Re: Restore without amanda...

2001-01-29 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
Suman Malla wrote: > > While using dd with ufsrestore i.e. > > dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k skip=1 | gzip -d | /usr/sbin/ufsrestore -ivh - /dev/nst0 sounds like Linux but ufsrestore sounds like Solaris. Are you trying to read from the right device?

Re: Restore without amanda...

2001-01-29 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
Suman Malla wrote: > > While using dd with ufsrestore i.e. > > dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k skip=1 | gzip -d | /usr/sbin/ufsrestore -ivh - > > I get - > > st0: Incorrect block size > dd: /dev/nst0: Input/Output error > 0+0 records in > 0+0 records out Use "mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 32768"

tapelists permissions being changed...

2001-01-29 Thread Chris Herrmann
Hi all, I've been scratching my head for a long time, and haven't managed to work out what is changing the permissions on this file, and so ask for some pointers! amcheck returns: ERROR: /etc/amanda/CORBETT/tapelist is not writable and sure enough, if I check out the permissions: -rw---

RE: amreport broken between 2.4.1p1 and 2.4.2

2001-01-29 Thread Grant Beattie
Thanks for the tip. For those interested, I am now using: columnspec "HostName=0:10,Disk=1:18,OrigKB=1:8,OutKB=1:8,DumpRate=0:7,TapeRate=0:7" which works quite well on some of our longer hostnames and bigger disk sizes. g. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Restore without amanda...

2001-01-29 Thread Suman Malla
While using dd with ufsrestore i.e. dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k skip=1 | gzip -d | /usr/sbin/ufsrestore -ivh - I get - st0: Incorrect block size dd: /dev/nst0: Input/Output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out Any idea? -- Suman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email "Ben Hyatt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: Restore without amanda...

2001-01-29 Thread Mack Earnhardt
Ben Hyatt wrote: >> How can I restore files without Amanda? Thanks for your time. > > > use dd along with ufsrestore. > > There's good online docs on this. > http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda-24.html I've had a problem using dd with skip=1, though. For some reason, dd on my system (Debi

RE: Restore without amanda...

2001-01-29 Thread Ben Hyatt
> How can I restore files without Amanda? Thanks for your time. use dd along with ufsrestore. There's good online docs on this. http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda-24.html -Ben > Regards, > SMalla

Re: Error msg interpretation

2001-01-29 Thread Ben Elliston
jrj wrote: Is this 2.4.2? If so, I think you're not the only one who's mentioned this. Sigh. Yes, it is. Interestingly, I think this is the first partition of mine to receive a level 3 dump. Ben

Re: Error msg interpretation

2001-01-29 Thread John R. Jackson
>That's interesting, considering `mars' is the tape server. I'm just telling you what it means :-). Now you'll have to start gathering more data to find out why. Is this 2.4.2? If so, I think you're not the only one who's mentioned this. Sigh. >Ben John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specia

Re: Restore without amanda...

2001-01-29 Thread John R. Jackson
>How can I restore files without Amanda? Thanks for your time. Have you read docs/RESTORE? What about: http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html Both cover this topic. >SMalla John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Restore without amanda...

2001-01-29 Thread Suman Malla
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Re: Error msg interpretation

2001-01-29 Thread Ben Elliston
>FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > mars sda7 lev 3 FAILED [data timeout] It means dumper on your server stopped getting data for 30 minutes (or whatever you set dtimeout to in amanda.conf). That's interesting, considering `mars' is the tape server. Ben

Re: Error msg interpretation

2001-01-29 Thread John R. Jackson
>Can anyone help me diagnose what this error message precisely means? > >FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > mars sda7 lev 3 FAILED [data timeout] It means dumper on your server stopped getting data for 30 minutes (or whatever you set dtimeout to in amanda.conf). That, in turn, could be cau

I/O error on tapetype program, help.

2001-01-29 Thread Tanniel Simonian
Hello, I've been getting weird errors on my nightly amanda job and saw that there was a problem. I currently use an EXABYTE EZ 17 Autoloader drive and had used the TAPETYPE value given from this email group. After a few weird errors and thinking that I had fixed them, I finally fell short when

Re: Exabyte Mammoth2

2001-01-29 Thread Tanniel Simonian
I just ran the tapetype program on mine and got very intersting errors, which I will email to this group, however, the tapetype of the EZ17 has been mentioned before and if you look into the December archives of egroups you'll see them. If you can't find it I will send you the numbers. Second, th

Error msg interpretation

2001-01-29 Thread Ben Elliston
Can anyone help me diagnose what this error message precisely means? FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: mars sda7 lev 3 FAILED [data timeout] Thanks, B.

RE: why | ufsrestore?

