Re: Greetings and questions

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:19:00PM -0700, Brian Sweeney wrote: I'll tell him to upgrade when he gets back; I'm sure he'll be thrilled (it worked FINE when I left...) ;-) In the meanwhile, do you think setting the comprate to something like 95% would help it estimate better, thus solving

RE: chg-manual poor man's changer problems

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Bort, Paul wrote: Of course, you're right, but this problem is reported by AMANDA. This error seems nasty. All right, I'll try to explain again the configuration and you'll see that many things are clear as a canonical declaration- there must be an small error or a

Re: Ultrium LTO tape drive

I'm in the midst of setting up my backup scheme using linux with LTO. I was going to post my tapetype definition to the list, but I searched the mailing list archive and found one that had been posted earlier. (Search for LTO, if you're interested in that one.) Here is what tapetype found about

problem with amanda

Hi everybody. I'm a newbe amanda user and ... i have a problem... I've installed amanda 2.4.2 on a server and i'm doing some probes, doing some backups on localhost. I run amcheck and it returns : Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /var/backups/holding_disk:

Re: Ultrium LTO tape drive

Ron Snyder wrote: I'm in the midst of setting up my backup scheme using linux with LTO. I was going to post my tapetype definition to the list, but I searched the mailing list archive and found one that had been posted earlier. (Search for LTO, if you're interested in that one.) Here is

No such file or directory

Server Linux RH6.2 Client Sun E450 Solaris 2.7 I get a strange error from amcheck on the non system disks on this specific machine: ERROR: myserver.mydomain.com: [can not access /disc2 (/disc2): No such file or directory] ERROR: myserver.mydomain.com: [can not access /disc1 (/disc1): No such

RE: chg-manual poor man's changer problems

(Warning: Stream-Of-Trace) OK, I'm getting closer. The reason that it keeps asking for a tape in the same slot is because it doesn't know what slot it's on. The message: - loaded Should really have a slot number in the , but doesn't. The variable $used in chg-manual is empty for unknown

Exabyte Mammoth tape type?

Hi, Anybody got a tapetype spec for an Exabyte Mammoth tape (not Mammoth-2) that they would kindly share? How about some heuristics for a "good guess" at parameters? Running the tapetype program seems to take hours, even days. thanks, Carey

Re: amdump won't terminate, dumps only to holding disk

On Tuesday 17 April 2001 12:19, you wrote: But I can write tar archives to the tape drive as well as dd and dump to it too. But you can't do that as fast as Amanda with intermittent file mark ioctl's mixed in. The dd test is just a first estimate at what Amanda does. If taper is stuck

chg-zd-mtx

Hi Everybody: excuses if my question is too silly, but the thing is that I have amanda 2.4.2 running with chg-multi but now i have a new autoloader hp surestore 24X6i and I don't know what it is the changer file that I have to use. I read /docs/tape.changer and I found that chg-zd-mtx is

how do you backup up 5 days to a single tape?

Hello, I am new to Amanda, and have been on this mailing list for a couple weeks now. Here is another newbie questions for everyone. Any help would be much appreciated!! Currently we don't have too much data to backup and we are wasting a lot of space on our tapes. Amanda wants a new tape

Scheduling problem

I have a have a small set of partitions to back up (~17Gb total) and I'm backing to a 35Gb tape. I would like to perform a full backup every Friday night of all the partitions because some of these Friday tapes are kept as long-term backups (kept for a year or so). I also would like to do

Firewall woes

I am in the process of moving several Linux machines behind a new firewall. The first machine I moved was the amanda server and it is currently the only one on the new protected interface. Last night was the first backup, which went surprisingly well with one add exception: all the other servers

Re: how do you backup up 5 days to a single tape?

Currently we don't have too much data to backup and we are wasting a lot of space on our tapes. Amanda wants a new tape for each nightly backup. How can I do a week of nightly backups to the same tape and be able to recover from any of the 5 days? Maybe you want to dump during five days to

Re: Scheduling problem

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:42:59 -0400 (EDT) Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Campbell) wrote: Amanda's way of attempting to balance the backup load throughout the dumpcycle messing up my schedule. I have a dumpcycle of 1 week and 3 runs per cycle, but the balancing is causing promotions

Re: chg-zd-mtx

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:43:23 -0400 Sandra Panesso [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sandra Panesso) wrote: Hi Everybody: Hi Sandra! I don't know if you have a chg-zd-mtx configuration file as example to use. I remember that when I used chg-multi the first time I copied the chg-multi configuration

RE: how do you backup up 5 days to a single tape?

Thanks for the Fast reply you rock! Is this the only way to do it you think? I was hoping I could use the tapes and just append to the last backup taken (somehow??). I would prefer not to use the holding disk if possible. If I did backup five days to the holding disk and then flushed the data

Re: problem with amanda

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:52:56 +0200 Vicente Vives [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vicente Vives) wrote: When i run amdump it seems it's ok but only runs during 5 seconds. - Strange. What's the output of the debug files? I think it's too short to backup 700 Mb. If i run amrecover it returns : Error

compiling --with-db=gdbm

Hi, could anyone give me a hint what options I do have to use when compiling with a database format other than 'text'? I always ended up with errors. My latest try was like this: ./configure --with-db=gdbm which resulted in checking for db.h... yes

Re: No such file or directory

I changed vfstab and remounted the discs, still no go. Tal Chris Marble wrote: Tal Ovadia wrote: Server Linux RH6.2 Client Sun E450 Solaris 2.7 I get a strange error from amcheck on the non system disks on this specific machine: ERROR: myserver.mydomain.com: [can not access /disc2

Re: Exabyte Mammoth tape type?

Hi, The three parameters you need can be easily obtained or estimated. For no hardware compression:- length 2 mbytes # Raw length using 170m AME tape # (use up to 4 mbytes with hw compression) filemark 95 kbytes # From the Mammoth spec document

RE: Exabyte Mammoth tape type?

Much appreciated, Ross. I didn't realize that the length should be the 'actual' length, when using s/w compression, but that makes sense, when I think about it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ross Johnson Sent: Thursday, April 19,

Re: No such file or directory

Tal Ovadia wrote: Server Linux RH6.2 Client Sun E450 Solaris 2.7 I get a strange error from amcheck on the non system disks on this specific machine: ERROR: myserver.mydomain.com: [can not access /disc2 (/disc2): No such file or directory] ERROR: myserver.mydomain.com: [can not access

Re: how do you backup up 5 days to a single tape?

Patrick Presto wrote: Is this the only way to do it you think? I was hoping I could use the tapes and just append to the last backup taken (somehow??). I would prefer not to use the holding disk if possible. By design Amanda will not append to a tape. If I did backup five days to the