Re: AIT-1 tapetype, FAQ-O-Matic, and compression

2001-02-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: I just got a SDX-300C (35GB native AIT-1) drive for archival dumps. Does anybody have any experience with these regarding a realistic guesstimate of hardware compressed capacity? Tapetype? Here are my defs for AIT-1 with 25G and 35G tapes: define tapetype

Re: none

2001-02-09 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 9, 2001, "richard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Part(a): /home/a to k Part(b): /home/l to z How can I do this in my disklist file? List /home and /home/., and, in the corresponding dumptypes, exclude ./[^a-k]* for Part a and ./[a-k]* for Part b. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana',

Client problem

2001-02-09 Thread Juergen Knott
Hi all! I have installed Amanda on a tape server for a long time ago and it works fine. The tape server is called fileserver with ip 10.0.1.50 and have an entry in the DNS, the client is king with ip 10.0.1.49 and have no entry in DNS. Now, i installed Amanda on a client without Server. When

Re: Client problem

2001-02-09 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 9, 2001, Juergen Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Error: 10.0.1.49: [addr 10.0.1.50: hostname lookup failed] It means host 10.0.1.49 couldn't find out the name associated with address 10.0.1.50. Probably some DNS or /etc/hosts configuration error on host 10.0.1.49 -- Alexandre Oliva

Re: Client problem

2001-02-09 Thread Juergen Knott
Hi Alexandre! I have checked the DNS configuration, and thats ok. I find the computers by giving the name How about finding the name given the IP? That's what Amanda is complaining about. Does `nslookup 10.0.1.50' succeed on 10.0.1.49? reverselookup was not set correct, i fixed ist.

Re: AIT-1 tapetype, FAQ-O-Matic, and compression

2001-02-09 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 at 10:26am, Paul Bijnens wrote define tapetype AIT1-35 { comment "AIT-1 cartridge 35/70 GB" lbl-templ "/var/opt/amanda/etc/lbl-templ/AIT.ps" length 33200 mbytes # 33400 was lowest seen till now filemark 500 kbytes speed 3000 mbytes } And here's

Re: amanda mailing list

2001-02-09 Thread Joseph Del Corso
I'm new to this mailing list (as of yesterday) but I already agree with what Ryan wrote. There is NO inconvience is having an [AMU] appended to the front/end of a message subject; and frankly being on a couple dozen different mailing lists and recieving on the order of 200 emails a day, things

Can someone please help?

2001-02-09 Thread Joseph Del Corso
I should preface what I'm about to say with: I searched through a decent amount of the archive before giving up. I ran amcheck with the following results: Amanda Tape Server Host Check -

Re: amanda mailing list

2001-02-09 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Joseph Del Corso wrote: There is NO inconvience is having an [AMU] appended to the front/end of a message subject; This is an opinion stated as a fact. My opinion is different. Those 6 chars at the beginning force 6 chars of actual information out of the right end of

example amdump output

2001-02-09 Thread Mike Cathey
Just in case: ( I know I shouldn't use /dev/rd/... I'll fix it eventually) SNIP example amdump output These dumps were to tape DailySet123. The next 7 tapes Amanda expects to used are: a new tape, a new tape, a new tape, a new tape, a new tape, a new tape, a new tape. STATISTICS:

Re: Can someone please help?

2001-02-09 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
You should really send questions like this to the amanda-users list, not to one individual. I get, well, more mail than you (see previous message) each day and read only a small fraction of it on the day it arrives. A lot of it I never read. I'll cc this to the list since there are several

Re: Failing on relatively large partition

2001-02-09 Thread Chris Hobbs
Success! Increased dtimeout to 7200 and I now have a good backup of /home. Thanks a ton for all the help. Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Feb 8, 2001, Chris Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this is the case, then the culprit appears to be the first gtar, as it has taken forever to start

Re: Can someone please help?

2001-02-09 Thread Dan Wilder
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:27:01AM -0500, Joseph Del Corso wrote: I should preface what I'm about to say with: I searched through a decent amount of the archive before giving up. I ran amcheck with the following results: Use the messages, Luke.

Re: Can someone please help?

2001-02-09 Thread Jason Hollinden
A couple things I see, commented below: On Fri, 09 Feb 2001, Joseph Del Corso wrote: I should preface what I'm about to say with: I searched through a decent amount of the archive before giving up. I ran amcheck with the following results:

Re: Can someone please help?

