Re: Full Backup Configuration

2003-01-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 07:25:50PM +0100, Chris Karakas wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > > While I agree basically with you there can be cases where the scheduler > > fights a specific situation. Suppose my Level 0's are 9-10 GB total > > and I'm using a DDS2 tape with 4GB capacity with a dumpcy

Anyone have any idea why this is happening?

2003-01-18 Thread stan
Here is the scenario. I have a cluster of machines at home thta I've had Amanda working on for years. I even had to go through the protocol conversion. Ot's been working well for all these years. Last weelend I decided to move the Amanda tape/index server from an HP-UX 10.20 9000/835 to and Athal

Re: re-install of client results in error

2003-01-18 Thread John R. Jackson
>Recently, one of my servers (a Linux RH machine) had its hard drive >crash. We installed a new drive, Red Hat, then re-installed the AMANDA >client, and just kept the same disklist, etc. on the backup server. >After re-installing the client, AMANDA reported the following errors >when trying to bac

Re: Full Backup Configuration

2003-01-18 Thread Chris Karakas
Jon LaBadie wrote: > > While I agree basically with you there can be cases where the scheduler > fights a specific situation. Suppose my Level 0's are 9-10 GB total > and I'm using a DDS2 tape with 4GB capacity with a dumpcycle of 3 days. > Works well for a single tape/dump usage with the Level 0

Re: Inexplicable amandahostsauth failure

2003-01-18 Thread John R. Jackson
>I guess I should list more of the alternative names ... >in .amandahosts... > >Question: Can I use regexps in the file? No. >- Toralf John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is the configure flag for debug files to have pid numbers

2003-01-18 Thread John R. Jackson
>I can't seem to find thisn in configure --help on .4.3B4, am I missing it? It no longer exists. The debug files now have a datestamp as part of the name to keep them unique: $ ls /var/amanda/tmp amandad.20030108133530.debug amandad.20030108134013.debug amandad.20030108134118.debug ama

Re: buggy gnutar

2003-01-18 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Joshua Baker-LePain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20030117 16:54] thus spake: > On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 at 4:17pm, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote > > > So after going through some index files and cleaning them and > > verifying that amrecover can deal with them I wonder what else might > > have gone wrong usin

Re: Full Backup Configuration

2003-01-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 03:16:24PM +0100, Chris Karakas wrote: > DK Smith wrote: > > Do most amanda configs (with changers) run amdump every weekday (M-F) and skip >running amdump on weekends? I see this sort of idiom stated as "the way" for Amanda, >however I am not so sure this well-documented

Re: Full Backup Configuration

2003-01-18 Thread Chris Karakas
DK Smith wrote: > Do most amanda configs (with changers) run amdump every weekday (M-F) and skip >running amdump on weekends? I see this sort of idiom stated as "the way" for Amanda, >however I am not so sure this well-documented idiom is actually used in practice. Or >is it? > Well, I use AMA

Re: tapelist and tape order

2003-01-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 17 January 2003 21:13, DK Smith wrote: >I finally determined why my tape order is not what I expected. (by > looking at the tapelist file). I do not recall why my tape order > managed to get into this state... When I originally set things > up, *i thought* the tapes were in order... > >I

amanda weirdness

2003-01-18 Thread Gene Heskett
Hi all; I've got a weird one going on here. I ran a 3 days without tape test to check amflush after Jon had a problem, and it worked just fine, flushing to a total of 4 tapes to do it all. Now I want to repeat that test, but this time I was going to let the autoflush option handle it. Buit I

Re: Mac OS X 10.2 client support?

2003-01-18 Thread Steven Karel
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, John Martinez wrote: > > Does Amanda support OS X clients? I plan on installing Amanda on a Solaris server. > > In particular, I'd like to know if there is support for multi-forked files in > HFS+ filesystems. You need to use a local backup utility that's resource fork awa