amcheck and stc-changer

Hi all! I was just wrestling with an Exabyte 220, AMANDA, and Solaris8 for the past week, and after successfully installing SCTCL (to interface between AMANDA and the hardware), I tried to see if amcheck would tell me happy news. Instead its' unable to read the status from stc-changer. After do

Re: why

> Yesterday's backups gave me the following error on alot of >filesystems: >"stanford /etc lev 1 FAILED [dumps way too big, must skip incremental >dumps]" without any reason what so ever. The total size of this >specific filesystem is: 1279 KB!!! Why did amanda decide that this >filesystem

RE: xinetd set up and my Linux box

xinetd defaults to prevent the amanda ports from being used. You can edit the appropriate files in /etc/xinetd.d and restart the daemon. And, there's the aforementioned .amandahosts to configure. ;) bryan Bryan S. Sampsel Systems Administrator Ambeo,

amdump/amrecover using localhost

I am trying to use localhost as the host & tape names when doing an amdump and amrecover. The amdump works fine, but the amrecover tells me "No index records for cwd on new date". If I change to use the name of the host rather then localhost then everything works out fine. I have localhost in

Re: Files not backed up while they should?

>But: the index file for that disk on hugo20 doesn't show any (!) >file having been backed up. And of course a lot of files >changed since 20010530 which seemingly is the last level 0 dump. > >In fact all index files from 20010531 on are empty! Do they exist but are zero length, or are they missi

Re: Amcheck problems (selfcheck request timeout)

>amandad: version 2.5.0 Why are you running version 2.5? That's the development branch and you're lucky if it even compiles, let alone runs. If there's some feature you absolutely have to have, or you want to help debug this branch (i.e. send us patches), that's one thing. But if you want some

Re: Disklist and network units

>1) How should i specify a device for backup? ... By far the easiest way is to list the mount point. For instance "/var". There is no reason to convert that to a disk name. Amanda will do all of that for you, if needed. >... i get an error reading disklist. ... Please post what you tried to

Re: Amrecover problems

I don't mind working with the development version. I did get it working, on the suggestion of someone else, I recompiled with the portrange <= 1024 and everything works fine. Thanks Nathanael Burton On Wednesday 13 June 2001 16:11, John R. Jackson wrote: > >AMRECOVER Version 2.5.0. Contactin

Re: Problems with the tape.

>I try to configurate the amanda and I have a problem with the tape in >amanda v. 2.4.1p1 in Red Hat 7.1 (installed with the OS) ... Are you sure Amanda was configured properly? As I recall, the xinetd entries were not built correctly (or at all). You should look through the FAQ at www.amanda.

Re: Problem with Amanda Server

>WARNING: sandton: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? >... >... Is there anyway to ac >tually check if something is wrong and how to fix this. See the FAQ at www.amanda.org. This error is very common and covered in detail there. >After a reboot a "process list" shows a clean process list

Re: Amrecover problems

>AMRECOVER Version 2.5.0. Contacting server on admin1.airscorp.com ... >amrecover: did not get a reserved port: 50012 Yup, that appears to be broken. You do understand, don't you, that 2.5 is the development version and only folks prepared to do serious debugging on their should go down path, ri

Re: amrecover on multihome Solaris

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, John R. Jackson wrote: > >Running a sniffer shows the Solaris box attempting to contact the tape > >server, but is stamping the packet with the IP address from LAN A, not LAN > >B! Hence the tape server tries to talk back and fails, no route. > > Try upgrading the client(s) t

Re: xinetd set up and my Linux box

Got it - something was changed - /path/of/amanda's home dir thank you again On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, John R. Jackson wrote: > >ERROR: sunny3.neptune.com: [access as amanda not allowed from > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > This says sunny3 would not let user "amanda" in from sunny1. First, > make s

Re: portrange >1024???

>Why is it that Amanda wants reserved ports (<=1024) for backup and >recovery. ... Only privileged (root) processes on Unix systems are allowed to request port numbers < 1024. So you would have to be root to get such a port and that implies a certain amount of trust. >Arjan John R. Jackson, T

Re: amadmin tape ?

