Strange Dump Behavior

2006-08-20 Thread Mathias Gisch
Hello, I managed to get my amanda backup server running. It is currently backing up 2 hosts. The first hosts works perfectly, while the second gives me strange errors in the nightly amanda mail report. Does anyone have a hint what seems to bet he problem? /-- server2.localdomain /usr

[RFE] - Footer file on tape

2006-08-20 Thread Chris Lee
I was wondering if anyone thought it would be a good idea for Amanda to write a footer file to tape after completing a dump providing a record of the tapes needed to produce a full restore to the state the system was in when this tape was written. I don't use amanda in a way that this would be

Re: [RFE] - Footer file on tape

2006-08-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 01:28:29PM +0100, Chris Lee wrote: I was wondering if anyone thought it would be a good idea for Amanda to write a footer file to tape after completing a dump providing a record of the tapes needed to produce a full restore to the state the system was in when this

Re: Strange Dump Behavior

2006-08-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 10:26:02AM +0200, Mathias Gisch wrote: Hello, I managed to get my amanda backup server running. It is currently backing up 2 hosts. The first hosts works perfectly, while the second gives me strange errors in the nightly amanda mail report. Does anyone have a

Re: [RFE] - Footer file on tape

2006-08-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 01:28:29PM +0100, Chris Lee wrote: I was wondering if anyone thought it would be a good idea for Amanda to write a footer file to tape after completing a dump providing a record of the tapes needed to produce a full restore

Re: [RFE] - Footer file on tape

2006-08-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 20 August 2006 15:11, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 01:28:29PM +0100, Chris Lee wrote: I was wondering if anyone thought it would be a good idea for Amanda to write a footer file to tape after completing a dump providing a

Tar creation problem

2006-08-20 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; An experiment in packing up my helper scripts brought on by Geerts mentioning that I had them earlier today, so I wrote up a README and tried to just pack the directory, but without the data dir thats applicable to only my system and which does an x500 to the size of the tarball.