Re: ideal dumpcicle

2004-03-17 Thread Sergio Pereira
ok. but doesn't amanda get confuse with two configs? sergio On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 13:32, Frank Smith wrote: > --On Friday, March 21, 2003 13:13:06 -0500 Sergio Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > I'm trying to setup amanda to ba

ideal dumpcicle

2004-03-17 Thread Sergio Pereira
Hi list, I'm trying to setup amanda to backup 52 weeks with incremental daily and every week a full backup. My amanda.conf shows like: dumpcycle 7 runspercycle 5 tapecycle 55 tapes for sure I'm doing something wrong .. what is it? when I run amadmin to check the due date for each disk I get: Du

Re: amrecover error

2004-03-16 Thread Sergio Pereira
hmm ... I see .. but I thought amanda was able to load whatever tape needed. am I wrong? another info, I'm using vtapes. sergio On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 13:54, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 at 1:56pm, Sergio Pereira wrote > > > path = /usr/local/amanda/sbin/amr

Re: amrecover error

2004-03-16 Thread Sergio Pereira
ly6' amidxtaped: time 0.003: amrestore terminated normally with status: 1 amidxtaped: time 0.003: rewinding tape ... amidxtaped: time 0.004: done amidxtaped: time 0.004: pid 14387 finish time Tue Mar 16 13:53:41 2004 On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 13:26, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > Please respond

Re: amrecover error

2004-03-16 Thread Sergio Pereira
it's a text file with some network configuration, nothing else. I doing some tests with amrecover because I don't want to run into problems when the real recover show up. thx, sergio On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 13:06, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 at 12:57pm, Sergio

amrecover error

2004-03-16 Thread Sergio Pereira
Hi List, when trying to recover a file using amrecover I get this error message: Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? EOF, check amidxtaped..debug file on bkpserver. amrecover: short block 0 bytes UNKNOWN file amrecover: Can't read file header extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1 what is it? thx,

Re: retrieving 1 year old file

2004-03-12 Thread Sergio Pereira
Hi list, I did some thinking last night and here is my conclusion: wouldn't be easier to have all the 52 weeks backed up using level 0 instead of having two configurations (daily+monthly)? I mean, the total of space utilized will be the same at the end. I can setup amanda to look for the vtapes

Re: retrieving 1 year old file

2004-03-11 Thread Sergio Pereira
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 12:11, Frank Smith wrote: > --On Thursday, March 11, 2004 11:46:16 -0500 Sergio Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > I'm starting to play win amanda (2.4.4p2) on rh9 and using external hard > > disk as v

retrieving 1 year old file

2004-03-11 Thread Sergio Pereira
Hi list, I'm starting to play win amanda (2.4.4p2) on rh9 and using external hard disk as virtual tapes. I was wondering how do I setup amanda to be able to retrieve a 1 year old file? in other words, I want to have 1 year bkp with level 0 weekly. If someone has any other idea .. pls share.:-) he

tape problem

2002-02-12 Thread Sergio Pereira
hi folks, I'm using amanda-2.4.2p2 with redhat 7.2 and I'm geting problem to setup some tapes to use. When I try to use amlabel I get a error message: "amlabel: no tape online" but the tape is there. any thoughts about it ? thanks in advance Sergio

amanda behind firewall

2001-03-20 Thread Sergio Pereira
Hi all, I'm using amanda-2.4.2p1 and I used to compile ./configure --with-portrange=1000,1005 --with-udpportrange=850,854 --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk but ... when I'm trying to do a backup my firewall response: --cut-- DENY eth2 PROTO=6 207.245.14.66:3267 207.245.14.71:32886 --cut--

amrecover question

2001-02-20 Thread Sergio Pereira
Hi, I'm using amanda 2.4.2p1 on linux redhat7. So, I have a lot of clients and when I try restore some "disk" I must to locate the tape (using mt -f /dev/st0 fsf N) before use the amrecover . .that's correct ? is there another way to do that ? Sergio

Trying to use GNUTAR

2001-02-16 Thread Sergio Pereira
Hi, first of all thanks for the people that help me. So, now I'm trying to use gnutar because when I try to use dump a error message appear on the log file : --cut-- (client side) sendbackup: debug 1 pid 25232 ruid 502 euid 502 start time Fri Feb 16 11:16:52 2001 /usr/local/libexec/sendbackup

RedHat7.0 and Xinetd

2001-02-15 Thread Sergio Pereira
Hi folks, I'm trying to use AMANDA 2.4.2p1 but some problems are happening. So, first of all I need to know how can I call amandad, amindexd and amidxtaped on xinetd ? I did to server and client side: ---cut here--- service amanda { disable = no socket_type