Re: Hard disk backup doubts

2004-06-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
Javier Sanchez wrote: I created 10 vtapes on a usb disk, as soon as the tapes gets full i must put the tape in no-reuse and add another tape to the tapelist ?? ...as soon as the tapes are WRITTEN TO... The number of "reusable" tapes needs to be >= tapecycle parameter. As long as this condition hold

Re: Hard disk backup doubts

2004-06-03 Thread Javier Sanchez
So let see if i understood all correctly .-) I created 10 vtapes on a usb disk, as soon as the tapes gets full i must put the tape in no-reuse and add another tape to the tapelist ?? How can i force amanda not to use another tape if theres free space on the actual tape ?? Cheers And again thank

Re: Hard disk backup doubts

2004-06-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
Javier Sanchez wrote: I put the no-reuse option on all the tapes using amadmin, but now all the backups are refused because amanda expects a new tape, did i miss something to reset ?? 'no-reuse' is exaclty what amanda will do with the tapes: she will refuse to write on them. Amanda needs (v)tapes t

Re: Re: Hard disk backup doubts

2004-06-03 Thread Javier Sanchez
Hello again, i have just reciompiled amanda using a patch to force the use of bzip2 instead of gzip, i have recreated the tapes, deleted all the logs and database files. I put the no-reuse option on all the tapes using amadmin, but now all the backups are refused because amanda expects a new

Re: Hard disk backup doubts

2004-06-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 02 June 2004 09:51, Javier Sanchez wrote: >Hello again, > >thanks for the informatio,n i have allready marked all the tapes to > be no-reuse with the amadmin command. > >Now i have a different doubt .-), how can i tell amanda to compress > the files with bzip2 ?? I saw how once on a we

Re: Re: Hard disk backup doubts

2004-06-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 05:57:02PM +0200, Javier Sanchez wrote: > > Ok with the reconpilation, but how this will affect the planner calcs > about the storage space needed ? Should i modify the planner ?? > gzip or bzip2 or compress or whatever. everything is a guess/approximation by amanda unt

Re: Re: Hard disk backup doubts

2004-06-02 Thread Javier Sanchez
Ok with the reconpilation, but how this will affect the planner calcs about the storage space needed ? Should i modify the planner ?? Cheers El mié, 02-06-2004 a las 17:39, Jon LaBadie escribió: > On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 03:51:10PM +0200, Javier Sanchez wrote: > ... > > > > Now i have a diffe

Re: Hard disk backup doubts

2004-06-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 03:51:10PM +0200, Javier Sanchez wrote: ... > > Now i have a different doubt .-), how can i tell amanda to compress the > files with bzip2 ?? I saw how once on a web but cant find it now, any > ideas ? Confirm that the options are the same as gzip (?check logs in /tmp/aman

Re: Hard disk backup doubts

2004-06-02 Thread Javier Sanchez
Hello again, thanks for the informatio,n i have allready marked all the tapes to be no-reuse with the amadmin command. Now i have a different doubt .-), how can i tell amanda to compress the files with bzip2 ?? I saw how once on a web but cant find it now, any ideas ? Cheers El mié, 02-06-2

Re: Hard disk backup doubts

2004-06-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 01:08:51PM +0200, Javier Sanchez wrote: > > Hello all, > > i have just succesfully configured an amanda server to store the backups > on a local har disk, backup and restore are working but now im facing a > new doutb. > > I have defined 7 tapes on a external usb hard-dis

Hard disk backup doubts

2004-06-02 Thread Javier Sanchez
Hello all, i have just succesfully configured an amanda server to store the backups on a local har disk, backup and restore are working but now im facing a new doutb. I have defined 7 tapes on a external usb hard-disk, when the disk is removed how should i instruct amanda not to remove the datab

Hard Disk Backup

2002-09-30 Thread james
How do I configure Amanda to backup to a partition on the same hard drive? Or where can i find out how to do that? Thanks -james