Re: Amanda 2.5 and HP MSL 4048 Fibre channel

2007-07-20 Thread Pavel Pragin
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 01 Vendor: HP Model: MSL G3 SeriesRev: 5.30 Type: Medium Changer Pavel Pragin wrote: Hello, Can you please post the contents of this file: /proc/scsi/scsi Thanks Pavel Hello, We just installed a HP MSL 4048 (Fiber Channel). I do

Re: Amanda 2.5 and HP MSL 4048 Fibre channel

2007-07-19 Thread Pavel Pragin
Hello, Can you please post the contents of this file: /proc/scsi/scsi Thanks Pavel Hello, We just installed a HP MSL 4048 (Fiber Channel). I do not know how to configure amanda.conf because there is several sg created by the library (it has 4 magazines). I suppose that : tapedev /dev/st0

Re: Amanda Client

2007-04-23 Thread Pavel Pragin
James Wilson wrote: Are you talking about the /etc/xinetd.d/amanda file? in my case it is amandabackup. Pavel Pragin wrote: James Wilson wrote: Hey All, I have amanda version 2.5.0p2 I have installed version 2.5.0p2-4 for the amanda client. I have added the amanda server

Re: Amanda Client

2007-04-23 Thread Pavel Pragin
James Wilson wrote: Hey All, I have amanda version 2.5.0p2 I have installed version 2.5.0p2-4 for the amanda client. I have added the amanda server and the amanda user in the .amandahost file on the client I checked the /etc/services and all the amanda ports are there. But when I try to

Re: Dilog Libra 8 - experience anyone?

2007-01-23 Thread Pavel Pragin
Hello, What happens when you run: mtx -f /dev/sg2 status Also run this and post output: cat /proc/scsi/scsi Pavel Thanks Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: I ebayed around a bit, and decided for a Dilog Libra 8 library Currently I am waiting for this box to be delivered, so I

Re: Estimate time-out and dump failure

2006-12-08 Thread Pavel Pragin
Hello, I would first try to increase the timeout parameter in amanda.conf . And if this doesn't help you can change the estimate parameter in you dumptype definition to either server or calcsize. Also look in /var/log/messages for any hardware errors/warnings. Pavel Pragin Hi, I have

Re: How to delete a run

2006-12-06 Thread Pavel Pragin
Hello, I could use the amrmtape command to remove these tapes from the Amanda configuration and then label them again to be reused. Pavel Pragin Thanks I have an amanda archive run that usually uses 3 tapes but in this case had an error and used only two tapes. I would like to rerun my

Re: Exclude Lists - Amanda 2.5.0

2006-11-16 Thread Pavel Pragin
Hello, Please take look at this link for information about exclude lists: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Exclude_and_include_lists Thanks Pavel Pragin Could somebody please point me to a good explanation of the exclude lists? I am trying to create an exclude list for some windows machines

Re: IP address change

2006-10-31 Thread Pavel Pragin
James Wilson wrote: Hey All, We just did a big network over haul at my job and every since the change amanda does not back up some machines. I looked in the latest log file and it states. Error planner request to amanda.transolutions.net failed: timeout waiting for ACK.

Re: large filesystem timeouts - is there a better way

2006-10-19 Thread Pavel Pragin
Hello, You can add this line to the dumptype definition that you are using and this will help speed up the estimation. estimate calcsize Pavel Hi We have a couple of large filesystems that we would like to backup using Amanda. We are currently using it to backup several hundred other

Re: amanda 2.5.1 doesn't compile on FreeBSD 4.11 - atoll

2006-10-18 Thread Pavel Pragin
Error: .libs/amandad amandad.o ./.libs/libamandad.so ../common-src/.libs/libamanda.so -lm -lreadline -ltermcap -lcam ../common-src/.libs/libamanda.so: undefined reference to `atoll' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/local/src/amanda/amandad-src. *** Error code 1 Solution: 1.Edit

Re: dumpcycle

2006-08-11 Thread Pavel Pragin
Hello, Another way to force a full dump on every run is to add strategy noinc to the the dumptype definition you are using for this backup. Pavel * Example:* define dumptype root-tar { program GNUTAR compress none index yes strategy noinc } Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Fri, 11

