Hi, I have four tapes in rotation. I labeled them as BiWeeklySet101-104. I use always-full as dumptype. I backed up twice a week. Every time when I tried...
Lei Zhong
lzhong@...
Aug 1, 2005 1:59 pm
55818
Hi Thanks for that my boss more than likely add such a program before he went on holiday as this has only started to occur last week. I have had no previous...
Chuck Amadi Systems A...
chuck@...
Aug 1, 2005 4:25 pm
55819
I have amanda 2.4.5 install on a FC4 machine. I plan to use this machine to backup several Windows 2K and XP machines. It is replacing a machine that is...
Jonathan Swaby
jfs10@...
Aug 1, 2005 6:50 pm
55820
How do you implement this modified sendsize.c I am hearing so much about. I tried compiling and simply replacing the old one. Now I get a format error. ...
LaValley, Brian E
BLaValley@...
Aug 1, 2005 6:57 pm
55821
Can somebody help me with the amrecover problem I posted earlier? I was testing my amanda config. I don't use tape changer. I did four full backups of the...
Lei Zhong
lzhong@...
Aug 1, 2005 9:13 pm
55822
... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I don't recall your saying this in the first post. ... The design of Amanda did not anticipate multiple backups the same day. You may have...
Jon LaBadie
jon@...
Aug 2, 2005 12:48 am
55823
... I believe 'settape' is the subcommand to use in amrecover. But see the manpages to be sure. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of...
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett@...
Aug 2, 2005 12:55 am
55824
... I think that sets the server/device, not the specific tape. -- Jon H. LaBadie jon@... JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road...
Jon LaBadie
jon@...
Aug 2, 2005 1:04 am
55825
G'day list, I've just looked over the last few years of the amanda-users list but havn't seen anything related to what i'm thinking of here. Has anyone tried...
Ram Smith
ram@...
Aug 2, 2005 5:47 am
55826
... This one isn't mine, I found it on some site somewhere: #!/usr/bin/python # check_amanda - plugin for nagios to check the status of an amanda #...
Tim Edwards
tim@...
Aug 2, 2005 6:27 am
55827
Thanks for the help. Settape only sets the server/device. I read the man pages several times. I couldn't find info about how to specify which tape you want...
Lei Zhong
lzhong@...
Aug 2, 2005 2:02 pm
55828
... You don't. There is no functionallity "in amrecover" for the operator to specify the tape. amrecover is designed to look at the index files and based on...
Jon LaBadie
jon@...
Aug 2, 2005 2:28 pm
55829
Good morning list, I'm starting a huge video project and need to archive hundreds of gigs of captured video footage to DLT for later retrieval and editing....
Marcus
ashogunnamedmarcus@...
Aug 2, 2005 2:59 pm
55830
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 at 7:51am, Marcus wrote ... Just set 'dumpcycle 0' (which says do a full backup of everything in the disklist, every amdump) and 'tapecycle...
Joshua Baker-LePain
jlb17@...
Aug 2, 2005 3:23 pm
55831
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 at 10:28am, Marcus wrote ... mtx is the program that controls the changer via sg0. Amanda then has a changer script which interacts with...
Joshua Baker-LePain
jlb17@...
Aug 2, 2005 6:38 pm
55832
Hi guys, I'm trying to set up an Amanda box for one of our remote locations using an older Sony DDS-4 drive. I have some time to set it up, and it's a lot ...
Graeme Humphries
graeme.humphries@...
Aug 2, 2005 10:15 pm
55833
hi, ... i'm no expert... but could it just be that the read-only switch on your tape needs to be flipped off?...
Cam
cameron.matheson@...
Aug 2, 2005 10:17 pm
55834
... ... Yes. :) It turns out that the read-only tags on the tapes were all set right, but that there's a separate switch on the side of the caddy they go into ...
Graeme Humphries
graeme.humphries@...
Aug 2, 2005 10:24 pm
55835
Something you have probably already checked. Is the tape write protect switch on ? Scott... Scott R. Burns NETCON Technologies Inc. Suite 135 - 4474 Blakie...
Scott R. Burns
Scott.Burns@...
Aug 2, 2005 11:24 pm
55836
Hi all, I have been struggling with this for a couple of weeks now and can't figure it out. I am trying to do a backup on my localhost for the files on that...
Ken Simpson
ken.simpson@...
Aug 3, 2005 6:28 am
55837
... According to the error message Amanda is just picking up the hostname to authenticate with and not the FQDN (I'm not sure how it requests the name from the...
Frank Smith
fsmith@...
Aug 3, 2005 6:49 am
55838
Looks like maybe amanda does not see the FQDN but only: [access as backup not allowed from backup@mail] have you tried: mail backup in your .amandahosts ? ...
Scott R. Burns
Scott.Burns@...
Aug 3, 2005 11:55 am
55839
Hi, I have a few servers to backup; some of them is important to backup every day (one full backup per week, incremental every day), and others is enough to...
Edson Noboru Yamada
eyamada@...
Aug 3, 2005 6:16 pm
55840
... What you probably want is two different configs for the two classes of machines. How you tailor them exactly is up to you. Graeme...
Graeme Humphries
graeme.humphries@...
Aug 3, 2005 7:00 pm
55841
Add to the DL entry that you want only full baks: skip-incr ... toby bluhm philips medical systems, cleveland ohio tobias.bluhm@... 440-483-5323 ... ...
Tobias Bluhm
tobias.bluhm@...
Aug 3, 2005 7:29 pm
55842
... If you don't want multiple configs, for the second one look into various "strategy" parameters like "full-only" or "skip-incr". -- Jon H. LaBadie...
Jon LaBadie
jon@...
Aug 3, 2005 7:29 pm
55843
Hi, I'm sure this is simple but I don't know how to figure it out. So far I can make my Adic Fastor do basic stuff with tar, mt and mtx. So I try to get...
Marcus
ashogunnamedmarcus@...
Aug 4, 2005 2:24 am
55844
I have not used chg-mtx, I used chg-scsi... this may be of some help... 1) runtapes is the number of tapes that can be used in 1 backup run, not how many are...
Scott R. Burns
Scott.Burns@...
Aug 4, 2005 2:34 am
55845
... chg-mtx requires a configuration file. Its identity is specified with the changerfile directive. All yours are commented out. IIRC you name it...
Jon LaBadie
jon@...
Aug 4, 2005 5:40 am
55846
My backup is failing. It worked a couple days ago. It reports a data timeout. I have pasted the sendbackup debug file at the end. It warns of the index tee...