Re: incomplete backups

2002-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 10:06, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 at 8:02pm, Gene Heskett wrote Not enough emphasis is placed on the fact that tar won't access a file with any kind of a lock on it, and in the case of amanda, its certainly a fixable problem. I recovered all

Re: incomplete backups

2002-11-13 Thread Carl D. Blake
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 18:02, Gene Heskett wrote: Greets folks; I now have recovered as much as I can, but a couple of things need to be said. Not enough emphasis is placed on the fact that tar won't access a file with any kind of a lock on it, and in the case of amanda, its

Re: incomplete backups

2002-11-13 Thread Niall O Broin
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 01:20:32PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: Nothing to do with the system at all. It's just a little something added into the script which runs amanda each day - I presume at least 95% of amanda users run amanda from a cron driven script. A couple of lines in that /those

Re: incomplete backups

2002-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 11:49, Carl D. Blake wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 18:02, Gene Heskett wrote: Greets folks; I now have recovered as much as I can, but a couple of things need to be said. Not enough emphasis is placed on the fact that tar won't access a file with any kind of a

Re: incomplete backups

2002-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 11:59, Niall O Broin wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:14:40AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: This is exactly why my nightly backup script, after running the amdumps and rewinding/ejecting the tapes, tars up all the amanda config files and directories. That tar ball

Re: incomplete backups

2002-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 13:14, Frank Smith wrote: --On Wednesday, November 13, 2002 09:49:56 -0700 Carl D. Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 18:02, Gene Heskett wrote: Greets folks; I now have recovered as much as I can, but a couple of things need to be said. Not

Re: incomplete backups

2002-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 13:20, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:59:19PM +, Niall O Broin wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:14:40AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: This is exactly why my nightly backup script, after running the amdumps and rewinding/ejecting the tapes, tars

incomplete backups

2002-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
Greets folks; I now have recovered as much as I can, but a couple of things need to be said. Not enough emphasis is placed on the fact that tar won't access a file with any kind of a lock on it, and in the case of amanda, its certainly a fixable problem. I recovered all the indexes and