Revisiting a topic that I brought up at the end of March...
I need to back up a laptop (WIN98SE) that will not be attached to the
network during normal Amanda backup hours. Thus, I call it transient. It
goes home, and might not be back at regular intervals.
The solution that I'm going to go with
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
> You do understand that setting runtapes to 2 does not mean you will
> use 2 tapes every run, right? It means that is the *most* tapes it
> will use, but if just one tape is sufficient for a given run, that's
> all that will be used.
Yes sir. That's
We're moving the backup solution to a new dedicated server (whoopiee), so
I'm re-hashing this again. What we want is the following:
A) 2-4 weeks of backup history.
B) Full backups once per week.
C) Archival dumps once per month to tapes we just store away.
I'm using a 22-tape ADIC changer with t
Any compatibility between p2 and p1? I want to upgrade our server to p2
(well, we got a new backup server and I'm getting amanda going on it) and
I don't want to have to rebuild all the clients.
Mark
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On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> All mine reports is 1.13. No minor version.
> What, hypothetically speaking, would happen if one used tar < 1.13.17?
It won't work. I built a Slack 7 box with 1.13 and it just didn't work.
Okay, to be more specific, it didn't create the index files c
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, James Sharp wrote:
> Put the laptop into your disklist...when the laptop is present, it
> gets backed up. If not, the backup times out and it shows up in your
> nightly mail report.
Cool idea, but the laptop is never here at night -- ie. when the backups
actually are going
Okay, our backup plan, with major thanks to you guys, and especially John
R. Jackson, is ready to go into daily operation. I _do_ have some "daily
use" questions that I just couldn't get answered in the FAQ, or on "the
chapter".
First, some background... I'm using a 22-tape changer on a linux box
I want to back up a laptop that is only sometimes on the network. I'd love
to roll this into our main daily set since setting up a whole 'nother tape
for this 10-20g drive is not what I feel like doing.
The laptop in question is a Win98 box.
My idea is to force the user to hook into the network
Moving the 11gb file out of the backup tree fixed things. I do not know
who to blame, nor do I care at this exact moment. I'll figure it out later
today. Thanks for your input, John.
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
> Agreed, although I don't know that I'd use the word "culprit" yet.
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
> I don't think this would be the problem. LFS would only come into play
> if the file went to disk. The only way it would go to disk is in the
> holding disk, and you can set the chunksize in amanda.conf for that.
> Also, Amanda would have whined mig
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
> OK. The first thing to do is look at the actual index files and see
> if they have the entries (this is sounding familiar, so if we've gone
> down this path before and I've forgotten, my apologies). If the files
> are listed, it's an amrecover probl
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
> What "missing files on samba shares" problem are you talking about?
Seems very similar to the problem with the regular solaris 8 client. For
example, there are hundreds of files in one user directory on the samba
share, but only one file is visible i
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
> >Here's the first few lines:
> >
> >07256012003/./
> >07256012003/./TT_DB/
> >...
> >Them's looking like really big numbers. ...
>
> Yup. That's bad.
> You want at least 1.13.18. Anything before that is a crap shoot.
Okay. Built and installed on c
Thomas - I got all this to work finally. Trick was to get the CVS
version of chg-zd-mtx and hack it a little. Our ADIC/mtx/mt combo returns
different messages depending on status, so I had to make those changes.
The problem with "slot 19 gives slot 2" was that the case statement in the
script (/bi
First, thanks for the info... I feel I'm getting close!
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
> The disk device does not matter if you're using tar.
> Not relevant. Amanda will do all the necessary conversions.
> I always use mount points in disklist because there is no way I'd remember
>
Question that I can't seem to find in the FAQ or on "the page"... it seems
trivial, but I guess I'm missing _something_ very obvious -- excuse the
lengthy posting.
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tape-server == prefect (slack linux)
client == brain (solaris 8)
amanda users are all backup/backup (and gr
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
> Huh? It's the Unix machine that is running Samba, not the PC. The
> Windows machines must "share" what they want visible, but there's no
> server involved (well, I guess there is an SMB server on the PC but
> it's part of the base Windows OS). But m
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
> If you're looking for information on how to use these three methods of
> getting an image back, they are all covered in:
>
> http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html
Just did that. All clear now! (But I'll be back with more questions!)
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Can someone give me an idea of amrecover vs. amrestore vs. just getting
the tars off the tape manually?
I just ran my first "test" backup and didn't turn on indexing, so I can't
use amrecover (actually, can't test it). I hear amrecover is pretty neat
with the file-browsing...
Mark
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On 15 Mar 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > and is:
> > chunksize 2gb
> > the right way to limit it?
>
> Nope. Use 2000mb. That's a little bit less than 2Gb, so it won't
> bump into the limit.
Confusing, but understood. I will try that, thanks.
Mark
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Just a quick sanity check ...
server is linux w/DLT7000 and 25g free on holding disk
brain (client) is solaris 8 with 15g partition (7 gig used) to back up for
the first time.
I get this error in the raw log:
FAIL dumper brain c1t1d0s0 0 ["data write: File too large"]
sendbackup: start [brain:c
in loadslot() we have code that picks the slot source/destination:
[${firstslot}-${lastslot}])
loadslot=$1
;;
clean)
loadslot=$cleanslot
;;
*)
I have a Slack 7.1 (2.2.18) setup with an Adic 7000 22-tape library. Did a
clean make and install and am trying to get the tape controller to work.
Should I be using chg-scsi or chg-zd-mtx? chg-scsi doesn't seem to like
all 22 of the media slots ( see below -- note the "-1" on slots 8,9,10 ).
Plu
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