Seagate ctl-96 & auto-advance to next tape

2003-06-04 Thread Gene Heskett
Greets everyone; Last nite, my backup went a bit too close to EOT, and hit it while trying to write the last 75 megs worth of indices and configs. This drive is supposed to be able to hit EOT, load the next tape and keep going, but I've never seen it work, nor is there a lot of docs available

client server backup problem

2003-06-04 Thread benjamin . stoessel
hi there I tried to do a backup with the amanda backup software. on one pc i got the amanda server with the tape and on the other the amanda client which i wanna backup. but i recieve a failure at the amcheck like: ERROR: srvlnx03.xxx: [addr 172.16.20.10: hostname lookup failed] Client check: 1 h

RE: rait output driver

2003-06-04 Thread Gregor Ibic
Is it possible to create a config with rait writing and where the tape part is done with some rotation (like few tapes with full backup) and one disk "tape" with everyday full backup. In this way I would have a fast recover procedure for the last day and do the backup only once and not twice for e

Re: rait output driver

2003-06-04 Thread rwk
Jean-Louis, I just tried amanda-2.4.4-20030603.tar.gz With tapedev "rait:{file:/backup,file:/mirror}" I now get: $ amlabel Tapeless Tape00 rewinding amlabel: tape_rewind: rewinding tape: rait:{file:/backup,file:/mirror}: No child processes Please advise... Thanks, Dick > Hi Dick, > > It d

Re: Not able to backup localhost

2003-06-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
> How does one backup the local machine (localhost)? I do not back ip up as local host, but by its name. in ~amanda_user/.amandahosts machine_nameamanda_user and in disklist machine_name / whatever0 disk And that works fine. Olivier

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2003-06-04 Thread Aydin Lisesi Mezunlarý
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Not able to backup localhost

2003-06-04 Thread Brendon Colby
Greetings, I'm trying add the local backup machine to the backups. I've checked amandahosts and both localhost and admin.midco.net is there for backup privileges. I still get this error: planner: FAILED admin.midco.net sda9 0 [missing result for sda9 in admin.midco.net response] planner: FAILE

Re: strategy

2003-06-04 Thread Paul Bijnens
Bruce Fletcher wrote: On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 12:57 AM, Paul Bijnens wrote: The global dumpcycle can be overruled for some specific dumptypes. So that you can have e.g. a global dumpcycle of 7 days, but a few important DLE's can specify a dumpcycle 0 (= full backups allways). Runspercycle and

Re: strategy

2003-06-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 07:31:18AM -0700, Bruce Fletcher wrote: > > And how does one cope as data storage requirements start to increase? > My understanding is that you can do the following: > > - if necessary, label a few more tapes and increase the tapecycle And probably increase "runtapes" to

Re: strategy

2003-06-04 Thread Bruce Fletcher
On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 12:57 AM, Paul Bijnens wrote: Paolo Supino wrote: more (idiotic) questions: Do the global dumpcycle and the one inside the backup type mean the same thing? If so do they have to have the same entry? and then what should I put in the global dumpcycle, runspercycle an