Occasional backups to disk

I'd like to be able to back up some of my machines to a holding disk at arbitrary times. For example, I run backups every night at 0100. Some laptop users are unable to leave their machines overnight. I'd like to be able to start a backup for their laptop(s) only, with the results going to the ho

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Well, it -looked- like it was fixed. A few days ago I asked for help on an amanda problem on one of our nodes. Backups were failing- the mail report included the line: node1 / lev -1 FAILED [no estimate] And other messages in the node's log files such as "runtar: error [must be invoked by am

Re: Problem with backup

Thank you all for your help. I solved the problem by reinstalling Amanda. On Tue, October 18, 2005 2:40 pm, Jean-Francois Malouin said: > * Robert Tilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20051018 15:05]: >> >> On Tue, October 18, 2005 12:23 pm, Jean-Francois Malouin said: >> >

Re: Problem with backup

On Tue, October 18, 2005 12:23 pm, Jean-Francois Malouin said: > Hi there, > > * Robert Tilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20051018 13:14]: >> I'm having a problem with amanda backups on one node in our group of >> linux >> boxes. > hmmm, with

Problem with backup

I'm having a problem with amanda backups on one node in our group of linux boxes. The error in the daily report reads: node1 / lev -1 FAILED [no estimate] The error in the node1 sendsize.20051018004609.debug file from last night shows up as sendsize[28113]: time 111.788: spawning /usr/lib/a

Re: Backup order

At 10:39 AM 8/26/2004, Paul Bijnens wrote: Robert Tilden wrote: Is there any way to specify the order machines are backed up in? I'd like to back up laptops first in the process so that if the backups extend into the business day the laptops don't disappear before being backed up. I f

Re: Backup order

security may be less of a problem than otherwise. These are mostly linux based laptops so I suppose I could set up a nfs mount and write a dump/tar script that users could run at their convenience... -B At 10:35 AM 8/26/2004, you wrote: Robert Tilden wrote: Is there any way to specify the order

Backup order

Hi, Is there any way to specify the order machines are backed up in? I'd like to back up laptops first in the process so that if the backups extend into the business day the laptops don't disappear before being backed up. Thanks, -B Bob Tilden, [EMAIL PROTECTED] High Energy Physics Group Northwe

Tape label question

Hi, I have a problem with the 8.5 x 11 'file list' that I print out in leu of a tape label. No matter how many partitions Amanda has backed up I seem to get only one page from the 8.5x11.ps template. Any suggestions for getting a multi-page list? Thanks, -B Bob Tilden [EMAIL PROTECTED] High