Re: can't lock log

2001-02-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:27:35PM -0500, Sherrill (Pei-chih) Verbrugge wrote: > Hi, > > I am using RH 7.0 and amanda 2.4.1p1 (without bsd auth compiled > in). Running amcheck results no errors. All the debug files result no > errors. > > But I got "Result Missing" errors back in the amrepor

Re: Mixed output in amdump.n file

2001-02-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:59:35AM -0500, Michael Russell wrote: > I have noticed that the amdump.n log file has mixed output from > multiple sources in it at times - like from 'setup_estimate' & > a 'dumper.' Is this a known problem? Any plans to fix it? > FYI, this is using amanda 2.4.2

REF: Start and stop time

2001-02-13 Thread Robert McGraw
How can I tell when a dumper and taper starts and stops. I have it set up so that a particular dump start 3 hours later, which I set in the disklist file. In what logs can I see when it started and stopped. I am looking for the time of day start and stop. thanks Robert

Re: Submitting a chg-zd-mtx, with barcode support, and >9 slot support

2001-02-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello Jason, This patch is required. Jean-Louis -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departement IRO, Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montreal, Canada, H3C 3J7Fax: (514) 343-5834 --- chg-zd-mtx.sh.in.orig

Re: tapetype for AIT-2 50Gb native?

2001-02-13 Thread Michael Russell
> > sourceforge has broken the FAQ-o-matic, just when i get new tape > > hardware.. does anyone have a tapetype for AIT-2 50Gb native carts? I use this one from the FAQ-o-MATIC: # From: Frank Wojcik define tapetype AIT-2 { comment "SDX-500C" length 54538 mbytes file

Re: tapetype for AIT-2 50Gb native?

2001-02-13 Thread Yura Pismerov
Christopher Linn wrote: > > sourceforge has broken the FAQ-o-matic, just when i get new tape > hardware.. does anyone have a tapetype for AIT-2 50Gb native carts? define tapetype AIT2 { comment "AIT-2 in Spectralogics TreeFrog" length 51000 mbytes filemark 1541 kbytes spe

Re: switching to TAR for large partition

2001-02-13 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Brian Cuttler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 12:01:17PM -0500) > Hello, > We are running Amanda 2.4.1p1 on an SGI running IRIX 6.5.3m > and have problems backing up a 'large' partition (aprox 70gig) > to our DLT drive. > We though to use TAR rather than dump for this partition and

Re: switching to TAR for large partition

2001-02-13 Thread Yura Pismerov
Brian Cuttler wrote: > > Hello, > > We are running Amanda 2.4.1p1 on an SGI running IRIX 6.5.3m > and have problems backing up a 'large' partition (aprox 70gig) > to our DLT drive. > > We though to use TAR rather than dump for this partition and > modified amanda.conf and disklist in what we be

tapetype for AIT-2 50Gb native?

2001-02-13 Thread Christopher Linn
sourceforge has broken the FAQ-o-matic, just when i get new tape hardware.. does anyone have a tapetype for AIT-2 50Gb native carts? thanks, chris -- Christopher Linn, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| By no means shall either the CEC Staff System Administrator| or MTU be held in any way li

Re: Submitting a chg-zd-mtx, with barcode support, and >9 slot support

2001-02-13 Thread Jason Hollinden
Ok, I've changed over to the new version that was suggested, and I have also incorporated the suggestions of several people who's name escape me (sorry). This now has the 'mt offline' variable of the newest chg-zd-mtx, and tests whether your drives provides an 'offline', or an 'ONLINE' when cha

can't lock log

2001-02-13 Thread Sherrill (Pei-chih) Verbrugge
Hi, I am using RH 7.0 and amanda 2.4.1p1 (without bsd auth compiled in). Running amcheck results no errors. All the debug files result no errors. But I got "Result Missing" errors back in the amreport after amdump. Below is the error in amdump.1 file under the log location. The log.error.

switching to TAR for large partition

2001-02-13 Thread Brian Cuttler
Hello, We are running Amanda 2.4.1p1 on an SGI running IRIX 6.5.3m and have problems backing up a 'large' partition (aprox 70gig) to our DLT drive. We though to use TAR rather than dump for this partition and modified amanda.conf and disklist in what we believe are the correct ways. amanda.con

Re: DLT 40/80 Gb setting

2001-02-13 Thread Joseph Del Corso
I'll try that -- felt a little foolish though, because the reply from Alexandre Oliva about the alternate way to get to the "faq-o-matic" site answered a lot of questions I'm having. Thank you though for your suggestion Joe On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Gerhard den Hollander wrote: > * Joseph Del Co

