Re: Amanda and Onstream DI-30

2001-04-04 Thread Gernot Schreib
"Jason Clark" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I've looked through the archives and it appears that some people are having success with this driver. I am not one of them. I'm currently running redhat 6.2 with a 2.2.16 kernel. I can get the drive to work with the ide-tape module patched

Stuck at amdump

2001-04-04 Thread Lisa Goulet
Hi all, amdump appears to work but I don't believe any files are being written to tape, extracting from the tape with a dd gets only the header. amcheck runs with no errors. The warning/errors in the amdump.1 and log.20010404.1 are: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner dumper: could not

AW: Amanda and Onstream DI-30

2001-04-04 Thread christian . weiss
Hi, I'm using SuSE 7.0, Kernel 2.2.16 with no osst-driver - only aic7xxx, an Onstream ADR50i and I've got exactly the same problem. Writing to a 25GB-Tape will work fine - but when attempting to write data back, there seems to be a point/block (until ~1,2GB) where all readings fail. So changing

Re: Failure on W2k client

2001-04-04 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 3, 2001, David Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again: THIS IS NOT AMANDA'S FAULT! IT IS SMBCLIENT'S FAULT! You obviously cannot understand what I am saying, or you have not followed this thread. If you cannot understand English I will have this translated into any other language

RE: Stuck at amdump

2001-04-04 Thread Lisa Goulet
Hi all, I thought I'd repost the question with more info: amdump appears to work but I don't believe any files are being written to tape, extracting from the tape with a dd gets only the header. amcheck runs with no errors. The warning/errors in the amdump.1 and log.20010404.1 are: WARNING:

Re: more with ADIC-1200 + SunOS 5.8 'sgen' driver and mtx problems

2001-04-04 Thread Craig Dewick
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Craig Dewick wrote: Will try the 'sst' driver out and report on it's performance after I have some sleep! 8-) Well, I've tried the 'sst' driver and it works only slightly better than the 'sgen' driver. With the 'sst' driver I can send as many 'mtx inquiry' commands as I

What does this mean

2001-04-04 Thread Dr.Prabhakar Ganapathy
Hi Folks .. I am getting the below error when I run amdump , amcheck has no complains. I tried changing the permission , does not help Dr.Prab These dumps were to tape Enki-03. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: Enki-04. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: cream c0t0d0s0 lev 0

Re: Failure on W2k client

2001-04-04 Thread Todd Pfaff
Ok, I think finally understand what Marty is trying to say. Marty, there are many people on this list who have been using samba for years and understand it very well and how it interacts with amanda, and if we couldn't understand the gist of your initial question, don't blame our lack of

Re: Failure on W2k client

2001-04-04 Thread Todd Pfaff
My last message should have been directed to David Lloyd, not Marty Shannon. Sorry Marty! -- Todd Pfaff \ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing and Information Services \ Voice: (905) 525-9140 x22920 ABB 132 \ FAX: (905) 528-3773 McMaster

little question

2001-04-04 Thread Gonzalo Arana
Hi, When running amdump, it does nothing after completing the sendsize. It is still running, but not consuming cpu nor disk nor net. How may I find out what's going on? on /usr/local/var/amanda/config/{amdump,log} I just can't find any useful information. Thank you very much, Gonzalo Arana

Re: little question

2001-04-04 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 4, 2001, Gonzalo Arana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How may I find out what's going on? amstatus -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp

Re: What does this mean

2001-04-04 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 4, 2001, "Dr.Prabhakar Ganapathy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /export/home/enki/index/cream/c0t0d0s0/20010403_0.gz.tmp: Permission denied] It means the Amanda server doesn't have permission to create index files, so you won't be able to use amrecover. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy

[Fwd: little question]

2001-04-04 Thread Gonzalo Arana
Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Apr 4, 2001, Gonzalo Arana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It says 'waiting for dump' on all hosts/directories. All of them? What is the reason it claims for being idle? Where may I see a reason? on the amstatus output? It began to work right now (?) I still

Re: [Fwd: little question]

2001-04-04 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 4, 2001, Gonzalo Arana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where may I see a reason? on the amstatus output? Yep. At the end of the report, it was why each dumper is idle; before that, it prints the main reason why the whole process is idle, if it is. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see

Re: [Fwd: little question]

