backup configuration with tapes and runs

2002-10-07 Thread Thom Paine
Greetings. I'm still confused with the configuration of the tapes, runs, and days. Basically I want a full backup every night at 8pm. I have 5 tapes, and I only want the backups on the weeknights. ie. mon-fri. I've configured the cron to do that much, but I don't understand how to get amanda to

Re: backup configuration with tapes and runs

2002-10-07 Thread Thom Paine
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 14:32, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Set dumpcycle to 0, and tapecycle to 5. runspercycle doesn't matter, but you can just set it to 1. Thanks Joshua. That worked great. -- -=/Thom Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche) running Linux Kernel 2.4.18-14 Uptime: 2:35pm up

Re: Excluding /tmp

2002-10-07 Thread Thom Paine
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 15:15, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: That depends. What are your disklist entries? Are you using dump or tar? What is the output of df? localhost / comp-root-tar localhost /boot comp-root-tar [root@mail DailySet1]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use%

Recommendations on Execution

2002-10-07 Thread Thom Paine
I have a 140G RAID5 array that I would like to back up to my 20/40 DDS4 Seagate drive. Without a lot of experience with a drive this large, I've made a 100M /boot partition, a 2G swap partition (I have 1G of ram), and finally the rest of the drive ~137G set to /. I've allocated 20G to /tmp for

Re: USBSCRIBE ME!

2002-10-23 Thread Thom Paine
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 23:51, Phil wrote: usubscribe me,usubscribe me,usubscribe me,usubscribe me,usubscribe snippage Maybe if you would spell it right bonehead. -- -=/Thom Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche) running Linux Kernel 2.4.18-17.8.0 Up: 10:09am up 4 days, 21:49, 1 user, load

Amcheck not emailing

2002-10-22 Thread Thom Paine
I have a plain jane RedHat 7.3 server with amanda running. For some reason amanda is not sending out the mail report from amcheck -m DailySet1. I get the report after the backup has run. Anyone know where I should start to look at trouble shoot this? Thanks, -- -=/Thom Red Hat Linux release

Re: Amcheck not emailing

2002-10-22 Thread Thom Paine
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 12:03, Martin Schwarz wrote: IMO you are experiencing perfectly normal behaviour: - amcheck -m doesn't find any errors, thus is keeping quiet. You will only get mail from amcheck -m if it has encountered some errors: Nothing is printed, but mail is sent if any

Re: Amcheck not emailing

2002-10-22 Thread Thom Paine
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 12:09, Martin A. Brooks wrote: At 11:49 22/10/2002 -0400, Thom Paine wrote: I have a plain jane RedHat 7.3 server with amanda running. For some reason amanda is not sending out the mail report from amcheck -m DailySet1. I get the report after the backup has run