Re: Recommended autochangers

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 at 10:50am, Gavin Henry wrote > Is there am up to date FAQ for this, or could someone just kindly > recommended a brand/model? The compatibility list for mtx is as good a list as any. I've had pretty good luck with my Overland Powe

Re: Data loss if configuration of amanda.conf is not right.

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:39:56AM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote: > I have set up an alternate amanda.conf to run with two tape drives > instead of the one that I currently have. I am wondering whether there > is some way to rerun an incremental backup if I run it and something in > my new configura

Re: Level clarification.

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 05:44:07PM -0600, Frank Smith wrote: > --On Wednesday, January 19, 2005 00:02:36 +0100 "Erik P. Olsen" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, a newbie question. > > > > I think I have now managed to customise amanda and I am pretty confident > > that I can now start takin

Re: Level clarification.

--On Wednesday, January 19, 2005 00:02:36 +0100 "Erik P. Olsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, a newbie question. > > I think I have now managed to customise amanda and I am pretty confident > that I can now start taking back-ups of my system. > > One term that I thought I understood is the l

Level clarification.

Hi, a newbie question. I think I have now managed to customise amanda and I am pretty confident that I can now start taking back-ups of my system. One term that I thought I understood is the level set. Apparently level 0 is a full back-up and level 1 is incremental, but what then is level 2 (and

Re: Backing up Amanda

Dwight Tovey wrote: I used to work on a system that used Legato NSR as the backup/restore solution. In order to make life a little simpler in case of catastrophic failure, I used to periodically take a tar image of the nsr configuration and index files. This way when I needed to do a full restore

Re: Backing up Amanda

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 11:13, Dwight Tovey wrote: >I used to work on a system that used Legato NSR as the > backup/restore solution. In order to make life a little simpler in > case of catastrophic failure, I used to periodically take a tar > image of the nsr configuration and index files. Th

Re: short write even if the dumps are just 10% of the tape size

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 04:25, Peter Guhl wrote: >Hi > >On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 17:09, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Is that tape being properly rewound Peter? Most drives will fully >> rewind a tape before they allow it to be ejected, maybe you should >> eject it and look at it between each pass. > >It

Backing up Amanda

I used to work on a system that used Legato NSR as the backup/restore solution. In order to make life a little simpler in case of catastrophic failure, I used to periodically take a tar image of the nsr configuration and index files. This way when I needed to do a full restore of the disk that he

Data loss if configuration of amanda.conf is not right.

I have set up an alternate amanda.conf to run with two tape drives instead of the one that I currently have. I am wondering whether there is some way to rerun an incremental backup if I run it and something in my new configuration is out of whack. Since there is stateful data involved which presuma

Re: short write even if the dumps are just 10% of the tape size

Hi On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 10:58, Michael Loftis wrote: > Dumb question, maybe already asked, No ;) > 1) is any other app using the tape and No. > 2) has anyone checked to make sure the mechanism isn't jamming since you're > not there to watch it at all. The customer did change tapes, insert

Re: short write even if the dumps are just 10% of the tape size

--On Tuesday, January 18, 2005 10:25 +0100 Peter Guhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 17:09, Gene Heskett wrote: Is that tape being properly rewound Peter? Most drives will fully rewind a tape before they allow it to be ejected, maybe you should eject it and look at it betwe

Re: short write even if the dumps are just 10% of the tape size

Hi On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 17:09, Gene Heskett wrote: > Is that tape being properly rewound Peter? Most drives will fully > rewind a tape before they allow it to be ejected, maybe you should > eject it and look at it between each pass. It's probably not rewound, you're right. Eject and look at