Holding Disks

2007-03-12 Thread Lonny Selinger
Is there another way to have backups forced to the holding disk? Fomr what I understand if you just don't mount a tape then the holding disk is where the images go to. I'm just wondering if there's a way for me to leave a tape in my drive and still force the backups to holding disk. Basically I'd

vtapes, virtual libraries, and tape?

2007-03-06 Thread Lonny Selinger
All, I'm just digging around a little more but I figured I'd put this out anyway. I'm just curious if anyone has tried anything like this ... I'd like to maintain longer retention period backups to tape and still have the advantage of using the file-driver and a virtual library of tapes. Based

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

2007-03-06 Thread Lonny Selinger
/linux/rescan-scsi-bus.sh Not sure if it would help at but it's worked for me adding new devices including having the dev nodes created even for devices that seemed to have magically disappeared. -- Lonny Selinger LPIC-1 -- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows