Re: Why isn't 2.4.2 out yet?

2000-10-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Oct 30, 2000, Hauke Fath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any chance of seeing a formal definition of the Amanda line > protocol anytime soon? As usual, it depends on someone volunteering to do the work :-) -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red

Data Corruption, Amanda 2.4.1p1 on SCO Openserver 5.0

2000-10-30 Thread John Vozza
I've successfully run Amanda on many different platforms and thought I had the above platform working fine. Its been doing backups for almost a year. Needed to restore some files only to find that somehow the files are corrupt. For example a 46MB file restores as a 36MB file. No indication of pr

Why does my changer only read 6 slots?

2000-10-30 Thread Tony Traylor
I have a DDS changer, 12 slot. Amanda.conf names changer as changer file. changer.conf lists starttape 1, endtape 12, cleancart 12... Where do I look? Version etc is in the stdout: I started with slot 7 loaded, and then instead of moving to slot 8, it moves back to slot 1. Mtx moves thru all

Re: amcheck not finding directories ...

2000-10-30 Thread John R. Jackson
>shouldn't it be smart enough to create them then? ... That's probably harder than you think. You'd want to use the exact same code that will create them in driver/dumper/taper and it may not be prepared to just create the tree/empty file without doing anything else. As I mentioned earlier tod

Re: dtimeout not effective?

2000-10-30 Thread John R. Jackson
>I have it set to 1800 sec, yet amstatus is reporting a process has been >"stuck" for ~1hr now: > >hub.org:da4s1a 0 211984k dumping0k (0.00%) >(0:41:03) And you believed amstatus??? :-) Amstatus is only reporting what gets put in the detailed amdump log file.

Re: Something very strange with amcheck -c (very long, sorry)

2000-10-30 Thread John R. Jackson
>While I generated these, I ran a little monitoring script ... >and it shows clearly that 15 amandads and 3 client selfchecks are running. At the same time??? As Paul said, that would be bad. There should only ever be one amandad running on a client at one time. The first thing I would check i

Re: cleaning tape ... and labelling ...

2000-10-30 Thread John R. Jackson
>how do I tell chg-chio that slot 7 is a cleaning tape? I don't use chg-chio, but a quick glance at the code seems to indicate it does not have a concept of "use only these tapes" from the changer. Patches would be welcome :-). >what happens if I put 6 blank tapes into my autoloader, that haven'

Re: info and index dirs not created?

2000-10-30 Thread John R. Jackson
>Why is it that when I first run amcheck, it does not itself create the >needed directories and files. Do I really need to do that each time a new >disk appears on the network? ... It's not the job of amcheck to create the tree or files. That's what (the children of) amdump will do the first t

Re: info and index dirs not created?

2000-10-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 04:31:31PM -0500, Ernie Oporto wrote: > Why is it that when I first run amcheck, it does not itself create the > needed directories and files. Do I really need to do that each time a new > disk appears on the network? I thought this was more automated than > that...or am

info and index dirs not created?

2000-10-30 Thread Ernie Oporto
Why is it that when I first run amcheck, it does not itself create the needed directories and files. Do I really need to do that each time a new disk appears on the network? I thought this was more automated than that...or am I missing something? I'm using 2.4.2b2 on Solaris 7 with Mammoth driv

RE: Something very strange with amcheck -c (very long, sorry)

2000-10-30 Thread Bort, Paul
Title: RE: Something very strange with amcheck -c (very long, sorry) I won't claim to be an AMANDA expert (just a satisfied user), but I seem to remember that there only needs to be one amandad on each client, and there should only be one amandad in memory on any one client machine. I would

Re: amcleanup: processing outstanding log file.

2000-10-30 Thread John R. Jackson
>I am trying to flush dumps in holding disk from Oct27th. > >amanda@sundev1 [daily] % amcleanup daily >amcleanup: processing outstanding log file. >amanda@sundev1 [daily] % amflush -f daily >amflush: /usr/adm/amanda/daily/log exists: amdump or amflush is already >running, or you must run amcleanup

i removed the .log file and now i can run amflush.

2000-10-30 Thread Denise Ives
/amanda... 20001027: found non-empty Amanda directory. Flushing dumps in 20001027, today: 20001030 to tape drive /dev/rmt/0cbn. Expecting a new tape. (The last dumps were to tape daily555) Are you sure you want to do this? y driver: send-cmd time 0.020 to taper: START-TAPER 20001030 taper: pid

amcleanup: processing outstanding log file.

2000-10-30 Thread Denise Ives
I am trying to flush dumps in holding disk from Oct27th. amanda@sundev1 [daily] % amcleanup daily amcleanup: processing outstanding log file. amanda@sundev1 [daily] % amflush -f daily amflush: /usr/adm/amanda/daily/log exists: amdump or amflush is already running, or you must run amcleanup You ha

Re: dump nt client - still a problem

2000-10-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 02:51:28PM +0100, Michael Lindermann wrote: > Hi Jean-Louis, > > sorry, thats not the solution. i´ve installed amanda with samba support and with the >--with-samba-user=amanda > option and my disklist file defines magnus as > > technix.kn.ordix.de //magnus/C$ DailySet >

Re: dump nt client - still a problem

2000-10-30 Thread Michael Lindermann
Hi Jean-Louis, sorry, thats not the solution. i´ve installed amanda with samba support and with the --with-samba-user=amanda option and my disklist file defines magnus as technix.kn.ordix.de //magnus/C$ DailySet ^^ but I think amanda searches for a directory

Re: dump nt client - still a problem

2000-10-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Michael, You didn't configure amanda with samba support on technix.kn.ordix.de. You should reconfigure it. Jean-Louis On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 08:55:20AM +0100, Michael Lindermann wrote: > Hi Paul, > > ok my amandapass looks like yours, so this can not be the problem. I > think the problem i

Re: Why isn't 2.4.2 out yet?

2000-10-30 Thread Hauke Fath
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexandre Oliva) writes: > On Oct 27, 2000, Joe Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I'm left to ask -- what is holding up release? > > AFAIK, it's just documentation. [...] > Basically, someone has to go over all the existing documentation, see > if it still applies to t

Re: dump nt client - still a problem

2000-10-30 Thread Michael Lindermann
I´ve forgot to answer your question. It´s no problem to get a connect with the smbclient. ./smbclient //magnus/C$ password -U amanda Michael

Re: dump nt client - still a problem

2000-10-30 Thread Michael Lindermann
Hi Paul, ok my amandapass looks like yours, so this can not be the problem. I think the problem is that the user amanda couldn´t reach the magnus, ´cause the error message is Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: technix.kn.ordix.de: [can not access //magnus/do