On Wednesday 02 June 2004 09:51, Javier Sanchez wrote: >Hello again, > >thanks for the informatio,n i have allready marked all the tapes to > be no-reuse with the amadmin command. > >Now i have a different doubt .-), how can i tell amanda to compress > the files with bzip2 ?? I saw how once on a web but cant find it > now, any ideas ? > > >Cheers > In my experience here, I've found that bzip2, while reasonably fast and does better compression compared to gzip, but it will sneeze once in a while and whole blocks of data have been known to come up on the missing list, silently. I'd guess this is a less than 1% of the time occurance though.
Like unpacking a kernel src tree from a .bz2 version of it. There has been more than once I've had to nuke such a tree, and unpack it again to get a good one, and there have been times I've had to go download it again before I got a good, every character there, unpack. Gzip has never failed, not ever as long as the turbines are turning at the power plant. >El mié, 02-06-2004 a las 14:31, Jon LaBadie escribió: >> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 01:08:51PM +0200, Javier Sanchez wrote: >> > Hello all, >> > >> > i have just succesfully configured an amanda server to store the >> > backups on a local har disk, backup and restore are working but >> > now im facing a new doutb. >> > >> > I have defined 7 tapes on a external usb hard-disk, when the >> > disk is removed how should i instruct amanda not to remove the >> > database ? >> > >> > I mean, before removing the disk should i modify the tapes >> > status in any way ? how? >> >> amandad with the no-reuse argument is, I believe, the proper >> choice to tell amanda to no longer use a tape but retain the >> database. >> >> > And on the new disk i must create another 7 tapes, and label >> > them using correlative numbers ?? >> >> Yes you must create and label new tapes if you want amanda to >> retain old log/index info. Otherwise amanda thinks it is reusing >> an old tape and is free to overwrite the logs and indicies. >> >> Any correlation in the names and numbers is yours alone. >> Amanda doesn't care. It just takes, and later expects, >> them in the order given. (Assuming they match the label string) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.23% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
