RE: Configuration confusion

2018-11-15 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
scheduling but getting exactly the result he wants. -Original Message- From: Debra S Baddorf Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2018 1:39 PM To: Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) Cc: Debra S Baddorf ; Charles Curley ; amanda-users Subject: Re: Configuration confusion ATTENTION: This email came from an

Re: Configuration confusion

2018-11-15 Thread Debra S Baddorf
From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org On Behalf > Of Charles Curley > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2018 12:31 PM > To: amanda-users > Subject: Re: Configuration confusion > > ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments > or click on links from

Re: Configuration confusion

2018-11-15 Thread Chris Miller
Hi Brian and Deb, > Alternatively - configure all DLE to be non-fulls, disable level 0 backups > entirely and run cron jobs to force level 0 dumps on particular DLEs. > That way you can get level 0 when you want it to occur an no other DLE will > advance to a level 0 on its own. This is a very go

RE: Configuration confusion

2018-11-15 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org On Behalf Of Chris Miller Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2018 12:29 PM To: amanda-users Subject: Re: Configuration confusion ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected

RE: Configuration confusion

2018-11-15 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
-Original Message- From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org On Behalf Of Charles Curley Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2018 12:31 PM To: amanda-users Subject: Re: Configuration confusion ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown

Re: Configuration confusion

2018-11-15 Thread Debra S Baddorf
> On Nov 15, 2018, at 11:29 AM, Chris Miller wrote: > > Hi Brian, > From: "Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)" > To: "Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)" , "Chris Miller" > , "amanda-users" > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 9:08:26 AM >

Re: Configuration confusion

2018-11-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 09:03:00 -0800 (PST) Chris Miller wrote: > If I run three backups, serial or otherwise, then do they know about > each other? Meaning, is AMANDA smart enough to know not to run more > than one level 0 dump per night? The problem is that level 0 backups > take several hours and

Re: Configuration confusion

2018-11-15 Thread Chris Miller
Hi Brian, > From: "Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)" > To: "Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)" , "Chris Miller" > , "amanda-users" > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 9:08:26 AM > Subject: RE: Configuration confusion > Tape custody – means what,

Re: Configuration confusion

2018-11-15 Thread Chris Miller
Hi Charles, > I think the simplest solution to your problem is to take Gene's advice > and run the three backups in sequence, using a simple shell script. > That is what I do. All these issues go away. I don't think I understand your advice, via Gene. To refresh your memory, I have three configs

RE: Configuration confusion

2018-11-14 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
book procedure for restoring TAR/DUMP backups). From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org On Behalf Of Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 11:44 AM To: Chris Miller ; amanda-users Subject: RE: Configuration confusion ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not

RE: Configuration confusion

2018-11-14 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
You can run amanda multiple times per night, and each config can specify a different, MUST specify a different set of tape labels, different tape pools. But I don’t believe you can run multiple amanda servers concurrently. Could you run your tapes with the highest security level so that DLEs can