Re: The skinny on indexing

2002-05-22 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-05-22T20:39:25Z, Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My nightly amanda setup has 74 disklist entries of varying sizes, a > dumpcycle of 1 week, runspercycle of 5, and (here's the kicker) a > tapecycle of 60. So I've got 12 weeks of daily history. My indexdir is > 135 MB.

Re: The skinny on indexing

2002-05-22 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-05-22T20:56:32Z, Jens Rohde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No it's actually amrestore. amrecover is using amrestore to manage the > restore after selection of files. Thanks for the clarification. I think I read that a little too quickly. :) -- Kirk Strauser

Re: The skinny on indexing

2002-05-22 Thread Jens Rohde
On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 22:26, Kirk Strauser wrote: > OK. So you *can* still use amrecover, just not in the "FTP-like" mode. No it's actually amrestore. amrecover is using amrestore to manage the restore after selection of files. Kind regards, Jens Rohde

Re: The skinny on indexing

2002-05-22 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On 22 May 2002 at 3:26pm, Kirk Strauser wrote > > Not 100% correct as I see it. If you're using index, you'll be able to > > browse through your indexes and select individual files for restore. If > > you not use indexes you will only be able to restore whole filesystems > > with amrestore, or u

Re: The skinny on indexing

2002-05-22 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-05-22T20:04:14Z, Jens Rohde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not 100% correct as I see it. If you're using index, you'll be able to > browse through your indexes and select individual files for restore. If > you not use indexes you will only be able to restore whole filesystems > with amre

Re: The skinny on indexing

2002-05-22 Thread Jens Rohde
On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 18:57, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I've been using Amanda for a while, but I'm not terribly clear on the > details of indexing. My impression to date is that indexing is required if > you which to use amrecover, but is not if you're willing to hand-restore > filesystems with a d

The skinny on indexing

2002-05-22 Thread Kirk Strauser
I've been using Amanda for a while, but I'm not terribly clear on the details of indexing. My impression to date is that indexing is required if you which to use amrecover, but is not if you're willing to hand-restore filesystems with a dump or tar image from a tape. Is that mostly accurate? If