Re: incomplete backups

2002-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 13:20, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:59:19PM +, Niall O Broin wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:14:40AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > >This is exactly why my nightly backup script, after running >> > > the amdumps and rewinding/ejecting the ta

Re: incomplete backups

2002-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 13:14, Frank Smith wrote: >--On Wednesday, November 13, 2002 09:49:56 -0700 "Carl D. Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 18:02, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> Greets folks; >>> >>> I now have recovered as much as I can, but a couple of things >>> need

Re: incomplete backups

2002-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 11:59, Niall O Broin wrote: >On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:14:40AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >This is exactly why my nightly backup script, after running the >> > amdumps and rewinding/ejecting the tapes, tars up all the >> > amanda config files and directories. That

Re: incomplete backups

2002-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 11:49, Carl D. Blake wrote: >On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 18:02, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greets folks; >> >> I now have recovered as much as I can, but a couple of things >> need to be said. >> >> Not enough emphasis is placed on the fact that tar won't access >> a file with a

Re: incomplete backups

2002-11-13 Thread Niall O Broin
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 01:20:32PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > Nothing to do with the system at all. It's just a little something added > > into the script which runs amanda each day - I presume at least 95% of > > amanda users run amanda from a cron driven script. A couple of lines in that > >

Re: incomplete backups

2002-11-13 Thread Niall O Broin
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:14:40AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >This is exactly why my nightly backup script, after running the > > amdumps and rewinding/ejecting the tapes, tars up all the amanda > > config files and directories. That tar ball then gets put two > > places (on two separate machi

Re: incomplete backups

2002-11-13 Thread Carl D. Blake
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 18:02, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greets folks; > > I now have recovered as much as I can, but a couple of things need > to be said. > > Not enough emphasis is placed on the fact that tar won't access a > file with any kind of a lock on it, and in the case of amanda, its >

Re: incomplete backups

2002-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 10:06, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 at 8:02pm, Gene Heskett wrote > >> Not enough emphasis is placed on the fact that tar won't access >> a file with any kind of a lock on it, and in the case of amanda, >> its certainly a fixable problem. I recovere

Re: incomplete backups

2002-11-13 Thread Niall O Broin
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:06:58AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > This is exactly why my nightly backup script, after running the amdumps > and rewinding/ejecting the tapes, tars up all the amanda config files and > directories. That tar ball then gets put two places (on two separate > ma

Re: incomplete backups

2002-11-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 at 8:02pm, Gene Heskett wrote > Not enough emphasis is placed on the fact that tar won't access a > file with any kind of a lock on it, and in the case of amanda, its > certainly a fixable problem. I recovered all the indexes and > curfiles and such but absolutely nothing e

incomplete backups

2002-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
Greets folks; I now have recovered as much as I can, but a couple of things need to be said. Not enough emphasis is placed on the fact that tar won't access a file with any kind of a lock on it, and in the case of amanda, its certainly a fixable problem. I recovered all the indexes and curf