Changing Tapes

2002-11-03 Thread Steve Simeonidis
Steve Simeonidis

runtapes 1

2002-11-01 Thread Steve Simeonidis
Does anyone use more than 1 tape on a single tape drive without a changer for dumping data? I can't make it work, it doesn't ask me to instert the second tape!!?? These are some of the definition of the configuration filethat I use for my testing. dumpcycle 0 days# the number of days

Re: runtapes 1

2002-11-01 Thread Steve Simeonidis
make/force it change tapes, but /usr is bigger than 1.1GB. May be that is way it is behaving like that??? Thanks On Friday 01 November 2002 20:00, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 12:56:49AM +0500, Steve Simeonidis wrote: Does anyone use more than 1 tape on a single tape drive

Backup Scenario

2002-10-31 Thread Steve Simeonidis
Hi everyone, If I want to backup 2 partitions of the localhost in 2 tapes, is that possible by doing something like that? dumpcycle 0 days # for full backups runspercycle 5 # backup weekdays only ??? tapecycle 5 tapes runtapes 2 #Do I have to define this?? #tpchanger chg-manual localhost

Re: A couple of questions

2002-10-31 Thread Steve Simeonidis
backup, then runtapes=3, tapecycle=6 (list, please let me know if I'm wrong!) Jordi On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:03:39 0500 Steve Simeonidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. I need to install a backup software on a few servers and I was told that amanda is really good. What I'm not sure about: 1

Re: A couple of questions

2002-10-31 Thread Steve Simeonidis
2002 18:04, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 at 10:03am, Steve Simeonidis wrote 1/ Some of the data we backup do not fit on a single tape How do I handle that if we haven't got a changer?? 2/ Usually we do full backups only. We have 7 tapes, 5 weekday and 2 that are used

chg-manual

2002-10-31 Thread Steve Simeonidis
amanda-2.4.2p2 Can someone explain to me how the chg-manual works? I want to use more than one tape with runtape 2 When I enable the chg-manual option and try to use something like amlabel the system complains. [rootzeus tmp]# su amanda -c amlabel -f DailySet1 DMP01 slot 0

A couple of questions

2002-10-30 Thread Steve Simeonidis
I need to install a backup software on a few servers and I was told that amanda is really good. What I'm not sure about: 1/ Some of the data we backup do not fit on a single tape How do I handle that if we haven't got a changer?? 2/ Usually we do full backups only. We have 7 tapes, 5 weekday