Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Charlie Reitsma wrote:
So, perhaps, the ISP is mistaking the backup traffic as a broadcast storm.
It would appear as a sudden spike of traffic leaving the server. If so, a
conversation with the ISP should clear up the issue.
Other poss
Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> Could you describe briefly why?
>
> Amanda used to need a non-rewinding tape device because it would close
> and re-open the device (sometimes in a different process) between
> files. It no longer does t
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Could you describe briefly why?
Amanda used to need a non-rewinding tape device because it would close
and re-open the device (sometimes in a different process) between
files. It no longer does this.
> What has changed in the code/be
Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Darin
> Perusich wrote:
>> I always use /dev/rmt/0cn device on Solaris but if I'm not mistaken you
>> no longer need to specify the no-rewind device for the 2.6 release of
>> Amanda. The 'b' is to use BSD behavior instead of SRV4 for er
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Andreas
Kuntzagk wrote:
> I have another on: should I make the amandabackup user the owner of the
> changer device file or is there a better way to enable access to the changer
> for the amanda programs?
Usually 'amandabackup' is made a part of a group that has acc
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Steven
Backus wrote:
> I can't find this anywhere in the wiki or other documentaion. Can
> you point me in the right direction?
http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda.conf.5.html
look for "label_new_tapes"
Dustin
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:53:03PM +0200, Andreas Kuntzagk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have another on: should I make the amandabackup user the owner of the
> changer device file or is there a better way to enable access to the
> changer for the amanda programs?
I don't think I've ever had to alter the
Andreas Kuntzagk schrieb:
I have another on: should I make the amandabackup user the owner of the
changer device file or is there a better way to enable access to the
changer for the amanda programs?
You can set the group of the device to amanda's group and chmod g+w.
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Marc Muehlfeld (Lei
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Darin
Perusich wrote:
> I always use /dev/rmt/0cn device on Solaris but if I'm not mistaken you
> no longer need to specify the no-rewind device for the 2.6 release of
> Amanda. The 'b' is to use BSD behavior instead of SRV4 for error
> handling, see the mtio man pa
"Dustin J. Mitchell" wrote:
> You can turn on auto-labeling (label-new-tapes)...
I can't find this anywhere in the wiki or other documentaion. Can
you point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Steve
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Steven J. BackusComputer Specialist
University of Utah
Hi,
I have another on: should I make the amandabackup user the owner of the
changer device file or is there a better way to enable access to the
changer for the amanda programs?
best, Andreas
Andreas,
The type device is described in # man st(7D).
Amanda has a value in amanda.conf called labelstr
(One) of mine looks like this
labelstr "^INFO[0-9][0-9]*$"
that is (starts with) INFO and has at least two numerics (then ends)
I believe there are newer faster ways to label tapes, even a
I always use /dev/rmt/0cn device on Solaris but if I'm not mistaken you
no longer need to specify the no-rewind device for the 2.6 release of
Amanda. The 'b' is to use BSD behavior instead of SRV4 for error
handling, see the mtio man page for more details.
Use amlabel to label the tapes, you'll ne
Hi,
I'm quite new to amanda (and to backing up to tape as well). I already
managed to create a conf for our changer (Sun SL24). But I'm still
unsure what is the right device for the tape drive.
# ls /dev/rmt/
0 0b0bn 0c0cb 0cbn 0cn 0h0hb 0hbn 0hn 0l
0lb 0lbn 0
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