amrecover from VTAPES

Hi Listserve, I have my tapes defined as VTAPES. I have taken a full and 2 incremental backups. I now want to restore from those backups. My amrecover dies with the following messages: . . . Extracting files using tape drive file:/amandatape/daily on host lnxdev.ncci.com. Load

amadmin questions #1

Hi Listserv, How can I see what files are in tape dump600 or dump200 ? The output of my amadmin follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> amadmin daily info Current info for lnxdev.ncci.com /caplan/unixdata/accdata: Stats: dump rates (kps), Full: 8879.0, -1.0, -1.0 Incremental: 104

amrecover questions ??

Hi Listserv, Thanks to all that replied to my initial post. I have managed to get past that by including "-s lnxdev.ncci.com -t lnxdev.ncci.com" as such: # amrecover -C daily -s lnxdev.ncci.com -t lnxdev.ncci.com However, now I am getting : AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p2. Contacting server on lnxde

amrecover questions ?

Hi Listserv, I am trying to get "amrecover" to work. I keep getting this message : # amrecover daily AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p2. Contacting server on localhost ... 220 lnxdev AMANDA index server (2.4.4p2) ready. 500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandah

What program do Amanda use to do the backup ?

Hi List, How can you tell what program Amanda used to do the backup ? TIA Bernie Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] The information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. This message may be an attorney-client communication a

Re: Differential backups

Hi Graeme, By differential, I mean accumulating all the daily incremental backups into one backup tape. I think the way it works is something like this: On Sun take a level 0 backup ( Full backup ) On Mon take an incremental ( files that changed since the last backup ) - level 1 On Tues, the backu

Differential backups

Hi Listserv, Does anyone know how to configure amanda to take differential backups ?? TIA Bernie Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] The information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. This message may be an attorney-clien

Incrementals with Amanda, full backups outside Amanda

Hi Listserve, I am trying to configure Amanda to run incrementals only. The full backups are done outside Amanda. Last night , I ran my first test. I am trying to backup just /etc. Here are the results. These dumps were to tape dump200. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape. Th

amcheck questions

Hi Listserv, Here is the output of my amcheck . My questions follow: 1. How does one get the date not to appear as X ? 2. I am trying to backup /opt , /home and /etc. Do I have to create the files _home, _opt and _etc myself or will AMANDA create them? Are these files or directo

Re: Configuration questions

The Official AMANDA Documentation, Chapter 16, ( USING AMANDA ), page 120-121 states: AMANDA has configuration options - - - - - . There is also support for : * Incremental-only backups where full dumps are done outside of AMANDA, - - - - - Does anyone know how to configure AMANDA for incremen

Configuration questions

Hi Amanda gurus, This is my current environment: 4 Linux LPARS running on an IBM z890 mainframe. Our Linux LPARS currently do not have any tape drives attached to it. Once a week, we bring Linux down to run level 2 and then use the mainframe's backup mechanism ( DFDSS ) to do full volume backups o