Re: Problem with a Seagate tape drive

2001-02-21 Thread Johannes Niess
"Trevor Linton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a SEAGATE DAT (DDS-3) tape backup drive, it holds around 1 gig of info, i'm having some errors with the amanda amdump First off, which I think is the largest error is in the /var/log/amanda/DailySet1/log.20010220.0, in which it gives this

Re: HP C1553A and chio/pickers

2001-02-21 Thread Alessio Brezigar
If you are in a linux environment why dont'use mtx (and amanda chg-mtx or chg-zd-mtx) instead of chio? HP1553A (DDS-3 autoloader with 6 tape magazine?) does not have a separate scsi address for the changer, so you can use /dev/nst0 (or whatever your tape drive is indexed) as your tape device and

Re: tweaking the schedule

2001-02-21 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:53:20PM -0500) Next we need to examine the driver algorithm in more detail. Some of the base information is in the usenix paper on the ftp.amanda.org site. [8] If inparallel is set to three (or less), you don't have any "big"

coherency between amindexd and amrecover

2001-02-21 Thread Jörn Hildebrandt
Hello, i had already a running amanda-system in former times, but i had to set up a new one. The first time, i was able to login via telnet on port 10082, so that's why i think it must be now also possible?!? I can't interpret the following lines of /tmp/amanda/amindexd.debug: amindexd: debug

Re: questions on DLT7?

2001-02-21 Thread Denyce Berg
Thinking about purchasing one want to make sure it will work before spending the large amount of money. Denyce John R. Jackson wrote: Does anyone know if there is a problem using the DLT7 with amanda or solaris 2.6 or if there are drivers for solaris 8? I don't know what a "DLT7" is,

gnutar socket ignored (although I'm using 2.4.2p1)

2001-02-21 Thread Paul D. Schmidt
Hello, I'm receiving messages like the following in my daily report: /-- pds/var lev 1 STRANGE sendbackup: start [pds:/var level 1] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/local/bin/gtar sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/local/bin/gtar -f... - sendbackup: info end ? gtar: ./account/acct: file

Re: questions on DLT7?

2001-02-21 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Denyce Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 08:18:46AM -0700) Thinking about purchasing one want to make sure it will work before spending the large amount of money. Buy an LTO .. 100G uncompressed for roughly the same price Gerhard, (@jasongeo.com) == The Acoustic

Re: amrestore problem

2001-02-21 Thread John R. Jackson
OK, i tested it with this commands: amanda@fileserver:~ cd /usr/local/sbin/ amanda@fileserver:/usr/local/sbin ./amrestore /dev/nst0 king amrestore: missing file header block ... HmWhat´s wrong? Did you "mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind" first? Juergen John R. Jackson, Technical Software

Re: RedHat Amandad xinetd.conf etc etc

2001-02-21 Thread Dirk Webster
Hi Holm I've just started with amanda on Red Hat. Spent a long night getting it working (with a lot of help from this list). Here's my entry in xinetd.conf... (not touched) == defaults { instances = 60 log_type= SYSLOG authpriv

Re: amrestore problem

2001-02-21 Thread Juergen Knott
amanda@fileserver:~ cd /usr/local/sbin/ amanda@fileserver:/usr/local/sbin ./amrestore /dev/nst0 king amrestore: missing file header block Did you "mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind" first? i have forgotten :-( But, after rewinding the tape i become another error: root@fileserver:/usr/local/sbin

Re: Questions and Answers and Thanks

2001-02-21 Thread Chris Marble
Gerhard den Hollander wrote: Since it's a linux box , you may want to look into using reiserFS. I found that file access with Reiser is faster than ext2 (although nothing shocking) esp. when going through a lot of smaller files in one swoop. I formatted up the holding disk with a large

RedHat Amandad xinetd.conf etc etc

2001-02-21 Thread Holm-Hansen
I'm on my last brain cell... I'm getting the dreaded "selfcheck request timed-out. Host down?" message from amcheck. I've read and re-read the faq. After doing an "ls -lu" in the server directory, I found that the executable isn't getting called when I run amcheck. (I believe that is what

RE: RedHat Amandad xinetd.conf etc etc

2001-02-21 Thread Holm-Hansen
Unfortunately this is nearly identical to what I have (save the disable=no which didn't make things go). I've found that I can run amandad by hand and it acts as predicted (timing out after 30 seconds) but it still isn't being called from xinetd. Another curious problem is that in the faq it