Author: Chris Hoogendyk <hoogendyk AT bio.umass DOT edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:23:06 -0400
rorycl wrote: An important aspect of the system is that the tapes should be readable for 12 years, by other parties if necessary. From this point of view we like the idea of providing a CD with each
Author: Charles Curley <charlescurley AT charlescurley DOT com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:05:47 -0600
I assume you already have verified that your tapes will last that long before print-through makes them unreadable. Another thought is to provide a CD/DVD of a suitable distribution of Linux with Aman
Author: Charles Curley <charlescurley AT charlescurley DOT com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:08:18 -0600
A short article with scripts that shows how I back up Amanda vtapes for off site backups. Enjoy. http://www.charlescurley.com/blog/articles/off_site_backups_for_amanda/index.html -- Charles Curley /"
Others have mentioned that even without amanda software, amanda backups are recoverable with standard unix/linux tools. I question whether the concept of providing the software is reasonable. Program
Author: "Aaron J. Grier" <agrier AT poofygoof DOT com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:47:00 -0700
print-through? that can be a problem with analog audio tape, but I've never heard of it being an issue with digital backups. is anyone using amanda to backup to 9-track? QIC? does TK50 count as DLT?
Author: Rory Campbell-Lange <rory AT campbell-lange DOT net>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:01:40 +0100
Apologies that this email doesn't have the correct threading ID. I posted through Backup Central originally and I can't get hold of the original mails on the Amanda users list since subscribing prope
Author: Charles Curley <charlescurley AT charlescurley DOT com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:14:34 -0600
Oh, folks 12 years hence ought to be able to dig out 12 year old computers to run their 12 year old distributions on. I suspect the bottle neck will be finding drives to read LT04 tapes; maybe keep o
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:55:17 -0400
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell<dustin AT zmanda DOT com> wrote: I just committed the fix -- r2096. Thanks again! Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
Author: Rory Campbell-Lange <rory AT campbell-lange DOT net>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:50:23 +0100
Many thanks for this note, Charles, and to the other notes Chris, Charles and Jon about their commentary about using Amanda to provide a long-term archive format. The points about being able to use s
Author: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:40:08 -0400
I've copied my installation from Solaris 10x86 to another solaris 10x86 (2.6.1 with patches). Seemed to be ok, all load libraries present, but an error when I try to run amlabel. The named .so file i
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:52:23 -0400
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Brian Cuttler<brian AT wadsworth DOT org> wrote: libDebug.so should require libamanda.so -- is that requirement in place? and satisfied? Dustin -- Open Source Storage
Author: Chris Hoogendyk <hoogendyk AT bio.umass DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:28:19 -0400
Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: On 13/08/09, Charles Curley (charlescurley AT charlescurley DOT com) wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:08:03 -0400 Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 20
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:02:12 -0400
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Brian Cuttler<brian AT wadsworth DOT org> wrote: Try running ldd on libDebug.so? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:37:41 -0400
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Brian Cuttler<brian AT wadsworth DOT org> wrote: ... There's your problem right there.. it looks like libDebug.so is just looking for libamanda.so, and given the syml
Author: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:06:09 -0400
Dustin, Thank you - failure to read critically, I had to install an updated curl on the system .2 needed .4, and I was just looking for unresolved libraries, didn't take the next step. Thank you, wil