2001-01-29 Thread Grant Beattie
How does one configure the blocksize? What about the blocksize used on the tape? perhaps that can be tuned, too... g. > -Original Message- > From: Marc W. Mengel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 30 January 2001 3:12 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Grant Beattie; [EMAIL PROT

Re: |ufsrestore .. also for tar ?

2001-01-29 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:45:03PM -0500) > It will require to much work to the sendbackup process. It > will be possible to do it with the DUMPER-API, is you have time, you > should work on the DUMPER-API. Time, yeah, heard about that .. seems to be ver

Interpretation please

2001-01-29 Thread Andrew Robinson
On a recent backup report, we received the following message: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: amanda sd0e lev 1 FAILED [nak error:unexpected ack packet] amanda is the name of the backup server. I dump'ed the partition by hand, and saw no problems. Anyone know what went wrong? Thanks!

Re: |ufsrestore .. also for tar ?

2001-01-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:05:21PM +0100, Gerhard den Hollander wrote: > * Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:59:16PM -0200) > > On Jan 29, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> doing a tar cvf .. should give you a full list of everything being ba

Client stopped responding, Request timed out

2001-01-29 Thread Oscar Ricardo Silva
I've been running Amanda 2.4.2 for several months now. I have a client, client.foo.com that has stopped responding and here's what I get from the Amanda report: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY client.foo. /disk1 lev 0 FAILED [Request to client.foo.com timed out.] client.foo.

Exabyte Mammoth2

2001-01-29 Thread Michael T. Mader
Hi, has anybody done a tapetype for a Mammoth2 drive? Would be fine to know because I am just starting a Exabyte EZ17 changer with a Mammoth2 drive. Thx Michael BTW: Does anybody know about this error I get with gmake/gcc when building tapetype? tape-src/tapetype.c:244: `O_RDWR' undeclared (

Re: |ufsrestore .. also for tar ?

2001-01-29 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:59:16PM -0200) > On Jan 29, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> doing a tar cvf .. should give you a full list of everything being backed >> up ? > The problem is that you wouldn't be able to tell error messages

Re: |ufsrestore .. also for tar ?

2001-01-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 29, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > doing a tar cvf .. should give you a full list of everything being backed > up ? The problem is that you wouldn't be able to tell error messages from the actual file list. So we do throw a `tar tf' in the pipeline. -- Alexand

|ufsrestore .. also for tar ?

2001-01-29 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
sidenote: since egroups went yahoo, I haven';t eben able to access the searchable archives .. Is this just Konqueror, or is it broken ? Anyway, When dumping with ufsdump, amanda pipes through ufsrestore to get an index .. fair enough However, when dumping via tar, we dont need this, right ? do

Re: Where is tar 1.13.19

2001-01-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 29, 2001, Jonathan Dill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you know how to build binary RPMs optimized for other architecture > eg. i586 and i686? I think you have to do something to the spec file, > but I'm not sure what. I think it's enough to build it with -march=i686 -mcpu=i686. I beli

Re: amanda 2.4.2

2001-01-29 Thread John R. Jackson
>I have decided to upgrade amanada 2.4.1p1 to 2.4.2 Version 2.4.2p1 has been released and you should probably use it. There is at least one fairly important bug fix. > Clem Kumah[EMAIL PROTECTED] John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist,

Re: amanda 2.4.2

2001-01-29 Thread David Wolfskill
>From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:49:46 +0100 (CET) >Doesn't installing Amanda from /usr/ports/misc/amanda24 work for you? I started with amanda from "ports" back in '98, but it became rather too awkward to ensure that the Solaris boxen also had amanda con

Re: amanda 2.4.2

2001-01-29 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi all! David Wolfskill wrote: > >Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:02:38 + > >From: Clem Kumah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >I have decided to upgrade amanada 2.4.1p1 to 2.4.2 > >When I try to do a make command I get the following error: > > >make: don't know how to make amoverview. Stop > >*** Error

Re: amanda 2.4.2

2001-01-29 Thread David Wolfskill
>Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:02:38 + >From: Clem Kumah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I have decided to upgrade amanada 2.4.1p1 to 2.4.2 >When I try to do a make command I get the following error: >make: don't know how to make amoverview. Stop >*** Error code 1 >I seem to recal that it needs gnu make.

Re: amrecover: cannot connect to host (connection refused)

2001-01-29 Thread Mack Earnhardt
I was getting connection refused on amrecover for a while. The .amandahosts file allowed access to root@localhost, but amrecover would use root@servername and fail. My solution was to use the server name explicitly in both .amandahosts and disklist. Hope this help one of your problems. :) -

RE: amanda 2.4.2

2001-01-29 Thread Ben Hyatt
> I am runing it on a freebsd 4.2-Release On my openbsd box I see gmake in my ports tree here. (bhyatt)@kawasaki:/usr/ports/devel/gmake:[115]> HTH -Ben > Clem Kumah > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > System Administrator / Teamleader

amanda 2.4.2

2001-01-29 Thread Clem Kumah
Hi, I have decided to upgrade amanada 2.4.1p1 to 2.4.2 When I try to do a make command I get the following error: make: don't know how to make amoverview. Stop *** Error code 1 I seem to recal that it needs gnu make. Is this correct, and where can I get a copy? I am runing it on a freebsd 4.2

Re: why | ufsrestore?

