Re: starttime question

2006-05-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:43:56AM -0400, Ross Vandegrift wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:34:38AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: Are the estimates for delayed DLEs also delayed? Or are they done at the beginning with all other DLEs? I just took a look at the amdump logs for a server with

Re: tape_splitsize and single partitions; is faq answer still right?

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-04 00:52, Steven Sweet wrote: The FAQ answer for Can Amanda span large filesystems across multiple tapes is still Not Yet. Is this also true for 2.5.0p1? In which FAQ did you find that? (Just to update the docs.) Yes, Amanda 2.5.0 can span dumps across multiple tapes. I know

Re: tape_splitsize and single partitions; is faq answer still right?

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Bijnens
Early in the morning here... On 2006-05-04 09:32, Paul Bijnens wrote: Set the parameter tapesplit_size in the dumptype for those DLE's. That should be tape_splitsize. http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Splitting_dumps_across_tapes And now one more coffee... -- Paul Bijnens,

RE: FreeBSD client

2006-05-04 Thread John Clement
John Clement wrote: Some of you might remember I'm piecing together a previous, non-working, installation of amanda. The help I've received off here has been great, so thanks again! The next piece in this puzzle is a FreeBSD (5.4) machine that appears to have amanda already

Backing up sub directories and interactive restores

2006-05-04 Thread John Clement
I've previously seen Amanda installed in such a way that you could run something like amrestore -p /dev/nst0 host /filesystem | restore ivf - Which gives a basic shell on the tape so you can restore individual items. I understand that this was possible because comp-root backup had been used on

Re: Backing up sub directories and interactive restores

2006-05-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
John, define dumptype comp-root-tar { root-tar We would need to see what is in the dumptype comp-root-tar, but from the name, I would guess that the dump is made using gtar, so to restore you should also use gtar, not retore. amrestore -p /dev/nst0 host /filesystem | tar --numeric-owner

Re: starttime question

2006-05-04 Thread Guy Dallaire
2006/5/4, Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I exepected that to be the answer.I did not see how the plannercould do its job otherwise.However I was under the impression that delayed starttime wassomething to recommend for clients that may not be available when amdump starts or that couldn't be

Ooops: disk device name with spaces

2006-05-04 Thread matilda matilda
Hi all, we're dumping with tar. Now it happens that we have to have a disklist entry with spaces in the diskname or diskdevice. The parser seems to have trouble with this. (Amanda 2.4.4) Is this possible? If yes, how? Thank you in advance. Best regards Andreas Mock

Newbie needs Help

2006-05-04 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Hello. I've just started a job at a new company. They have an backup system with everyday copies the touched files to a disk on a backup server and on the weekend it makes a 0 level to tape. They say the system is not really relayable because some times they don't find the files an want a new

Antw: Newbie needs Help

2006-05-04 Thread matilda matilda
Hi Luis, in my opinion you should etsablish the following solution: 1) Intstall backup-server with enough disk space 2) Create virtuall tapes on the disks 3) Let amanda backup to the virtual tapes (one configuration) You have to decide in which cycles amanda makes full backups. 4) In a second

Re: Backing up sub directories and interactive restores

2006-05-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:13:20AM +0100, John Clement wrote: I've previously seen Amanda installed in such a way that you could run something like amrestore -p /dev/nst0 host /filesystem | restore ivf - Which gives a basic shell on the tape so you can restore individual items. Is there

Re: Antw: Newbie needs Help

2006-05-04 Thread Luis Rodrigues
I have enough disk space. My problem it that they need incremental (everday) backup of touched files and I have no ideia how to do it. I could do 0 level every day to virtual tapes but that is just a wast of space and time. Best regards, Luis On Thu, 04 May 2006 16:01:23 +0200 matilda

Re: Newbie needs Help

2006-05-04 Thread Francis Galiegue
Le Jeudi 04 Mai 2006 15:52, vous avez écrit : Hello. I've just started a job at a new company. They have an backup system with everyday copies the touched files to a disk on a backup server and on the weekend it makes a 0 level to tape. They say the system is not really relayable because

Re: Newbie needs Help

2006-05-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:52:07PM +0200, Luis Rodrigues wrote: Hello. I've just started a job at a new company. They have an backup system with everyday copies the touched files to a disk on a backup server and on the weekend it makes a 0 level to tape. They say the system is not

Debugging amlabel?