Re: Backup device for Amanda

2006-08-04 Thread Pavel Pragin
Hello, As long as the OS detects the devices amanda will be able to use them. An easy way to see whether the devices were detected by the system is to look at the /proc/scsi/scsi file after the devices are connected and the system is rebooted. Pavel Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hi All, I am

Re: Compression

2006-08-04 Thread Pavel Pragin
James Wilson wrote: How can I tell what compression I am using? Also how do I make sure hardware compression is off? Hello, If you have compression enabled you will see something like compress client fast in your amanda.conf dumptype definition and amanda uses gzip for compression by

Re: amrecover question

2006-07-28 Thread Pavel Pragin
Hello, These directions are assuming that you are still running 2.5.0 on the server side: 1. As root run amoldrecover homes -s dalston.blackshaw.dyn.dhs.org -t dalston.blackshaw.dyn.dhs.org 2. Also if this desn't work please post the amanda file from /etc/xinetd.d on the server so i can look

Re: Incorrect bahaviour causes backup loss - further update!!

2006-07-28 Thread Pavel Pragin
Hello, You can force a Level 0 by using amadmin: amadmin ConfigName force Hostame Disk Example: -bash-3.00$ amadmin DailySet1 force bugs.zmanda.com /etc amadmin: bugs.zmanda.com:/etc/amanda is set to a forced level 0 at next run. amadmin: bugs.zmanda.com:/etc is set to a forced level 0 at next

Re: Getting list of DLE's w/o Lev 0s

2006-07-28 Thread Pavel Pragin
Hello, If i understand you correctly you should get what you are looking for by using amadmin: amadmin ConfigName find Example: -bash-3.00$ amadmin DailySet1 find Scanning /data/amanda/hold... date host disklv tape or file file

Re: Restoring from tape when Amanda server failed

2006-07-19 Thread Pavel Pragin
Hello, Can you please run this and post the output: -bash-3.00$ ammt -f /dev/rmt/0n rewind -bash-3.00$ ammt -f /dev/rmt/0n fsf 1 -bash-3.00$ amdd if=/dev/rmt/0n bs=32k count=1 Pavel gil naveh wrote: Thanks but I tried to strip the header as well and it gave me teh same error message! */Matt

Re: Problems using amanda to backup SMB shares

2006-07-11 Thread Pavel Pragin
by the amanda user and group disk and have the permissions below: -rw-r- 1 amanda disk 35 Jul 8 19:01 amandates 4. run amcheck again and post the results Pavel Pragin Nathan Weston wrote: I'm a first-time amanda user, trying to backup a linux machine and a few windows shares. I went

Re: disk was stranded on waitq

2006-07-06 Thread Pavel Pragin
Hello, You should try increasing the etimeout parameter in amanda.conf and run the backup again. This seems to be a timeout issue. Thanks Pavel Peter Kunst wrote: Hi list, ever seen something like this in amstatus output ? matrix:/var/lib/backuppc 0 planner: [hmm, disk was stranded on

Re: Info on backing up windows servers via amanda

2006-07-05 Thread Pavel Pragin
, Please take a look at this document. It should be helpful to what you are trying to accomplish. Pavel Pragin Title: How Backup Windows clients using Samba and Amanda - Zmanda Internal Information Wiki How Backup Windows clients using Samba and Amanda From Zmanda

Re: Amanda stopped working...

2006-06-19 Thread Pavel Pragin
Josef Wolf wrote: Hello! Amanda-2.5.0b2 was working for about six months here. Now it stopped working for some reason, and I can't figure out why. It looks to me as if there's something wrong with getting stimates. From the amdump file it looks like estimates are scheduled, but never return

Re: cygwin and amanda on windows 2000

2006-06-09 Thread Pavel Pragin
Mary Kennedy wrote: Hi All, I have amanda compiled on a windows 2000 server and for some reason it is failing on amcheck. I have gone through all the details of setting up amanda on cygwin and tried to run it on 2 windows 2000 machines. Both of them fail. I also set it up on a windows xp

Re: HOST DOWN error connecting to new client

2006-06-06 Thread Pavel Pragin
Matt Emmott wrote: Hi, I just compiled and installed Amanda 2.5.0p2 as a client on a Red Hat Enterprise ES 4 machine. Our server (which has been running for years) is a Red Hat 8 machine running Amanda 2.4.2p2. I’ve modified the disklist file in the archive section of our server to only

Re: incremental backups

2006-05-30 Thread Pavel Pragin
Edson wrote: Hi all. Im trying to do incremental backups using tar-excl but all fail. The first full its ok, but the second ones not work. The amanda-server runs without error messages and quit silent, with status ok. Thanks for some help. See my confs: amanda.conf

Re: Disagreements between amplot, amstatus

2006-05-30 Thread Pavel Pragin
Ross Vandegrift wrote: Hello everyone, I'm working on getting one of my Amanda servers to finish dumping a little bit faster. Right now, all but one of my hosts are taking around four hours to finish. Anyhow, I noticed that amstatus says this after the run: 0 dumpers busy : 0:33:39 (

Re: Dump 0 on two tapes..

