution. I think I try to use 'mt' and 'tar' to control the tape and to make archives. Thanks fo all! Mogorva

Re: Thanks

2004-03-30 Thread Frank Smith
14.3 > > wildfire /var 0 15002001195111 79.7 4:194620.9 8:182398.6 Looks like your mailer strips a lot of whitespace also. Frank > > Thanks, > > Keith Woolston-Young > -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: Thanks

2004-03-30 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 at 11:37am, keith wrote > Also I'm just wondering if there is a way to reformat the output to the > mail report from amanda > > My dump summary all runs together because the fields aren't large > enough. This has been covered often in the archives. Look at 'columnspec' in

Thanks

2004-03-30 Thread keith
^^^ >Did Outbreak do that for you, or is that the actual error message? I'm >guessing the former -- yet another reason not to use that virus vector. >You need to have a line with 'mydomain.net amanda' in ~amanda/.amandahosts >on wildfire. >-- >Joshua

amanda dump - thanks for all!

2004-03-18 Thread Filburt
To everyone: thanks for all, everyting is fine now! The 'include file' caused the problem. Some more info for Stefan: What OS is this? Debian sarge. The devicename you use doesn't sound too familiar. Compaq Smart-2/P RAID Controller Thanks again Filburt

Re: Disaster Recovery--- Thanks

2004-03-11 Thread todd zenker
Thanks Joshua. I figured that is what is needed in order to recover my backup server. I'm familiar with Tivoli Disaster Recovery. Thanks again. At 11:01 AM 3/11/2004, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 at 10:43am, todd zenker wrote > What are the files needed for a

Re: Thanks!

2003-12-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 14:05, jessica blackburn wrote: >Thanks to everyone that sent me helpful advice. Amanda is up and >running! > >Thanks!! > >jess Great Jessica. And I think you'll agree after a while that amanda does do it right a large percentage of the ti

Thanks!

2003-12-30 Thread jessica blackburn
Thanks to everyone that sent me helpful advice. Amanda is up and running! Thanks!! jess

thanks

2003-11-14 Thread Mr Williams Lawal
cause I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country. Awaiting your urgent reply via a return email Thanks and regards. Mr. Williams Lawal [EMAIL PROTECTED]

THANKS

2003-10-26 Thread MR BASHE MOBUTU SESE SEKO
Good Day, You may be surprise to receive this email since you do not know me.I am the son of the late president of Democratic Republic Of Zaire,President Mobutu Sese Seko, ( now The Republic of Congo, under the leadership of the son of Mr. Laurent Kabila). I presume you are aware there is a financ

THANKS

2003-10-18 Thread MR JANG DOO-HWAN
Dear Friend, My name is JANG DOO-HWAN, The brother of Mr. CHUN DOO-HWAN, the former President of South Korea who seized power in a military coup in 1979 and who ruled from 1979 to 1987. My brother was pushed out of office and charged with treason, corruption and embezzlement of over 21 billion won

THANKS

2003-10-13 Thread MR JANG DOO-HWAN
Dear Friend, My name is JANG DOO-HWAN, The brother of Mr. CHUN DOO-HWAN, the former President of South Korea who seized power in a military coup in 1979 and who ruled from 1979 to 1987. My brother was pushed out of office and charged with treason, corruption and embezzlement of over 21 billion won.

THANKS

2003-10-07 Thread MR JANG DOO HWAN
Dear Friend, My name is JANG DOO-HWAN, The brother of Mr. CHUN DOO-HWAN, the former President of South Korea who seized power in a military coup in 1979 and who ruled from 1979 to 1987. My brother was pushed out of office and charged with treason, corruption and embezzlement of over 21 billion won

Re: recommendations for backing up Amanda? (thanks)

2002-12-09 Thread Mark Stosberg
> re: many suggestions for backing up Amanda's config file files. Thanks to you all for your many suggestions on solutions to backing up Amanda's configuration files. It's much appreciated! -mark http://mark.stosberg.com/

thanks

2002-09-10 Thread Galen Johnson
I'd like to thank all those who have helped me in my quest to get amanda going. I have successfully backed up a file system and restored some files. Now the bigger part begins...the rest of the network... =G=

Re: YES!!! Thanks so much!!!

2002-06-18 Thread John R. Jackson
> planner: Adding new disk localhost:/tmp. FYI, you should not use "localhost" in your disklist file. Trust me. It will eventually bite you. Use the fully qualified name of your host. >Steve John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

YES!!! Thanks so much!!!

2002-06-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
Thanks to you, I finally got success. /bkp1 is in fact a tld, which of course is not listed in /etc/fstab. Here's the output of the success! > These dumps were to tape northnet01. > The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape. > > > STATISTICS: >

Re: "I know this message..." help restore entire system THANKS

2002-04-04 Thread Lewis Watson
02 3:19 PM Subject: Re: "I know this message..." help restore entire system THANKS > Thanks for all the info. > > Of course the solution of restoring to the second > drive bfore the 1st one fails is simply ingenius. > > BTW, what is kickstart config file? Could just poi

Re: "I know this message..." help restore entire system THANKS

2002-04-04 Thread Mr Igor Vertiletsky
Thanks for all the info. Of course the solution of restoring to the second drive bfore the 1st one fails is simply ingenius. BTW, what is kickstart config file? Could just point me in the right direction. It's just that this machine is an old pentiom 100 box. It does not do much, e

Re: Thanks John,

2001-03-22 Thread Jason Hollinden
now what that is). > > >I'd like to buy you a drink or a pizza or at least send you > >the money for one :) > > Thanks. I don't happen to drink (just a personal choice), my waistline > doesn't tolerate pizza like it did 25 years ago (which really sucks :-

Re: Thanks John,

2001-03-22 Thread John R. Jackson
>You are always such a great help in this mailing list, do you have a pay >pal account? ... No (don't even know what that is). >I'd like to buy you a drink or a pizza or at least send you >the money for one :) Thanks. I don't happen to drink (just a personal ch

Thanks John,

2001-03-22 Thread Jeff Bearer
John, You are always such a great help in this mailing list, do you have a pay pal account? I'd like to buy you a drink or a pizza or at least send you the money for one :) I cc'd the list in case anyone else would like to express their gratitude but haven't thought of how to do it yet. -- Jef

Just saying thanks.

