chg-rth and hp C1553a

2001-10-22 Thread Michael Sobik
Hi all, I'm currently running amanda-2.4.2p2-1 on RH7.1 with an HP C1553A autoloader attached. I'm using chg-zd-mtx right now with no trouble, but was wondering if anyone had successfully used chg-rth. It seems that this controller script might be more efficient since the comments claim that it

Question about disklist

2001-10-23 Thread Michael Sobik
All, I was wondering if I can do something like this in the disklist: client /home/user1 user-tar client /home/user2 user-tar ... instead of backing up the entire partition that has /home on it? I think this will create separate dump images for each directory and therefore avoid having a dump

Problems with amverify and amrecover

2001-10-24 Thread Michael Sobik
All, Thanks to the help of this list, I have just recently configured Amanda and run my first backups. However, I'm experiencing problems with amverify and amrecover. The morning after the first backups ran, I tried to run amverify on the first tape of the run. Here's the report I got back fro

RE: Problems with amverify and amrecover - more info

2001-10-24 Thread Michael Sobik
ash on the drive, it just sits there with Ready status. Once again, I can get the image with mt, dd, and tar. Mike - Original Message - From: "Michael Sobik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 6:25 AM Subject: Problems with am

Please Help! Problems with amverify and amrecover

2001-10-25 Thread Michael Sobik
----- From: "Michael Sobik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 7:45 AM Subject: RE: Problems with amverify and amrecover - more info > If I try: > > amrestore -p /dev/ no-such-host > /dev/null > > amrestore correctly l

Re: Problems with amverify and amrecover - more info

2001-10-26 Thread Michael Sobik
p. Anyone have problems with system lockups when READING from tape? I'd appreciate any suggestions or things to try. Mike - Original Message - From: "Chris Marble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Sobik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECT

Please Help! Problems with amverify and amrecover - last time

2001-10-28 Thread Michael Sobik
with new cables, etc, etc), I'll have to same problem. Please can anyone give me an idea as to what the problem may be? Thanks. Mike - Original Message - From: "Michael Sobik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 11:17

Amanda Newbie questions - Long

2001-10-12 Thread Michael Sobik
Hi all,I have some questions that weren't answered to well but the Unix backup and recovery chapter, and I was hoping to get some answers from users with some experience.Is the dumpcycle the max. number of days Amanda goes before taking a full dump of all the systems listed in the disklist f

Newbie Amanda questions - Long

2001-10-12 Thread Michael Sobik
Hi all, I have some questions that weren't answered to well but the Unix backup and recovery chapter, and I was hoping to get some answers from users with some experience. Is the dumpcycle the max. number of days Amanda goes before taking a full dump of all the systems listed in the disklist

Question about directory backup

2002-01-27 Thread Michael Sobik
Hi all, I'm backing only 2 directories contained on a partition mounted at /mnt/share using GNUTAR. Here's my disklist entry: ... linuxman /mnt/share/Photos user linuxman /mnt/share/Work user ... amcheck runs fine, as does amdump. However, when I test using amrecover the directory /mnt/shar