Re: amanda with files

2004-09-09 Thread Bret McKee
: Gene: I recently followed the How-To and got Vtapes running in my configuration. I had a couple weired problems that all ended up being caused by bad file ownership. Double check that all the directories are owned by your amanda user. Hope this helps, Bret

Trying to figure out why unchanged file gets backed up in level 1 backup

2004-09-01 Thread Bret Mckee
[ Sorry if this message shows up twice. I sent it this morning, and realized when it didn't show up that I was not longer a subscriber of this list...] Greetings: I installed amanda and believe I have everything running. I am using the disk based virtual tape driver and everything seemed fine.

RE: Trying to figure out a rational setup

2004-05-18 Thread Bret McKee
> Hi, Bret, > > on Dienstag, 18. Mai 2004 at 07:37 you wrote to amanda-users: > > BM> I a couple servers and about a dozen PCs to backup. > Based upon my > BM> current backup, it seems that only a few GB changes every day. I > BM> have a 20 tape DLT 80 autochanger, which should back > every

Trying to figure out a rational setup

2004-05-17 Thread Bret McKee
Greetings: I am setting up Amanda and am trying to get the configuration mostly right the first time. I like to understand what I'm doing, and not ask really obvious questions. To that end, I've read the chapter in the backup book, read most of the man pages, most of the files in doc/*, a bunch