Using HD for backup

2001-01-15 Thread Adolfo Pachón
Hi, How can I use, for exmple, the "/mnt/backups" path for storing backups, instead of a tape? Thanks.

tapetype Tandberg-DLT8000-40

2001-01-15 Thread H.Heinold
Hi, here are the defenitions for the tandberg DTL8000. I run tapetype and got numbers lower than hw specs, bu I think thats normal. If I encounter problems with this defintions, I will post. define tapetype Tandberg-DLT8000-40 { comment "Tandberg DTL8000 with DTLtape IV-Cartridge"

Re: Using HD for backup

2001-01-15 Thread Simon Mayr
Adolfo Pachn wrote: Hi, How can I use, for exmple, the "/mnt/backups" path for storing backups, instead of a tape? Thanks. In simple terms: specify /mnt/backups as your holding disk. Make sure you have set your reserve option in configuration, otherwise amanda will not make level 0

Re: Unable to skip Files on tape?

2001-01-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:24:19PM +0100, Frank Schiebel wrote: Hello Jean-Louis! Try to configure amanda with "--with-broken-fsf" Great, it works now! Thanks a lot for the hint! Whats the matter with broken fsf. Is it a problem with the tape device or with amanda or a combination of

Will amanda do what I need?

2001-01-15 Thread Ed Troy
I have a small peer to peer network with several windows 95 machines and a windows 2000 machine and a linux machine. Ideally, what I would like to be able to do is to backup everything, on a regular, to a very large (and prehaps removable) ata hard drive on the linux box. If I can't do that,

hmm. What's wrong with this picture?

2001-01-15 Thread Chris Herrmann
STATISTICS: Total Full Daily Dump Time (hrs:min)0:48 0:48 0:00 (0:00 start, 0:00 idle) Output Size (meg) 927.1 927.10.0 Original Size (meg) 0.00.0

minimum number of tapes needed?

2001-01-15 Thread antonyn
Hello, Does amanda need a minimum number of tapes to finish a dumpcycle of, say, 7 days? My situation is as follows: There are two hosts to be backed up, one having a du of 7G and the other 3.5G. Day to day changes is less than 1% of the total du for each host. I have a single tape drive with

Re: RedHat 7.0

2001-01-15 Thread Marc W. Mengel
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Chris Baker wrote: Can anyone help me, since I have upgraded two of my machines to RedHat 7.0 I am getting errors with amanda stating in its Mail Report that the servers FAILED!: - FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: web /export lev 0 FAILED [Request to web

RedHat 7.0

2001-01-15 Thread Chris Baker
Can anyone help me, since I have upgraded two of my machines to RedHat 7.0 I am getting errors with amanda stating in its Mail Report that the servers FAILED!: - FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: web /export lev 0 FAILED [Request to web timed out.] web /home lev 0 FAILED [Request to web

Dump not running

2001-01-15 Thread Nathan Bird
Hi, Whenever I run 'amcheck' I get [root@paperbark sbin]# ./amcheck hlink-data2 Amanda Tape Server Host Check - /usr/local/amanda/dumps: 1900471 KB disk space available, that's plenty. amcheck-server: slot 8: date 20010112 label hlink-data12 (first labelstr match)

Diagnosing client-side errors

2001-01-15 Thread Ben Elliston
I am trying to back up a single partition having just installed Amanda. I thought I'd try with this in my `disklist': scooby sda8 always-full I get the following error, but can't work out what I'm doing wrong. Any tips? In general, how can I diagnose client-side problems? Thanks, B.

Re: RedHat 7.0

2001-01-15 Thread Ben Elliston
Anyone got any suggestions?, I am running Amanda v2.4.1 First, this should probably have gone to amanda-users, and not amanda-hackers, but that nit aside, my guess is the upgrade "upgraded" your /etc/inetd.conf file and you will need to put back the entries for amandad, etc. Red

amcheck with gnutar

2001-01-15 Thread taka murai
Hello, I am trying to amcheck with gnutar. And, I've got this error: - Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: dirac: [can not execute /usr/local/libexec/runtar: Permission denied] ERROR: dirac: [can not read/write

No Subject

2001-01-15 Thread taka murai
Hello, I am trying to amcheck with gnutar. And, I've got this error: - Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: dirac: [can not execute /usr/local/libexec/runtar: Permission denied] ERROR: dirac: [can not read/write

Re: amandad busy

2001-01-15 Thread Michael Lea
* Alexandre Oliva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Jan 9, 2001, Mitch Collinsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This sounds like you have more than one amanda server (or more than one instance on the same server) trying to run backups on that client at the same time. Or you have the same