tape backup vs hdd backup

Hi, I am new to this list. I work in a company as admin where AMANDA is implemented as a BackUp System, so this list is exactly what I was looking for. Also I am new to Amanda. I've never configured amanda from scratch. Here in the firm, the former admin has configured amanda and now I have it

Re: tape backup vs hdd backup

Well I know at least for my application the tape backup solution is being used for redundancy and save on cost. If a tape goes bad I have 6 more that are available to me which rotate on a daily basis automatically using a auto changer. If the hard drive was to fail on you then you would loose all

Problems restoring files with amrecover on my backup client!

Hi list, I have a small problem when I want to restore from my DLT tape. When doing the backup I dont see any errors (only one warning: driver: WARNING: ignoring holding disk /space: No such file or directory) When trying to restore a file I got this: amrecover extract

Re: tape backup vs hdd backup

On Tuesday 22 February 2005 03:00, ddaasd wrote: Hi, I am new to this list. I work in a company as admin where AMANDA is implemented as a BackUp System, so this list is exactly what I was looking for. Also I am new to Amanda. I've never configured amanda from scratch. Here in the firm, the

Re: tape backup vs hdd backup

On Tuesday 22 February 2005 06:18, Jason Miller wrote: Well I know at least for my application the tape backup solution is being used for redundancy and save on cost. If a tape goes bad I have 6 more that are available to me which rotate on a daily basis automatically using a auto changer. If

Re: Problems restoring files with amrecover on my backup client!

On Tuesday 22 February 2005 06:52, Thomas Løjmann Jørgensen wrote: Hi list, I have a small problem when I want to restore from my DLT tape. When doing the backup I don't see any errors (only one warning: driver: WARNING: ignoring holding disk /space: No such file or directory) When trying

Re: tape backup vs hdd backup

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Gene Heskett wrote: And while the life of that drive may well be limited, I do expect 2-5 years service out of it since its mostly spinning 24/7/365 with a powerdown maybe once a month because something I did crashed or I'm changing hardware around, and that also

Re: tape backup vs hdd backup

On Tuesday 22 February 2005 08:16, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Gene Heskett wrote: And while the life of that drive may well be limited, I do expect 2-5 years service out of it since its mostly spinning 24/7/365 with a powerdown maybe once a month because something I did

stuck with amrecover

Hi list, I am stuck with amrecover. I want to recover data from my tapes. On the backed up client (the host from the disklist file) I run amrestore. I get the following error message: AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p1. Contacting server on localhost ... amrecover: cannot connect to localhost: Connection

Re: SV: Problems restoring files with amrecover on my backup client!

Thomas Løjmann Jørgensen wrote: How do I rewind the tape? I used a pencil: find a hexagonal pencil, stick it in the left whole, and now carefully rewind the tape by turning the pencil around. When you get used to it, you can rewind a 125m tape in less than a day. If you happen to use virtual

amandahostsauth failed

The problem was amandaidx from xinetd. Now the error message looks like: (root)#amrecover -C myconfig -s 192.168.0.2 AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p1. Contacting server on 192.168.0.2 ... 220 backup AMANDA index server (2.4.4p2) ready. 500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL

RE: amandahostsauth failed

I ran into the same problem. I believe the answer was in Amanda FAQ @ http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html Jim Scheuerman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ddaasd Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 11:18 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org

[Fwd: Re: amandahostsauth failed]

thanks, That solved the problem. ddaas ddaasd wrote: 500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed You need to add the line server root to the file ~amanda/.amandahosts . Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel

Re: stuck with amrecover

On Tuesday 22 February 2005 10:54, ddaasd wrote: Hi list, I am stuck with amrecover. I want to recover data from my tapes. On the backed up client (the host from the disklist file) I run amrestore. I get the following error message: AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p1. Contacting server on localhost ...

Re: SV: Problems restoring files with amrecover on my backup client!

On Tuesday 22 February 2005 11:05, Paul Bijnens wrote: Thomas Løjmann Jørgensen wrote: How do I rewind the tape? Pppttt! ROTFLMAO! Classic. Love it Paul. Even yur speel chekur is borked. Damn, now I've got to clean green tea out of the monitor and keyboard again, I should never, ever

Re: SV: Problems restoring files with amrecover on my backup client!

Hi, Paul, on Dienstag, 22. Februar 2005 at 17:05 you wrote to amanda-users: PB Thomas Løjmann Jørgensen wrote: How do I rewind the tape? PB I used a pencil: find a hexagonal pencil, stick it in the left PB whole, and now carefully rewind the tape by turning the pencil around. PB When you get

Backup over 2 tapes

20050222 0 [sec 0.316 kb 115 kps 363.3 orig-kb 820] SUCCESS taper sa01 /usr/local/etc/amanda 20050222 0 [sec 1.646 kb 160 kps 97.2 {wr: writers 5 rdwait 0.000 wrwait 0.036 filemark 1.609}] SUCCESS dumper sa01 /dev/md2 20050222 0 [sec 36.745 kb 152650 kps 4154.2 orig-kb 152650] SUCCESS dumper sa01 /dev

Re: Backup over 2 tapes

My weeekly backup spans two tapes and I change tapes manually. My understanding was that Amanda didn't do tape spanning - if someone's figured out a way to do this, point me to do the doco :)