exclusions

2007-10-10 Thread Johan Booysen
Dear all, We have lots of data in a folder called /usr/local/clients, with a subfolder for each client. Up to now I've been able to let amanda do a full backup every night, but now we're getting close to exceeding acceptable time and tape capacity limits. Once a month I take one tape out of

RE exclusions

2007-10-10 Thread Cyrille Bollu
At first sight it looks very easy: You are currently only doing full-daily backups. So, switch to regular incremental/differential backups and you'll be fine (No need to ask people doing tar files...) Also, Amanda has all the features you need to keep track of where your files have been

Re: RE amanda in domU

2007-10-10 Thread James Wilson
Thanks for the reply. I will look into this. Cyrille Bollu wrote: At home, I'm trying to move my USB printer in a domU xen domain. According to my reading, it's possible but I have to use a kernel command line argument like pciback.hide=(00:11.0) in dom0 and add something like pci =

Re: amanda in domU

2007-10-10 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
James Wilson wrote: I was wondering if amanda could run in a xen instance. And if so does the dom0 automatically pass the tape scsi adapter to the xen instance? Also if I move amanda to this xen instance will it be able to open my old tapes? Any help is appreciated. If you can handle