Mac OS X installation of Amanda

2009-02-12 Thread Dan Brown
minutes rather than 2-3 hours? - Dan Brown monkeypa...@shaw.ca

Dumps cannot be retrieved from tape...

2008-09-23 Thread Dan Brown
? - Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dumps cannot be retrieved from tape...

2008-09-23 Thread Dan Brown
Thanks Joshua, Jean-Louis, amrestore doesn't have the sort of granularity I'd like but the shotgun approach works as well as a pinpoint approach. I was hoping I wouldn't have to restore 178GB of data for a 10MB file. Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dumps cannot be retrieved from tape...

2008-09-23 Thread Dan Brown
use 1000 kbps } define interface le0 { comment 10 Mbps ethernet use 400 kbps } define interface eth0 { comment 1Gbps ethernet use 921600 kbps } Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Pausing amflush?

2008-03-13 Thread Dan Brown
? If not, where do I make a feature request? I realize it's not an entirely useful feature for every day use but it could be useful under certain circumstances. --- Dan Brown

DLE Regexp?

2007-12-05 Thread Dan Brown
I have a couple of disk list entries for a samba client which seem to be causing the disks to be backed up with a full dump nearly every time. I am suspecting it's a regular expression problem since the DLEs are almost identical. The DLEs look like so: # Design Resources Mac moi

Re: amanda not using smbclient for samba clients?

2007-11-28 Thread Dan Brown
Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Dan Brown schrieb: # disklist # Design Resources Mac coralie //coralie/design_resources_archive/ tar-comp-srvbest-ne coralie //coralie/design_resources/ tar-comp-srvbest-ne The first column is the name of the machine who connect to the samba share

amanda not using smbclient for samba clients?

2007-11-27 Thread Dan Brown
compress server best estimate server index } define interface local { comment a local disk use 1000 kbps } define interface eth0 { comment 1Gbps ethernet use 921600 kbps } --- Dan Brown

Changing the from address in reports

2007-11-10 Thread Dan Brown
a domain/hostname onto for outgoing mail? --- Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changing the from address in reports

2007-11-10 Thread Dan Brown
Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On 11/10/07, Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is getting caught up by our spam filter for obvious reasons. Is there somewhere within the amanda config I can set this or is this something I have to tell the mail system

Disappearing Dumps...

2005-12-19 Thread Dan Brown
include ./* exclude ./clients ./tmp ./zu/incoming ./home ./var/lib/mysql } 1 Oh yeah, the identical definitions which work on gimp, don't work on oldgimp... --- Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Disappearing Dumps...

2005-12-19 Thread Dan Brown
Whoops, this was meant to go to the entire list. Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 19 December 2005 17:53, Dan Brown wrote: I have recently just upgraded amanda an amanda installation from 2.4.4p1 and upgraded the backup host from RedHat 7.3 to Fedora FC4. I've also conglomerated the backed up

TapeTypes definition affecting wear?

2005-08-06 Thread Dan Brown
over a year old) of a tape? --- Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DLT1 Tape drive performance...

2004-11-06 Thread Dan Brown
Paul Bijnens wrote: Dan Brown wrote: I adjusted the tapebufs setting from 20 to 128, and the DLT drive now writes for around 10 seconds before stopping and seeking. I've adjusted it to 256 to see what happens once I need to flush the holding disk again. I think because of the fact the holding

Re: DLT1 Tape drive performance...

2004-11-04 Thread Dan Brown
Paul Bijnens wrote: Dan Brown wrote: During a backup, or a flush, the tape drive writes data for 4 seconds, then rewinds for 1 second, then writes for 4 seconds, then rewinds for 1 second, etc. This seems like a good way to wear out a drive. That's usually a symptom of a too fast tapedrive

DLT1 Tape drive performance...

2004-11-03 Thread Dan Brown
I've never really thought about this before until I had our DLT drive sitting beside our desk during some renovations. What should the average DLT1 tape drive perform like during backup? Ours happens to be a Lacie DLT1 (a Quantum DLT1 in a LaCie enclosure basically) which is used to backup

Resetting the chunksize?

2004-09-09 Thread Dan Brown
How do I find out what the INT_MAX or MAX_FILE_SIZE is on my system? Previously my amanda backup setup was dumping 40GB files onto a Samba share on a Windows 2000 workstation NTFS partition. Recently amanda has been dumping backups into 2GB chunks even though the configuration still reads to

Samba mounted holding disks....

2004-02-15 Thread Dan Brown
The holding disk on our backup server died a couple of weeks ago and we have yet to get the replacement for it installed so for the last couple of weeks we've been dumping the backups which would normally go to the holding disk to a windows partition on a workstation (one of a couple with