strange dumperror message
what does this mean? you can´t update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory
Re: strange dumperror message
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 at 3:55pm, pascal thomas wrote what does this mean? you can´t update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory You're using dump and your disklist entry is not a partition. You can't do it. Either dump partitions only or use tar. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Repost: ? holding disk contents
Just repost because I dodn't get any respose. Is it true that amdump won't go on if tape device is not ready ? Thanks Allen Liu IP Application Design and Engineering Bell Canada (613) 781-7368, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1240 -160 Elgin St, Ottawa,ON, K2P 2C4 - Original Message - From: Allen Liu --- work [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:01 PM Subject: ? holding disk contents Hi all, I ma trying to see what holding disk contents look like. My changer script is chg-manual. The drive didn't have tape in. When I ran amdump, it asked for putting tape in. at this moment I check my holding disk directory, it has timestamp but no contents. Does it suppose to have some data in holding disk ? is this situation so-callled downgrade mode ? Thanks Allen Liu IP Application Design and Engineering Bell Canada (613) 781-7368, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1240 -160 Elgin St, Ottawa,ON, K2P 2C4
Re: Problems with amrecover
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 at 8:34pm, Thomas Jones wrote Here is an example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _root]# zmore 20040226_0.gz -- 20040226_0.gz -- / Well, bugger, those look alright. That was my best idea, too. What are the permissions on those directories and the files? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: Repost: ? holding disk contents
--On Friday, February 27, 2004 11:31:11 -0500 Allen Liu --- work [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just repost because I dodn't get any respose. Is it true that amdump won't go on if tape device is not ready ? I haven't used chg-manual, but I assume it sits there waiting for you to put in a tape and say its ready. However, if you have adequate holdingdisk space, it could still do incrementals (and fulls if reserve isn't set too low) to disk, although perhaps it is waiting on the manual input before deciding on whether to run in normal or degraded mode. Frank Thanks Allen Liu IP Application Design and Engineering Bell Canada (613) 781-7368, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1240 -160 Elgin St, Ottawa,ON, K2P 2C4 - Original Message - From: Allen Liu --- work [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:01 PM Subject: ? holding disk contents Hi all, I ma trying to see what holding disk contents look like. My changer script is chg-manual. The drive didn't have tape in. When I ran amdump, it asked for putting tape in. at this moment I check my holding disk directory, it has timestamp but no contents. Does it suppose to have some data in holding disk ? is this situation so-callled downgrade mode ? Thanks Allen Liu IP Application Design and Engineering Bell Canada (613) 781-7368, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1240 -160 Elgin St, Ottawa,ON, K2P 2C4 -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
Re: Repost: ? holding disk contents
Thanks,, Frank. How to force it to run in downgrade mode ? Allen Liu IP Application Design and Engineering Bell Canada (613) 781-7368, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1240 -160 Elgin St, Ottawa,ON, K2P 2C4 - Original Message - From: Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Allen Liu --- work [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 11:54 AM Subject: Re: Repost: ? holding disk contents --On Friday, February 27, 2004 11:31:11 -0500 Allen Liu --- work [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just repost because I dodn't get any respose. Is it true that amdump won't go on if tape device is not ready ? I haven't used chg-manual, but I assume it sits there waiting for you to put in a tape and say its ready. However, if you have adequate holdingdisk space, it could still do incrementals (and fulls if reserve isn't set too low) to disk, although perhaps it is waiting on the manual input before deciding on whether to run in normal or degraded mode. Frank Thanks Allen Liu IP Application Design and Engineering Bell Canada (613) 781-7368, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1240 -160 Elgin St, Ottawa,ON, K2P 2C4 - Original Message - From: Allen Liu --- work [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:01 PM Subject: ? holding disk contents Hi all, I ma trying to see what holding disk contents look like. My changer script is chg-manual. The drive didn't have tape in. When I ran amdump, it asked for putting tape in. at this moment I check my holding disk directory, it has timestamp but no contents. Does it suppose to have some data in holding disk ? is this situation so-callled downgrade mode ? Thanks Allen Liu IP Application Design and Engineering Bell Canada (613) 781-7368, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1240 -160 Elgin St, Ottawa,ON, K2P 2C4 -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
