Re: Having problem using Amanda for permanent backup storage

2009-04-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Wojtek wrote: > Let's say I configure a 2TB holding disk for amanda and I have 2 > projects. If that holding disk contains folders from both projects, > will amanda know which one belongs to which before dumping? If each project has a distinct directory name, then

Re: absolute total failure with amanda--2.6.2alpha-20090331

2009-04-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Update: amanda-2.6.2alpha-20090319 worked just fine last night. > I've now downloaded the interim versions between 20090319 and 2009043, and > will test one a night till I'm caught up again. Thanks for testing, Gene -- I look forward to hearin

Re: Having problem using Amanda for permanent backup storage

2009-04-03 Thread Wojtek
All right, Let's say I configure a 2TB holding disk for amanda and I have 2 projects. If that holding disk contains folders from both projects, will amanda know which one belongs to which before dumping? Also, what changes do I need to make to my config file so my incremental backups behave like

Re: absolute total failure with amanda--2.6.2alpha-20090331

2009-04-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 April 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: >Greetings; > >And amcheck is happier than your typical pig. > >I just installed it yesterday, over amanda-2.6.2alpha-20090319 which was >working fine. > >All results missing seems to be the refrain. > >I'll reinstall amanda-2.6.2alpha-20090319 and then

Re: [Amanda-users] CHS tape robot management software

2009-04-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:50 AM, ricsdix wrote: > About the CHS tape robot management software guys... i have read some about > CHS tape robot management software is this forum... > http://www.mail-archive.com/amanda-users@amanda.org/msg24767 hope this help > you a little... I'm not sure what t

Re: 501 Could not read config file /etc/amanda/amindexd/amanda.conf!

2009-04-03 Thread Jukka Salmi
Jean-Louis Martineau --> amanda-users (2009-04-03 12:43:36 -0400): > Change it to: > amandaidx stream tcp nowait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amindexd > amidxtape stream tcp nowait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amidxtaped > > Other arguments should only be used for amandad. Indeed

Re: 501 Could not read config file /etc/amanda/amindexd/amanda.conf!

2009-04-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Change it to: amandaidx stream tcp nowait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amindexd amidxtape stream tcp nowait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amidxtaped Other arguments should only be used for amandad. Jean-Louis Jukka Salmi wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau --> amanda-users (2009-04-03

Re: 501 Could not read config file /etc/amanda/amindexd/amanda.conf!

2009-04-03 Thread Jukka Salmi
Jean-Louis Martineau --> amanda-users (2009-04-03 11:49:53 -0400): > amrecover from 2.5.2p1 and 2.4.4p3 use different protocol to communicate > with the server. > > What's the xinetd configuration for the amindexd and amidxtaped network > services on the server? (The systems in question use ob

Re: 501 Could not read config file /etc/amanda/amindexd/amanda.conf!

2009-04-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amrecover from 2.5.2p1 and 2.4.4p3 use different protocol to communicate with the server. What's the xinetd configuration for the amindexd and amidxtaped network services on the server? Jean-Louis Jukka Salmi wrote: Hello, I'm having a problem with amrecover(8) on Linux systems. The backu

Re: "Holdingdisk no" - why does amanda wait to tape those DLEs?

2009-04-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
OK, I'll take a swing at this :) On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > I want to avoid to copy ~60 GB from disk to holdingdisk internally at > every amdump, so I decided to set them to "holdingdisk no" --> write the > to tape directly. > > taperalgo first, btw The taperal

Re: Having problem using Amanda for permanent backup storage

2009-04-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Amanda use a new tape at every run. If you configure a big enough holding disk, amanda can be configured to write to a tape only it is has enough data in holding disk to fill the tape. You must at least do one full backup, you are configure to do only level 1 backup, but they are relative to a