Re: Monthly archival tapes

2006-08-10 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
Hi, thanks again for the replies. I think Jon's suggestion of using labels such as daily-9b sounds like the best option in my case. Yep reconnecting the SCSI cables cut amanda's dump time in half! Whoohoo! If I did change to incremental backups in future, then I assume this would then be corr

Re: Amcheck doesn't work as well as it used to

2006-08-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-08-09 19:44, Chris Dennis wrote: I'm using Amanda with DVD-RAM disks on my home network, and it's working fine. One slight irritation is that when I use 'amcheck -ta' (via a cron job) to tell me which disk to use next, I get the following emailed to me: == Subject: 76awd AMCHEC

Re: Monthly archival tapes

2006-08-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 01:40:45AM -0700, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: > > Regular expressions do my head it...but I've come up with this to enable me > to label tapes daily-1 or daily-1b, etc: > > labelstr "daily-[0-9][0-9]*[a-z]*" > > :) > Looks good. Would even match daily-8004am