2006-05-04 Thread Arnd
Hello. Is there a possibility to log the activities of amlabel? I can load any tape with amtape but amlabel doesn't work. After loading the tape from the first slot amlabel tries to label it but this seems to hang: $ amlabel tapeBackup tapeBackup-01 labeling tape in slot 1 (/dev/nst0):

Re: Debugging amlabel?

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-04 17:13, Arnd wrote: Hello. Is there a possibility to log the activities of amlabel? I can load any tape with amtape but amlabel doesn't work. After loading the tape from the first slot amlabel tries to label it but this seems to hang: $ amlabel tapeBackup tapeBackup-01 labeling

Re: Newbie needs Help

2006-05-04 Thread Luis Rodrigues
The normal everyday amanda incremental backup saves all the touched files to the holding disk? If the file is changed 5 times in a backup cicle it will get backed up 5 times? if so how do I access it using amandarecover? Luis On Thu, 4 May 2006 10:26:39 -0400 Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie needs Help

2006-05-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Luis Rodrigues wrote: The normal everyday amanda incremental backup saves all the touched files to the holding disk? Yes. If the file is changed 5 times in a backup cicle it will get backed up 5 times? if so how do I access it using amandarecover? By specifying the

Re: Newbie needs Help

2006-05-04 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Ahh, ok I did't had understood that. Does it work with both tar and dump or just with dump? Luis On Thu, 4 May 2006 17:40:34 +0200 (CEST) Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 May 2006, Luis Rodrigues wrote: The normal everyday amanda incremental backup saves all the

Re: Newbie needs Help

2006-05-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Luis Rodrigues wrote: Ahh, ok I did't had understood that. Does it work with both tar and dump or just with dump? It should work with both (I always used tar). On Thu, 4 May 2006 17:40:34 +0200 (CEST) Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 May 2006,

Re: starttime question

2006-05-04 Thread Frank Smith
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:43:56AM -0400, Ross Vandegrift wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:34:38AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: Are the estimates for delayed DLEs also delayed? Or are they done at the beginning with all other DLEs? I just took a look at the amdump logs

Fwd: cluster

2006-05-04 Thread Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Smith, Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 4-mag-2006 10.47 Subject: RE: cluster To: Salvatore Enrico Indiogine [EMAIL PROTECTED] This afternoon should be fine. About 130. Noah Smith Systems Engineer HP @ Research Park 979.691.4550 -Original

Re: Debugging amlabel?

2006-05-04 Thread Arnd
Hi Paul Paul Bijnens wrote: Normal scsi voodoo: is the cable terminated? Did you sacrifice a chicken? ... Can you read/write to the tape when not using amanda tools, e.g. simple: dd if=somefile bs=32k of=/dev/st0 I must say that my first thought really was the chicken ;-). Well, it was

next tape question

2006-05-04 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
I am running Amanda 2.4.5p1 server on Solaris 10 sparc. The email from my last daily backup listed the following These dumps were to tapes daily:100011, daily:100012, daily:100013, daily:100014. The next 4 tapes Amanda expects to use are: a new tape, daily:100016, daily:100017, daily:100018.

Re: Debugging amlabel?

2006-05-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 07:10:39PM +0200, Arnd wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: Normal scsi voodoo: is the cable terminated? Did you sacrifice a chicken? ... Can you read/write to the tape when not using amanda tools, e.g. simple: dd if=somefile bs=32k of=/dev/st0 I must say that my

Re: next tape question

2006-05-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:38:08PM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: I am running Amanda 2.4.5p1 server on Solaris 10 sparc. The email from my last daily backup listed the following These dumps were to tapes daily:100011, daily:100012, daily:100013, daily:100014. The next 4 tapes Amanda

2.5.0p1 RPMs available

2006-05-04 Thread Paddy Sreenivasan
Amanda 2.5.0p1 RPMs (May 3, 2006 snapshot) are available for the following platforms from http://www.zmanda.com/downloads.html - Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL4) - Suse Linux Enterprise 9 (SLES9) - Fedora Core 3 - Fedora Core 4 - Fedora Core 5 - Open Suse 10 Source RPM and tar ball is also