>Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 07:25:47 +0100
>From: "Bernhard R. Erdmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Rod Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Using Removable Hard Drives for Backup
>
>Rod Roberts wrote:
>[...]
>> Hopefully some backup hardware manufacturer may in future sell
Rod Roberts wrote:
[...]
> Hopefully some backup hardware manufacturer may in future sell sell a
> system comprised of hot plugable disk mechanisms with little or no
> electronics and a drive bay with the supporting electronics. The
> economics of this look quite good at the moment. Any thoughts o
Hmmm...
Someone could write a device driver that made IDE drives look like tape
drives :-P
DL
I have seen previous articles about using hard drives for backup by
tweaking the "reserve" percentage for the holding disk. I guess that I
can also have my backup script write some king of label on the disk to
prevent overwrites of the wrong disk. My question is, does this rotate
the tape list, if
>... I got an "out of tape" error, but I have 25/50
>Gb tapes and the size of the backup is less than 25Gb (I attached the
>amanda report below!!). Any idea of what's happening???
>...
>*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: Input/output error]].
You also got an I/O error, and that's what tri
Denise Ives wrote:
>
>
> Do you know why this happened
No, but you should have a look at the debug files in the logdir
directory.
> and if I can re-generate the daily AMANDA
> MAIL REPORT?
su amanda
cd /directory of amanda.conf
amreport
If you don't cd to the amanda.conf directory (where