2001-04-04 Thread Gonzalo Arana
Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Apr 4, 2001, Gonzalo Arana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where may I see a reason? on the amstatus output? Yep. At the end of the report, it was why each dumper is idle; before that, it prints the main reason why the whole process is idle, if it is. Sorry, but

Re: Failure on W2k client

2001-04-04 Thread Hurf Sheldon
Hi folks, Both amanda:sendsize and smbclient are OK, it is the interaction that is the problem. This started with my question re: read_socket_with_timeout errors in sendsize.debug. The error is generated from lib/util_sock.c in samba code. From the logs smbclient is noting a failed open to

Re: [Fwd: little question]

2001-04-04 Thread Gonzalo Arana
Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Apr 4, 2001, Gonzalo Arana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dumping to tape : 0 0k ( 0.00%) dumping : 00k0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) all dumpers active Hmm... This is very odd. What is `inparallel' set to, in

Re: Failure on W2k client

2001-04-04 Thread David Lloyd
Todd! Marty says his samba setup works, but because of the fallback from wins to broadcast the lookup takes longer than amanda is willing to wait. Amanda times out and as far as amanda is concerned, smbclient failed. I'm not even sure what the implications of this are or how to make it

Re: more with ADIC-1200 + SunOS 5.8 'sgen' driver and mtx problems

2001-04-04 Thread Craig Dewick
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Christopher Linn wrote: are you using gcc or SUNWspro cc? gcc. It's the only compiler I have, since I'm not about to fork out money for a commercial compiler which is less capable than the robust FSF compiler. 8-) if you are running a 64 bit kernel, then you must build

Re: Missing

2001-04-04 Thread John R. Jackson
Any thoughts before I give up and just use dump.? Start by looking at the debug files in /tmp/amanda. In particular, sendsize*debug and sendbackup*debug. John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LSM - Logical Storage Manager Drives

2001-04-04 Thread John R. Jackson
I have configured the system so that amcheck is happy, but amdump reports disk is offline. I have set the device permissions like so: brw-r root system /dev/vol/rootvol (logical volume) Is your Amanda user (the one inetd/xinetd runs amandad as) in group "system"? What's in

Re: What does this mean

2001-04-04 Thread John R. Jackson
I tried changing the permission , does not help What did you change the permissions on? What did you change them to? What is your Amanda user (the one you run amdump as)? I'm a little surprised amcheck did not whine. I thought I had put in code in 2.4.2 to look for this type of problem.

Re: Failure on W2k client

2001-04-04 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 4, 2001, Hurf Sheldon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sendsize has noted the socket open failure and declared "session setup failed: code 0"; since the smbclient process hasn't died yet, sendsize continues to log information from the smbclient it spawned. And it keeps looking for the size

Re: Sector Level Backups

2001-04-04 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 3, 2001, "Dave Hecht" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to use "dd" , or some similar tool to make exact images of a drive as a full backup, rather than dump or tar. [...] Can Amanda be modified to do this? Yep. That's the kind of thing you should be able to do with the DUMPER

Yet another Insecure Port ...

2001-04-04 Thread Doug Silver
Brand new build of amanda 2.4.2p2 server config build: /configure --with-gnutar=/usr/local/bin/tar --with-portrange=900,950 --with-udpportrange=900,950 (etc) client config build: ./configure --with-gtar=/usr/local/bin/gtar --without-server --with-portrange=900,950 --with-udpportrange=900,950

Re: Exabyte Mammoth 2 users take note

2001-04-04 Thread Tanniel Simonian
Hey, Yeah I had called tech support on that particular reason and they said that premature EOTs were cause by the self cleaning engaging during middle of the dump.. I supposedly have a .i file that removes the autocleaning ability and that you'll hav to manually clean the tapes. Tano On Wed,

Re: Exabyte Mammoth 2 users take note

2001-04-04 Thread Ross Johnson
Hi, Tanniel Simonian wrote: Hey, Yeah I had called tech support on that particular reason and they said that premature EOTs were cause by the self cleaning engaging during middle of the dump.. I supposedly have a .i file that removes the autocleaning ability and that you'll hav to

Re: more with ADIC-1200 + SunOS 5.8 'sgen' driver and mtx problems

2001-04-04 Thread Rhett Saunders
I have the same problem, but I doubt anyone will answer in the amanda forum, since I have asked about this issue before. Since it an mtx issue, I guess there's a different forum to discuss this. But I will post my message again... I have a SUN Enterprise 3500 with SunOS 5.7, a differential