Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-06-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 16 June 2006 10:53, Paul Bijnens wrote: > On 2006-06-14 21:31, Anne Wilson wrote: > [...] > > > I've lost the thread here - which file do you want to see, please? > > Actually, I lost the thread here too. It's been long ago, and I do > not keep all those mails. > Understood. > > [...] >

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-06-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-06-14 21:31, Anne Wilson wrote: [...] I've lost the thread here - which file do you want to see, please? Actually, I lost the thread here too. It's been long ago, and I do not keep all those mails. [...] And this would exclude the whole tree under ./anne/Photos etc.? Maybe I should

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-06-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 12 May 2006 13:27, Paul Bijnens wrote: Sorry for the delay - I've been away for a month. > > When all else fails, read the manual: (man amanda.conf, "exclude"...) > I've read it so many times, but still am not getting my head around it. > >> Where did you put that file? give the complet

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-12 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-12 13:40, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 11 May 2006 19:16, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Show us that you made the change, what is the output of : amadmin CONFIG disklist borg /home amadmin Daily disklist borg /home line 8: host borg: interface default disk /home:

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 11 May 2006 19:16, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > > Show us that you made the change, what is the output of : >amadmin CONFIG disklist borg /home amadmin Daily disklist borg /home line 8: host borg: interface default disk /home: program "GNUTAR" excl

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 10 May 2006 21:40, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:16:22PM +0100, Anne Wilson enlightened us: And there is the likely culprit, exclude "file" vs. exclude "list". I.e. you are excluding any file matching the single pattern "amanda.exclude".

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 21:40, Matt Hyclak wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:16:22PM +0100, Anne Wilson enlightened us: > > > And there is the likely culprit, exclude "file" vs. exclude "list". > > > > > > I.e. you are excluding any file matching the single pattern > > > "amanda.exclude". > > >

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 11 May 2006 15:09, Paul Bijnens wrote: > On 2006-05-11 15:58, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Troubleshooting is incredibly slow because it's not a problem discovered > > by amcheck, so i have to wait 24 hours every time to see whether I've > > improved the situation. I'm getting worried, now,

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-11 15:58, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 11 May 2006 13:02, listrcv wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: The vtapes are set to 4GB, so that they will fit onto a DVD. Earlier I Actually, they were defined as 4000 Mb, I've slightly increased it to 4100 Mb, just to give a little more headroom.

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 11 May 2006 13:02, listrcv wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > The vtapes are set to 4GB, so that they will fit onto a DVD. Earlier I > Actually, they were defined as 4000 Mb, I've slightly increased it to 4100 Mb, just to give a little more headroom. > Check out the runtapes option in

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-11 Thread listrcv
Anne Wilson wrote: The vtapes are set to 4GB, so that they will fit onto a DVD. Earlier I Check out the runtapes option in amanda.conf and: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Splitting_dumps_across_tapes http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Manually_splitting_large_disks GH

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 21:40, Matt Hyclak wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:16:22PM +0100, Anne Wilson enlightened us: > > > And there is the likely culprit, exclude "file" vs. exclude "list". > > > > > > I.e. you are excluding any file matching the single pattern > > > "amanda.exclude". > > >

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-10 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:16:22PM +0100, Anne Wilson enlightened us: > > And there is the likely culprit, exclude "file" vs. exclude "list". > > > > I.e. you are excluding any file matching the single pattern > > "amanda.exclude". > > > > What you want is to exclude any file matching any pattern >

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 21:09, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 08:33:16PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 May 2006 19:01, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:49:30PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > I've been trying for some time to troubleshoot this, wi

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 08:33:16PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 10 May 2006 19:01, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:49:30PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > I've been trying for some time to troubleshoot this, without success. > > > Each day I'm seeing a report like thi

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 19:01, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:49:30PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I've been trying for some time to troubleshoot this, without success. > > Each day I'm seeing a report like this: > > ... > > > I am trying to back up /home, using an exclusion fil

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:49:30PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > I've been trying for some time to troubleshoot this, without success. Each > day I'm seeing a report like this: > ... > > I am trying to back up /home, using an exclusion file. First question, then > - > should the exclusion file

Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-10 Thread Anne Wilson
I've been trying for some time to troubleshoot this, without success. Each day I'm seeing a report like this: planner: borg /home 20060510 0 [dump larger than available tape space, 25292190 KB, full dump delayed] planner: Full dump of borg:/home/anne/Photos promoted from 6 days ahead. pla

Re: Can't get a level 0 backup.

2005-11-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:52:38PM -0500, Joe wrote: > Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > > > >Where is your amdump log file (amdump.1)? > >Amanda write in this file why it did a level 3. > > > >Jean-Louis > > > Whoops! Bad example. I forgot to change the tape last night. > (This server isn't in produ

Re: Can't get a level 0 backup.

2005-11-18 Thread Joe
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Joe wrote: I just set up a new CentOS 4.2 server with Amanda 2.4.4p3. I can't seem to get a level 0 backup. I want a level 0 M-F and when I'm not there S-Sun it is for a degraded backup. I have tried to set everything up correctly and what follows are pieces of

Re: Can't get a level 0 backup.

2005-11-18 Thread Joe
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Joe wrote: I just set up a new CentOS 4.2 server with Amanda 2.4.4p3. I can't seem to get a level 0 backup. I want a level 0 M-F and when I'm not there S-Sun it is for a degraded backup. I have tried to set everything up correctly and what follows are pieces of

Re: Can't get a level 0 backup.

2005-11-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 02:42:04PM -0500, Joe wrote: > I just set up a new CentOS 4.2 server with Amanda 2.4.4p3. I can't seem > to get a level 0 backup. I want a level 0 M-F and when I'm not there S-Sun > it is for a degraded backup. I have tried to set everything up > correctly and > what fol

Re: Can't get a level 0 backup.

2005-11-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Joe wrote: I just set up a new CentOS 4.2 server with Amanda 2.4.4p3. I can't seem to get a level 0 backup. I want a level 0 M-F and when I'm not there S-Sun it is for a degraded backup. I have tried to set everything up correctly and what follows are pieces of amanda.conf and logs... Wh

Can't get a level 0 backup.

2005-11-18 Thread Joe
I just set up a new CentOS 4.2 server with Amanda 2.4.4p3. I can't seem to get a level 0 backup. I want a level 0 M-F and when I'm not there S-Sun it is for a degraded backup. I have tried to set everything up correctly and what follows are pieces of amanda.conf and logs... amanda.c