Re: Problem configuring full dump

2004-04-22 Thread Gertjan van Oosten
Is there still nobody here who can answer my question? As quoted from Gertjan van Oosten [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm having a problem configuring Amanda-2.4.4p2 (on sun-sparc-solaris8) to always do a full dump of a filesystem. The filesystem in question is over 100 GByte, and no matter what I try

Re: Problem configuring full dump

2004-04-22 Thread Gertjan van Oosten
while they are running, because amandad on that machine is busy until they terminate. I take it from your answer that there's no provision in the Amanda protocol to communicate operation time-outs to the client then? Shame... Mit freundlichen grüß, -- -- Gertjan van Oosten, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problem configuring full dump

2004-04-22 Thread Gertjan van Oosten
in the disklist, so that can't be it. Anyway, thanks Christoph and Paul for their excellent suggestions; our new Amanda setup using our new Sun StorEdge L8 autochanger is now working properly. Time to retire the old setup and them old DDS3 drives, I guess. :-) Cheers, -- -- Gertjan van Oosten, [EMAIL

Re: Amanda backup levels

2004-04-21 Thread Gertjan van Oosten
short, or you have too much incremental data to fit even on one tape) all changed files are somewhere in the tape cycle. Met vriendelijke groet, -- -- Gertjan van Oosten, [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Consulting B.V., +31 15 2191 600

Re: Amanda backup levels

2004-04-21 Thread Gertjan van Oosten
: - in theory you can get an infinite level (no limit) backup ? In theory: yes. In practice: ufsdump limits the levels to 0 through 9. Kind regards, -- -- Gertjan van Oosten, [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Consulting B.V., +31 15 2191 600

Re: Incremental tape too low when using amrestore

2004-04-21 Thread Gertjan van Oosten
Hello Hans, As quoted from Hans van Zijst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I tried a bare metal recovery yesterday, Why didn't you just use amrecover? It prompts you to insert the right tapes in the tape server as needed, without you having to figure it out yourself. Kind regards, -- -- Gertjan van Oosten

Re: Amanda backup levels

2004-04-21 Thread Gertjan van Oosten
Hi Nicolas, As quoted from Nicolas Ecarnot [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 20040402, to restore a complete system that was set up on january 1th and crashed today, you'll have to provide : - L0 2004 - L1 200404 - L2 20040402 Correct. Salut, -- -- Gertjan van Oosten, [EMAIL PROTECTED], West