Re: hostname lookup failed

2001-03-12 Thread David Lloyd
Oops! > To disable it completely, I think you'd need to hack the source. Obvously you don't need to but I wouldn't if I were you :-) DSL -- CWA - Chin Waggers Association "Let's sit around and complain about something. Our topic for today is: ADSL...h...that `L' stands for Linux doesn'

Re: hostname lookup failed

2001-03-12 Thread David Lloyd
Hmmm.. To disable it completely, I think you'd need to hack the source. DSL

Re: hostname lookup failed

2001-03-12 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Mar 13, 2001, "Charlie Zhu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But how can I disable it, I meaning not using reverse DNS lookup? Add it to /etc/hosts, and configure the name resolver to look up `files' first. I.e., you don't disable it, you get it to do The Right Thing (TM). If you really mean to

Re: hostname lookup failed

2001-03-12 Thread Charlie Zhu
But how can I disable it, I meaning not using reverse DNS lookup? --Charlie - Original Message - From: "David Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Charlie Zhu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Amanda Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 1:56 PM Subject: Re: hostname lookup failed

Re: hostname lookup failed

2001-03-12 Thread Ben Elliston
> "David" == David Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> If that doesn't work, try dig 83.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa dig -x 192.168.0.83 is less of a mouthful. :-) Ben

Re: dtimeout

2001-03-12 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Mar 12, 2001, Alexander von Homeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > amcheck-server: could not get changer info: badly formed result from > changer: ""amanda.conf", line 32: configuration keyword expected" Looks like the changer program is from some older release of Amanda. -- Alexandre Oliva

Re: hostname lookup failed

2001-03-12 Thread David Lloyd
Charlie! > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check > > ERROR: office: [addr 192.168.0.83: hostname lookup failed] > Client check: 1 host checked in 0.109 seconds, 1 problem found > > (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.2) > > But 'office' is really pingable in fact, What d

hostname lookup failed

2001-03-12 Thread Charlie Zhu
Hi all, I encounter following error from my CNCBACK in 192.168.0.83 [root@CNCBACK DailySet1]# su backup -c "amcheck DailySet1 -c" Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: office: [addr 192.168.0.83: hostname lookup failed] Client check: 1 host checked in 0.109 se

Re: problem with mtx and 2.4.2

2001-03-12 Thread Joe Rhett
This is an issue with mtx, and with the chg-zd-mtx script or amanda. On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:52:55PM +0100, Riccardo Cozzani wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've downloaded, compiled and installed 2.4.2 on my linux 2.2.16 (RH 6.1). > > I've then used the old configuration from 2.4.1 with mtx and chg

Re: Problem killing bad dump

2001-03-12 Thread John R. Jackson
>I logged into the box and discovered a number of processes owned by amanda >attempting to backup that disk. I was able to kill all but two: > >root 29202 0.0 2.2 2672 1700 ?DMar08 3:26 gtar ... >root 30706 0.0 2.2 2672 1700 ?DMar09 3:41 gtar ... > >I tri

Re: start

2001-03-12 Thread Ben Elliston
> "Alain" == Alain Muls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alain> 2. how to do tests to check whether the configuration is Alain> working? Once you've configured Amanda, you run `amcheck ' to test the configuration. This is documented in the `amcheck' manual page. To *really* test the configu

Problem killing bad dump

2001-03-12 Thread Kusznir, James
Hello all: I recently had a dump die for reasons unknown on one of my clients. Future dumps of this hard drive have NOT been sucessful (Data timeout reported in amanda reports). I logged into the box and discovered a number of processes owned by amanda attempting to backup that disk. I was abl

Re: Amanda Newbie

2001-03-12 Thread Ben Elliston
> "Casey" == Casey Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Casey> Sorry, I should I have clearer in my description. Yes, it is very Casey> possible, in fact probable that a full Level 0 was performed before Casey> killing amanda. So I am correct in thinking that all should be Level 0? Casey

