RE: Disklist file

2004-08-23 Thread Gavin Henry
Two amanda configs needed and two cronjobs? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kaushal Shriyan Sent: 23 August 2004 05:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Disklist file Hi ! i have two sets of client one who owns laptop and others who own

Amanda Backup

2004-08-23 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi All Wanted to know about the time schedule of backups. Can i take backup during the working hours or is it compulsory to take in the night when there is no I/O operation. -- Regards, Kaushal Shriyan Technical Engineer Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd. Tel : +91-22-22881326/27 Fax : +91-22-22881318

Re: advice please!

2004-08-23 Thread pll+amanda
In a message dated: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:34:06 BST Maccy said: I'm after some advice, as I haven't had any experience of setting up a backup system before. I apologize for the delay in responding, I was on vacation when you posted this and am now just catching up on my Amanda mail :) I

Re: advice please!

2004-08-23 Thread Alexander Jolk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently acquired a Overland Powerloader with 17 slots and 1 LTO-2 drive. Ahh, nice set up, that's what I have and really like it. Mine has a barcode reader in it too, though I've not spent the time to configure that yet (it's on the todo list when I find some

flushin the holding disk along with a backup?

2004-08-23 Thread pll+amanda
Hi all, Is there anyway to flush backups on the holding disk prior to dumping new backups? I have a bunch of stuff sitting on a holding disk which will likely fit fine on the same tape as tonights backups. However, even if something it causes tonight's backups to be placed on the holding

Re: flushin the holding disk along with a backup?

2004-08-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 at 12:47pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Is there anyway to flush backups on the holding disk prior to dumping new backups? I have a bunch of stuff sitting on a holding disk which will likely fit fine on the same tape as tonights backups. However, even if something it

Re: flushin the holding disk along with a backup?

2004-08-23 Thread pll+amanda
In a message dated: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:55:28 EDT Joshua Baker-LePain said: autoflush yes G! I hate it when I RTFM, but my v-grep fails me :) Thanks. -- Seeya, Paul GPG Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07 9239 53F1 28EE If you're not having fun, you're not

Re: enabling hardware compression ?

2004-08-23 Thread Brian Cuttler
Fred, Fact The options are not exclusive. You can SW compress on the client or on the server or in the HW having nothing to do with the choice of dump v tar. Opinion HW compression is great if you are trying to save CPU on the client or server, but doesn't allow you to estimate tape usage as

Re: enabling hardware compression ?

2004-08-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 at 3:33pm, Brian Cuttler wrote You might even find its worthwhile to compress some partitions on clients and some on the server, depending on where your free CPU time is and where/if you have any network bottlenecks. Each DLE can be individually selected for

RE: Another 'Amanda through firewall' problem

2004-08-23 Thread donald . ritchey
Kevin: Sorry about responding late to this post, I have been away from the mailing list for a while, so this may be a stale issue. Be sure and study the docs/PORT.USAGE file in the Amanda distribution for a detailed explanation of how to set up your ports. There appears to be confusion about

Compression Ratio misprinting on labels

2004-08-23 Thread Phil Homewood
Hi, Anyone else seeing the Compression Ratio as printed on paper (postscript) labels being wildly inaccurate under 2.4.4p2? An example, transcribed from last night's dump: Total Size: 19547.7 MB Tape Used (%) 63.1 % Compression Ratio: 254.9 % however, the emailed