Author: Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst AT barrett.com DOT au>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:10:10 +1100
all, When you want to extract tapes from a tape WITHOUT using amanda how do you know which file a particular archive is located? Wouldnt it be a good idea to have a "table of content" located in the
Author: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:38:28 +0100
When you want to extract tapes from a tape WITHOUT using amanda how do you know which file a particular archive is located? I print out a postscript label, generated by amreport, and store it in the
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 06:18:30 -0500
Yes, but be aware that this requires a reduction of the stated capacity of the tape by enough to leave room in most cases. In my case that means my DSD2 tapetype says its a 3650Mb tape . And, as my m
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 06:32:21 -0500
I did do that, for a short amount of time only. I had some tape failures that I felt were related to the paper dust debris getting into the tape and stopped. One could tape it to the outside of the c
The information for the index is not available until the end, since file order on tape is dynamic depending on what actually works and in what order it completes. Ie: when amanda starts writing it wr
Jobst, My approach to this is to run amtoc after each backup run and copy the resulting TOC file to at least one other machine, if not more. This ensures that even if I completely lose my indexes and
Author: Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst AT barrett.com DOT au>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:17:43 +1100
Its not a bad idea to store the indeces somewhere else, I think I will just do that (ie store them on the clients I am backing up). I know about that program, thanks. I try next week to write a littl
Author: Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst AT barrett.com DOT au>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:22:26 +1100
[snip] Thats not a bad idea .... [sniip] I ONLY wanted to write the FILEMARKS, archive directories and date.... NOT the indeces. jobst -- The email address in this email is used for Mailing Lists Onl
What you will know if whether it works on YOUR setup. Your findings will not generalize to someone else's. Different tape formats (DLT, AIT, DDS[234], ...) may all react differently. And I don't know
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:46:36 -0500
I don't think amanda will have any problems recognizing its tape from the method he's describing Jon, but the data already on that tape will probably be lost forever. Success there would indeed surpr