Re: Requirements from newbee

2001-01-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 9, 2001, David Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You probably do require Perl, Readline and awk. I don't think gnuplot is necessary... None of these are really needed. The requirements are listed and explained in docs/INSTALL. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see

Re: Amrecover issue

2001-01-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 10, 2001, Eric Helms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrong format. This should be: hostname username -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at

One doubt about compression

2001-01-13 Thread Adolfo Pachón
Hi all!! My tape unit is an HP Colorado 8GB IDE (4GB Real, 8GB Compressed). The tapetype I use is: define tapetype HP-COLORADO-4GB { comment "HP Colorado IDE 4GB" length 3930 mbytes filemark 0 kbytes speed 560 kps } Reading the following: "[...] When using hardware

Re: One doubt about compression

2001-01-13 Thread John R. Jackson
A) Can I multiply the length 3930 (4GB) by 2 (8GB)? Yes. B) It will work fine? Probably not. What you're doing is telling the planning section of Amanda it will be able to have 8 GBytes of storage on that single tape. If it actually finds that much to do, it is unlikely the tape will really

Re: One doubt about compression

2001-01-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 at 1:48pm, Adolfo Pachn wrote "[...] When using hardware compression, change the length value based on the estimated compression rate. This typically means multiplying by something between 1.5 and 2.0. [...]" I ask, A) Can I multiply the length 3930 (4GB) by 2 (8GB)?

Re: Skipping Tapes

2001-01-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 12, 2001, "Richard Grace" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easy way to do this? Would modifying the tapecycle file be an acceptable method for doing this? Yep. Decrease the tapecycle by as many tapes as you want Amanda to skip. For extra safety, mark them as no reuse with

Re: about amdump

2001-01-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 12, 2001, Adolfo Pachn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand who I set the dirs/files I want to backup. Can someone explain this to me? disklist. `man amanda' for the details. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer

Re: amdump...

2001-01-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 12, 2001, "Takayuki Murai" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have to install amanda to each client, too??? Yep. Otherwise, how do you expect it to contact the clients? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer

Re: Question

2001-01-13 Thread Chris Karakas
Daren Eason wrote: ...The problem I am running in to is that amcheck is looking for the configuration file in /PATH_TO_AMANDA/etc/amanda/amanda/amanda.conf/amanda.conf ... Recompile AMANDA: remove config.cache and run ./configure, setting --with-configdir=/etc/amanda. Thus all you

Re: Oracle it-ue450 Backup Report AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR January 13, 2001

2001-01-13 Thread John R. Jackson
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [no tape online]. *** PERFORMED ALL DUMPS TO HOLDING DISK. You did see this part, right? It says you do not have a tape in the drive to write to. eden-450 c2t9d4s6 lev 0 FAILED [no more holding disk space] here's the amanda.conf and the holding space stats:

Re: help

2001-01-13 Thread rob
Quoting Christoph Scheeder [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, the first strange message is produced because you told amanda to backup it's own index-files, and they are changing while the backup is running. So tar complains about a file it saw while looking for files to backup, but whene it tried to

Re: help

2001-01-13 Thread rob
Quoting Christoph Scheeder [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, the first strange message is produced because you told amanda to backup it's own index-files, and they are changing while the backup is running. So tar complains about a file it saw while looking for files to backup, but whene it tried to

Re: Problem with amcheck

2001-01-13 Thread Chris Karakas
"Bernhard R. Erdmann" wrote: It'a typical problem when DNS is not set up properly. Let's be clear here: I don't want to setup a DNS server for a network that is not supposed to have _direct_ access to the internet, one that uses the 192.168.xxx.xxx addresses and is small enough to fit on a

test config creates problems perhaps

2001-01-13 Thread Josh Kuperman
I tried to create a config for test use only. In general the test config has a single filesystem and dumptype definition copied over from the production config, and then modified for testing. It had a cycle of one tape and I was using it to text the syntax for "exlude list", because I was finding

Re: test config creates problems perhaps

2001-01-13 Thread David Lloyd
U... For me the ideal would be a test-mode where I could rerun repeatedly with the same tape, remove the switch and then it would be production, though I realize this may not be feasable with the amanda design philosophy. Still there must be a standard way to test. How do I create a

Another: access as operator not allowed from root@localhost.localdomain

2001-01-13 Thread Tony Magni
I have installed the rpm's that came with redhat 7.0 and am trying to backup 4 SGI's and 2 linux boxes with amanda installed on one of the 2 linux boxes. Installation went fine. I am amchecking, and I resolved all problems from all sgi machines. But I can't get that "access as operator