Re: DLT 40/80 Gb setting

2001-02-13 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Joseph Del Corso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:01:46AM -0500) > I hadn't heard back from anyone with a setting for my > DLTtape IV 40/80 Gb tapes, so I went ahead and ran > tapetype on the system and let it run over night. > The readme mentioned posting my results to the genera

DLT 40/80 Gb setting

2001-02-13 Thread Joseph Del Corso
I hadn't heard back from anyone with a setting for my DLTtape IV 40/80 Gb tapes, so I went ahead and ran tapetype on the system and let it run over night. The readme mentioned posting my results to the general mailing list *I THINK* so here's what I got... I'm a little confused about the resul

Mixed output in amdump.n file

2001-02-13 Thread Michael Russell
I have noticed that the amdump.n log file has mixed output from multiple sources in it at times - like from 'setup_estimate' & a 'dumper.' Is this a known problem? Any plans to fix it? FYI, this is using amanda 2.4.2 on an SGI running IRIX 6.5.9f. Here's an example: mtisun:/export/home o

Amrecover Problem, amandahostauth problem in amidxtaped.debug

2001-02-13 Thread Friedrich Clausen
Hi all! I wish to restore a file on the client (stanley) and the server is hall. When I run : amrecover -C stanley -s hall.domain.org -d /dev/nst0 It does not complain about anything and lets me specifify which files to restore but then when I try and extract them this happens : amrecover> a

Re: more than one tape reusable

2001-02-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 13, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thing is, I want to monkey proof the system, > and have a list emailed out to whoever will be handling the backups with > the 5 tapes that are valid that week. > Is that possible ? Sure. But it will require some hacking from y

Re: more than one tape reusable

2001-02-13 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:39:05AM -0200) >> # amadmin lto tape >> The next Amanda run should go onto tape LTO020 or a new tape. >> Am I missing something ? > Just because Amanda tells you it wants LTO020, it doesn't mean it > won't accept one of the other 4

Re: more than one tape reusable

2001-02-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 13, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # amadmin lto tape > The next Amanda run should go onto tape LTO020 or a new tape. > Am I missing something ? Just because Amanda tells you it wants LTO020, it doesn't mean it won't accept one of the other 4 recyclable tapes.

Re: more than one tape reusable

2001-02-13 Thread Simon Mayr
Gerhard den Hollander wrote: > * Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 08:39:21AM -0200) > >> On Feb 13, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> I have indeed 25 tapes in my tapelist. >>> Im lazy, and Id like to have a list of 5 tapes (so that I can t

Re: more than one tape reusable

2001-02-13 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 08:39:21AM -0200) > On Feb 13, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have indeed 25 tapes in my tapelist. > > Im lazy, and Id like to have a list of 5 tapes (so that I can take the > > tapes for a whole week, stack

Re: Can I use only one tape for backing up all the week?

2001-02-13 Thread Chris Karakas
Simon Mayr wrote: > > You didn't say it, but I think the files you have backuped were ok. > So at least one of them (original & backup) has survived. True. The original survived. But it must not always be so. > I am a lazy one, so I think I would automate this process a little bit. > In the cr

Re: Can I use only one tape for backing up all the week?

2001-02-13 Thread Chris Karakas
Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Chris Karakas wrote: > > > The tape, on the > > other side, did not have its headers updated (not the AMANDA headers, > > but its low level headers - on my system this is done at the end of the > > flushing, after the rewind command is issued),

Re: more than one tape reusable

2001-02-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 13, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have indeed 25 tapes in my tapelist. > Im lazy, and Id like to have a list of 5 tapes (so that I can take the > tapes for a whole week, stack them, next to the tapedrive, and use them in > whatever order I please. > What is

more than one tape reusable

2001-02-13 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
This is probably something trivial. in my amanda.conf I have dumpcycle 1 week# the number of days in the normal dump cycle runspercycle 5 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days # (4 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week -- just # w

confused by .amandahosts (was Re: Client problem)

2001-02-13 Thread m . krips
Dear reader, I read something about the .amandahosts file here. I found in the amanda man page about the config file parameters: dumpuser "string" Default: backup. The login name Amanda uses to run the backups. The backup client hosts must allow

Help ! amflush not working !

2001-02-13 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
Hi. I just upgraded to version 2.4.2-3 (build: VERSION="Amanda-2.4.2" BUILT_DATE="Wed Jan 31 18:19:33 EST 2001" BUILT_MACH="Linux porky.devel.redhat.com 2.2.17-8smp #1 SMP Fri Nov 17 16 ) (because of the problem of flushing single dumps) Now, when I run amflush, I get the er