Re: DELL 120T changer on RH 6.2

2001-03-21 Thread Thomas Hepper
Hi, - Original Message - From: "Murat H. Dymov" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 10:55 PM Subject: DELL 120T changer on RH 6.2 Hello All, I use Amanda 2.4.2p1 on RH Linux 6.2. we have Dell PowerVault 120T, and the documentation says that it has

Re: Newbie question (linux + ADIC FastStor 7000)

2001-03-21 Thread Thomas Hepper
Hi, I have a Slack 7.1 (2.2.18) setup with an Adic 7000 22-tape library. Did a clean make and install and am trying to get the tape controller to work. Should I be using chg-scsi or chg-zd-mtx? chg-scsi doesn't seem to like all 22 of the media slots ( see below -- note the "-1" on slots

I was a new user in linux and Amanda.

2001-03-21 Thread CHAN Sing Leung Cyril
Hi, I want to install the Amanda 2.4.2 in my new Mandrake 7.2 Linux server. But, I don't know how to start. When I reading the installation notes. sorry~ I don't understand the procedure. Can you recommand another document or web site for me to solve this problem. Please reply my message asap!

Re: I was a new user in linux and Amanda.

2001-03-21 Thread Pierre Volcke
CHAN Sing Leung Cyril wrote: Hi, I want to install the Amanda 2.4.2 in my new Mandrake 7.2 Linux server. But, I don't know how to start. When I reading the installation notes. sorry~ I don't understand the procedure. Can you recommand another document or web site for me to solve this

Re: Samba restores don't work ...

2001-03-21 Thread Tony Ross
On 3/20/01, 8:20:12 PM, "John R. Jackson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Samba restores don't work ... : ... Go to amrecover.debug and look at the smbclient command. What happens if you do something like this on the (sun26) client: rsh AmandaServer mt -f

no amanda/udp service

2001-03-21 Thread Bernd Zimmermann
Hi all, when I run: amanda@daphne:/usr/adm/amanda/Daily amdump config I get the following message in my Mail - - - NOTES: planner: Adding new disk daphne:/etc. planner: Adding new disk daphne:/var/log. dumper: no amanda/udp service, using default port 10080 driver: WARNING: got empty

dump fails

2001-03-21 Thread C Scott
Dumps had been going just fine, but yesterday I installed a CVS version of amanda to fix a problem with amrecover. Last night, the dumps from the clients that had the CVS version installed on them failed. I don't beleive that there is a problem with the CVS code, but rather my

Re: Failed backup of / partition

2001-03-21 Thread Shreedeep Bhachech
--- "John R. Jackson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the moment I'll assume the patch Carey Jung sent you solves this. It solved it. Thanks for all the help, JRJ, CJ and all others. JJ -Shreedeep. = -+ Shreedeep Bhachech [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dump fails

2001-03-21 Thread John R. Jackson
... I don't beleive that there is a problem with the CVS code, but rather my installation. I was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction. This is the pertinent information from amandad.date.debug amandad: accept error: access as amanda not allowed from amanda@Collosys:

disklist

2001-03-21 Thread Alain Muls
Hello, I got a correct labeling of my tape, now I wanted to testrun the configuration su - -c "amcheck conf" amanda The output of the command is [root@asge-007 amanda 12] $ !su su - -c "amcheck conf" amanda Amanda Tape Server Host Check - NOTE: skipping

huge incrementals

2001-03-21 Thread Jonathan Dill
Hi all, What values are people using for bumpsize, bumdays, bumpmult other than the example values? I have a lot of 10 GB disks to back up and it doesn't seem efficient to me to do eg. an 11 GB "level 5" backup of a disk that has 13 GB of data on it--In that situation, I think it would

Re: dump fails

2001-03-21 Thread C Scott
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, John R. Jackson wrote: ... I don't beleive that there is a problem with the CVS code, but rather my installation. I was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction. This is the pertinent information from amandad.date.debug amandad: accept error: access as

Re: dump fails

2001-03-21 Thread John R. Jackson
The chmod changed fixed the error in the amandad log on the clients, but amcheck is still reporting that client self-checks are timing out. Any idea what might be causing that? I have checked the logs on the clients, and they don't show anything obviously wrong Are you running 2.4.* on both

