Re: Amanda 2.6.0 spanning

2008-06-19 Thread Ian Turner
Johan, Your problem is here: On Wednesday 18 June 2008 11:15:32 Johan Booysen wrote: chg-manual contains: firstslot=1 lastslot=1 You'll need to have more than one slot if you want to use multiple tapes. Just increase 'lastslot' to 2 (or even to the total number of tapes you possess), and

How do I config to store backup images in holding disk?

2008-06-19 Thread Yoshihiro Ishikawa
Hello list, my English is bad, so I want your amnesty. I used - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga) build: VERSION=Amanda-2.5.0p2 BUILT_DATE=Tue Dec 11 14:10:30 JST 2007 -- and I have a tape library can hold 3 tapes.

Re: How do I config to store backup images in holding disk?

2008-06-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
2008/6/19 Yoshihiro Ishikawa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I understood we must have the misconfiguration(tapedev,tpchanger) to store backup images in holding disk and we must overwrite correct configuration when we want to backup the tape drive. If what you mean is this: # backup to holding-disk only

Re: Should usetimestamps setting effect holding disk directory names?

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Yeatman
-In response to your message- --received from Dustin J. Mitchell-- On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Paul Yeatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, thanks! That's what coming from 2.4.4p3 will do for ya! I had a script that used the old directory naming style. I will have to adapt my

Re: Should usetimestamps setting effect holding disk directory names?

2008-06-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Paul Yeatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, I appreciate the offer. Interesting. I guess I'd have to know more about what the C module produces to know if it would be helpful. Take a look at server-src/holding.h. Even if the C is not your flavor, the comments

Re: Should usetimestamps setting effect holding disk directory names?

2008-06-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look at server-src/holding.h. Even if the C is not your flavor, the comments give a pretty good description of how things get broken down. Sorry, here's a link:

waiting for ack: timeout, retrying, etc, help !

2008-06-19 Thread Kenji Lefevre
Hello, I recently changed my amanda server. It's now running under Centos5.1 with Amanda-2.5.0p2. I put the configuration files I had on the old server to the new one but for some client (3 amongst 8) i end up having trouble dumping. I made a test dumping one partition on one of the

dgram_recv: timeout ? Please help.

2008-06-19 Thread Kenji Lefevre
Hello, I recently changed my amanda server. It's now running under Centos5.1 with Amanda-2.5.0p2. I put the configuration files I had on the old server to the new one but for some client (3 amongst 8) i end up having trouble dumping. I made a test dumping one partition on one of the

lots of log files

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Yeatman
Do people routinely clean up the log directory? I'm up to about 82 gigs. I think it is time. Do I really care about log log.20060512.0 anymore? Paul

Re: lots of log files

2008-06-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 19 June 2008, Paul Yeatman wrote: Do people routinely clean up the log directory? I'm up to about 82 gigs. I think it is time. Do I really care about log log.20060512.0 anymore? Paul Wow! Amanda, by design, is supposed to clean those up when the tape is over-written, and

Re: lots of log files

2008-06-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Paul Yeatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do people routinely clean up the log directory? I'm up to about 82 gigs. I think it is time. Do I really care about log log.20060512.0 anymore? Those logfiles are Amanda's tape catalog. Amanda should be cleaning out the