Any bad effects if I change my dumpcycle from 4 weeks to 2 weeks

2005-10-13 Thread chuck.amadi
Hi all I have recently changed my amanda.conf file dump cycle to 4 weeks in a attempt to get more out on my DDS-4 20gb tapes but I will have a more difficult amrestore I have read and digested that a typical dumpcycle entry is 7 to 14 days thus 1 or 2 weeks even though my amanda is working ok

Re: Any bad effects if I change my dumpcycle from 4 weeks to 2 weeks

2005-10-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:24:02AM +0100, chuck.amadi wrote: Hi all I have recently changed my amanda.conf file dump cycle to 4 weeks in a attempt to get more out on my DDS-4 20gb tapes but I will have a more difficult amrestore I have read and digested that a typical dumpcycle entry is 7

Re: Configuration for Windows PC client

2005-10-13 Thread Chris Jones
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Chris Jones wrote: However, now I get the following: selfcheck: debug 1 pid 13291 ruid 33 euid 33: start at Mon Oct 10 21:02:23 2005 /usr/lib/amanda/selfcheck: version 2.4.5 selfcheck: time 0.000: checking disk

Re: Configuration for Windows PC client

2005-10-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Chris Jones wrote: Pls show the relevant lines of all these files ... disklist contains the line: bilbo.stow-jones.local//gandalf/DocSettsnocomp-user-gnutar amandapass contains the line (obfuscated password): //gandalf/DocSettschris%passwordTELESPAN .amandahosts contains

Re: Configuration for Windows PC client

2005-10-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:30:32PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Chris Jones wrote: .amandahosts contains the lines: gandalf.stow-jones.localamanda gandalf.stow-jones.localroot Is

Re: Configuration for Windows PC client

2005-10-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:30:32PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote: .amandahosts contains the lines: gandalf.stow-jones.localamanda gandalf.stow-jones.localroot Is gandalf.stow-jones.local a valid FQDN in your environment? Good question for AMANDA, but not relevant for

Re: D2D2T howto

2005-10-13 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 05:02:23PM -0400, Bob Kryger wrote: Is there a pointer to a howto do disk-to-disk-to-tape backups w/ amanda? I'm actually about to do a similar setup. I'm not sure if this is the approved method, but my plan was just to use the backup-disk (in this case it's the

Re: Configuration for Windows PC client

2005-10-13 Thread Chris Jones
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Bijnens wrote: Chris Jones wrote: Chris Jones wrote: However, now I get the following: selfcheck: debug 1 pid 13291 ruid 33 euid 33: start at Mon Oct 10 21:02:23 2005 /usr/lib/amanda/selfcheck: version 2.4.5 selfcheck: time 0.000: