On Monday 05 July 2004 19:54, Eric Siegerman wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 04:54:58AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> 5. dd again, this time useing a very large count, and feed that to
>> gzip if needed, otherwise straight to tar.
>
>Minor improvement: instead of "using a very large count", simply
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 04:54:58AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 5. dd again, this time useing a very large count, and feed that to
> gzip if needed, otherwise straight to tar.
Minor improvement: instead of "using a very large count", simply
don't provide a count= argument at all:
dd bs=32k sk
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 10:42:00AM +0100, Gavin Henry wrote:
> I do use knoppix heavily, maybe it's my ignorance, but how will it know what to
> restore without my disklists and conf files?
You can't use amrecover until you get that stuff off the tape,
but you can use amrestore, which, by design,
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 11:13:44AM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> OK, it turnes out that the entry in .amandahosts now (since the upgrade)
> requires the FQDN for tony-lx, i.e. tony-lx.magpieway.net. It now works.
I've just had a similar adventure here. I've already solved it;
this post is for
Does anyone know of any step by step how-to's that deal with using the
exclude file option with amanda on tar based backups?
thanks
We've got 16 tapes in a tapecycle of 5 over a week (cron runs once a
weekday, runtapes is 1), and we're trying to keep enough tapes offsite
such that there's everything required to do a full restore from the
latest backup of all machines... this should be 5 tapes, but sometimes
grows when a flush i
Title: Re: Rebuilding my backup server
Dear all,
Thanks for all your help.
I upgraded to Fedora Core 2 and got all my e-mails backs.
What I did, whcih I will be submitting a patch to the RESTORE doc is:
Installed the amanda RPM and used amrestore i.e.:
amrestore /dev/n
