Re: Why can't amanda backup open samba files?

Dear Carl D. Blake, Once you wrote about "Why can't amanda backup open samba files?": > Would somebody explain why amanda can't backup Windows files over SAMBA > that are open? I'm confused by this because I know that multiple people > can open a file on a Windows share over a network (or at leas

Re: Windows backups

Dear Paul Bijnens, Once you wrote about "Re: Windows backups": > Does there exist a native Windows program that can backup open files? > The standard backup program on e.g. win2000 can't (but most pc users > are not aware of that problem :-). Google for "open file manager". OFM is used by severa

Requesting comments on a possible amanda configuration

I'm trying to setup an AMANDA backup system with the following characteristics: Full backup every Wednesday on a different weekly tape Differential backup on Thurday, Friday, Monday, and Tuesday Full backup on the last Wednesday of each month which is then ar

Re: Windows backups

Paul Bijnens wrote: Does there exist a native Windows program that can backup open files? The standard backup program on e.g. win2000 can't (but most pc users are not aware of that problem :-). There are Windows calls to break open file locks; BackupExec, Legato, and other commercial packages ca

Why can't amanda backup open samba files?

Would somebody explain why amanda can't backup Windows files over SAMBA that are open? I'm confused by this because I know that multiple people can open a file on a Windows share over a network (or at least I thought they could). If multiple people can open a file on a Windows share, why can't am

Re: another wishlist thought

Todd T. Fries wrote: - support public key encryption type of schemes 'pgp' or 'openssl' style methods You should read the SECURITY-API file in the docs directory, that's the design to handle that; the API is in the 2.5 code (that is, the main CVS branch) If you want to roll up an "openssl" a

Re: Windows backups

Du-Wayne Rood wrote: Quick one, can amanda backup open files on windows using samba, and if No. not how can i backup open files on amanda ?? I do it the other way around. I create shares on a unix/linux server and run samba on the server. Everybody uses these shares to store their data. (

RE: Windows backups

Hi , We had that issue - we couldn't backup our exchange files while exchange was up - so we put in scheduled job to switch off Exchange while the backup was in progress - and then another one to start it up again once the backup was completed. Works a treat. If you want the .bat files let me kno

Windows backups

Hi All Quick one, can amanda backup open files on windows using samba, and if not how can i backup open files on amanda ?? Thanks

Error with barcode reader Email Message

Hi. I'm having a little trouble understanding why everytime I run amcheck or amdump I receive a large email with the subject "Error with barcode reader on Fri ..." and contains a list full of enties like:- Fri Nov 8 10:38:05 GMT 2002 Invoked with args '-info' STATUS -> currently loaded slot =

Re: tar/ not missing any new directories

At 10:56 AM 10/14/2002 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: With tar, and some sort of a guarantee that no individual file will exceed the tape capacity, this can be done by breaking the disklist entries up into subdirs, Yes, that's what I'm doing. The problem with this is that something easily gets left o

Libraries and multiple drives setup in amanda.conf

I have changerdev setup and working but I have 2 DLT8000 drives. What I am wondering is how do I tell amanda about 2 drives? Right now I have this in the amanda.conf: tapedev "/dev/st/nh0c0t1l0" # the no-rewind tape device to be used But that is only one of the two. Should this be something