Topic: Backup Notification if tape is full

[Jelke van der Meer]

Hello all,

I installed my copy of e-smith 4.1.1 several weeks ago and tought that my nightly automated backup was ok. Today I wanted to reinstall my e-smith server and restore the tape backup. After restoring the tape and restarting the server I get some error saying that the configuration is inconsistent and not using the system in this state. I figured out that the data on my servers harddisk exceeded the capacity of my tape-cartridge. Strange enough I did not get any message from the server telling me to insert a second tape in the drive. Is this a serious problem with e-smith or di I overlook something. Does the backup system give me any notification when the tape is full and to insert the next backup-tape????
Or do I need to buy a higher capacity Tape-unit?

[Darrell May]

Jelke van der Meer wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I installed my copy of e-smith 4.1.1 several weeks ago and
> tought that my nightly automated backup was ok. Today I
> wanted to reinstall my e-smith server and restore the tape
> backup. After restoring the tape and restarting the server I
> get some error saying that the configuration is inconsistent
> and not using the system in this state. I figured out that
> the data on my servers harddisk exceeded the capacity of my
> tape-cartridge. Strange enough I did not get any message from
> the server telling me to insert a second tape in the drive.
> Is this a serious problem with e-smith or di I overlook
> something. Does the backup system give me any notification
> when the tape is full and to insert the next backup-tape????
> Or do I need to buy a higher capacity Tape-unit?

The nightly backup process e-mails the administrator (user=admin) with the results of every backup.  What did these e-mails report?  Did you know that you can redirect these e-mails via the e-smith-manager > Other e-mail settings > Forwarding address for administrative notices?

Darrell

[Jelke van der Meer]

Darrell May wrote:
>
> The nightly backup process e-mails the administrator
> (user=admin) with the results of every backup.  What did
> these e-mails report?  Did you know that you can redirect
> these e-mails via the e-smith-manager > Other e-mail settings
> > Forwarding address for administrative notices?
>
> Darrell

Thanks! I did not use the mailserver until now. I will configure it and watch the mail coming in.......

Jelke

[Jelke van der Meer]

Hi Darrell,


I configured my mail client on one of my windows workstations and retrieved mesages from the mail server indicating: no space left on device, broken pipe in dump and dump completely aborted.

So, I do need tape device with higher capacity? I guess so...

Thanks for replying..

Jelke