Dump image too big for tape!!

2001-05-29 Thread Alessio Brezigar
On my 16GB holding disk I have a dump image of about 12.5GB made by amanda2.4.1p1 (tar1.12 + amanda patches, chuncksize of 1GB, software compression enabled) that is too big for my single tapes (DDS3 - 12GB). This is a level 0 dump of a WinNT share, so before reducing share size, I was looking

Re: NAT

2001-05-29 Thread Paolo Supino
Hello Olivier The only configuration problem was that I forgot to HUP inetd grin. We has a power interruption this morning which brought down the whole computer room (backup server and client in question too). When they came back up amanda was able to connect and backup. Conclusion: Dogh!

Minor reporter patch

2001-05-29 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
Attached is a minor patch which changes the stats printed on tape labels to reflect what is actually on the tape rather than what got dumped. This makes all fields accurate during an amflush run, where Total Size used to be reported as 0, as well as after an amdump run that hit EOT. As such,

chg-scsi dies with SIGSEGV

2001-05-29 Thread Dick Snippe
Hi, I'm trying to set up amanda-2.4.2p2 on an Irix 6.5.11 system, using a exabyte EXB-210 tape library exabyte mammoth (EXB-8900) drive and the chg-scsi tpchanger. As far as I know the EXB-210 library conforms to the SCSI-2 Medium Changer command set, so I suppose the chg-scsi module can

Problems with Solaris 8 BSM auditing and amanda 2.4.2p2

2001-05-29 Thread Kevin M. Myer
Hello, I recently upgraded our only Solaris 8 box from Solaris 8 Maintenance Update 2 to MU4. In addition, I hardened some of the security on the box, among other things enabling BSM auditing. Now, amandad will not run from inetd, although I can launch it from the command line without a

Re: Problems with Solaris 8 BSM auditing and amanda 2.4.2p2

2001-05-29 Thread Scot W. Hetzel
From: Kevin M. Myer [EMAIL PROTECTED] In my logs, I see: May 28 16:00:00 newt inetd[105]: [ID 858011 daemon.warning] /usr/local/libexec/amandad: Hangup May 28 16:00:02 newt last message repeated 38 times May 28 16:00:02 newt inetd[105]: [ID 667328 daemon.error] amanda/udp server failing

Re: Problems with Solaris 8 BSM auditing and amanda 2.4.2p2

2001-05-29 Thread Kevin M. Myer
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Scot W. Hetzel wrote: From: Kevin M. Myer [EMAIL PROTECTED] In my logs, I see: May 28 16:00:00 newt inetd[105]: [ID 858011 daemon.warning] /usr/local/libexec/amandad: Hangup May 28 16:00:02 newt last message repeated 38 times May 28 16:00:02 newt inetd[105]: [ID

Re: Error messages compiling client

2001-05-29 Thread John R. Jackson
Configure error: installation or config problem: C compiler can not create executables. Take a look at config.log. It should give you more information on why the compiler didn't work. Anthony Carter John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. Please turn

Re: GNU TAR + blocking factor

2001-05-29 Thread John R. Jackson
... The default blocking factor of 20 performs really poorly over network. Increasing the blocking factor from 20 to 126 improves performance tenfold. What do you mean by over [the] network? What were you talking to on the other side? A tape drive? Or writing into a file? Amanda doesn't

Re: Moving from a changer to a single drive?

2001-05-29 Thread John R. Jackson
Can I use the same amanda.conf file I was using before? Yes, except for the tpchanger lines. Do I need to comment out the changer related lines, or can I leave those alone? You'll have to do something with them. One possibility (probably the simplest) would be to comment

Re: Tape Changer

2001-05-29 Thread John R. Jackson
Should 'dev' be just a number (0) ... If by dev you mean tapedev in amanda.conf, then yes, that's my understanding, it should just be 0. Ollie John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Error messages compiling client

2001-05-29 Thread Benjamin Hyatt
On 29 May 2001 16:58:20 -0400, Anthony Carter wrote: I am getting the following error messages on a SCO Unix client. I hope someone can point me in the right direction. I finally got the server running Checking whether make set ${MAKE} ./configure:Make: not found no

Re: Solaris 2.6, sst, and Exabyte 220 Library

2001-05-29 Thread John R. Jackson
I'm trying to run amanda on a Sun E250, with Exabyte Mamamoth 2 220 Library. What version of Amanda (looks like 2.4.2p2 or later)? What version of chg-scsi? amtape: could not get changer info: error could not read result from /soft/backup/amanada//libexec/chg-scsi (got signal 11) signal 11 is

Re: chg-scsi dies with SIGSEGV

2001-05-29 Thread John R. Jackson
However, when I try to label a tape, the chg-scsi module dies with signal 11 (SIGSEGV) I just replied to someone else whose chg-scsi was segfaulting, and the same suggestions probably apply to you: It's my understanding chg-scsi is not being maintained in the 2.4.2 branch, but that you

Re: Dump image too big for tape!!

2001-05-29 Thread John R. Jackson
On my 16GB holding disk I have a dump image of about 12.5GB made by amanda2.4.1p1 (tar1.12 + amanda patches, chuncksize of 1GB, software compression enabled) that is too big for my single tapes (DDS3 - 12GB). ... I was looking for a way to save on (multiple?) tapes this dump image with amanda or

Re: Recovering error

2001-05-29 Thread John R. Jackson
Ready to execv amrestore with: path = /usr/local/sbin/amrestore argv[0] = amrestore argv[1] = -h argv[2] = -p argv[3] = /dev/nsa0 argv[4] = mail.netsys.hn argv[5] = ^da0s1f$ argv[6] = 20010524 amrestore: error reading file header: Invalid argument Is /dev/nsa0 the same device you're using in

Re: Out of tape??

2001-05-29 Thread Aaron Levitt
The server is running redhat 6.2, and the tape drive is a Dell powervault 120, but so far, i havn't found anything useful. Guess I will keep looking.. and contact Dell if all else fails. -Aaron On 28 May 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote: On May 28, 2001, Aaron Levitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Minor reporter patch

2001-05-29 Thread John R. Jackson
Attached is a minor patch which changes the stats printed on tape labels to reflect what is actually on the tape rather than what got dumped. Thanks! I tried it on a couple of my configs and it seems to do the right thing. The patch has been applied to all the current source branches. About

Incremental Backup and Backup NT from Unix server

2001-05-29 Thread Howard Zhou
Hi, Amanda Users, I am new to Amanda software. I have two concerns to clarify before I explore futher. 1) Does Amanda support incremental backup? It should be obvisou but I didn't see it on the feature list on Amanda home page. Is it easy to schedule full backup and incremental backups? 2) If