Re: amanda-2.4.5 released

2005-04-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Jean-Louis, on Mittwoch, 20. April 2005 at 20:14 you wrote: JLM> The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda JLM> 2.4.5. I am pleased as well because AMANDA 2.4.5 is the first release of AMANDA that contains the output of the so-called xml-docs-tree. As many of you may

amanda-2.4.5 released

2005-04-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.4.5. The most important change is the possibility to use calcsize to do faster estimate. You can also use server estimate for really quick estimate. It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org/ Here's a list of the cha

Amanda vs Homegrown

2005-04-20 Thread Mike
Well, I have spent a few days converting a client from a bunch of hand rolled scripts that rcp files all over the place, to amanda. All the while saying that this will be better, this is good, this is how it should work. Of course I couldn't complete it in a day, and there were issues of conf

Force "next tape" ?

2005-04-20 Thread Brian Cuttler
Hello Amanda users, I'm running 2.4.2p2 on an SGI with a jukebox/SDLT. I've divided a multiterrabyte drive into tar dumps but one of the users occupies close to 200 gig of space. While I could probably find a way to subdivide the files under that directory (we've already requested that the user

Re: Please check and confirm my Daily Config and Monthly Config.

2005-04-20 Thread Chuck Amadi
Cheers I will use for Daily dumps 5 tapes two for errors dumpcycle 0 runspercycle 1 tapescycle 7 For monthlys 12 month tapes and two for errors dumpcycle 0 runspercycle 1 tapescycle 14 Is this a better rotation cycle for Daily and Monthly backups. Thanx On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 10:07 -0400, Jon

Re: amanda daily and monthly crontab -e entries

2005-04-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:16:37PM +0100, Chuck Amadi wrote: > Hi all > > For my daily and monthly backups for the crontab -e I have my test up > and running just want a bit of advise as some mail list suggest running > amcheck a few hours before amdump to give the admin possibilities to > correct

Re: Please check and confirm my Daily Config and Monthly Config.

2005-04-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:19:16AM +0100, Chuck Amadi wrote: > Hi all > > Has anyone got examples of a daily backup configuration > and archive configuration for last Friday of the month. > > I am going to use 5 tapes for monday to friday that I will reuse. > Thus do a full backup every day. > >

Re: amanda daily and monthly crontab -e entries

2005-04-20 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 at 12:16pm, Chuck Amadi wrote > # Backup daily dumps > > 5 2 * * 1,2,3,4,5 su amanda -c /local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin/amdump > DailySet1 > > 0 16 * * 1,2,3,4,5 su -c /local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin/amcheck DailySet1 You're one day off on your backup line. It should be: 5 2 * * 2

Re: amanda daily and monthly crontab -e entries

2005-04-20 Thread Chuck Amadi
Hi again I have change the order of the crontab to amcheck then amdump . Cheers Chuck On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 12:16 +0100, Chuck Amadi wrote: > Hi all > > For my daily and monthly backups for the crontab -e I have my test up > and running just want a bit of advise as some mail list suggest runni

amanda daily and monthly crontab -e entries

2005-04-20 Thread Chuck Amadi
Hi all For my daily and monthly backups for the crontab -e I have my test up and running just want a bit of advise as some mail list suggest running amcheck a few hours before amdump to give the admin possibilities to correct any issues. Also I anticipate that my config-name which I will change

Re: Please check and confirm my Daily Config and Monthly Config.

2005-04-20 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 at 10:19am, Chuck Amadi wrote > Has anyone got examples of a daily backup configuration > and archive configuration for last Friday of the month. > > I am going to use 5 tapes for monday to friday that I will reuse. > Thus do a full backup every day. > > dumpcycle 0 weeks >

Please check and confirm my Daily Config and Monthly Config.

2005-04-20 Thread Chuck Amadi
Hi all Has anyone got examples of a daily backup configuration and archive configuration for last Friday of the month. I am going to use 5 tapes for monday to friday that I will reuse. Thus do a full backup every day. dumpcycle 0 weeks runspercycle 1 tapecycle 8 # two for errors and one for cl