Re: backups mirrored to remote tape (or just host)

2002-12-02 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Niall O Broin wrote: Hi Paul, Hi Niall.. Do i know you from somewhere? :) I just had a thought careful.,. :) at the moment you could fudge that I think by using the FILE: device. sort of. however, i dont want to do the same backups twice. Amanda does

Re: backups mirrored to remote tape (or just host)

2002-12-02 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Jon LaBadie wrote: Can the second drive be a FILE:driver. If so Paul, that might be an approach? bingo... RAIT with RAID1 to tape and FILE, then all i need is to run a script once amdump is finished. (or even put it in amdump). thanks!! regards, -- Paul Jakma

Re: Newbie and backup scheme... comments pls

2002-12-02 Thread Joffer
On Sunday 01 December 2002 12:21, Joffer wrote: Humm, thats a DDS2 drive then, more better as they said in The Coal Miners Daughter. Hmm.. I got a new tape here, stipp wrapped in plastic. It says 90m DDS-1 Data Cartridge and 2Gbytes (before compression) Well, the plastic wrapping on

FAQ-O-Matic gone?

2002-12-02 Thread Matthew Boeckman
Just noticed that the FAQ-O-Matic linked off of amanda.org seems to be down: http://www.amanda.org/cgi-bin/fom? It asks for a temporary password to install the faq-o-matic! -- Matthew Boeckman (816) 777-2160 Manager - Systems Integration Saepio Technologies

Re: FAQ-O-Matic gone?

2002-12-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 08:28:05AM -0600, Matthew Boeckman wrote: Just noticed that the FAQ-O-Matic linked off of amanda.org seems to be down: http://www.amanda.org/cgi-bin/fom? It asks for a temporary password to install the faq-o-matic! Best one to tell that to is the [EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: FAQ-O-Matic gone?

2002-12-02 Thread Todd Kover
Just noticed that the FAQ-O-Matic linked off of amanda.org seems to be down: http://www.amanda.org/cgi-bin/fom? It asks for a temporary password to install the faq-o-matic! Best one to tell that to is the [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just did. actually, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

amdump fails- no estimate

2002-12-02 Thread Matthew Boeckman
Normally, I'd try the FAQ... but. In my backups I do 3 directories on a large disk via tar, which has historically worked fine. Last week, I added a fourth directory with tar, and now I cannot get a backup of one of the dirs! To make more sense of that /bkup1 /bkup2 /bkup3 /bkup4 For

Changer suddenly not working.

2002-12-02 Thread Chris Johnson
Hi list. I'm having a funny problem with my tape changer. first: I''m using chg-zd-mtx script i have amanda-2.4.2p2 I'm using an adic fastor 4000. all on redhat linux 7.2 Recently amanda can't find a good tape. my label regex is correct and tapes are labeled correctly. The first tape scanned

Re: FAQ-O-Matic gone?

2002-12-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 December 2002 09:28, Matthew Boeckman wrote: Just noticed that the FAQ-O-Matic linked off of amanda.org seems to be down: http://www.amanda.org/cgi-bin/fom? It asks for a temporary password to install the faq-o-matic! Jean-Louis M's site at umontreal is also incommunicado. --

Re: amdump fails- no estimate

2002-12-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:08:07AM -0600, Matthew Boeckman wrote: Normally, I'd try the FAQ... but. In my backups I do 3 directories on a large disk via tar, which has historically worked fine. Last week, I added a fourth directory with tar, and now I cannot get a backup of one of the

Fwd: RAIT and chg-manual

2002-12-02 Thread Craig Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello all I sent this awhile back and I am sure there is someone out there who can answer it. Craig Hancock If you can't Ido understand I thought I might try again. - Forwarded message from Craig Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

Re: amdump fails- no estimate

2002-12-02 Thread Matthew Boeckman
No result for estimate level 0! Did the planner asker for level 0 estimate? (REQ packet form amandad.debug) guess I'm not sure I know how to answer that question, but some output from amandad.debug that my answer it for me: Amanda 2.4 REQ HANDLE 000-000549D0 SEQ 1038837189 SECURITY

Re: amdump fails- no estimate

2002-12-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:25:52PM -0600, Matthew Boeckman wrote: If not, WHY? look into the amdump log file. can't find any amdump log file! amdump.{n} on the server. Which release of amanda? amanda 2.4.2 on Solaris7/SPARC I remember an old bug, it's time to upgrade! Jean-Louis --

Re: amdump fails- no estimate

2002-12-02 Thread Matthew Boeckman
`20021202' got result for host ultra disk /webhome/bkup1: 2 - 12408030K, -1 - -1K, -1 - -1K getting estimates took 386.667 secs FAILED QUEUE: empty DONE QUEUE: 0: ultra /webhome/bkup1 I seem to recall something about sizes of -1 and what that is indicative of... but the FAQ is still down

Re: Fwd: RAIT and chg-manual

2002-12-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
There has been alot of discussion lately on how to use RAIT. I have attempted to setup rait on my site and I haven't had much success. I have and AIT-3 Overland library system that can hold 38 tapes. My setup is like this I split the library system in have the first 18 slots and its

Re: amdump fails- no estimate

2002-12-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
I remember an old bug, it's time to upgrade! doh! I was hoping to not have to do that! I guess I can, however I'm still perplexed as to how this magically starts happening after 6 months of reliable backups. Did you force a command? 'amadmin conf info' should tell you. Clearing that

Re: Changer suddenly not working.

2002-12-02 Thread Chris Johnson
thanks for you quick reply Jean-Louis, I've looked at the debug file. It seems to be giving me an error about a unary operator expected. I was getting this same error when I had a bad CHANGER.conf file. I have pasted both the errors and the CHANGER.conf file bellow. this is the last

Re: amdump fails- no estimate

2002-12-02 Thread Jim Summers
knew that! amdump reports: taper: wrote label `DailySet102' date `20021202' got result for host ultra disk /webhome/bkup1: 2 - 12408030K, -1 - -1K, -1 - -1K getting estimates took 386.667 secs FAILED QUEUE: empty DONE QUEUE: 0: ultra /webhome/bkup1 I seem to recall something

Re: amdump fails- no estimate

2002-12-02 Thread Chris Johnson
Matthew, Was the new directory (filesystem) that you added bigger than the ones that were working? I had a problem with using tar on a big filesystem and the estimate would always time-out. if the new disk is bigger by a great deal try doubleing the etimeout value in the amanda.conf

Re: Fwd: RAIT and chg-manual

2002-12-02 Thread Craig Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't want to mirror I want to stripe and the are on the same scsi chain as the library. Craig Hancock On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:54:57PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: There has been alot of discussion lately on how to use RAIT. I have attempted to setup rait on my site and I haven't

Network / Seurity with ports?

2002-12-02 Thread neil . openshaw
I'm new to amanda, I think my problem is with security; Host_A is the backup server and Host_B is the client to be backed up. I have the following problem; bash-2.05$ amcheck -c daily Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: Host_B: [host Host_A: port 32782 not