2001-01-29 Thread Marc W. Mengel
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, John R. Jackson wrote: > > But you're comparing apples and oranges. As you've noted, going from > disk to tape on the same machine gets 3 MBytes/s whether you are using > ufsdump or Amanda is using taper to copy a holding disk image. > > But that's not what happens when A

Re: Where is tar 1.13.19

2001-01-29 Thread Jonathan Dill
Mandrake Cooker has RPM and SRPM for tar 1.13.19 and you can get it on rpmfind.net. I suggest building from the src.rpm unless you're running Mandrake: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/cooker//cooker/SRPMS//tar-1.13.19-4mdk.src.html I have no idea if this is "stable" but I'm going to test it out.

Re: amanda-2.4.2-beta2

2001-01-29 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hello! Clem Kuma wrote: > Where can I find gnu make for Freebsd? # cd /usr/ports/devel/gmake # make install clean will do the trivck on a FreeBSD system with the ports collection installed. If you prefer to install precompiled binaries try ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/pack

Re: amanda-2.4.2-beta2

2001-01-29 Thread Clem Kumah
Where can I find gnu make for Freebsd? > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 01:07:57PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > On 26 Oct 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > > > > On Oct 26, 2000, The Hermit Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > make: don't know how to make amoverview. Stop > > > > ***

Re: Where is tar 1.13.19

2001-01-29 Thread Jim MacDonald
You can find it here: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar Jim > I saw that tar (gtar?) 1.13.19 is the right version to use. I checked > both the Free Software Foundations's site as well as rpmfind.net (just > in case my life would be easy.) and 1.13.17 seemed to be the latest. > > Where should I b

Where is tar 1.13.19

2001-01-29 Thread Josh Kuperman
I saw that tar (gtar?) 1.13.19 is the right version to use. I checked both the Free Software Foundations's site as well as rpmfind.net (just in case my life would be easy.) and 1.13.17 seemed to be the latest. Where should I be looking? -- Josh Kuperman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why | ufsrestore?

2001-01-29 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 08:59:30AM -0500) > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:42:04PM +0100, Gerhard den Hollander wrote: > > It's not the compression (or at leat not only the compression) that gives > > the penalty, but more likely the 5 way split .. > > > > As

Re: why | ufsrestore?

2001-01-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:42:04PM +0100, Gerhard den Hollander wrote: > It's not the compression (or at leat not only the compression) that gives > the penalty, but more likely the 5 way split .. > > As long as Im doing incrementals it isn't too bad, since those dump to > disk, and from disk to

Re: why | ufsrestore?

2001-01-29 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* John R. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 08:20:30PM -0500) >>I have always wondered .. why does amanda pipe ufsdump output to ufsrestore >>before sending it to the tape device? > It's collecting the index data. > The dump (or tar) output pipeline is rather complicated. The im

Re: Amrecover, Invalid directory error

2001-01-29 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:07:59AM -0200) >> Ehm, >> docs INSTALL sais, use 1.12 w/ patches. >> I assumed (incorrectly) that 1.13 would work as well. > It's fixed in 2.4.2p1. So I noticed ;) Will 1.13.17 work ? >>> Yep, but there's a (rare?) bug in 1.13

Re: Amrecover, Invalid directory error

2001-01-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 29, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As in docs/INSTALL? > Ehm, > docs INSTALL sais, use 1.12 w/ patches. > I assumed (incorrectly) that 1.13 would work as well. It's fixed in 2.4.2p1. >>> Will 1.13.17 work ? >> Yep, but there's a (rare?) bug in 1.13.17 that may

Re: Amrecover, Invalid directory error

2001-01-29 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 07:07:01AM -0200) > On Jan 29, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sure enough, GNU tar 1.13. Will version 1.11.8, or 1.12 work? >>> >>> I don't think 1.11.* will work. 1.12 will work if you apply the pa

Re: Amrecover, Invalid directory error

2001-01-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 29, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * John R. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:05:47PM -0500) >> > Sure enough, GNU tar 1.13. Will version 1.11.8, or 1.12 work? >> >> I don't think 1.11.* will work. 1.12 will work if you apply the patc

Re: Amrecover, Invalid directory error

2001-01-29 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* John R. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:05:47PM -0500) > > Sure enough, GNU tar 1.13. Will version 1.11.8, or 1.12 work? > > I don't think 1.11.* will work. 1.12 will work if you apply the patches > from www.amanda.org. 1.13.19 is reported to work. Could this be