2006-05-26 Thread Pavel Pragin
Jim Buttafuoco wrote: before you run amdump, use amadmin force option, see man page Jim -- Original Message --- From: Ing. Rogelio Sevilla Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amanda-users@amanda.org Sent: Fri, 26 May 2006 11:16:25 -0500 Subject: Dump 0 on two tapes.. I want

Re: tapetape (not in faq-o-matic)

2006-05-23 Thread Pavel Pragin
Brian Cuttler wrote: Does anyone have the tape type for the LTO3 (Quantum) ? Are there any other parameters I should tweak to get better performance/utilization ? This is still a reasonable default ? tapebufs 20 I am running the StorEdge C2 jukebox with lto3 drive on a SunFire 280R under

Re: tapetape (not in faq-o-matic)

2006-05-23 Thread Pavel Pragin
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:22:02PM -0700, Pavel Pragin wrote: Brian Cuttler wrote: Does anyone have the tape type for the LTO3 (Quantum) ? Are there any other parameters I should tweak to get better performance/utilization ? This is still a reasonable default

Re: amrestore: missing file header block

2006-05-19 Thread Pavel Pragin
Iulian Topliceanu wrote: Hi, When trying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] recover]# amrestore /dev/nst0 baal /data/data0/conf amrestore: missing file header block amrestore: 2: skipping pbx2._etc.20060503.1 amrestore: missing file header block amrestore: 5: skipping pbx1._etc.20060503.1 amrestore:

Re: Amanda

2006-05-19 Thread Pavel Pragin
James, Your changerfile paremeter should be set to /etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer.conf if DailySet1 is the config you are using. 1. The only line you should have in that file is: havereader=1 2.Once you change this file go ahead and run amtape DailySet1 update 3. Also please run mtx -f

Re: Newbie needs Help

2006-05-05 Thread Pavel Pragin
Gordon J. Mills III wrote: On this same topic, is there a way to have amrecover list the available versions of a file that are currently on tape? i.e. list the 5 versions of the file with the dates so that you can choose the one you want? Regards, Gordon -Original Message- From:

Re: Extractor Error in 2.5

2006-04-27 Thread Pavel Pragin
Steven Backus wrote: Since I upgraded to the latest version of amanda I get this when trying to use amrecover: amrecover add cntppl34.c Added /usr/local/src/cntppl/cntppl34.c amrecover extract Extracting files from holding disk on host whimsy. The following files are needed:

Re: Amcheck: selfcheck request failed

2006-04-26 Thread Pavel Pragin
Silver Salonen wrote: Hi again. In server's disklist I have: silver.kodu /var/logcomp-user-tar When I do amcheck daily on server, I get this error: WARNING: silver.kodu: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK on amcheck. wiki.zmanda.org says that it's a DNS problem -

Re: Amcheck: selfcheck request failed

2006-04-26 Thread Pavel Pragin
Silver Salonen wrote: Hi again. In server's disklist I have: silver.kodu /var/logcomp-user-tar When I do amcheck daily on server, I get this error: WARNING: silver.kodu: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK on amcheck. wiki.zmanda.org says that it's a DNS problem -

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-25 Thread Pavel Pragin
John Clement wrote: Having read through some of the documentation it seemed a fairly straight forward thing to install an Amanda client. However, I used an rpm for it, having been forced to upgrade my tar software too but it appears to be running as amandabackup and in /var/lib... So I'm

WARNING: got empty schedule from planner

2006-04-17 Thread Pavel Pragin
I run a remote backup on a server, but the backup did not suceed and i got this warning in the error file. Can someone point me in the right direction. Here the log file: START planner date 20060417 FINISH planner date 20060417 time 0.003 START driver date 20060417 STATS driver startup time