Re: D2D2T howto

2005-10-14 Thread Shai Ayal
We do it the dumb but working way: we have one server doind daily backups to disk and another server doing weekly backups to tape which we store offsite. This way we have daily backups for small disasters and weekly offsite backups for medium disasters. Shai On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Bob Kryger

Re: Configuration for Windows PC client

2005-10-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
Chris Jones wrote: This is the selfcheck log file run tonight: selfcheck: debug 1 pid 9819 ruid 33 euid 33: start at Thu Oct 13 21:20:20 2005 /usr/lib/amanda/selfcheck: version 2.4.5 selfcheck: time 0.000: checking disk //gandalf/DocSetts selfcheck: time 0.000: spawning /usr/bin/smbclient in

Re: D2D2T howto

2005-10-14 Thread Stephen Yeates
We're using dirvish for D to D with a large disk array that was redundant using rsync over secure ssh then we use amanda to do D to T locally. regards, Stephen Shai Ayal wrote: We do it the dumb but working way: we have one server doind daily backups to disk and another server doing weekly

all estimate failed - problem

2005-10-14 Thread Sylvia Gelman
Hi, I know that there are a lot of threads with this problem, but I found none with my problem. I´m using amanda 2.4.4p3 server and client. Since Tuesday I get the following error: mailserver /var/mail lev 0 FAILED [disk /var/mail, all estimate failed] but all the other partitions of

Re: all estimate failed - problem

2005-10-14 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 at 2:44pm, Sylvia Gelman wrote mailserver /var/mail lev 0 FAILED [disk /var/mail, all estimate failed] *snip* Is there a way how I could test the estimate time dry without making really a backup? Yep. sendsize*debug has the exact command it runs, which you could

Re: D2D2T howto

2005-10-14 Thread Bob Kryger
Hmm, I've been considering doing it this way, but whas hoping that I might find an integrated solution, especially so that users do not need a manual to find their files. thanks bob Shai Ayal wrote: We do it the dumb but working way: we have one server doind daily backups to disk and another

sdlt220 on Fedora Core 4

2005-10-14 Thread Christopher Davis
After much digging around I found a way to always have my tape configured for no hardware compression without my constantly having to turn it off. Here's what I did. I create a /etc/stinit.def file with the following entries: # Quantum SDLT220 manufacturer=QUANTUM model=SuperDLT1 { timeout=3600

Re: D2D2T howto

2005-10-14 Thread Tobias Bluhm
google for rsync snapshot - toby bluhm philips medical systems, cleveland ohio [EMAIL PROTECTED] 440-483-5323 Bob Kryger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/14/2005 10:06 AM To Shai Ayal [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc

Re: all estimate failed - problem

2005-10-14 Thread Sylvia Gelman
Hi Joshua, thanks for your answer! Is there a way how I could test the estimate time dry without making really a backup? Yep. sendsize*debug has the exact command it runs, which you could then run by hand. I´m a little bit confused with the arguments ... as user amanda, I did the

Re: sdlt220 on Fedora Core 4

2005-10-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 08:06:19AM -0600, Christopher Davis wrote: After much digging around I found a way to always have my tape configured for no hardware compression without my constantly having to turn it off. Here's what I did. I create a /etc/stinit.def file with the following

Re: all estimate failed - problem

2005-10-14 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 at 4:38pm, Sylvia Gelman wrote Is there a way how I could test the estimate time dry without making really a backup? Yep. sendsize*debug has the exact command it runs, which you could then run by hand. I´m a little bit confused with the arguments ... as user amanda, I

Re: sdlt220 on Fedora Core 4

2005-10-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fedora Core 3 there is documentation under: /usr/share/doc/mt-st-* One file of interest there is stinit.def.examples which has several sample stinit.def examples for things like DDS and DLT and ??? drives. In addition to the standard nst#/st# devices (mode 0

Re: sdlt220 on Fedora Core 4

2005-10-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 05:39:51PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fedora Core 3 there is documentation under: /usr/share/doc/mt-st-* One file of interest there is stinit.def.examples which has several sample stinit.def examples for things like DDS and DLT and ???

Re: sdlt220 on Fedora Core 4

2005-10-14 Thread Christopher Davis
If you head to quantum.com and do a seatch for 'linux book' they have a pdf document that explains some of that. Chris -- Original Message -- Received: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:28:43 PM MDT From: Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: sdlt220 on Fedora Core 4

Re: D2D2T howto

2005-10-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Tobias Bluhm wrote: google for rsync snapshot Exactly. You might use something like rsnapshot to generate regular snapshots of your DLEs and for example re-export with Samba ... I use this at several clients so the users can simply browse a share for the excel-file from Monday, at 2pm ...