Re: Tape DDS-3 values

2002-09-12 Thread Conny Gyllendahl
to hardware compression off you can rerun tapetype to get more accurate values. Hope it helps! -- Conny Gyllendahl Don't try to have the last word -- you might get it. -- Lazarus Long

Re: Configuration help?

2002-08-20 Thread Conny Gyllendahl
subdirectories and it appears to be working. Or maybe amanda is smarter than me, notices it and switches them to using tar instead. :) -- Conny Gyllendahl His mind is like a steel trap: full of mice. -- Foghorn Leghorn

Re: Configuration help?

2002-08-20 Thread Conny Gyllendahl
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Jay Lessert wrote: You say ufs(dump), so I'm assuming recent Solaris. The calculation is different for Linux. Correctamundo! Solaris 2.8 to be precise. *snip great list of pros and cons* Thanks for the input! -- Conny Gyllendahl It is not enough to have great

Re: Configuration help?

2002-08-20 Thread Conny Gyllendahl
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Jon LaBadie wrote: Alternatively, files_to_dump can identify individual files or directories. ... This dump is equivalent to a level 0 dump of the indicated portions of the filesystem ... It looks like by naming a directory you do

Re: Configuration help?

2002-08-16 Thread Conny Gyllendahl
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: *snip* 1000 x thanks for the help! I have Amanda up and running and backing up our three servers just the way we wanted it now. Now for my last question for this time: what are the pros and cons, if any, for using tar or (ufs)dump? Are there any

Configuration help?

2002-08-14 Thread Conny Gyllendahl
Hello again everyone! Now that I have sorted out my tapetype issue I kindly ask for some help on configuring Amanda. What I would like to do is: - full backups every weekday (mon-fri) - use 5 tapes (possibly 6) - backup the following filesystems host: louie filesys: /export/home/htdocs host:

Tapetype claims tape is 8.5 GB when it should be 12 GB

2002-08-13 Thread Conny Gyllendahl
Hi all! I have been trying to set up Amanda to back up our Solaris 8 boxes and one of the first steps was to get a tapetype for our tapes. The taper is reported as HP DDS-3 4MM DAT (by `mt status`). I don't know any additonal data about this drive since it is in an unmarked case (unless I crack