Re: disklist

2001-03-21 Thread John R. Jackson
what is the content of this "disklist" and where should I put it? The disklist file tells Amanda what clients and disks to back up. It goes in the same directory as amanda.conf. "man amanda" describes the syntax, and there is an example file with the sources. John R. Jackson, Technical

Re: no amanda/udp service

2001-03-21 Thread Olivier Collet
Something maybe stupide but did you change the inetd too ? -- Olivier Collet System Administrator "If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank." - Woody Allen On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Bernd Zimmermann wrote: Hi all, when I run:

make error.

2001-03-21 Thread Jeff MacDonald
hi, i've tried this with both the stable and the stablepl files.. both give me teh same error upon "make" system : freebsd 4.2 command: ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=amanda make error: chmod a+x amcheckdb cat amcleanup.sh amcleanup chmod a+x amcleanup cat amdump.sh

Re: dump fails

2001-03-21 Thread C Scott
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, John R. Jackson wrote: The chmod changed fixed the error in the amandad log on the clients, but amcheck is still reporting that client self-checks are timing out. Any idea what might be causing that? I have checked the logs on the clients, and they don't show anything

Re: access error when using samba

2001-03-21 Thread Terry Koyama
Now that I think I understand how everything is suppose to be setup, we're back to square one. I cannot access the shared directory (c:\home) on ozzy (win2000) from vedder (linux). Does the samba client (on vedder) have to login as user backup? I've attached amandad.debug for more information.

xfsrestore

2001-03-21 Thread Chris Stone
All, I am having the same problem that Gerrit Hommersom listed in his email dated 2001,2,27. I am not a programmer, but I'll provide as much info as possible to help solve the problem. Load tape DailySet117 now Continue? [Y/n]: y restore: -f argument missing restore: usage: restore [ -a alt.

Re: huge incrementals

2001-03-21 Thread John R. Jackson
What values are people using for bumpsize, bumdays, bumpmult other than the example values? I don't think this applies to you, but the only place I've changed the bump* parameters was on a system that had a dumpcycle 10 days (i.e. so I would not run out of level numbers) and I wanted to bump to

Re: make error.

2001-03-21 Thread John R. Jackson
make: don't know how to make amoverview. Stop That's a bug in your version of make. Here's the latest from David Wolfskill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) who's tracked it the closest: Summarizing: either installing GNU make (from /usr/ports/devel/gmake) and using gmake to build amanda, or patching

Changing the order in which tapes are used.

2001-03-21 Thread Jeff Bearer
I was forced to start off with a small number of tapes and now I got the rest of them in. In preparation for adding them into the rotation. I amlabled all the tapes and put some of them in the changer. I didn't modify the amanda.conf yet because I wanted it to use the next tape numerically,

xfsrestore

2001-03-21 Thread Chris Stone
All, I am having the same problem that Gerrit Hommersom listed in his email dated 2001,2,27. I am not a programmer, but I'll provide as much info as possible to help solve the problem. Load tape DailySet117 now Continue? [Y/n]: y restore: -f argument missing restore: usage: restore [ -a

Re: xfsrestore

2001-03-21 Thread John R. Jackson
I am having the same problem that Gerrit Hommersom listed in his email dated 2001,2,27. ... The following patch should take care of the problem:

Re: make error.

2001-03-21 Thread Jeff MacDonald
gmake worked thanks On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, John R. Jackson wrote: make: don't know how to make amoverview. Stop That's a bug in your version of make. Here's the latest from David Wolfskill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) who's tracked it the closest: Summarizing: either installing GNU make (from

Exclude question

2001-03-21 Thread ahall
Hello, I am working with exclude lists and am seeing weird behavior. Lets say I am backing up /src but do not want /src/1 and /src/2. I do want /src/3 and /src/4 My exclude list looks like: ./1/* ./2/* The problem is that when then dump runs it backs up the directory /src/1. It does not

Re: Samba Backups

2001-03-21 Thread John R. Jackson
I have compiled Samba 2.4.2 with: Do you mean Amanda 2.4.2? Why not 2.4.2p1? ./configure --with-libsmbclient (and the other options are the same as the ones that worked before) There is no --with-libsmbclient option to ./configure with Amanda. What were you trying to accomplish? [adlcds1 ]#

New User alert

2001-03-21 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi everyone, I'm an OpenBSD user. Love it too. To anyone else out there who might also be an OpenBSD user, which is the best way to install amanda. Either downloading and installing the source myself, or installing from the ports collection? Feedback from non-OpenBSD users is welcome too.