2001-02-09 Thread Andrew Robinson
At 10:27 AM 2/9/01 -0500, Joseph Del Corso wrote: I should preface what I'm about to say with: I searched through a decent amount of the archive before giving up. I ran amcheck with the following results: Amanda Tape

Re: Client Installation

2001-02-09 Thread Roger Haskins
On the client machine, where do I set the option of --ignore-failed-read because I see that the version of tar I have there, does have this option. Thank you At 08:21 PM 02/08/2001 , you wrote: On Feb 8, 2001, "John R. Jackson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's too bad tar doesn't have a flag

amrestore

2001-02-09 Thread pi
How can I restore Winnt-Computer with amrestore? Thanks for Help Mit freundlichen Gr|_en ___ Robert PirontInstitut fuer Elektrische Tel.: +49-241-807660 Anlagen und

Re: amanda mailing list

2001-02-09 Thread Ryan Williams
Perhaps it would help the two of you. Perhaps you can explain why the rest of us should be inconvenienced because you can't spare the time to learn to use the right tool for the right job? 200 m/day might be a burden for you. For many of us that's a light day. The list messages are

Re: amanda mailing list

2001-02-09 Thread Jason Hollinden
On Fri, 09 Feb 2001, Ryan Williams wrote: Perhaps it would help the two of you. Perhaps you can explain why the rest of us should be inconvenienced because you can't spare the time to learn to use the right tool for the right job? 200 m/day might be a burden for you. For many of us

RE: amanda mailing list

2001-02-09 Thread Lew Gaiter III
I can see where it would help if you didn't have some way to filter mail, but mostly the Sender: header is correct. I'm running Outlook (don't go there) to read E-mail and have been completely unable to get the filtering to work. Something in the subject is easy for Outlook but it barfs on

Re: Client Installation

2001-02-09 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 9, 2001, Roger Haskins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the client machine, where do I set the option of --ignore-failed-read because I see that the version of tar I have there, does have this option. Amanda already uses it, but older versions of GNU tar didn't do the right thing with it.

Re: amanda mailing list

2001-02-09 Thread John R. Jackson
I'm new to this mailing list (as of yesterday) ... Welcome! If I may make a short comment. This discussion about E-mail and Subject lines is not at all typical of this mailing list. I've already seen more heat about this than the last 1000 other postings. So please don't judge it just based

Re: does any one know the setting of HP DDS-4 SureStore DAT40i Internal DAT drvie in amanda.conf?

2001-02-09 Thread Tom Schutter
define tapetype HP-SURESTORE-DAT40 { comment "just produced by tapetype program" length 19560 mbytes filemark 1147 kbytes speed 2957 kps } richard wrote: Dear all, I have just bought a new HP DAT40i. May I know if someone can tell me its setting for the amanda.conf file?

Re: Client Installation

2001-02-09 Thread John R. Jackson
How do I get Amanda to use this option since it is not doing it automatically and the tar on the client machine has this option available? What do you mean it's not doing it? According to the sources I have, and several examples posted here over the last few weeks, Amanda always uses the

Re: Client problem

2001-02-09 Thread John R. Jackson
ERROR: king: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED]] amandahostsauth failed ... On the fileserver under /home/amanda exist a file called .amandahosts and i have king and fileserver in it. I assume /home/amanda is the home directory for user "amanda"? The .amandahosts file must

Re: Access not allowed problem.

2001-02-09 Thread John R. Jackson
And in /home/amanda/.amandahosts on server.example.org is : Are you sure /home/amanda is the home directory for "amanda"? Is the file owned by "amanda"? Is it mode 0600 or 0400? client.example.org root This is the line that matters on the server. Are you sure you spelled the hostname

Re: amrecover

2001-02-09 Thread John R. Jackson
It was my understanding that it should restore the file to whatever the current directory was when I started amrecover (or whatever I 'lcd' to). Is this not the case? Sort of. It (actually, your restore program -- this has nothing to do with Amanda) will create a directory tree in your current

Re: I can't make backup

2001-02-09 Thread John R. Jackson
I run tapetype xx /dev/st0 and create an input to amanda.conf You **must** use the no-rewind device name for **all** Amanda work. That's probably /dev/nst0. When I execute amcheck I get 2 errors: - server side : /dev/st0 no amanda tape. I probed /dev/nst0 too Did you

Re: Help w/ DI-30

2001-02-09 Thread John R. Jackson
First I have the patches for the 2.2.16 kernel from On-Stream and the drive seems to work fine w/ tar and the "mt" commands. And yes I did read the "DI-30" is broken, but those messages seem to pre-date the patches from OnStream. It's nice to know they are working on this, however ... I'm

Re: Help w/ DI-30

2001-02-09 Thread John R. Jackson
Thanks for the script. I'll give it a try. Make sure you notice that word "untested" :-). ... How do I make an Amanda "RPM" (or equivalent) so I can install 2.4.2p1 (both client and server) on the appropriate machine(s) ? 'Fraid I can't help with RPM's. On my (Solaris/AIX) systems, I build

Re: amanda mailing list

2001-02-09 Thread Michael Ellebracht
Ryan Williams wrote: Perhaps it would help the two of you. Perhaps you can explain why the rest of us should be inconvenienced because you can't spare the time to learn to use the right tool for the right job? 200 m/day might be a burden for you. For many of us that's a light day.

Re: Linux, AIT2 and hardware compression

2001-02-09 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Yura Pismerov wrote: mt comp off should work fine for AIT2. At least is working for me. How do you know it does not work ? I don't. It should be reported by "mt status". mt status says the same thing no matter what I do with mt comp, mt