Re: MT

2000-12-04 Thread Harri Haataja
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Joi Ellis wrote: On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, John R. Jackson wrote: [snip] ... mt is missing from my system. Before I reinstalled 2.4.2 the second time, due to it not installing over 2.4.1p1 cleanly the first time, I used turbopkg to remove 'amanda, amanda-client,

Error on Screen

2000-12-04 Thread Joe Prochazka
After I installed Amanda and seemed to have it working the computer started throwing the following error: Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dec 2 00:45:18 kernel: (scsi0:0:5:0) Invalid SCB during SEQINT 0x71, SCB_TAG 80. Dec 2 00:45:18 kernel: (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) CMDCMPLT with invalid

nfs mounts

2000-12-04 Thread Shakaib Sayyid
I have amanada client with nfs mounts, does amanda backup nfs mounts also. If it does is there a way to exlude it based on file system type. Shakaib Sayyid

Re: help pls: Additional information

2000-12-04 Thread Casile Antonino
Hi all, after some problems .. finally I managed to install and make run Amanda using the rpms given with RedHat7.0 As you saw reading teh posts in this mailing list I had several problems. Most of them were caused by my poor experience with backup tools, but a couple of them were caused by the

Re: Error on Screen

2000-12-04 Thread John R. Jackson
After I installed Amanda and seemed to have it working the computer started throwing the following error: ... Would this be caused by amanda??? or is it another problem and just a coincidence. Amanda cannot cause hardware errors. It's a simple user level program. It can, however, exercise your

Re: nfs mounts

2000-12-04 Thread John R. Jackson
I have amanada client with nfs mounts, does amanda backup nfs mounts also. If it does is there a way to exlude it based on file system type. You're asking the wrong question. Amanda does not back up anything. It runs some other program that does the backups. So it would depend on what program

Re: Error on Screen

2000-12-04 Thread Johannes Niess
"Joe Prochazka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After I installed Amanda and seemed to have it working the computer started throwing the following error: Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dec 2 00:45:18 kernel: (scsi0:0:5:0) Invalid SCB during SEQINT 0x71, SCB_TAG 80. Dec 2

Re: Completely Stuck :-(

2000-12-04 Thread John R. Jackson
... In fact, on further investigation, *nothing* works from inetd unless its running as root! ... Yikes. After you send inetd a HUP (and wait a minute), is there anything of interest in /var/adm/messages? Do you actually have a user "amanda" (or whatever) defined? Is it local (/etc/passwd)

Re: amanda to blame for NT crashes?

2000-12-04 Thread Joi Ellis
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Harri Haataja wrote: Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 09:28:57 +0200 (EET) From: Harri Haataja [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: amanda to blame for NT crashes? On 2 Dec 2000, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: Fynnily enough I have some first hand information

Re: amanda to blame for NT crashes?

2000-12-04 Thread Eric Wadsworth
It happened this one time. I spent about an hour looking for more info, but was unable to find any. If it crashes again, I'll dig deeper into the issue. --- Eric On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Joi Ellis wrote: On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, John R. Jackson wrote: Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 18:31:07 -0500 From: John

Re: amanda to blame for NT crashes?

2000-12-04 Thread Chris Karakas
Alexandre Oliva wrote: I don't care if the mechanisms are out of AMANDA's influence - this is a design issue. Indeed. Amanda is designed to be a backup manager, that knows how to use a couple of existing backup tools. If none of them fit your needs, well, then you just have to go

Re: amanda to blame for NT crashes?

2000-12-04 Thread Chris Karakas
"John R. Jackson" wrote: You understand a chance as a curse: AMANDA _has_ the qualities to become a real, integrative, superlative backup tool. ... So explain to me exactly what you think Amanda should do to solve this. And keep in mind that the design philosophy is that it uses other

Re: amanda to blame for NT crashes?

2000-12-04 Thread Chris Karakas
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 03:28:49AM +0100, Chris Karakas wrote: If you say that AMANDA can backup SAMBA shares, people will believe it and be happy. People like me (a mathematician...) will believe it so much, that they will eventually construct a case that does not

Re: GNU tar estimates for vfat filesystems (Was: How do I checklevel 1 sizes?)

2000-12-04 Thread Chris Karakas
Alexandre Oliva wrote: I don't know how different it would be, but, if you eventually find out it's too much, tell Amanda to use a wrapper script instead of GNU tar in which you check whether the directory being backed up is in a vfat filesystem, then replace the `--listed-incremental

Re: amanda to blame for NT crashes?

2000-12-04 Thread Joi Ellis
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Chris Karakas wrote: I've been trying for 6 months now to get the Windows partitions on the backup server to be backed up correctly while running Linux and AMANDA. I first tried it as follows: I told AMANDA to backup the SAMBA shares that a SAMBA server made available on the

Woody problems

2000-12-04 Thread Owain Davies
Hello, We have an office full of machines mostly running Storm Linux (Debian Potato based). Our Amanda server is running Amanda version 2.4.1p1. Several people in the office have upgraded their machines to Debian Woody and Amanda no longer backs them up. An example of the error message in the

Re: amanda to blame for NT crashes?

2000-12-04 Thread John R. Jackson
So explain to me exactly what you think Amanda should do to solve this. And keep in mind that the design philosophy is that it uses other tools and that it does **not** do the work itself. Separate "estimator programs" from "backup programs". ... If you find an estimator program that works,

Re: amflush wait for amdump to finish?

2000-12-04 Thread John R. Jackson
Should I wait until amdump finishes before I do an amflush? ... You have to. It will report an error otherwise. The flush would be of the stuff that amdump is currently dumping to. Huh? Are you deliberatly trying to write it to two tapes? Eric Wadsworth John R. Jackson, Technical Software

Re: amanda to blame for NT crashes?

2000-12-04 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Dec 4, 2000, Chris Karakas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the idea is to give us the chance to write our own "estimator function": a script that gets a filename, a date and/or a backup level (and perhaps also other parameters) as input and gives a boolean as output ("yes, it should be

Re: amlabel

2000-12-04 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Dec 3, 2000, Clement Kumah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rewinding, reading label DailySet101, tape is active rewinding, writing label DailySet101, checking label, done. amlabel in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense. I recall having introduced a bug in 2.4.2-beta1 while