About Linus's condemnation of Dump

2003-09-06 Thread Scott Phelps
nsidering backing up critical config files and directories on my servers with tar and rebuilding them from scratch using XFS since that filesystem has a working version of dump ('xfsdump'). Any comments, advice? (Does Amanda even work with xfsdump/xfsrestore? Thanks, Scott Phelps

Starting a new tape -> per partition

2003-09-05 Thread Scott Phelps
tape when it gets to this new remote partition? Thanks a million! Scott Phelps

New prob: Disk Offline? error

2003-09-02 Thread Scott Phelps
ent01 /samba 20030901 0 [disk /samba offline on rid96pdc?] planner: FAILED client01 /home 20030901 0 [disk /home offline on rid96pdc?] planner: FAILED client01 /var 20030901 0 [disk /var offline on rid96pdc?] planner: FAILED client01 / 20030901 0 [disk / offline on rid96pdc?] --- Scott Phelps

Re: amcheck: Permission Denied

2003-09-02 Thread Scott Phelps
I fixed it. I needed execute permissions on the devices. Thanks.

amcheck: Permission Denied

2003-09-01 Thread Scott Phelps
I'm stumped When I run amcheck I get: Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /dumps/amanda: 78137024 KB disk space available, using 78137024 KB amcheck-server: slot 2: date Xlabel DailySet1-VOL2 (first labelstr match) NOTE: skipping tape-writable tes

Re: Does amanda need a shell?

2003-09-01 Thread Scott Phelps
On Sunday 31 August 2003 07:41 pm, Stefan Keel wrote: > Amanda does need its own user to operate. You can create a new user, named > Amanda, and make the user a part of the 'disk' group. This gives Amanda > permission to do its stuff. > > There's good information here... > > http://people.web.psi

Does amanda need a shell?

2003-08-31 Thread Scott Phelps
Hi, I am a new subscriber and a new user of Amanda. I'm just getting it set up and, I was reading through my new copy of Curtis Preston's book when I came to the point where I need to issue the command: # su amanda -c "amlabel DailySet-01 VOL1 slot 1" The problem is that nothing happens becaus