Re: Annoying problem in amrecover

2005-05-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:48:20PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Guy Dallaire wrote: > >Whil using amrecover, if I don an "ls" in the amrecover shell, even if > >there are only 2 lines, I have to press "q" to get rid of a pager > >(END) prompt. Is this normal ? Is there a way to tell the pager that

Re: Annoying problem in amrecover

2005-05-18 Thread Paul Bijnens
Guy Dallaire wrote: Whil using amrecover, if I don an "ls" in the amrecover shell, even if there are only 2 lines, I have to press "q" to get rid of a pager (END) prompt. Is this normal ? Is there a way to tell the pager that my terminal has "y" lines ? If so, what is the correct way on solaris AND

Annoying problem in amrecover

2005-05-18 Thread Guy Dallaire
Whil using amrecover, if I don an "ls" in the amrecover shell, even if there are only 2 lines, I have to press "q" to get rid of a pager (END) prompt. Is this normal ? Is there a way to tell the pager that my terminal has "y" lines ? If so, what is the correct way on solaris AND on Linux. Thanks !

Re: Annoying

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
Brendon Standing wrote: I am a cpio man, and am used to getting a backup to do what I want it to (IE flexible, without to many complications). Well, I'm a cpio man too :-) That's why I switched to amanda, i.e. flexible, without too many complications. You do realize that a tape label is just a

Re: Annoying

2004-03-24 Thread Brendon Standing
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 14:37, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Hi, Brendon Standing, > > on Mittwoch, 24. März 2004 at 13:25 you wrote to amanda-users: > > BS> However when trying to backup (# amdump CLG), I am receiving the error: > BS> *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [tape_rdlabel: tape open: /dev/nsa1

Re: Annoying

2004-03-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Brendon Standing, on Mittwoch, 24. März 2004 at 13:25 you wrote to amanda-users: BS> However when trying to backup (# amdump CLG), I am receiving the error: BS> *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [tape_rdlabel: tape open: /dev/nsa1: Device BS> not configured]. This is not an AMANDA-problem but a pro

Annoying

2004-03-24 Thread Brendon Standing
Hi all, I am a cpio man, and am used to getting a backup to do what I want it to (IE flexible, without to many complications). This is why Amanda is irritating me at the moment. Earlier I had the problem where I was being ask for Monday's tape (Which was a public holiday and so didn't run). After

Re: How to fix annoying break in tape sequence?

2003-12-02 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 01.12.2003 at 20:11 +0100, Gerhard den Hollander wrote: > > We have a four-week, five days per week cycle: > > Good :) > > > These twenty tapes are named OurName-A-Mon, OurName-A-Tue, ..., > > OurName-A-Fri, OurName-B-Mon, ..., OurName-D-Fri (in other words, > > the letters A, B, C, D

Re: How to fix annoying break in tape sequence?

2003-12-02 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 01.12.2003 at 12:51 -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > Remember to set a calendar reminder to reactivate it. > > We always run amcheck -m from cron - if the tapes are out of sequence > we notice (also someone reads the amdump output which lists both > current and next tapes). Already doin

Re: How to fix annoying break in tape sequence?

2003-12-01 Thread Eric Siegerman
For the benefit of the archives (I know you've solved your recent problem): On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 04:49:50PM +, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Monday, 01.12.2003 at 16:32 +, Tom Brown wrote: > > [...] alter the config/tapelist file so that the required OurName-C-Mon > > is at the bottom (althoug

Re: How to fix annoying break in tape sequence?

2003-12-01 Thread Jay Lessert
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 02:56:05PM +, Dave Ewart wrote: > dumpcycle 7 days > runspercycle 5 > tapecycle 20 tapes [clip] > Last Friday, we were due to use OurName-B-Fri, but because of a disk > space problem in /var/log, the job failed. AMANDA is still expecting to > use OurName-B-F

Re: How to fix annoying break in tape sequence?

2003-12-01 Thread Brian Cuttler
We always run amcheck -m from cron - if the tapes are out of sequence we notice (also someone reads the amdump output which lists both current and next tapes). > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 04:51:18PM +, Dave Ewart wrote: > > On Monday, 01.12.2003 at 11:32 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > > > I t

Re: How to fix annoying break in tape sequence?

2003-12-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 04:51:18PM +, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Monday, 01.12.2003 at 11:32 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > I think if you reduce your tapecycle, say to 15, then it will use any > > tape used less recently than the last 15. You can still cycle 20 > > tapes and it will ask for the

Re: How to fix annoying break in tape sequence?

2003-12-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 01 December 2003 09:56, Dave Ewart wrote: >Hello, > >We have a four-week, five days per week cycle: > >dumpcycle 7 days >runspercycle 5 >tapecycle 20 tapes > >These twenty tapes are named OurName-A-Mon, OurName-A-Tue, ..., >OurName-A-Fri, OurName-B-Mon, ..., OurName-D-Fri (in

Re: How to fix annoying break in tape sequence?

2003-12-01 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 01.12.2003 at 11:32 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > I think if you reduce your tapecycle, say to 15, then it will use any > tape used less recently than the last 15. You can still cycle 20 > tapes and it will ask for them in sequence. I think it may still ask > for the missed tape until i

Re: How to fix annoying break in tape sequence?

2003-12-01 Thread Tom Brown
$amflush config or alter the config/tapelist file so that the required OurName-C-Mon is at the bottom (although this is less desirable) thanks > Hello, > > We have a four-week, five days per week cycle: > > dumpcycle 7 days > runspercycle 5 > tapecycle 20 tapes > > These twenty tapes

Re: How to fix annoying break in tape sequence?

2003-12-01 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 01.12.2003 at 16:32 +, Tom Brown wrote: > $amflush config There's nothing to flush ... > or alter the config/tapelist file so that the required OurName-C-Mon > is at the bottom (although this is less desirable) Are you sure? I have read that altering tapelist has no effect, sinc

Re: How to fix annoying break in tape sequence?

2003-12-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 02:56:05PM +, Dave Ewart wrote: > Hello, > > We have a four-week, five days per week cycle: > > dumpcycle 7 days > runspercycle 5 > tapecycle 20 tapes > > These twenty tapes are named OurName-A-Mon, OurName-A-Tue, ..., > OurName-A-Fri, OurName-B-Mon, .

How to fix annoying break in tape sequence?

2003-12-01 Thread Dave Ewart
Hello, We have a four-week, five days per week cycle: dumpcycle 7 days runspercycle 5 tapecycle 20 tapes These twenty tapes are named OurName-A-Mon, OurName-A-Tue, ..., OurName-A-Fri, OurName-B-Mon, ..., OurName-D-Fri (in other words, the letters A, B, C, D refer to weeks in the