newb: getting started

2004-10-12 Thread Erik Anderson
Hello - I've been working w/ linux for many years, but have never had the occasion to work with any sort of tape backup software on the platform until now, so I'm pretty clueless about how to access/configure/etc tape devices. Here's my current setup: I have a Dell Powervault 120T hanging off of

Re: all estimates failed for gnutar

2004-10-12 Thread Fernan Aguero
+[ Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (09.Oct.2004 16:08): | | Fernan Aguero wrote: | >The problem is that amanda it's always failing to estimate | >the size for this disklist entry (DLE). | > | >This is from log.20041008.0 | >FAIL planner pi /scratch 20041008 0 [disk /scratch, all estimate faile

Re: all estimates failed for gnutar

2004-10-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 06:58:19PM -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote: > +[ Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (09.Oct.2004 16:08): > | > | Fernan Aguero wrote: > | >The problem is that amanda it's always failing to estimate > | >the size for this disklist entry (DLE). > | > > | >This is from log.2004100

Re: newb: getting started

2004-10-12 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, October 12, 2004 16:22:16 -0500 Erik Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello - I've been working w/ linux for many years, but have never had > the occasion to work with any sort of tape backup software on the > platform until now, so I'm pretty clueless about how to > access/conf

Re: newb: getting started

2004-10-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Frank, on Mittwoch, 13. Oktober 2004 at 01:20 you wrote to amanda-users: FS> The best place to start is "the chapter" on Amanda from W.Curtis Preston's FS> book 'UNIX Backup & Recovery'. You can read that chapter online, the FS> link is on the amanda.org home page. In my opinion the book is