Re: Is it possible: using ftp share as holding disk/diskbackup ?

2005-01-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 20:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi everybody! > >We have recently rented a root server in germany and installed > debian sarge on it. A ftp share as large as the install HD is > included in the server package accessable authenticated. > >My question is: Is it possible

Is it possible: using ftp share as holding disk/diskbackup ?

2005-01-04 Thread Vlad.Popa
Title: Is it possible: using ftp share as holding disk/diskbackup ? Hi everybody! We have recently rented a root server in germany and installed  debian sarge on it. A ftp share as large as the install HD is included in the server package accessable authenticated. My question is: 

Re: A question regarding backing up Window machines

2005-01-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:42:13PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:02:49PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: > > - You can exclude only one pattern. > > Um, hello -- can you clue me in on this? I am trying (lazily) to figure > out why my excludes are ignored during backups, but wor

Re: parse of reply message failed?

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Wray
Steve Wray wrote: Hi there, I've been reading this thread; http://www.mail-archive.com/amanda-users@amanda.org/msg27491.html which is interesting because we've been experiencing a very similar problem since upgrading 2.6.8 to 2.6.9 on a small cluster here. The amanda connection tracking is all bu

Re: A question regarding backing up Window machines

2005-01-04 Thread Joe Rhett
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:02:49PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: > - You can exclude only one pattern. Um, hello -- can you clue me in on this? I am trying (lazily) to figure out why my excludes are ignored during backups, but work just fine when I run the same tar command by hand. I need to add s

Re: OT: which tape technology/drive to use

2005-01-04 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 at 6:48pm, Eugen Leitl wrote > I'm looking at DLT for a successor (40/80 GB DLTVS from IBM, or a PV > 110T 80/160 GB DLT VS160 from Dell. > > Is DLT a sensible choice at this day and age? Any caveats with above > drives, if any? Sorry for the dumb questions, but I have only ver

Re: OT: which tape technology/drive to use

2005-01-04 Thread Glenn English
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 18:48 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Is DLT a sensible choice at this day and age? Any caveats with above > drives, if any? Sorry for the dumb questions, but I have only very > limited experience with tape backups. I'm not real experienced either. but I just went from DDS4 to D

OT: which tape technology/drive to use

2005-01-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
Sorry for an off-topic question, but I figure this is the forum where I would get the best reponses. My employer's backup server has bitten the dust after some 5-6 years of faithful use, so I'm currently shopping for a replacement system(s; plural since we're getting an identical couple to minimize

Re: level insensitivity for iso images

2005-01-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 08:01, Benjamin Lewis wrote: >Gene, > >> I'm noting this in the email reports amanda sends me, where it >> doesn't make any diff what the runlevel is, its backing up the >> whole iso image for all levels. > >[...] > >> coyote -sc/FC3/FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso 1563

Re: re-labelling or duplicating a tape?

2005-01-04 Thread pll+amanda
In a message dated: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 09:17:19 +0100 Gerhard den Hollander said: >2) even easier and cheaper >when you store the tape, in the tape box (and on the tape and on the paper >insert that comes with the tape) simply write that this set only has one >tape. This is what my fall back plan

Re: re-labelling or duplicating a tape?

2005-01-04 Thread pll+amanda
In a message dated: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 16:49:47 EST Jon LaBadie said: >As an alternative, couldn't you change the human aspect of the problem? Sure, and that was my fall back plan in case a techical solution wasn't feasible. But I felt it was at least worth asking about :) Thanks! -- Seeya, Pa

Re: level insensitivity for iso images

2005-01-04 Thread Benjamin Lewis
Gene, > I'm noting this in the email reports amanda sends me, where it doesn't > make any diff what the runlevel is, its backing up the whole iso > image for all levels. [...] > coyote -sc/FC3/FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso 1563563 --3:1 > 3005.2 2:3 3787.3 [...] Am I interpre

level insensitivity for iso images

2005-01-04 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I'm noting this in the email reports amanda sends me, where it doesn't make any diff what the runlevel is, its backing up the whole iso image for all levels. As an iso image thats been laying there for months isn't going to change unless the file attribs say it has, why is amanda do