Re: appending chronologically amdump

2002-11-26 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On 26 Nov 2002 at 10:49am, briner wrote > > > At each amanda's run, I'm dumping a little bit much more than the size > > > of one Tape(DLT)80Gb . So as an example: > > > -if the size of one tape is 80Gb, > > > -and that I'm dumping 85Gb, > > > > Do you want to do this? If not, then your t

Re: appending chronologically amdump

2002-11-26 Thread briner
as to represent the size of the tape!?!, isn'it? > > I will have to use an other 80Gb tape to keep this 5Gb...What a waste! > > > > So I've thought to resolve this problem by appending amdump on 1 tape. > > *snip* > > > any idea, will be really welcom

Re: appending chronologically amdump

2002-11-25 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
your tapelength is set too high. > I will have to use an other 80Gb tape to keep this 5Gb...What a waste! > > So I've thought to resolve this problem by appending amdump on 1 tape. *snip* > any idea, will be really welcome 2.4.3 has an 'autoflush' option, which, when s

appending chronologically amdump

2002-11-25 Thread briner
resolve this problem by appending amdump on 1 tape. But the probleme is that amflush is not flushing the amanda's run chronologically. Let me explain! 80Gb tape 1st Run 85Gb dumped. 75Gb Flushed 10Gb Remaind -> good! 2nd Run 85Gb dumped on the holding disk ...launc

Appending to tapes

2002-11-12 Thread Chris Marble
Nicolas Cartron wrote: > > I want to install Amanda on a production environment, > backup server on FreeBSD and clients running Linux, Solaris or FreeBSD. > > I read in the section dedicated to Amanda (in the 'Unix backup & recovery', > O'reilly) the following lines : > > AMANDA currently starts

Re: appending

2002-10-10 Thread Frank Smith
--On Thursday, October 10, 2002 12:15:37 -0700 Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a little confused but I thought amander never > appends. I noticed when I do amadmin find I see > backups on a different file location. > > i.e. > 2002-10-09 bolla/ 2 daily7 >

Re: appending

2002-10-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 10 October 2002 15:15, Jerry wrote: >I am a little confused but I thought amander never >appends. I noticed when I do amadmin find I see >backups on a different file location. > >i.e. >2002-10-09 bolla/ 2 daily7 > 4 OK > > >System bolla, drive / b

appending

2002-10-10 Thread Jerry
I am a little confused but I thought amander never appends. I noticed when I do amadmin find I see backups on a different file location. i.e. 2002-10-09 bolla/ 2 daily7 4 OK System bolla, drive / backup level 2, *file* 4. Does amanda append if

Re: Appending incrementals

2001-07-15 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
John R. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Again, future work may allow this, but only after you've aced an intensive I have implemented tape appending about one or two years ago. Your warnings however still apply :)

Re: Appending incrementals

2001-07-12 Thread John R. Jackson
>Is there a way to cause amanda to add incremental backups after an >existing tar archive? ... I'm not sure I understand the question. Are you asking if you can write your own tar archive to a tape and then let Amanda write to the tape after that? If so, the answer is "no" (although some futu

Appending incrementals

2001-07-11 Thread Daniel
Is there a way to cause amanda to add incremental backups after an existing tar archive? I have a 3gb filesystem to backup on 5 gb disks. It is therefore feasible to backup the entire filesystem on a single tape and still have room for additional incrementals. --Dan --