RE: ADIC / Dell Powervault 120T changer problems under Linux (Pt 2)

2002-03-25 Thread C R Ritson
Message: 16 Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 02:22:47 -0500 From: Derrick Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ADIC / Dell Powervault 120T changer problems under Linux (Pt 2) 1) Does anyone have this changer working with Amanda? I would give just about anything to get my hands on copies

amrecover

2002-03-25 Thread Jesús Moya
I have a doubt about amrecover. In our filesystems we have directory names with spaces, for example: Network Trash Folder/ When i'm in amrecover i try to change to one of these directories and the result is this: amrecover cd Network Trash Folder/ Invalid directory - Network Invalid command -

Re: amrecover

2002-03-25 Thread Peter Murphy
At 2002-03-25 12:13:09 + (Monday), Jesús Moya wrote: When i'm in amrecover i try to change to one of these directories and the result is this:... Try :- amrecovercd Network Trash Folder -- __ )/ / / __ ) ___/ __ ) ___/ / ___/ /

Re: amrecover

2002-03-25 Thread Jesús Moya
Thank you very much, Peter. Peter Murphy wrote: At 2002-03-25 12:13:09 + (Monday), Jesús Moya wrote: When i'm in amrecover i try to change to one of these directories and the result is this:... Try :- amrecovercd Network Trash Folder

Re: amanda-2.4.3b3-20020324 problem

2002-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 25 March 2002 12:38 am, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 10:12:43PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 24 March 2002 05:16 pm, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 10:06:41PM +0100, Thomas Hepper wrote: Yup there was an bug introduced in chg-scsi

Re: amanda-2.4.3b3-20020324 problem

2002-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 25 March 2002 12:38 am, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Latest snapshot have: md5sum amanda-2.4.3b3-20020324.tar.gz f74bc9822c6cf1d8624819cac6fbff16 amanda-2.4.3b3-20020324.tar.gz Maybe you have a caching problem. Which was exactly it, mozilla's cache TBE. My apologies. -- Cheers,

Re: can't back up a subdirectory?

2002-03-25 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On 25 Mar 2002 at 10:08am, Jason Henry Parker wrote Some versions of dump for Linux are capable of doing it. The problem, as dump reported, is that it's not possible to update the dumpdates file in that case (which strikes me as pretty reasonable). I should have been clearer. dump will

connection refused on client ?!

2002-03-25 Thread Rainer Fuegenstein
Hi, we're using amanda now for several years to back up our servers, but since a few days we have a strange problem with one of our hosts: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: cmso: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 14 hosts checked in

kindly help

2002-03-25 Thread swsiinfo
Hi Rainer, I am Sumesh from RD dept of a System Integrator OEM company HCL Infosystems Ltd in INDIA.We are in the way of offering a reliable and cheap or free backup solution in a Linux-Windows enviornment.We have found AMANDA will definitely help us.We are looking for a solution of

RE: newbie questions

2002-03-25 Thread Morse, Richard E.
Fernan Aguero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: [I've tried also building amanda --with-user=amanda and creating the user to no avail] The only thing that works is letting amanda have a login shell in /etc/passwd, which I guess is the wrong thing to do (from a security standpoint). Hi! It's

what does etimeout really represent

2002-03-25 Thread Uncle George
does etimeout specify the time that sendsize will use to estimate the time needed to do 'its thing', or does it represent the sum total of time ( estimate dumping ) of a filesystem ?

Re: what does etimeout really represent

2002-03-25 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 at 11:53am, Uncle George wrote does etimeout specify the time that sendsize will use to estimate the time needed to do 'its thing', or does it represent the sum total of time ( estimate dumping ) of a filesystem ? etimeout specifies that amount of time amdump will wait

migrated

2002-03-25 Thread Juanjo
Hello, I have just moved my amanda setup from one server to another (the old one was already setup). But now I always get the same error message either trying to label tapes, or running amcheck: no tape online Notes: amcheck never finishes... chg-zd-mtx works... but it neither finishes, only

[Re: sendsize failing]

2002-03-25 Thread Jennifer Peterson
Thanks, Brian. The host was allowing root access to be exported, but the client in question was refusing to take it. I had to edit the vfstab file to make it work. Brian Cuttler wrote: Jenn, NFS mounting file systems tends to make suid bits fall off. Remote mount treats ROOT as nobody

Re: what does etimeout really represent

2002-03-25 Thread John R. Jackson
etimeout specifies that amount of time amdump will wait to hear back after sending a sendsize request to a particular host. At least, I think it's per-host. This is covered in the man page: Default: 300 seconds. Amount of time per disk on a given client that the

Re: ADIC / Dell Powervault 120T changer problems under Linux (Pt 2)

2002-03-25 Thread John R. Jackson
... While mtx itself worked, I never got the chg-zd-mtx script to work. ... BTW, I use 2.4.3b2. ... Was that the 2.4.3 chg-zd-mtx that you had trouble with? I did a pretty significant overhaul for this release and if it doesn't work, now's the time to tell me. If it was 2.4.2, that's a

Re: what does etimeout really represent

2002-03-25 Thread Uncle George
Then my current impression is that the feature does not work - exactly as stated. There are a few file systems on one 'errant' system, where one filesystem has taken over 224 minuts( wall time ) to complete just the estimate. I had changed the time to be some 3600 ( an hour ) which, if one

Re: Would this be considered erroneous???

2002-03-25 Thread John R. Jackson
W hen I run an amverify I get the following: ... Cannot find file dump list Solaris ufsrestore does this when the image is empty, e.g. when you do an incremental backup of a very static file system and nothing gets dumped. I consider it a bug. You can ignore it (I do). It is consistent to

Re: what does etimeout really represent

2002-03-25 Thread John R. Jackson
... I had changed the time to be some 3600 ( an hour ) which, if one beleives the man page, would leave some 8hours ( wall time ) for all 8 partitions to complete. ... Right. That's the way it's supposed to work, and the way it has worked for myself and others. Do you have the corresponding

Re: what does etimeout really represent

2002-03-25 Thread Uncle George
Sorry, for every NEW run, i would like a set of new logs just for that run just so that i know are from just that run. from my 'novice' eyes, its just to much data to figure out where the previous run completed, and the new one began. But if i ( ever ) get a complete backup ( after setting it

Re: what does etimeout really represent

2002-03-25 Thread John R. Jackson
Sorry, for every NEW run, i would like a set of new logs just for that run just so that i know are from just that run. ... Which log files are you talking about? As of 2.4.2p2, every file should have a unique name, most of them based on a datestamp. But if i ( ever ) get a complete backup (

Re: ADIC / Dell Powervault 120T changer problems under Linux (Pt 2)

2002-03-25 Thread Chris Pascoe
Derrick Miller writes: 1) Does anyone have this changer working with Amanda? I would give just about anything to get my hands on copies of working config and chg-zd-mtx files. I am using a different changer script supplied by Chris Pascoe and once upon a time posted to this list (in

Re: can't back up a subdirectory?

2002-03-25 Thread Jason Henry Parker
Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 25 Mar 2002 at 10:08am, Jason Henry Parker wrote Some versions of dump for Linux are capable of doing it. The problem, as dump reported, is that it's not possible to update the dumpdates file in that case (which strikes me as pretty

Re: migrated

2002-03-25 Thread John R. Jackson
amcheck never finishes... What version of Amanda? chg-zd-mtx works... but it neither finishes, only the -info switch comes back. Get the new version of chg-zd-mtx: ftp://gandalf.cc.purdue.edu/pub/amanda/chg-zd-mtx.sh.in-243 If nothing else, look at the comments in the front of the script