Re: IRIX/amanda, new scsi card (!!!)

2005-04-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 04:42:01PM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > I have since created a file to set the blocksize on the drive at boot > /etc/rc2.d/S99fix-tape (IRIX doesn't have any files in the rc3.d/ > directory, it seems to live multiuser at level 2 as far as I can tell). > [Ah, # man init,

Re: Adding new stuff to disklist

2005-04-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Vicki, on Freitag, 01. April 2005 at 23:50 you wrote to amanda-users: VS> VS> NOTE: info dir VS> /var/lib/amanda/Progeny01/curinfo/pollux/_net_pollux_project_new-ps-archive_50: VS> does not exist VS> VS> I obviously have another knowledge gap when it comes to how VS> amanda works. I expec

Re: Adding new stuff to disklist

2005-04-01 Thread Peter Kunst
Vicki Stanfield wrote: I discovered that some things on a remote machine were not being backed up. Some things on that same machine were but not everything that should be. that stuff that wasn't backed up, was there an entry (DLE) of it in the disklist of your current config ? I tried to add the

Re: Adding new stuff to disklist

2005-04-01 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Friday, April 01, 2005 16:50 -0500 Vicki Stanfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What am I missing here? Nothing, they'll get created at the next run. the NOTE is just that, a note, it's not an ERROR or even a WARNING -- it's just saying hey i saw something you might like to know about.

Re: Adding new stuff to disklist

2005-04-01 Thread Frank Smith
--On Friday, April 01, 2005 16:50:34 -0500 Vicki Stanfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I discovered that some things on a remote machine were not being backed up. > Some things on that same machine were but not everything that should be. I > tried to add the lines to the disklist by copying th

Adding new stuff to disklist

2005-04-01 Thread Vicki Stanfield
I discovered that some things on a remote machine were not being backed up. Some things on that same machine were but not everything that should be. I tried to add the lines to the disklist by copying the ones that were there and editing them. I then ran amcheck and got this: NOTE: info dir /

Re: IRIX/amanda, new scsi card (!!!)

2005-04-01 Thread Brian Cuttler
Hi Stefan, Yes - I agree with you that the issues where hw/scsi related, well 85 %, the other 15 % being blocksize issues which where HW/SW related. I went into this with drive problems in mind, the assumption being that it wasn't an issue with Amanda itself but with the (correct) assumption that

Re: IRIX/amanda, new scsi card (!!!)

2005-04-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Brian, on Freitag, 01. April 2005 you wrote to amanda-users: > Anyway - it seems to work and I am able to use amrestore to pull > a DLE back from tape to disk. For the first time/finally. I am very happy to hear that, Brian! >> Did you try a variable block size tape device, ie tps7d4nrnsv

Re: q: help w/limited space tapeless backup and amanda.conf configuration

2005-04-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, gj, on Freitag, 01. April 2005 at 21:20 you wrote to amanda-users: g> tpchanger "chg-multi" Might sound surprising to you: http://www.amanda.org/docs/howto-filedriver.html Usage of chg-disk is recommended. I would recommend to setup a chg-disk-environment first. > Is error for slot-4 and

Re: IRIX/amanda, new scsi card (!!!)

2005-04-01 Thread Brian Cuttler
ed during the previous weeks of testing. thank you, Brian On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 02:52:34PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > * Brian Cuttler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20050401 14:42]: &g

Re: IRIX/amanda, new scsi card (!!!)

2005-04-01 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Brian Cuttler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20050401 14:42]: > > IRIX 6.5.25, upgraded today from 6.5.19 > Amanda 2.4.4p1-20030716 > > Hello amanda users, > > This will sound familiar to some of you, at least its good news, > of a sort. > > This is likely an

IRIX/amanda, new scsi card (!!!)

2005-04-01 Thread Brian Cuttler
IRIX 6.5.25, upgraded today from 6.5.19 Amanda 2.4.4p1-20030716 Hello amanda users, This will sound familiar to some of you, at least its good news, of a sort. This is likely an SGI question, but I thought I'd see if it sounded familiar to anyone and wanted to also thank you again for you

q: help w/limited space tapeless backup and amanda.conf configuration

2005-04-01 Thread gj
Hi I'm trying to set up a backup system for 7 networked machines. Each machine has an average capacity of about 200GB (not all capacity used on machines), but due to resource limitations, we're backing up onto about 480GB of space on the hard drives of our backup server. I've split the 480GB into

Re: Different tapetypes

2005-04-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 April 2005 13:49, Erik P. Olsen wrote: >On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 13:09 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Friday 01 April 2005 03:19, Erik P. Olsen wrote: [...] >Last year I had head crash with my two 60 GB disks when they where > still under warranty. I had them replaced but couldn't wait

Re: Different tapetypes

2005-04-01 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 13:09 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 01 April 2005 03:19, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > [...] > >Hm. I would like to challenge this statement. It may be true if you > > have a large network of systems to back up but if you only have one > > system I doubt if it's true. Before

Re: Configuration advise

2005-04-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 April 2005 10:03, Belen Isla wrote: [...] >I have realized that isn't a good idea to change amanda's > scheduling. I'm new using amanda so I have several doubts and I > don't know exactly which is the best configuration option for me. I > would like to backup a single partition of 20

Re: Different tapetypes

2005-04-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 April 2005 03:19, Erik P. Olsen wrote: [...] >Hm. I would like to challenge this statement. It may be true if you > have a large network of systems to back up but if you only have one > system I doubt if it's true. Before my switch to Linux I backed up > my system (OS/2) on a weekly sc

Re: Different tapetypes

2005-04-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 April 2005 03:19, Erik P. Olsen wrote: >On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 02:06 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 08:46:31AM +0200, Belen Isla wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I am trying to configure amanda to backup my system and I would >> > like to use two different types of vi

Configuration advise

2005-04-01 Thread Belen Isla
On Friday 01 April 2005 01:46, Belen Isla wrote: Hi all, I am trying to configure amanda to backup my system and I would like to use two different types of virtual tapes in a single configuration file, I mean, I would like to use big virtual tapes for full backups and smaller ones for incrementals.

Re:

2005-04-01 Thread Iulian Topliceanu
Andrés Fernando Argüelles Delgado wrote: I followeb the configuration for making backups on disk instead on tape described in the Amanda-Tape-dirves file but I get the next error when I run amlabel. Couldn´t load tapelist from /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1 no such file or directory I know, accord

Re: Determining appropriate backup strategy

2005-04-01 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 at 5:24pm, Vicki Stanfield wrote > I think what I am really talking about is the dumptype. I have the ones > I listed defined. I think I might be confusing them with priority. I > suppose the dumptype could only mean level of compression. But then I > need more information a

Re: Different tapetypes

2005-04-01 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 02:06 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 08:46:31AM +0200, Belen Isla wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am trying to configure amanda to backup my system and I would like to use > > two different types of virtual tapes in a single configuration file, I > > mean,