amanda on FreeBSD 6.2

2008-01-06 Thread Mister Olli
hi list... I installed amanda (tested versions 2.5.2p1 and 2.5.1p3) an FreeBSD, and configured it with vtapes to be used as storage. I configured a backup profile namend 'daily' for my daily backups, and an 'amcheck daily' reports no errors. For testing purposes I created a folder (one the backu

amrecover question

2008-01-06 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I just had to install F8 cuz something zeroed out the partition table of my boot drive. I've recovered enough of amanda with dd to reinstal it, and have been using amrecover to pull the rest of my data back, but I'm running into a problem trying to restore the web browsers plugins d

Re: amanda on FreeBSD 6.2

2008-01-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Jan 6, 2008 8:25 PM, Mister Olli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the '/tmp/amanda' folder I can find a file called 'taper.core' which > is around 750kb large, and contains the core dump from the taper > process. If you can glean any information from this core, that would be great -- a stack tra

Does amanda only check free holdingdiskspace at startup?

2008-01-06 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Hi, last saturday my monthly off-site backup started. But at the starttime, the holding disk was full of scrap. Yesterday afternoon I saw this, because I expected amanda already to be finished. I removed the scrap from all holdingdisks. Now there's about 600 GB space again. But if I have a loo