using amanda

Hello,
I'm trying to learn how to use amanda for backups, but I have several
difficulties due to the lack of documentation, so I'm writing here hoping
someone can help me to understand what to do and how.
The situation is the following: I've a raid partition mounted under /mnt/data,
I want to backup this every evening on a dat tape.
I've compiled and installed amanda on the computer, and then I've run
amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 DAT
which (after two hours) returned with:
define tapetype DAT {
comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression on)"
length 1043 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 316 kps
}
Now I suppose I have to run amlabel, but when I try I get:
[root@mammuth amanda]# amlabel camera_oscura DAT
amlabel: could not load tapelist
"/usr/local/etc/amanda/camera_oscura/tapelist"
where camera_oscura is my configuration.

What to do now? If everyone knows some howto or step-by-step documentation
please forward to me.
Thanks very much,
Luca


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Re: using amanda

Luca,

Make sure the tapelist file exists, and then run amlabel. An empty file
should be fine, so:

touch /usr/local/etc/amanda/camera_oscura/tapelist


-Aaron

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Luca Ferrari wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm trying to learn how to use amanda for backups, but I have several
> difficulties due to the lack of documentation, so I'm writing here hoping
> someone can help me to understand what to do and how.
> The situation is the following: I've a raid partition mounted under /mnt/data,
> I want to backup this every evening on a dat tape.
> I've compiled and installed amanda on the computer, and then I've run
> amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 DAT
> which (after two hours) returned with:
> define tapetype DAT {
> comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression on)"
> length 1043 mbytes
> filemark 0 kbytes
> speed 316 kps
> }
> Now I suppose I have to run amlabel, but when I try I get:
> [root@mammuth amanda]# amlabel camera_oscura DAT
> amlabel: could not load tapelist
> "/usr/local/etc/amanda/camera_oscura/tapelist"
> where camera_oscura is my configuration.
>
> What to do now? If everyone knows some howto or step-by-step documentation
> please forward to me.
> Thanks very much,
> Luca
>
>
>

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