Re: dump fails

2001-03-21 Thread John R. Jackson
I just ran amcheck with the CVS version installed. No problems now. THanks a lot for the advice You had me worried there for a bit that the CVS 2.4.2 branch was no longer backward compatible. But I just tried a more or less stock 2.4.2 server with CVS 2.4.2 clients and it worked, so something

Re: Newbie question (linux + ADIC FastStor 7000)

2001-03-21 Thread Mark L. Chang
Thomas - I got all this to work finally. Trick was to get the CVS version of chg-zd-mtx and hack it a little. Our ADIC/mtx/mt combo returns different messages depending on status, so I had to make those changes. The problem with "slot 19 gives slot 2" was that the case statement in the script

Re: New User alert

2001-03-21 Thread Yura Pismerov
Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi everyone, I'm an OpenBSD user. Love it too. To anyone else out there who might also be an OpenBSD user, which is the best way to install amanda. Either downloading and installing the source myself, or installing from the ports collection? Feedback from

Re: Changing the order in which tapes are used.

2001-03-21 Thread John R. Jackson
... I didn't know at the time that amlabel was updating the tapelist. ... Surprise! :-) Now I want to fix this so the tapes will once again be in numerical error. ... :-) :-) :-) I assume you meant "order", but I suspect "error" might be closer to the truth :-). It would be confusing to

Re: user permissions problem

2001-03-21 Thread Mark L. Chang
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, John R. Jackson wrote: Here's the first few lines: 07256012003/./ 07256012003/./TT_DB/ ... Them's looking like really big numbers. ... Yup. That's bad. You want at least 1.13.18. Anything before that is a crap shoot. Okay. Built and installed on clients and

Re: Amrecover is weird!

2001-03-21 Thread John R. Jackson
It's telling me sth about "No index records for disk for specified date" - whi ch isn't true! I got onto the tape-server, got into the infofile-directory ... I assume you meant the indexdir directory? 1.13.19 in place. Hm. Unzipped the indexfile and more'd it: for me it seems co rrect but who

Re: xfsrestore

2001-03-21 Thread Chris Stone
Thanks John, But xfsrestore still chokes. Load tape DailySet117 now Continue? [Y/n]: y amrecover couldn't exec: Bad address problem executing /sbin/xfsrestore extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1 Continue? [Y/n]: n On Wednesday, March 21, 2001, at 01:32 PM, John R. Jackson

Re: Samba restores don't work ...

2001-03-21 Thread John R. Jackson
Using -d3 we have: # amrestore -ph /dev/autodrive_norewind ... Sorry. I should have been clearer. I only meant for you to take the smbclient command from the file, not the amrestore command. In particular, the -h flag also sent the Amanda header out to smbclient (normally, amrecover peels

Re: Exclude question

2001-03-21 Thread John R. Jackson
I am working with exclude lists and am seeing weird behavior. ... That statement is redundant :-). Lets say I am backing up /src but do not want /src/1 and /src/2. I do want /src/3 and /src/4 My exclude list looks like: ./1/* ./2/* ... How can I modify my exclude list to not get /src/1 at

Re: yep, it's Selfcheck request timed out. Host down? again

2001-03-21 Thread John R. Jackson
Amanda has been running smoothly for months, then suddenly last night's dump failed on all the samba shares (NT boxes) as well as the amanda host and tape server (also the samba server). That's all because of amandad not working. Once we get it going again, this will probably all go away. I

Re: access error when using samba

2001-03-21 Thread Terry Koyama
John, You've hit the nail on the head once again. Ozzy was resolving to it's external IP address which routed the samba client's request from outside our network through the firewall. So when I run the below command with ozzy's internal IP address, all is good. smbclient '\\10.1.1.52\home'