Re: dumpdates vs. multiple backup sets

2013-02-25 Thread Marcus Pless
files are record no dumpcycle 0 in the always do level 0's configuration. Good luck! --Marcus On 02/22/2013 05:38:50 AM, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: Hello, I've multiple backup sets. The dumptype define dumptype … { program DUMP record yes index yes } My DLE use

Re: dumpdates vs. multiple backup sets

2013-02-25 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Hi Marcus, Marcus Pless mpl...@ucsd.edu (Mo 25 Feb 2013 21:16:06 CET): This might not answer your question, depending on what you're … trying to do. I run two nearly identical configurations, but one is always level 0 backups, that we send off-site, archive for several years, etc. The other

Re: dumpdates vs. multiple backup sets

2013-02-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On 02/22/2013 05:38:50 AM, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: Hello, I've multiple backup sets. The dumptype define dumptype ??? { program DUMP record yes index yes } My DLE use the dump type above. It works. But now I start using multiple configs, using the same DLE, the same dump types

Re: dumpdates vs. multiple backup sets

2013-02-25 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com (Mo 25 Feb 2013 21:43:29 CET): … configurations and even other dump(8) invocations. I do not see any configuration option to specify location of the dumpdates file (similiar to the amandates config option for the client side config). How should this be solved?

dumpdates vs. multiple backup sets

2013-02-22 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Hello, I've multiple backup sets. The dumptype define dumptype … { program DUMP record yes index yes } My DLE use the dump type above. It works. But now I start using multiple configs, using the same DLE, the same dump types - but a completly different set of backup media

Re: Monitoring multiple backup servers

2005-08-02 Thread Tim Edwards
Ram Smith wrote: As a summary, write nagios plugins to: - report success/failure on the correct tape in the drive (hourly) This one isn't mine, I found it on some site somewhere: #!/usr/bin/python # check_amanda - plugin for nagios to check the status of an amanda #

Monitoring multiple backup servers

2005-08-01 Thread Ram Smith
G'day list, I've just looked over the last few years of the amanda-users list but havn't seen anything related to what i'm thinking of here. Has anyone tried monitoring amanda from within nagios? [ http://www.nagios.org ] I'm responsible for over 15 distinct _remote_ amanda instalations.

Re: Amanda indexing and multiple backup rotations

2005-02-25 Thread Paul Bijnens
[removed amanda-hackers -- not relevant] Brooks, Jason wrote: Short version: Does a mechanism to share databases exist in amanda? Short answer: use ln, ln -s, and use include directive in the amanda.conf. Long version: (best with an example) I want 4 different configurations. All but one will

Re: Amanda indexing and multiple backup rotations

2005-02-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 01:47:32PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: ... I can live with the not-so-nice-multiples-of-seven, and amanda doesn't even care. Put them in a coloured box, a different colour for each set, or a box labeled SET-1, SET-2 etc., and it's still easy enough to switch the sets.

Re: Amanda indexing and multiple backup rotations

2005-02-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 02:18:31PM -0800, Brooks, Jason wrote: Jon H. LaBadie wrote: What, for your needs, are the properties of a complete tapeset? A complete tapeset is set of tapes that holds all completed backups without having to determine what tapes in a larger set have everything.

Amanda indexing and multiple backup rotations

2005-02-24 Thread Brooks, Jason
Hello, A question about amanda's indexing and database Short version: Does a mechanism to share databases exist in amanda? Long version: (best with an example) I want 4 different configurations. All but one will be in offsite storage. I want different configurations because then I will

Re: Amanda indexing and multiple backup rotations

2005-02-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 04:44:29PM -0800, Brooks, Jason wrote: Hello, A question about amanda's indexing and database Short version: Does a mechanism to share databases exist in amanda? Long version: (best with an example) I want 4 different configurations. All but one will be

Re: Multiple backup groups (explained)

2003-06-10 Thread tobias . bluhm
, cleveland ohio [EMAIL PROTECTED] 440-483-5323 Daniel Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/09/2003 06:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Tobias Bluhm/CLE/MS/PHILIPS) Subject:Multiple backup groups (explained) Classification

Re: Multiple backup groups (explained)

