Re: [CentOS] HP Autoloader

2008-01-19 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 at 12:21pm, Joseph L. Casale wrote ... I use a simple script with tar. The core is: cd / tar cvlbf 512 /dev/nst0 \ --multi-volume --new-volume-script /usr/local/bin/mtxnext \ --ignore-failed-read \ . >$LOGDIR/root_$BACKUPDATE.log 2>

RE: [CentOS] HP Autoloader

2008-01-18 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 at 12:21pm, Joseph L. Casale wrote Actually, you would use "dumpcycle 0" to get amanda to do full backups every run. tapecycle should still be set to however >many tapes you have -- anything other than that and you lose amanda's ability to track the tapes for you. After

RE: [CentOS] HP Autoloader

2008-01-18 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Actually, you would use "dumpcycle 0" to get amanda to do full backups every >run. tapecycle should still be set to however >many tapes you have >-- anything other than that and you lose amanda's ability to track the tapes >for you. > >-- >Joshua Baker-LePain >QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin >UCSF

Re: [CentOS] HP Autoloader

2008-01-18 Thread Tom Brown
Actually, you would use "dumpcycle 0" to get amanda to do full backups every run. tapecycle should still be set to however many tapes you have -- anything other than that and you lose amanda's ability to track the tapes for you. yeap - my bad ___

Re: [CentOS] HP Autoloader

2008-01-18 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 at 9:59am, Tom Brown wrote I need to backup data to an HP autoloader, it needs to be *full* backups each time so using Amanda doesn’t make sense. Can someone point me to what utilities to use to access the autoloader, I would rather read up on this myself as my knowledge h

Re: [CentOS] HP Autoloader

2008-01-18 Thread Tom Brown
I need to backup data to an HP autoloader, it needs to be *full* backups each time so using Amanda doesn’t make sense. Can someone point me to what utilities to use to access the autoloader, I would rather read up on this myself as my knowledge here is very weak. I am moving this unit from

Re: [CentOS] HP Autoloader

2008-01-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - "Joseph L. Casale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to backup data to an HP autoloader, it needs to be *full* > > backups each time so using Amanda doesn’t make sense. > > > > > > > > Can someone point me to what utilities to use to access the

Re: [CentOS] HP Autoloader

2008-01-17 Thread redhat
- "Joseph L. Casale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I need to backup data to an HP autoloader, it needs to be *full* > backups each time so using Amanda doesn’t make sense. > > > > Can someone point me to what utilities to use to access the > autoloader, I would rather read up on this m

[CentOS] HP Autoloader

2008-01-17 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Hi, I need to backup data to an HP autoloader, it needs to be *full* backups each time so using Amanda doesn't make sense. Can someone point me to what utilities to use to access the autoloader, I would rather read up on this myself as my knowledge here is very weak. I am moving this unit from