Re: Best way of performing a yearly backup?

2010-01-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:45:53PM +0100, mailinglis...@brennt.net wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:34:18 -0800, Paul Yeatman > wrote: > > > I think the command you are thinking of is "amrmtape"? Running this > > will cause Amanda to "forget" about the tape, however. I don't believe

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-01-11 Thread Steve Wray
Steve Wray wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Run 'amadmin disklist' and check the auth is set as expected for all dles. I've done this, with the amanda.conf having bsdudp and with it having bsdtcp for that entry. In both cases all auth entries for all other DLE's are 'BSD'. In both cases

Re: Best way of performing a yearly backup?

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hello, On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 23:45 +0100, mailinglis...@brennt.net wrote: > Just to clearify things. Taking the tape out of rotation just means: > Do not insert it again. > > For example: > If I take DailySet107 out of rotation then I just have to enter > DailySet108 when Amanda requires DailySe

Re: Best way of performing a yearly backup?

2010-01-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Don't edit the tapelist by hand, run: amadmin CONF no-reuse DailySet107 Jean-Louis mailinglis...@brennt.net wrote: Hello, On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:34:18 -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote: I think the command you are thinking of is "amrmtape"? Running this will cause Amanda to "forget" about the t

Re: Best way of performing a yearly backup?

2010-01-11 Thread mailinglisten
Hello, On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:34:18 -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote: > I think the command you are thinking of is "amrmtape"? Running this > will cause Amanda to "forget" about the tape, however. I don't believe > this is what you want. Doh.. AMflush.. AMlabel.. Yep.. Could have thought of that com

Re: Best way of performing a yearly backup?

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Yeatman
Christian, I think the command you are thinking of is "amrmtape"? Running this will cause Amanda to "forget" about the tape, however. I don't believe this is what you want. If you simply take the tape out of rotation and change tapecycle to be 13, Amanda will happily go on with 13 tapes. You c

Best way of performing a yearly backup?

2010-01-11 Thread mailinglisten
Hello, I have amanda running for several months with the following configuration: dumpcycle 0 runspercycle 1 tapecycle 14 tapes runtapes 1 Cron configuration is: 0 16 * * 1-5 amanda /usr/sbin/amcheck -m DailySet1 0 23 * * 1-5 amanda /usr/sbin/amdump DailySet1 This gives me a full backup each wee