Re: Repost: ? holding disk contents
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:49:16PM -0500, Allen Liu --- work wrote: Thanks,, Frank. How to force it to run in downgrade mode ? Allen Liu IP Application Design and Engineering Bell Canada (613) 781-7368, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1240 -160 Elgin St, Ottawa,ON, K2P 2C4 - Original Message - From: Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Allen Liu --- work [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 11:54 AM Subject: Re: Repost: ? holding disk contents --On Friday, February 27, 2004 11:31:11 -0500 Allen Liu --- work [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just repost because I dodn't get any respose. Is it true that amdump won't go on if tape device is not ready ? I haven't used chg-manual, but I assume it sits there waiting for you to put in a tape and say its ready. However, if you have adequate holdingdisk space, it could still do incrementals (and fulls if reserve isn't set too low) to disk, although perhaps it is waiting on the manual input before deciding on whether to run in normal or degraded mode. Frank Thanks Allen Liu IP Application Design and Engineering Bell Canada (613) 781-7368, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1240 -160 Elgin St, Ottawa,ON, K2P 2C4 - Original Message - From: Allen Liu --- work [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:01 PM Subject: ? holding disk contents Hi all, I ma trying to see what holding disk contents look like. My changer script is chg-manual. The drive didn't have tape in. When I ran amdump, it asked for putting tape in. at this moment I check my holding disk directory, it has timestamp but no contents. Does it suppose to have some data in holding disk ? is this situation so-callled downgrade mode ? Thanks Allen Liu Not sure anyone has ever wanted to before. Degraded mode is a mode where no level 0, full dumps, are performed. Only incrementals are done. Of course it is not possible to do incrementals only on new, never dumped, DLE's. They must get a level 0 first. I guess, if you really wanted to mimic degraded mode you could set the dumptype options like increment only or strategy no-full. I forget the actual names. Why do you want to force degraded mode? Have you checked your holding disk for size, permissions, and the amanda.conf parameter reserve? It defaults to 100% (i.e. 100% for degraded mode, none for normal mode) which doesn't sound like what you want. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: Repost: ? holding disk contents
Thanks Jon. I just want to see in case tape drive is not available for some reasons, if amanda can store data in holding disk temparily. My machine works find for normal backup, but i couldn't see data in holding disk. Allen Liu - Original Message - From: Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 1:20 PM Subject: Re: Repost: ? holding disk contents On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:49:16PM -0500, Allen Liu --- work wrote: Thanks,, Frank. How to force it to run in downgrade mode ? Allen Liu IP Application Design and Engineering Bell Canada (613) 781-7368, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1240 -160 Elgin St, Ottawa,ON, K2P 2C4 - Original Message - From: Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Allen Liu --- work [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 11:54 AM Subject: Re: Repost: ? holding disk contents --On Friday, February 27, 2004 11:31:11 -0500 Allen Liu --- work [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just repost because I dodn't get any respose. Is it true that amdump won't go on if tape device is not ready ? I haven't used chg-manual, but I assume it sits there waiting for you to put in a tape and say its ready. However, if you have adequate holdingdisk space, it could still do incrementals (and fulls if reserve isn't set too low) to disk, although perhaps it is waiting on the manual input before deciding on whether to run in normal or degraded mode. Frank Thanks Allen Liu IP Application Design and Engineering Bell Canada (613) 781-7368, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1240 -160 Elgin St, Ottawa,ON, K2P 2C4 - Original Message - From: Allen Liu --- work [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:01 PM Subject: ? holding disk contents Hi all, I ma trying to see what holding disk contents look like. My changer script is chg-manual. The drive didn't have tape in. When I ran amdump, it asked for putting tape in. at this moment I check my holding disk directory, it has timestamp but no contents. Does it suppose to have some data in holding disk ? is this situation so-callled downgrade mode ? Thanks Allen Liu Not sure anyone has ever wanted to before. Degraded mode is a mode where no level 0, full dumps, are performed. Only incrementals are done. Of course it is not possible to do incrementals only on new, never dumped, DLE's. They must get a level 0 first. I guess, if you really wanted to mimic degraded mode you could set the dumptype options like increment only or strategy no-full. I forget the actual names. Why do you want to force degraded mode? Have you checked your holding disk for size, permissions, and the amanda.conf parameter reserve? It defaults to 100% (i.e. 100% for degraded mode, none for normal mode) which doesn't sound like what you want. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: Repost: ? holding disk contents
