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2001-03-31 Thread Radu Filip
Hi! I have a single server and I need to perform full-backup every time. I tryed and it had success with both dump (always-full) and tar (root-tar). Now I want to ask you wich advantages and disadvantages has every one of this methods? Why should I use one of them and not the other? What

Testing backup

2001-03-31 Thread Radu Filip
Hi! I have a single server and I need to perform full-backups every time. I tryed and it had success with both dump (always-full) and tar (root-tar). Since don't have much experience with backups, I think it's a good ideea to learn how to restore from tape before an undesired event to happen.

Re: amlabel failing

2001-03-31 Thread Teemu Hukkanen
"John R. Jackson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Running 'amlabel foo foo001' from amanda 2.4.2p1: rewinding, reading label, reading label: Invalid argument rewinding, writing label foo001 amlabel: writing label: Invalid argument You didn't mention what OS you're using, or what device or

Re: DELL 120T changer on RH 6.2

2001-03-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Murat, Do you tried the latest chg-zd-mtx.sh available from the main branch of CVS. Could you try it and send a patch against chg-zd-mtx.sh.in Thanks. Jean-Louis PS. You can download the latest script at http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda/chg-zd-mtx.sh.in On Fri, Mar 30, 2001

Re: amlabel failing

2001-03-31 Thread John R. Jackson
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/whatever bs=32k count=10 ... Write error: Invalid argument 1+0 records in 0+0 records out OK, so that takes Amanda completely out of the picture and gives you a simple test case. My first guess would be that you have a hardware blocking factor set that is not

Re: Testing backup

2001-03-31 Thread John R. Jackson
I have a single server and I need to perform full-backup every time. I tryed and it had success with both dump (always-full) and tar (root-tar). Now I want to ask you wich advantages and disadvantages has every one of this methods? Why should I use one of them and not the other? ... If I