>how should i do if i want to know which tape amanda will use the next >days ? There's no right answer to that question since the number of tapes Amanda will use for one run is not a fixed number. It has an upper bound based on runtapes, but the actual number used can vary. As long as you don't

Re: amanda without sendmail

>i have installed amanda in my server. however, i cannot install sendmail = >on it. ... Amanda does not use sendmail (directly). It runs whatever mail program it finds (e.g. "mail" or "Mail" or "mailx", etc) and that program is responsible for sending the mail. If you can get one of them confi

Re: xinetd set up and my Linux box

>ERROR: sunny3.neptune.com: [access as amanda not allowed from >[EMAIL PROTECTED]] This says sunny3 would not let user "amanda" in from sunny1. First, make sure this line is file ".amandahosts" in directory ~amanda (the home directory of user "amanda") on sunny3: sunny1.neptune.com amanda

Re: $cwd problem

>Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD What directory were you in when you started amrecover? If you were in /home/lsb (or some subdirectory of that), it should have worked. >Larry S. Brown MCSE John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gtar fails on irix swap file

>I put those files in exclude.list on zeeto the backup client. >Also tried them in exclude.list on the backup server. They need to be on the client, not the server. >Tried straight file names as follows and sticking a dot in >the front like in the error message. It needs the "./" at the front.

RE: Try2, Amanda Question

Do you have any entries in your .amandahosts file for your hostname? I had a similar problem, so I then added an entry for my hostname, something like: hostname amanda Dan "Bryan S. Sampsel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@amanda.org on 06/13/2001 09:34:31 AM Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "

amrecover on multihome Solaris

Hey all, Got a puzzler here, I can't seem to track down the solution. Details: Tape server: 2.4.2p1, RedHat 7.1. Clients, two flavors: Redhat clients running 2.4.1. Solaris 2.6 clients running 2.4.1p1 and 2.4.2 The problem lies with amrecover on the Solaris boxen. Th

purchasing a new changer

Hello I would like to purchase a new changer and i m wondering what kind of changer is already used by amanda user. I m especially interested in Overland DLT LXL LoadXpress with DLT1 tape Feel free to answer to me and i will summarize your answer to the list Thanks in advance -- Eric Doutr

RE: Try2, Amanda Question

That's the bitch of it...it IS resolved: via nslookup, via ping--ANYTHING but Amanda. It's bizarre. I'm getting ready to compile amanda from source to see if it's a problem with the rpm on the client. Rpm installs are OK sometimes--other times, I'd rather not deal with 'em. anyone else wanna

pb lock "/etc/amandates", flock or fcntl problems??

hello, I install amanda (2.4.2p2-1 via rpm) in my enterprise and i backup differents client: -windows 2000/NT -redhat 7.0/7.1 all works fine except my client, in redhat 7.0(i confess what i applied rpm for rh7.1 on it), which gives me a error in sendsize file : >could not lock /etc/amandates: I

Re: Failed directory backup!, bad size estimation??

Sorry for this message, I checked the Amanda Patch page and found the answer. I was using tar version 1.11 or something like it ... I will try and upgrade to tar version 1.13.19 and see if the problem is solved. Pat. Patrick Ellis wrote: > Hello, > > I just got a failed backup this night, I jus

amrestore problem

Hi all, I'm new to Amanda and have a brand new config running. My backup server and clients are Debian - i'm using Amanda 2.4.1p1 (precompiled for Debian). Here's my problem : I can without problem restore a backup on my backup server : backup:/var/local/space/test# amrecover -C Normal -s bac

Re: Amrecover problems

Hi, Amrecover wants a reserved port (<=1024) for itself. Seems like you have to rebuild it ;-). (Dunno *why*, but it does...) Regards, Arjan Nate Burton wrote: > > I was able to run amdump and it appears that everything ran and backed up > correctly, based on the logs and the Amanda report.

Problems with the tape.

I try to configurate the amanda and I have a problem with the tape in amanda v. 2.4.1p1 in Red Hat 7.1 (installed with the OS), The tape is an DAT HP Suerestore DAT 8e; 8Gb; DDS2. I have this messages when I execute amverify (user root) # amverify diaria No tape chager ... Tape devide is /dev/

Re: info

Vincenzo Agosto schrieb: > > It's possible to make a backup in a Windows machine using Linux Red Hat > 7.1 with amanda? Yes. HTH -Christoph Sold

Re: info

Vincenzo Agosto wrote: > It's possible to make a backup in a Windows machine using Linux Red Hat > 7.1 with amanda? > Tnx > > -- > Vincenzo Agosto yes it is, I am currently working on it for myself. Basically what you need is to install the Samba client on the Linux machine to allow access to th