Maybe an additional possibility: 5. /dev/rmt/0n == /dev/rmt/1n I think by tapedev=/no/such/tape Paul meant that literally, or at least some string that could not be a legit tape device. Two ways I ca
Author: Chris Hoogendyk <hoogendyk AT bio.umass DOT edu>
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:44:55 -0400
/dev/rmt/0n is actually my internal dds/3 drive. It exists and works, but does not have a tape in it. I've used it recently to do some tests of the behavior of ufsdump for incremental recoveries (che
Not speaking for Paul, but I guess he did. I was looking the same direction, in fact I could not see any place where Amanda logs the tape device she is going to use. The only bits that would log the
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 11:46:13 -0500
Folks -- I looked into this '-o' question, and have some answers for you. The documentation could use some help there, for sure. FWIW, it doesn't seem that comma-separated options are supported, from
Author: Chris Hoogendyk <hoogendyk AT bio.umass DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:35:21 -0400
Thanks, Dustin. I set that up in crontab yesterday and it ran this morning. Worked. 45 0 * * 2-6 /usr/local/sbin/amdump daily -o reserve=100 -o tapedev=/dev/rmt/0n -o tpchanger="" Now, I'll change th
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:45:54 -0500
Yes, I think there would be demand for that (there are a lot of application-specific things that could use better backups). And yes, it will be a lot easier after the Application API is in place :) T
Another advantage of maildir format over mailbox :) Only one message per file and no need for locking :) OK, I am still using mailbox, but I will change that :) An idea for the next release of Amand
Author: Paul Bijnens <Paul.Bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:15:34 +0200
I frequently use chg-multi, with 2 physical drives, or with several vtape-devices. Which the "the" device in that case? -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology Services Tel +32 16 397.511 Technologiel
Author: "Rudy Setiawan" <rudal999 AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:43:26 -0700
Hi all, I am trying to create backup servers out of the following specs: P4 3.0Ghz 1GB RAM RAID0 - 750GB x 2 (SATA) Hosts to backup: about 20 hosts with roughly 100GB each host. What will be the comp
Author: "Rudy Setiawan" <rudal999 AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:16:15 -0700
Yes I do understand that and I didnt mention the number of backup servers. Is it a recommendation of 1.5TB (raid-0 750x2) to backup the maximum of 10 to 12 hosts? or will that be too much of a backup
In fact compression depends on your data, do you know how much they compress? Full/incr depends on your data, how your disks are full, how much data you need to do incr every day? Try to use the rev
Author: Cyrille Bollu <Cyrille.Bollu AT fedasil DOT be>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:46:41 +0200
owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org a écrit sur 25/06/2007 08:49:59 : In RAID0 750GB x 2 = 1,5TB But still that isn't enough. I would suggest you to buy something that could gives you up to 5TB at l
Author: Matt Hyclak <hyclak AT math.ohiou DOT edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:25:25 -0400
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 11:43:26PM -0700, Rudy Setiawan enlightened us: You realize that by using RAID 0, you are doubling the chance of losing all of your backups, because there is NO redundancy - s
Author: Marc Muehlfeld <Marc.Muehlfeld AT medizinische-genetik DOT de>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:46:47 +0200
Cyrille Bollu schrieb: RAID0 - 750GB x 2 (SATA) Sure you want to do a backup to a Raid0? When one disk crash, you ll loos the data. Here I use a Raid6 Array out of 15 320 GB Sata2 disks + 1 hotspare.
Author: Charlie Reitsma <reitsma AT denison DOT edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:24:50 -0400
In addition to doing everything to make sure a backup disk failure does not destroy all your backups you need to take into consideration the length of your cycle. My experience so far has been with t
Author: Chris Hoogendyk <hoogendyk AT bio.umass DOT edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:43:50 -0400
Ok, I'm hijacking a thread. Sorry about that. But, really, it does fit in. I just tried something this weekend, and the above comment may be the root of why what I tried didn't work the way I had hop
ufsdump might have been able to figure out from which date to do the incremental, `IF' it had been asked to do an incremental. However, as this was a new config, amanda "knew" there had never been a