Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's a matter of opinion (and religion to some people, it seems). tar
[ Linux specific ]
Linus Torvalds, in linux-kernel:
said:
Note that dump simply won't work reliably at all even in 2.4.x: the buffer
cache and the page cache (where al
Nicolae Mihalache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the current tape in the drive(and prompt me to change the tape). Is
> there any possibility that amanda use the tape changer to change the
> tape to the correct one?
Implemented in the `append patch',
http://www-internal.alphanet.ch/archives/loc
Alan Pham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2. How do I configure amanda.conf so data will be APPEND to current tape
>in drive? The default is overwrite.
This isn't wise, because be prepared to loose upto X days of backups if
the tape breaks.
Knowing that, and having evaluated your risks you ca
Anthony Valentine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does (or can) Amanda verify the contents of a tape after the backup to
> verify that it backed up properly? Or does it do something similar already?
In addition to the amverify mentionned here, the append patch contains
an amcompare commands that us
Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a tape, and want to find out what's on it directly from
> the tape. I know I've seen this answered some where before, but
> can't seem to remember wherer.
#! /bin/sh
TAPE=/dev/nst0
COUNT=1
mt -f $TAPE rewind && dd if=$TAPE bs=32k count=1 2>/dev/n
John W. Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm sure this is something I should probably already know, aside from
> being mildly off-topic, but is there a way to test a tape for quality
> *before* you put a backup on it? I just had a brand new tape come back
The built-in SCSI chg driver tests for
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, John W. Price wrote:
> disks, networks, and the like. If there is another disk I should be
> using, by all means let me know.
http://www-internal.alphanet.ch/archives/local/alphanet/divers/patches/amanda/DISASTER_RECOVERY/
supports Amanda recovery with direct (SCSI) or rem
John W. Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> amrecover: amandaidx/tcp unknown protocol
something is missing in your /etc/services.
Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is a 120M, it is HP's "8GB" tape for the DAT8i model we're using.
maybe check you disabled compression: if you compress both software and
hardware, you may get a too large file for the tape.
Yannick LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i want to know if someone use the amanda-2.4.2p2-append-patch.bz2
Yes I do: two customer sites (hopefully three in a while), and a test site.
They use amcompare/amrio, the autochanger-capable amrecover, the sparse
fix, and the rest (from the Debian pa
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
> GNU tar. Instead, it creates a copy of the file (xxx.new). In the case
> of a full dump, it will copy /dev/null to the file. Otherwise it copies
oh, I see.
> the "live" name for the next run. But in the case of no-record, the
> rename is bypassed
Hi,
assuming I use one config which has record and index (using GNU tar, thus
listed-incrementals), and one other config which has no-record and no
index.
Those two configs aren't on the same filesystems, but some ARE the same, ie
for example computer /path is in the two configurations. The idea
Colin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm running backups on 3 Linux systems, one of the systems is a Cobalt
> Qube. All the backups are done using GNU tar. It works OK but the
try remounting those fs noatime during estimates:
mount / -o remount,noatime
John R. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Again, future work may allow this, but only after you've aced an intensive
I have implemented tape appending about one or two years ago. Your
warnings however still apply :)
Christopher Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to set it up as an optional package for a Linux
> distribution. "bin" does have a ~, it is /bin. /bin isn't exactly the
You should not install it as bin, but as user backup (as e.g Debian
does), or user amanda (as Amanda does by defaul
Henning P. Schmiedehausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bug according to which spec?
According to the default assumption that no protocol flaw shall make
an OS hang or crash. What happens with some SMB servers such as
the one developped by Microsoft is that the SMB server code is
deeply buried in
Joi Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just searched through samba.org's mail archive, and there are reports
> there of NT blue-screening during a smbtar pull from Unix hosts.
I can at least confirm this with Windows 95, seems to not happen that
quickly with Windows 98 (ie: it's impossible to d
Bernhard R. Erdmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do you know the exact EOT when using hardware compression?
With DDS tape drives, you will get a CHECK CONDITION with all
data successfully written a bit before the final EOT (where you
will get a CHECK CONDITION, VOLUME OVERFLOW, where there wi
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