Re: Splitting a big directory (disklist question)

2003-01-30 Thread Nick Russo
tle filesystems, and now each one gets backed up independently, except, of course, for the one which is causing the error. The only drawback I see is that my disklist file and my email reports are longer, but it seems worth it to me. Nick *****

[SAGE-AU] Amanda users

2002-09-03 Thread Nick Russo
asons, so I find it easiest to just decouple the snapshot from the backup on moving filesystems. Nick **** Nick Russo email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 773.702.3438 Computer Science Department The University of Chicago Asso

Re: Backing up only certain directories?

2002-09-02 Thread Nick Russo
Dale, You can specify any directory. Amanda won't cross partition boundries though, so if you specify / you won't get /var if it's on it's own partition. Nick **** Nick Russo email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multiple configurations, multiple tape devices?

2002-06-04 Thread Nick Russo
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, eggslammich wrote: > I currently have 2 configurations called Full and Incr > - Full > - Points to DLT as tape device > - Does only 0 level backups (using dumpcycle 0 and > always-full) > > - Incr > - points to D

Re: Mixed files and sub-dirs in disklist entry

2002-05-30 Thread Nick Russo
You can have a disklist entry for projXXX which excludes certain directories. Then each of those directories can have its own disklist entry. Nick

Re: Getting My Data Back Off The Tape

2002-05-29 Thread Nick Russo
On Wed, 29 May 2002, GIC MLs wrote: > I followed your advice and ran the command with the -tvf - flags, which > seemed to only give me a listing of directories.: Tar stores all the directories first, so if you are impatient, you might not wait around until the files start showing up :) Nick

Re: retain dump files on holding disk

2002-05-29 Thread Nick Russo
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Jon LaBadie wrote: > Skyblue thinking. Wouldn't this be just the level 0's you'd want retained? > At least that is my antiquated impression of off-site archiving. A level 0 from three days ago won't have a file I created two days ago. A level 1 from one day ago will. So alt

Re: Getting My Data Back Off The Tape

2002-05-28 Thread Nick Russo
ou run the dd and tar commands from within a new, empty directory. ******** Nick Russo email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 773.702.3438 Computer Science Department The University of Chicago Associate Director of Computing Systems, Systems Lead

retain dump files on holding disk

2002-05-28 Thread Nick Russo
ing on how much disk space I have to spare on the holding disk. Does amanda have a built-in way to do this, or does anyone have a hack to accomplish something close? Thanks, Nick **** Nick Russo email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 773.7

Re: "I know this message..." help restore entire system

2002-04-03 Thread Nick Russo
e there's a new drive somewhere. I would mount it on a working client machine and drop the restored data on it. Am I missing some complexity here? Nick **** Nick Russo email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 773.702.3438 Co