2001-03-19 Thread Jamie Bowden
I've been using amanda for about five years now, with pretty much flawless operation. Thanks. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Thanks for all the tape changer help!

2001-03-02 Thread Stan Brown
mailer -s "Magazine change request on >\`date\`" $email` >fi > Cool! Thanks, again for the help. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch r

Re: Thanks for all the tape changer help!

2001-03-02 Thread Jason Hollinden
On Fri, 02 Mar 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > Oh, and since the magazine only holds 6 tapes, and i am used to having a > much larger tape set (24 or so) that than, has anyoone got any ideas on > using multiple magazines? Maybe an email to prompt to change magazines > after heting the last (cleanng) ta

Thanks for all the tape changer help!

2001-03-02 Thread Stan Brown
after heting the last (cleanng) tape? In any case, thanks very much to all the imensly helpful listmembers! -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extension

Re: DI-30 Working - Thanks !

2001-02-26 Thread Rogier Wolff
Lew Gaiter III wrote: > My "tapetype" is: > > define tapetype DI-30 { > comment "OnStream DI-30" > length 15000 mbytes > filemark 32 kbytes > speed 970 kbytes > } I would recommend using a slightly smaller length. I just reread some Emails, and the exact number is: 14776320k, w

DI-30 Working - Thanks !

2001-02-26 Thread Lew Gaiter III
NOTE: This message is going to two lists, please be careful with a "Reply-All" I got the DI-30 working with Amanda!! I am running RH 7.0 Here is what it takes: Install the Standard RH 7.0 kernel sources (you can get more current if you want) Do *NOT* install the IDE patch from O

Re: Questions and Answers and Thanks

2001-02-22 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Chris Marble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:51:32PM -0800) > Gerhard den Hollander wrote: >> Since it's a linux box , you may want to look into using reiserFS. >> I found that file access with Reiser is faster than ext2 (although nothing >> shocking) esp. when going through a lot

Re: Questions and Answers and Thanks

2001-02-21 Thread Chris Marble
Gerhard den Hollander wrote: > > Since it's a linux box , you may want to look into using reiserFS. > I found that file access with Reiser is faster than ext2 (although nothing > shocking) esp. when going through a lot of smaller files in one swoop. I formatted up the holding disk with a large b

Re: Questions and Answers and Thanks

2001-02-19 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Chris Marble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 07:59:17PM -0800) > Gerhard den Hollander wrote: >> >> I noticed when looking through the logs that the *dumper* performance is >> around the 1Kps (or less) on my system , >> whereas the *taper* gets a performance of about 7 Kps. >> So ap

Re: Questions and Answers and Thanks

2001-02-17 Thread Chris Marble
Gerhard den Hollander wrote: > > I noticed when looking through the logs that the *dumper* performance is > around the 1Kps (or less) on my system , > whereas the *taper* gets a performance of about 7 Kps. > > So apparently it's not the speedn of my tapedrive that's the bottleneck, > but soemth

RE: Questions and Answers and Thanks

2001-01-19 Thread Chris Herrmann
I've found that when gzip is running on my own, and clients systems it's usually using 95+% of one cpu, which isn't a problem for us or them because the machines either have a spare cpu, or aren't doing anything at the time. more of a problem for bigger sites where your server will always be busy.

Re: Questions and Answers and Thanks

2001-01-19 Thread John R. Jackson
>Are there any other ways to tweak amanda.conf to improve dumper performance >(I've set the bandwith parameters to large values since it's on local disks >and I've specified local in my disklist. Bandwidth only affects starting a dump, not anything while the dump is running. >I have lsof running

Re: Questions and Answers and Thanks

2001-01-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 09:59:57AM +0100, Gerhard den Hollander wrote: > Hmm, > > Favor #1: can the reply to adress on the digests be set to @amanda.org ;) > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at >06:34:02AM -) unsubscribe from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subscribe to [

Questions and Answers and Thanks

2001-01-19 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
Hmm, Favor #1: can the reply to adress on the digests be set to @amanda.org ;) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 06:34:02AM -) First off, thanks to all who answered my priorities question. ;) Second. I noticed when looking through the logs that the *

Re: Thanks to Olaf for blazing the way

2000-12-08 Thread Chris Karakas
"Erik W. Beese" wrote: > > Anyone know of more complete documentation for Amanda? The sources ;-) The next best thing is http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html -- Regards Chris Karakas Don´t waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Thanks to Olaf for blazing the way

2000-12-08 Thread Erik W. Beese
Just wanted to extend my thanks to Olaf Seidel for blazing the way for me with the ADR-50 (running tapetype for a week or more) so that I could just put the info into my amanda.conf! My experiences with the OnStream ADR-50 were caused by faulty hardware, I've gotten a new one and it seems to