Follow symlinks - possible?

2002-01-04 Thread Kasper Edwards
Is it possible to make amanda follow symlinks? I have a disk that has grown larger than the tape used and need a way to backup this disk without splitting it into different disks. I made a script that creates a few directories and populate these with symlinks to the large disk. Treating these

Re: Amanda 2.4.2 and Onstream ADR 50 Tape?

2002-01-04 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
Fri Jan 4 05:41:07 MET 2002 Loading current slot... Using device /dev/nst0 Volume adr000, Date 20020104 Checked host1._mnt_disk1.20020104.0 Checked host2.__samba_disk.20020104.0 Checked host3._mnt_disk0.20020104.0 Checked host4._mnt_disk1.20020104.0 Checked host3._mnt_disk1.20020104.0 Checked host4

Re: amrecover - dealing with whitespace in names

2002-01-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:13:56AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: I'm backing up one W2K box and need to recover some files. amrecover doesn't seem to have a way to deal with whitespace in directory/file names. I've tried wildcards (*, ., ?), quoting (single and double) and ignoring the spaces

amanda 2.4.3b2

2002-01-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.4.3b2. It is the second beta release of 2.4.3. All known bugs are fixed. It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org/ Here's a list of the changes for release 2.4.3b2 (from the NEWS file): Look at the ChangeLog file for

Tapetype for Python with DDS-3 in Dell PowerEdge 2300

2002-01-04 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
for what-it's-worth department: Here's the tapetype I created from the output of running tapetype on the built-in tape drive on my Dell PowerEdge 2300 tower server, using DDS-3 tapes. If there's any other information that I could provide to make this more useful, please ask, and I'll be glad to

Tapetype for Python tape drive using DDS-2 tapes in DellPowerEdge 2450

2002-01-04 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
for what-it's-worth department: Pasted in below is the output of running tapetest on the built-in tape drive on my Dell PowerEdge 2450 rack-mount server, using DDS-2 tapes. I edited the definition for my system. If there's any other information that I could provide to make this more useful,

cruft directory

2002-01-04 Thread Stephen Carville
Whenever I use amoverview I get the following: $ amoverview daily1 bad date oracle-b: in oracle-b: skipping cruft directory, perhaps you should delete it. bad date oracle-a: in oracle-a: skipping cruft directory, perhaps you should delete it. bad date oracle-w: in oracle-w: skipping cruft

RE: cruft directory

2002-01-04 Thread Bort, Paul
Directories on a holding disk that AMANDA didn't create, or created with a bad name, or created, but then didn't delete at the appropriate time. They aren't doing AMANDA any good, so you can safely find them and delete the contents if they are of no value to you. -Original Message-

Re: cruft directory

2002-01-04 Thread Stephen Carville
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: - On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:58:47AM -0800, Stephen Carville wrote: - Whenever I use amoverview I get the following: - - $ amoverview daily1 - bad date oracle-b: in oracle-b: skipping cruft directory, perhaps you - should delete it. - bad

Re: cruft directory

2002-01-04 Thread Stephen Carville
OK, I think I got it now :-) My logdir and my holdingdisk were the same. On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: - On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:58:47AM -0800, Stephen Carville wrote: - Whenever I use amoverview I get the following: - - $ amoverview daily1 - bad date oracle-b: in