2003-06-10 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 at 4:58pm, Daniel Bentley wrote Groups A, B, and C are collections of samba shares on individual desktops. As things stand, A, B, and C are defined by the current backup scripts so that they equal right around 10G each. A total of 30G to be backed up. It needs to be

Multiple backup groups

2003-06-09 Thread Daniel Bentley
I'm fairly new to Amanda, having set up hardware configurations, some small test backups (including some samba mounts), and generally getting things ready for a full transfer over to Amanda (getting away from a bunch of custom-made scripts kludged together 4 or so years ago). Hardware is

Re: Multiple backup groups

2003-06-09 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 at 1:49pm, Daniel Bentley wrote I'm fairly new to Amanda, having set up hardware configurations, some small test backups (including some samba mounts), and generally getting things ready for a full transfer over to Amanda (getting away from a bunch of custom-made scripts

RE: Multiple backup groups

2003-06-09 Thread Derek Suzuki
and GFS-style backups could be handled with minimal effort. -Original Message- From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 1:03 PM To: Daniel Bentley Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Multiple backup groups On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 at 1:49pm, Daniel

RE: Multiple backup groups

2003-06-09 Thread Bort, Paul
: Multiple backup groups [snip] one rotation. And it would be nice to have multiple media sets per configuration so that offsite and GFS-style backups could be handled with minimal effort.

RE: Multiple backup groups

2003-06-09 Thread Derek Suzuki
day. -Original Message- From: Bort, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 2:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Multiple backup groups Offsite backups are easy: $ amadmin YourConfig SomeTape no-reuse This will mark the tape as being out

RE: Multiple backup groups

2003-06-09 Thread Bort, Paul
The problem with the offsite is that I want it to include everything from both the daily and the weekly database backups. So the Right, so if you put both disklist entries in the same AMANDA configuration, and rotate a week's worth of tapes off-site, you're covered. You do have at

RE: Multiple backup groups

2003-06-09 Thread Derek Suzuki
, then I'd still have to force the archival backups (which are meant to be taken offsite permanently) to include a level 0 dump of every target. -Original Message- From: Bort, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 2:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Multiple backup

RE: Multiple backup groups

2003-06-09 Thread Bort, Paul
Earth. Might want to plan other storage systems if you really need permanent. -Original Message- From: Derek Suzuki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 5:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Multiple backup groups Hm. Are you saying that Amanda can do

Multiple backup groups (explained)

2003-06-09 Thread Daniel Bentley
Okay, here's the reasoning behind the situation I presented. Groups A, B, and C are collections of samba shares on individual desktops. As things stand, A, B, and C are defined by the current backup scripts so that they equal right around 10G each. A total of 30G to be backed up. It needs

RE: Multiple backup groups (explained)

2003-06-09 Thread Bort, Paul
[snip] Now, is there a way to do something like this with Amanda, a way to define set groups like this via different configs and share the same pool of tapes? Is there a way where I can indeed tell Amanda '30G of people to backup, do only 10G a day, but make sure every one is backed

RE: Multiple backup groups

2003-06-09 Thread Derek Suzuki
] Subject: RE: Multiple backup groups Incremental backups are at the file level, like Gnutar (exactly like Gnutar, if that's the program you're using for backups.) AFAIK, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Informix, MSSQL, et al cannot restore from a straight backup of the live database files

Re: Multiple Backup

2002-06-12 Thread Trevor Fraser
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 7:32 PM Subject: Multiple Backup Hi, I am first time install amanda. Please help me with these questions. Can I have more than one backup on single tape ? If so, If the first backup completed and I remove the tape from tape drive

Multiple Backup

2002-06-11 Thread M. Cao
Hi, I am first time install amanda. Please help me with these questions. Can I have more than one backup on single tape ? If so, If the first backup completed and I remove the tape from tape drive. Is 2nd backup on the same tape overwrite the first one ? How do reuse the tape if already

Re: Multiple Backup

2002-06-11 Thread Ben Kochie
read the amanda faq.. http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/29.html no, you can not store more than one backup session per tape.. that's dangerous. (cheap backup programs let you do it, well.. because they're cheap) -ben On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, M. Cao wrote: Hi, I am first time