Fwd: The Coyote Den AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR July 24, 2006

2006-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
Oh oh folks: I put 2.5.1b1-20060723 in on the server (this machine) yesterday, got a near total failure last night. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: The Coyote Den AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR July 24, 2006 Date: Monday 24 July 2006 02:30 From: Amanda user [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Fwd: The Coyote Den AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR July 24, 2006

2006-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; After looking at that mess kmail made that came back from the users list, I realized that no one was going to try and sort the previous message out to see what went bump in the night, so here it is again, with all the kmail import formatting removed, sorry folks. Even turning off

RE: The Coyote Den AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR July 24, 2006

2006-07-24 Thread Maurice Poisson Adriasola
Maybe you forgot to initialize the tape driver and thus you are trying to write with hardware compression turned on to media that was previously written with hardware compression turned off (or viceversa).

Re: backing up to DVD-Rs

2006-07-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 08:11:02PM +0100, Laurence Darby wrote: Thanks everyone for your help, especially you Anne, as I based my setup on what you've done. I'm sorry it's taken so long, but there's a lot of stuff to know, and the documentation isn't exactly in the same league as

Re: The Coyote Den AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR July 24, 2006

2006-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 24 July 2006 10:52, Maurice Poisson Adriasola wrote: Maybe you forgot to initialize the tape driver and thus you are trying to write with hardware compression turned on to media that was previously written with hardware compression turned off (or viceversa). Virtual tapes on a 200GB

Re: Fwd: The Coyote Den AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR July 24, 2006

2006-07-24 Thread Kevin Till
Gene Heskett wrote: Oh oh folks: I put 2.5.1b1-20060723 in on the server (this machine) yesterday, got a near total failure last night. Hi Gene, o when you run amcheck, did it pass? o did the amandad on the client respond at all? Check if there /tmp/amanda/amandad*.debug file created? o

Question about dumbcycle, tapecycle and runspercycle

2006-07-24 Thread Sebastian Kösters
Hi! A short question. I would like to have the possibility to recover a backup thats 14 Days old. I want to use virtuel tapes and a tape-changer for this. Every 7 Days Amanda should do a full-backup. Am i right that i need a tapecycle of 14 a runspercycle of 13 and a dumpcycle of 7? If not,