To hardware compress or not?

compression ON, but now im not sure if it actually were a good idea. best, Kasper Kasper Edwards Ph.D. Stipendiat, Civilingeniør Institut for Produktion og Ledelse Danmarks Tekniske Universitet Byg 423, rum 028 2800 Lyngby tlf. : +45

Re: Disaster Recovery on Windows

At 15:58 25-02-2002 -0500, Jan Boshoff wrote: Hi all I just had a thought and would like to probe the great minds of this list. Would anyone do a disaster recovery type of restore of a Winbox that was backed up using smbclient?I'm currently backing up the complete winbox, but it occured to

Re: dumper is dying

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Re: about amanda holding disk...

At 14:26 03-01-2002 -0500, Dengfeng Liu wrote: Since my incremental backup is not so big(about 20G)per day. I want amanda to put daily incremental backup to the holding disk first. and then after 3 or 4 days, I flush it to one tape(100G capacity).That means the holding disk will have 3 or 4 days

Re: Backup cycle

At 11:51 14-02-2002 +0100, Juanjo wrote: I have 9 slot autoloader, on slot 9 I have cleaning tape, well, my dumpcycle is one week, and tapecycle is 8. My idea was doing incrementals during weekdays and full backup on weekend. I have been reading around and seems that amanda works different.

Re: HP SureStore AutoLoader

Kasper -Original Message- From: Kasper Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Juanjo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:07:36 +0100 Subject: Re: HP SureStore AutoLoader At 10:37 13-02-2002 +0100, Juanjo wrote: Hello, I'm trying to config a backup system with amanda-2.4.3b2

dumper died

--create --file - --directory /usr --one-file-system --listed-incremental /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/bifrost_usr_0.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals . bash-2.04$ ** RUNTAR..debug end* Kasper Edwards Ph.D

Re: GNUTAR program not available

I had a similar problem that meant amverify was not working. For some reason tar was not available. I had to delete configure.cache, make a symlink /usr/bin/gtar - /bin/tar, chown amanda:disk /usr/bin/gtar and then ./comfigure bla.bla. -with-gnutar=/usr/bin/gtar versions: amanda 2.4.p2,

Re: What if ... ( the index under /var/amanda is gone )

I have a cron job emailing me a sorted index list every night after backup has been performed. Look: date host disklv tape or file file status 2002-01-17 localhost /1 daily6 10 OK 2002-01-17 localhost /boot1 daily6

Re: amrecover - dealing with whitespace in names

At 09:42 04-01-2002 -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:13:56AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: amrecover doesn't seem to have a way to deal with whitespace in directory/file names. I've tried wildcards (*, ., ?), quoting (single and double) and ignoring the spaces

To hardware compress or not?

compression ON, but now im not sure if it actually were a good idea. best, Kasper Kasper Edwards Ph.D. Stipendiat, Civilingeniør Institut for Produktion og Ledelse Danmarks Tekniske Universitet Byg 423, rum 028 2800 Lyngby tlf. : +45

Follow symlinks - possible?

Is it possible to make amanda follow symlinks? I have a disk that has grown larger than the tape used and need a way to backup this disk without splitting it into different disks. I made a script that creates a few directories and populate these with symlinks to the large disk. Treating these

Re: about amanda holding disk...

At 14:26 03-01-2002 -0500, Dengfeng Liu wrote: Since my incremental backup is not so big(about 20G)per day. I want amanda to put daily incremental backup to the holding disk first. and then after 3 or 4 days, I flush it to one tape(100G capacity).That means the holding disk will have 3 or 4 days