Strange problem after switching to NIS

2008-03-10 Thread Tong Wang
Hi everyone, :) I've had this strange problem since yesterday when I moved the amanda user from local account to a NIS server. The original setup was to have the amanda user account locally on the server and clients, and it's been working ok. When later I removed all local amanda accounts an

Re: Backing up VMware-VMs

2008-03-10 Thread Steve Wray
Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2008-03-06 21:38, Steve Wray wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Patrick M. Hausen schrieb: So if you want to backup/copy an entire VM with the guarantee of consistent hard disk state, you need to shut it down. Copying a multi gigabyte virtal disk file is bound to take q

Re: Tape Spanning DLE question

2008-03-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:15:51AM -0400, Jordan Desroches wrote: > Hi all :-) > > I'm having a hard time finding the answer to this question by > searching around. I have a DLE which is 1TB in size. My server has .8 > TB of holding disk, and each of my tapes is .4 TB native. > > Can AMANDA s

Tape Spanning DLE question

2008-03-10 Thread Jordan Desroches
Hi all :-) I'm having a hard time finding the answer to this question by searching around. I have a DLE which is 1TB in size. My server has .8 TB of holding disk, and each of my tapes is .4 TB native. Can AMANDA span a single DLE that is larger than a tape across tapes? AMANDA cannot put t

Re: [bis] discrepency between amadmin, logs and tape content?

2008-03-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: However amadmin info' still reports only one tape at level 0. Is this the expected behaviour? It's expected behavior, 'amadmin info' reports only the tape for the last PART. Jean-Louis

Re: Define what holding disk to use?

2008-03-10 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 06.03.2008 at 16:05 -0800, Aaron J. Grier wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 08:29:03AM -0500, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > > My own preference is to configure the system with separate drives > > for holding disk. There is no reason for them to be raid. > > all backup data passes through t