Re: Amanda Newbie

2001-03-12 Thread Ben Elliston
> "Casey" == Casey Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Casey> Does doing amlabel -f reset the tape? I only have one tape right now, Casey> and I have completed the procedure for flush out the database. I would Casey> like the tape to be reset also You can relabel the tape if you want. J

problem with mtx and 2.4.2

2001-03-12 Thread Riccardo Cozzani
Hi all, I've downloaded, compiled and installed 2.4.2 on my linux 2.2.16 (RH 6.1). I've then used the old configuration from 2.4.1 with mtx and chg-zd-mtx support for my HP SureStore 24x6. amcheck give me the following error: amcheck-server: could not get changer info: badly formed result fro

Re: dtimeout

2001-03-12 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
> amcheck-server: could not get changer info: badly formed result from > changer: ""amanda.conf", line 32: configuration keyword expected" > > and in line 32 in amanda.conf there was exactly the following keyword: > dtimeout 3600 Maybe you have a newline problem.

dtimeout

2001-03-12 Thread Alexander von Homeyer
Hi newsgroup, because of [data timeout] problems I wanted to expand the dtimeout in amanda.conf. I didn't have thar parameter used so far in the config file, so now I added it with 3600 seconds: dtimeout 3600 So it was listed directly after the etimeout keyword. But whenever I added this keywor

RE: Level of backup

2001-03-12 Thread Dave Stracher
dumpcycle 0 in your amanda.conf dumptype definition for the appropriate dumptype being used Dave Stracher -Original Message- From: Dr Prabhakar Ganapathy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 10:01 AM To: Amanda Users Subject: Level of backup Folks , I am trying

Level of backup

2001-03-12 Thread Dr Prabhakar Ganapathy
Folks , I am trying to setup full backup everyday rather then incremental. How do I do this. Thanks in advance Dr.Prab begin:vcard n:Ganapathy;Prabhakar x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:SNET;Internet Services adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Unix Adminstrator x-mozilla-cpt

Re: start

2001-03-12 Thread Casey Scott
Setting up the tape drive is done in amanda.conf, as well the backup types and amount of tapes. amcheck [conf] will check your configuration without doing a backup. You can also try a back up with the tape drive set to /dev/null, amanda will go through everything w/o actually writing to the tape.

start

2001-03-12 Thread Alain Muls
Hello, I had a look at the amanda readme and help files but I have no idea about 1. how to set up my tape drive (/dev/hdb as seen by dmesg). I have a hdb: OnStream DI-30, ATAPI TAPE drive 2. how to do tests to check whether the configuration is working? 3. how to make the first fullbackup and

Re: Amanda Newbie

2001-03-12 Thread Casey Scott
Does doing amlabel -f reset the tape? I only have one tape right now, and I have completed the procedure for flush out the database. I would like the tape to be reset also On 12 Mar 2001 21:48:23 +1100, Ben Elliston wrote: > > "Casey" == Casey Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Casey>

Re: Amanda Newbie

2001-03-12 Thread Casey Scott
Sorry, I should I have clearer in my description. Yes, it is very possible, in fact probable that a full Level 0 was performed before killing amanda. So I am correct in thinking that all should be Level 0? I will check the FAQ to flush the database. Thanks Casey On 12 Mar 2001 21:48:23 +1100,

Re: Amanda Newbie

2001-03-12 Thread Ben Elliston
> "Casey" == Casey Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Casey> Hi all. I am new to Amanda, so please forgive the newbie question. Casey> How do I blank a tape? amlabel -f ? When I attempted my first real Casey> backup, it finished sucessfully but was a mix of Level 0 and 1.

Re: amrestore problem

2001-03-12 Thread Juergen Knott
Am Montag, 12. März 2001 09:25 schrieben Sie: Hi! > > Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD > > amrecover> > > What is wrong? > In short NOTHING. When you start amrecover it assumes that you want to > recover directly into your current working directory. You need to > sethost, then setd

Re: amrestore problem

2001-03-12 Thread David Lloyd
Hi There! > root@fileserver:/usr/local/sbin > ./amrecover Daily > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2-19991216-beta1. Contacting server on fileserver ... > 220 fileserver AMANDA index server (2.4.2-19991216-beta1) ready. > 200 Access OK > Setting restore date to today (2001-03-12) > 200 Working date set to