Re: can amanda backup symlink?

the BabyMobile and BestClub databases, but would only record the link to AngelClub and not the database itself, so you would have to add /var3/mysql/AngelClub to get that database. Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator

Re: can amanda backup symlink?

Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Frank Smith wrote: fedora wrote: Hi huys.. I have 2 situations: 1) default directory for MySQL is /var/lib/mysql. If this directory is link to /var2/db/mysql and if I put /var/lib/mysql in disklist, can amanda do backup? I think this should be can backup. May

Re: IBM 3584 and mtx?

? Comes with 9 LTO-2 FC tape drives and I could get it cheap... thanks! jf -- ° -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: amrecover

then you will have your data restored and can use it long before tar scans through the entire DLE on tape (looking for other copies of the same file that won't be there since Amanda doesn't append to tar archives). Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr

Re: amanda server cannot back itself up

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Re: Release of Amanda-6.2

+ taperflush + device_property + usetimestamps default to yes Jean-Louis Martineau -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online

Re: speeding up estimates

'estimate calcsize'. Good luck, Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: Dump Write

. Still, that should go pretty quickly. Can you give some more evidence that the taper isn't starting until all of the dumps are finished? Not using a holding disk would cause that behavior, as would a setting of 'inparallel 1'. Frank Dustin -- Frank Smith

Re: problem with amflush?

holdingdisk, while other parts actually check to see if they contain valid (complete) dumps. Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374

Re: Theoretical question

, enabling you to back up subdirectories that would fit on a single tape. Personally, I feel that having a multiple tape dump image just increases the odds of a failed restore, as well as making bare metal recovery without Amanda more difficult. YMMV. Frank -- Frank Smith

Re: Errors on labeling tape

: File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x46 (no translation). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (4101): BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/amanda/fullback# -- Frank Smith

Re: Device mapper doesn't seem to be guilty, all disk majors are still 8, but...

? I haven't looked at tar 1.20 myself, but I guess --no-check-device is a run-time, not configure-time option. -- Toomas ... Kindred: Fear that relatives are coming to stay. -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator

Re: changer problems with 2.6.1

) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x2b7ca0436000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x2b7ca0651000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x4000) Any thoughts as to how to correct this? -- Frank Smith fsm

Re: [Amanda-users] best way to organise tape file listings ?

matching your labels (possibly with a preceding digit added to ensure uniqueness (might have to tweak your labelstr regex to support it)? That way you wouldn't need to make any changes to Amanda except your barcodes file (if you configured your changer script to use one). Frank -- Frank Smith

Re: Backing up to CDR

it. Frank -- Frank Smith fsm...@hoovers.com Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: Amanda and dual tape libraries.

part of the issue was the result of having a couple of relatively larger DLEs and several smaller ones, making level tape usage impossible, no matter how they were arranged. Frank -- Frank Smith fsm...@hoovers.com Sr. Systems Administrator

Re: Amanda must be run as user amandabackup when using bsdtcp authentication

me figure out what unbelievably basic thing I missed? Thanks Shouldn't the 'wait' parameter be 'true'? Frank -- Frank Smith fsm...@hoovers.com Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online

Re: amanda keeps asking for same tape

to dumper2: QUIT driver: send-cmd time 167.737 to dumper3: QUIT driver: send-cmd time 167.737 to taper: QUIT taper: DONE [idle wait: 129.916 secs] driver: FINISHED time 168.740 amdump: end at Mon Jun 1 23:02:49 EDT 2009 Scanning /usr/dumps/amanda... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -- Frank Smith

Re: [Amanda-users] Cloud Backup...but to my own Data Center

perform. Perhaps someone else on the list can comment on that. Frank -- Frank Smith fsm...@hoovers.com Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: [Amanda-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

might want to consider configuring for client compression. Not only will that give you more CPU for feeding your tape, it also minimizes network bandwidth. As usual, YMMV, it all depends on where the bottlenecks are in your environment. Frank -- Frank Smith fsm

Re: very slow dumper (42.7KB/s)

v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with CentOS - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFKnFXv+brnGjUTUjARAgcaAJ9mhqo4enmr/VSkjJ9k4n6lpUsU/ACg38ZL EHyS6r23vri4I7azpfEk2BY= =6ngI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Frank Smith fsm...@hoovers.com Sr. Systems

Re: Inparallel - not paralleling

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Re: backup very hit or miss

with Solaris zones, but if ./root/proc is really the proc filesystem, you should exclude that from your backup as it can be quite a rabbit hole. Try using an exclude file or exclude list to exclude ./root/proc and see if that speeds things up. -- Frank Smith fsm

Re: No Joy with 3.3.0

connecting. Here's the configure line I'm using: ./configure --with-user=root --with-group=root --with-config=gen --with-bsd-security --with-amandahosts --prefix=/local This on RHEL 5.1. Did something change that I have to re-configure? Thanks, Steve -- Frank Smith

Re: how to specify a linux disk

, amandad.*.debug, sendsize.*.debug amadmin version version | grep AMANDA_DBGDIR Jean-Louis -- Frank Smith fsm...@hoovers.com Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512

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