RE: How to define tape sequence

2009-06-02 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Jon LaBadie Sent: May 31, 2009 19:33 Dumpcycle is how frequently you want full backups. You want a dumpcycle 0 (no units) to force full backups every run. As your dumpcycle is so short, your runspercycle is only 1. You also want a runtapes of 1 if you don't want want amanda to go

RE: How to define tape sequence

2009-06-01 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Of Peter Kunst Sent: May 31, 2009 17:59 On 06/01/2009 02:22 AM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: I have 5 tapes in slots 1-5 that I am attempting to use as set of weekday level 0 backups (i.e. a full backup each and every weekday night). When I created the DailySet1 I used the

Re: How to define tape sequence

2009-06-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 01 June 2009, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Of Peter Kunst Sent: May 31, 2009 17:59 On 06/01/2009 02:22 AM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: I have 5 tapes in slots 1-5 that I am attempting to use as set of weekday level 0 backups (i.e. a full backup each and every weekday night).

RE: How to define tape sequence

2009-06-01 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Hugh E Cruickshank Sent: June 1, 2009 12:53 From: Of Peter Kunst Sent: May 31, 2009 17:59 On 06/01/2009 02:22 AM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: I have 5 tapes in slots 1-5 that I am attempting to use as set of weekday level 0 backups (i.e. a full backup each and every weekday

Re: How to define tape sequence

2009-06-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 05:22:44PM -0700, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Gene Heskett Sent: May 31, 2009 11:25 On Sunday 31 May 2009, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Jon LaBadie Sent: May 27, 2009 22:34 You got stuck on tape five because your tapecycle is 2. It must use another

RE: How to define tape sequence

2009-05-31 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Gene Heskett Sent: May 27, 2009 20:56 On Wednesday 27 May 2009, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: Amanda 2.6.1, RHEL 5.3 Mmm, from tarball or rpm? From the amanda.org RPM file. 6. My first amdump started with tape 5 and then the next went to 1 and then back to 5 and now just uses 5 (and

RE: How to define tape sequence

2009-05-31 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Jon LaBadie Sent: May 27, 2009 22:34 On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 07:56:53PM -0700, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: I suspect that part of my problem (probably a large part) is conceptual. We have plenty of tape and processing time and I was looking for a full backup on each amdump execution.

RE: How to define tape sequence

2009-05-31 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Onotsky, Steve x55328 Sent: May 28, 2009 08:20 From: Hugh E Cruickshank Sent: May 27, 2009 22:57 But I see I have digressed. Back to my original question: How do define the sequence tapes are to be used? I don't know about setting a specific sequence, but I ran into a similar

Re: How to define tape sequence

2009-05-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 31 May 2009, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Gene Heskett Sent: May 27, 2009 20:56 On Wednesday 27 May 2009, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: Amanda 2.6.1, RHEL 5.3 Mmm, from tarball or rpm? From the amanda.org RPM file. 6. My first amdump started with tape 5 and then the next went to 1

Re: How to define tape sequence

2009-05-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 31 May 2009, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Jon LaBadie Sent: May 27, 2009 22:34 On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 07:56:53PM -0700, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: I suspect that part of my problem (probably a large part) is conceptual. We have plenty of tape and processing time and I was

RE: How to define tape sequence

2009-05-31 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Gene Heskett Sent: May 31, 2009 11:24 On Sunday 31 May 2009, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Gene Heskett Sent: May 27, 2009 20:56 On Wednesday 27 May 2009, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: 6. My first amdump started with tape 5 and then the next went to 1 and then back to 5 and now

RE: How to define tape sequence

2009-05-31 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Gene Heskett Sent: May 31, 2009 11:25 On Sunday 31 May 2009, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Jon LaBadie Sent: May 27, 2009 22:34 You got stuck on tape five because your tapecycle is 2. It must use another tape before reusing tape five and for some reason it isn't getting to

RE: How to define tape sequence

2009-05-28 Thread Onotsky, Steve x55328
-Original Message- From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org [mailto:owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org] On Behalf Of Hugh E Cruickshank Sent: May 27, 2009 22:57 To: Amanda Users List Subject: How to define tape sequence Amanda 2.6.1, RHEL 5.3 Hi All: To start with I am new to Amanda

Re: How to define tape sequence

2009-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 27 May 2009, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: Amanda 2.6.1, RHEL 5.3 Mmm, from tarball or rpm? Hi All: To start with I am new to Amanda so please be gentleg. We're usually pretty easy around here. :) I have been successful at getting Amanda up and running with our HP MSL2024 LTO4 tape

Re: How to define tape sequence

2009-05-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 07:56:53PM -0700, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: Amanda 2.6.1, RHEL 5.3 Hi All: To start with I am new to Amanda so please be gentleg. I have been successful at getting Amanda up and running with our HP MSL2024 LTO4 tape library. Where I am having problems is