howto make backup from backup

2006-01-11 Thread Stefan Herrmann
hello, we are planning to set up a new backup server and want to use amanda to back up the client. i did already some testing with amanda and am satisfied so far. one thing we want for the production backup is that we want to backup to a disk library inhouse and additionally put the same

Re: howto make backup from backup

2006-01-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
Stefan Herrmann wrote: hello, we are planning to set up a new backup server and want to use amanda to back up the client. i did already some testing with amanda and am satisfied so far. one thing we want for the production backup is that we want to backup to a disk library inhouse and

Amanda and Full metal restore

2006-01-11 Thread Mark Cooke
Hi, I've just got amanda installed in Debian stable, using the file driver to a removable USB hard drive. So with this working I have decided to test a full metal restore; in case the server needs to be reinstalled at any point from scratch. So testing the set-up, I do one full backup (in

Re: Howto or crib for backing up two tape drives - amanda 2.5

2006-01-11 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi Again When tape drive 1 (slot1) fills up I assume without any user intervention the remainder of the data will backup onto tape drive 2 (slot2) be it external drive (Which I haven't concluded yet looking for a minimum of 160gb media capacity!) As version 2.5.0b1 has New tape spanning

Re: Amanda and Full metal restore

2006-01-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
Mark Cooke wrote: I've just got amanda installed in Debian stable, using the file driver to a removable USB hard drive. So with this working I have decided to test a full metal restore; in case the server needs to be reinstalled at any point from scratch. Good! So testing the set-up, I

Re: Howto or crib for backing up two tape drives - amanda 2.5

2006-01-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: When tape drive 1 (slot1) fills up I assume without any user intervention the remainder of the data will backup onto tape drive 2 (slot2) be it external drive (Which I haven't concluded yet looking for a minimum of 160gb media capacity!) Yes indeed.

Re: Amanda and Full metal restore

2006-01-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 06:20, Mark Cooke wrote: Hi, I've just got amanda installed in Debian stable, using the file driver to a removable USB hard drive. So with this working I have decided to test a full metal restore; in case the server needs to be reinstalled at any point from scratch.

Re: Amanda and Full metal restore

2006-01-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
Mark Cooke wrote: The only thing I'm not sure on is the -f option to amrestore The man page states: -f Do a rewind followed by a fsf fileno ... restore an image. I cannot work out what this represents (I'm sure it's obvious :)) I stabbed at it and just entered 1 and it seems to work ok.

Problems with spaces in include statement?

2006-01-11 Thread Christopher Davis
I have a DLE that looks like the following: server /mnt/image_New_Folder /mnt/image { include ./New Folder ghost-image-tar } -1 local Actually - I have several DLEs I want to create that have spaces in their names. When I run an amcheck I get the following

Re: System Crash when using Amanda

2006-01-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Freels, James D. wrote: The problem I had started at kernels greater than 2.6.12.x (starting at 2.6.13.0) and was finally cleared at 2.6.15.0. Interesting ... I am using that module with kernel 2.6.13 and have no problems. Maybe this related to the old hardware I use, maybe to the fact that

Re: Problems with spaces in include statement?

2006-01-11 Thread Christopher Davis
Its nothing I need immediatly - but it would be really nice to have. Chris -- Original Message -- Received: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:12:41 PM MST From: John Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Christopher Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems

Re: System Crash when using Amanda

2006-01-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Freels, James D. wrote: The problem I had started at kernels greater than 2.6.12.x (starting at 2.6.13.0) and was finally cleared at 2.6.15.0. Interesting ... I am using that module with kernel 2.6.13 and have no problems. Maybe this related to the old hardware

Re: Problems with spaces in include statement?

2006-01-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Christopher Davis wrote: Its nothing I need immediatly - but it would be really nice to have. I definitely agree on this, all the Samba-server-people will like that (including me). Stefan.

Re: System Crash when using Amanda

2006-01-11 Thread Freels, James D.
the following text was included in the 2.6.15 kernel changelog The following change was found from the Adaptec developers. Note the 2.6.13+ reference, the word deadlock, and the final sign offs commit e5508c13ac25b07585229b144a45cf64a990171e Author: Salyzyn, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat

Re: Amanda and Full metal restore

2006-01-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Gene Heskett wrote: I can send those scripts offlist if you'd like, but the caveat is that they aren't pretty, and have a lot of dross still in them from when they were being fine tuned originally. Or, I'd sent Stephan W those and he may have cleaned them up, although I think he just threw

Re: Amanda and Full metal restore

2006-01-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 17:08, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: I can send those scripts offlist if you'd like, but the caveat is that they aren't pretty, and have a lot of dross still in them from when they were being fine tuned originally. Or, I'd sent Stephan W those

Re: Amanda and Full metal restore

2006-01-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 17:27, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 11 January 2006 17:08, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: I can send those scripts offlist if you'd like, but the caveat is that they aren't pretty, and have a lot of dross still in them from when they were being

handling unreasonably large, non-static directories

2006-01-11 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, Amanda has been working wonderfully for me ever since I started using it about a year ago. I do have one question though, that plagues me every time I try to confront it: I have one directory on one of my boxes that holds files for customers (each customer gets a subdirectory (the

Re: handling unreasonably large, non-static directories

2006-01-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 18:20, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hi, Amanda has been working wonderfully for me ever since I started using it about a year ago. I do have one question though, that plagues me every time I try to confront it: I have one directory on one of my boxes that holds files

Backup on harddisk instead of tape

2006-01-11 Thread Ryan Pagquil
Hi, I'm planning to use two harddisks with same capacity for my backup instead of tapes. On my tape-backup I have 14 tapes which I divided into two groups, group1 and group2, I have a dumpcycle of 7, so every week I consumes all the 7 tapes for each group. Whe I consumed the first group

Re: handling unreasonably large, non-static directories

2006-01-11 Thread Frank Smith
Cameron Matheson wrote: Hi, Amanda has been working wonderfully for me ever since I started using it about a year ago. I do have one question though, that plagues me every time I try to confront it: I have one directory on one of my boxes that holds files for customers (each customer

Backup on harddisk instead of tape

2006-01-11 Thread Ryan Pagquil
Hi, I'm planning to use two harddisks with same capacity for my backup instead of tapes. On my tape-backup I have 14 tapes which I divided into two groups, group1 and group2, I have a dumpcycle of 7, so every week I consumes all the 7 tapes for each group. Whe I consumed the first group

Re: Backup on harddisk instead of tape

2006-01-11 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:22:41AM +0800, Ryan Pagquil wrote: Hi, I'm planning to use two harddisks with same capacity for my backup instead of tapes. On my tape-backup I have 14 tapes which I divided into two groups, group1 and group2, I have a dumpcycle of 7, so every week I