Hi, Allen, on Freitag, 27. Februar 2004 at 20:05 you wrote to amanda-users: ALw Thanks Jon. ALw I just want to see in case tape drive is not available for some reasons, if ALw amanda can store data in holding disk temparily. ALw My machine works find for normal backup, but i couldn't see data in holding ALw disk. Do you use the option holdingdisk yes in your dumptypes? -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Repost: ? holding disk contents
yes, I did. Thanks Allen Liu IP Application Design and Engineering Bell Canada (613) 781-7368, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1240 -160 Elgin St, Ottawa,ON, K2P 2C4 - Original Message - From: Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 2:34 PM Subject: Re: Repost: ? holding disk contents Hi, Allen, on Freitag, 27. Februar 2004 at 20:05 you wrote to amanda-users: ALw Thanks Jon. ALw I just want to see in case tape drive is not available for some reasons, if ALw amanda can store data in holding disk temparily. ALw My machine works find for normal backup, but i couldn't see data in holding ALw disk. Do you use the option holdingdisk yes in your dumptypes? -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Repost: ? holding disk contents
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:05:15PM -0500, Allen Liu --- work wrote: Thanks Jon. I just want to see in case tape drive is not available for some reasons, if amanda can store data in holding disk temparily. My machine works find for normal backup, but i couldn't see data in holding disk. Allen Liu - Original Message - From: Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 1:20 PM Subject: Re: Repost: ? holding disk contents On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:49:16PM -0500, Allen Liu --- work wrote: Thanks,, Frank. How to force it to run in downgrade mode ? Allen Liu IP Application Design and Engineering Bell Canada (613) 781-7368, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1240 -160 Elgin St, Ottawa,ON, K2P 2C4 - Original Message - From: Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Allen Liu --- work [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 11:54 AM Subject: Re: Repost: ? holding disk contents --On Friday, February 27, 2004 11:31:11 -0500 Allen Liu --- work [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just repost because I dodn't get any respose. Is it true that amdump won't go on if tape device is not ready ? I haven't used chg-manual, but I assume it sits there waiting for you to put in a tape and say its ready. However, if you have adequate holdingdisk space, it could still do incrementals (and fulls if reserve isn't set too low) to disk, although perhaps it is waiting on the manual input before deciding on whether to run in normal or degraded mode. Frank Thanks Allen Liu IP Application Design and Engineering Bell Canada (613) 781-7368, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1240 -160 Elgin St, Ottawa,ON, K2P 2C4 - Original Message - From: Allen Liu --- work [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:01 PM Subject: ? holding disk contents Hi all, I ma trying to see what holding disk contents look like. My changer script is chg-manual. The drive didn't have tape in. When I ran amdump, it asked for putting tape in. at this moment I check my holding disk directory, it has timestamp but no contents. Does it suppose to have some data in holding disk ? is this situation so-callled downgrade mode ? Thanks Allen Liu Not sure anyone has ever wanted to before. Degraded mode is a mode where no level 0, full dumps, are performed. Only incrementals are done. Of course it is not possible to do incrementals only on new, never dumped, DLE's. They must get a level 0 first. I guess, if you really wanted to mimic degraded mode you could set the dumptype options like increment only or strategy no-full. I forget the actual names. Why do you want to force degraded mode? Have you checked your holding disk for size, permissions, and the amanda.conf parameter reserve? It defaults to 100% (i.e. 100% for degraded mode, none for normal mode) which doesn't sound like what you want. Degraded mode does not equate to being no tape available. I forgot to change my six tape cartridge a little while ago. Yet 5 days of backups collected normally, not degraded, in my holding disk spaces (plural). Degraded mode is not able to tape AND insufficient holding disk space for level 0 dumps. Both conditions must exist. Now, why aren't you seeing anything in your holding disk? -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: Problems with amrecover
I thought that as well and changed permissions to 777, still no joy. On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 16:35, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 at 8:34pm, Thomas Jones wrote Here is an example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _root]# zmore 20040226_0.gz -- 20040226_0.gz -- / Well, bugger, those look alright. That was my best idea, too. What are the permissions on those directories and the files?
