to find a less-expensive and more-featureful HD
setup.
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with corruptions
that caused dump to abort but that had no other apparent problems.
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indexing enabled?
Note: I'll be perfectly happy for an RTFM answer if it also includes a
pointer to documentation that concisely answers my questions. :)
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hadn't
seen an explanation of indexing that adequately explained why you would use
it or not.
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At 2002-05-22T20:56:32Z, Jens Rohde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No it's actually amrestore. amrecover is using amrestore to manage the
restore after selection of files.
Thanks for the clarification. I think I read that a little too quickly. :)
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. With disk space as cheap as it is these days, I really can't see
any reason to run without indexing enabled.
I just du'ed my index directory and realized that I'm spending 32MB on
indexes. I think I can live with that.
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script to prepare the backup, launch Amanda, then clean up afterward, but
that's about as much as I've guessed right now.
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would have it, I'm running Postgres on a FreeBSD server. Thanks for
the tip - it seems to work perfectly!
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snapshot
I'm on FreeBSD-STABLE right now, so that's unfortunately not an option at
the moment. I'm interested that you include steps #1 and #3, though. On
FreeBSD-CURRENT, the snapshot is atomic. There wouldn't be a need to stop
or restart any services. Is it different on Linux?
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that making an (ASCII) copy of the database
contents into a file is a pretty smart idea, even if you're backing up the
DB files in another manner.
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the database entries itself. It should compress better than 2:1.
n + n/2 can be something to contend with when n is on the order of 30GB and
you're using commodity hardware.
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(readers or writers).
IOW, is it done in a single transaction? (even for multiple databases?)
From what I can tell, pg_dump has no provision for concurrent dumping of
multiple databases.
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At 2002-06-21T04:36:19Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg A. Woods) writes:
Wasn't this question originally about FreeBSD anyway?
It was, but this is pretty interesting too. Feel free to continue. :)
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this, and I know that I can probably find
*some* answer either in the Amanda manual or in Unix Backup and Recovery.
However, I'm certain that I'm not the first person to have this problem, and
I'd like to see what other good solutions other people have worked out.
Thanks,
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I'm running Amanda on a FreeBSD server to back up various Unix-like
workstations and servers on a LAN. We recently bought an iMac running Mac
OS X, and I'd like to add it to the disklist whenever possible. Has anyone
had any luck doing such a thing?
this filesystem, which
is indentical in many ways to other filesystems that get saved nightly. Any
ideas what else I might look for?
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/directories listed in the
exclude file.
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files on my system,
many of which are the most important files on my network?
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everything up. It seems that only
amcheck is throwing errors.
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program I've ever written in
Python), but it works pretty well for me.
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Due to the number of responses I got from my last posting, I made a webpage
for the little GUI I wrote for Amanda. It's at:
http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Main/AmControl
for those interested. Enjoy!
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msg17804/pgp0.pgp
, but couldn't make heads or tails of its significance. A
quick Google returned nothing.
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that no security personnel have ever seen (or
gasp! received!) pornspam before, and would therefore assume that you'd
actually requested penis enlargement or Hot! Naked! Teens! information.
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to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] from my home email address, even though I don't want
to flood my slow home connection with a bunch of mailing lists...
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At 2003-03-21T09:22:37Z, Scott Mcdermott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kirk Strauser on Thu 20/03 18:33 -0600:
honestly...just give up this garbage.
OK, I was attempting to keep this at an adult level. I didn't realize that
you did not wish to do so.
Even if you post when you aren't subscribed
; launch amrecover; insert Tape4
Does this seem like a workable possibility?
P.S. If it already exists and I missed it, I am fully prepared to dine on
my cap.
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, is it? Would anyone else like that functionality?
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expandability. Want to make it
add/remove tapes? Should take about 20 minutes.
It's certainly not a comprehensive solution, but it *will* allow non-expert
users to launch backups by clicking a button.
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point out that FreeBSD 5.0 and beyond also supports filesystem
snapshots, so this will also be of interest on smaller machines in the near
future.
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At 2003-04-02T17:07:44Z, Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You mean smaller than my 400MHz pc running the latest Solaris version? :)
Ouch. Say, smaller than an E450. :)
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using variables like '%f' to mean the name of the filesystem.
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At 2003-06-17T19:20:28Z, Pete Poggione [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
kirk is windowsNT server..
On behalf of people named Kirk everywhere:
Kiss my heiny.
Couldn't it at least have been a Sun box or something?
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in perfect shape.
Any suggestions for a solid drive for a small LAN? I'm thinking of getting
an internal DDS-4 (so I can still use my DDS-3 tapes), but I can start over
with an entirely different format if the advantages are sufficient.
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, Model STD2401LW-S
Any brand recommendations? These drives look pretty similar and cost within
a dollar of each other. Is there anything I should be aware of?
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that any number of options
passed to ./configure will make sendbackup execute your program.
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with huge folders. I have a huge amount
of available storage. None of my mail clients choke on archive directories
with 10,000 emails. Given all that, I can't think of a good reason to
delete anything.
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,
although I don't know my way around Mac hardware well enough to know.
Has anyone else seen this, and hopefully found a way to lessen the impact?
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allocation to a Samba share
length 8000 mbytes
}
Many thanks in advance,
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of the word.
We took to referring to a friend's Jaz drive as the WORN drive - write
once, read never.
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to eliminate
the glacially slow estimate phase on some of my old Alpha servers.
Thanks!
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, but without having any clue what
they actually do, who knows.
Many thanks to anyone who can shed a little light on this. In the worst case,
I'll keep using it as a DDS3 drive. Still, I paid for DDS4 and would kind of
like having the options to use it.
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, then I'd try and find
out what those DIP switches do, chances are good one of them will toggle
between DDS3/DDS4 compression.
I've double-checked all the documented switches and they look OK. Guess my
next step is to try and find Seagate's tech support.
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the start?
vtape is interesting, but I still haven't convinced myself that spindles are
the equal of tapes.
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/rabbit.honeypot.net is a mountpoint, and
/jail/rabbit.honeypot.net/proc is definitely its own filesystem.
Basically, tar is recursing on down anyway. Any suggestions?
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Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
--one-file-system doesn't works for NFS mountpoint.
You must exclude the ./rabbit.honeypot.net directory.
ZFS, actually, and ./rabbit.honeypot.net/proc is devfs. Is tar really
that broken?
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On Tuesday 26 August 2008 14:47:54 Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
Do your incremental files specify directories that cross devices?
That fixed it. Thanks!
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MAIL
REPORT FOR October 8, 2008 root
amreport: pid 13598 finish time Wed Oct 8 21:20:42 2008
Any idea why Mail would be hanging for amreport? This is on a busyish
home server that delivers lots of mail daily, so I'm 99.9% sure it's not
because of problems with the mail system.
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Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
Does Mail itself work properly from the command-line?
Sure. I even tested it by piping echo foo into the same command line
that amreport was running.
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