RE: Subject: Tapeless: How to make a SECOND backup?

2003-10-31 Thread Dana Bourgeois
3 6:08 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Subject: Tapeless: How to make a SECOND backup? > > > Thank you very much for the info; it makes a lot of sense to create > directories and keep moving the 'data' symbolic link to point to that > day's backup. >

Re: Subject: Tapeless: How to make a SECOND backup?

2003-10-31 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:08:01PM +0200, turgut kalfaoglu wrote: > Thank you very much for the info; it makes a lot of sense to create > directories and keep moving the 'data' symbolic link to point to that > day's backup. > > This makes me wonder; is it possible to modify the 'changer' code so

Re: Subject: Tapeless: How to make a SECOND backup?

2003-10-31 Thread JC Simonetti
I've coded a "chg-disk" driver that acts exactly like the "chg-zd" ones. You use it like that: --- cut here --- tapedev "file:/BACKUP2/slots/" rawtapedev "file:/BACKUP2/slots/" changerdev "/dev/null" tpchanger "chg-disk" --- cut here --- And everything else is made automatically. The patch includ

Re: Subject: Tapeless: How to make a SECOND backup?

2003-10-31 Thread turgut kalfaoglu
Thank you very much for the info; it makes a lot of sense to create directories and keep moving the 'data' symbolic link to point to that day's backup. This makes me wonder; is it possible to modify the 'changer' code so that this symbolic link is "moved" to the correct subdirectory automatica

Re: Subject: Tapeless: How to make a SECOND backup?

2003-10-31 Thread Francesc Guasch
Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Now, when I re-run the amdump configname , amanda complains that the tape is in use. I am not sure how to add new tapes to a tapeless operation; I just want the incremental backups to go to different subdirectories of the disks on the server. The manpage talks about it. See