A Quick solution

Hi Sirs, I need a quick solution on how to do backup on Redhat 7.1 server. It will be running samba. Currently I'm running on NT4 as a fileserver with very old hardware, thus I'm thinking of migrating to Redhat running as a simple fileserver. The backup strategy I'm having now is a Full backup

gnu tar woes

Hi. running amanda w/ gnu tar , on solaris 2.6 problem: w. gnu tar 1.12 we were unable to backup files 2 gig. Fix: installed latest (1.13.19) version of gnu tar from alpha.gnu.org now: our exclude.gtar doesnt work properly, i.e. if we are backing up filesystem w mount point: /fs then an

Re: tapetype for hp surestore dat 40x6

Paolo Borsa wrote: i am new to this list and i just finished tapetype on an hp dat40x6 here is the result : define tapetype SureStore-DAT40x6 { comment HP SureStore DAT 40x6 autoloader length 17004 mbytes filemark 399 kbytes speed 1584 kps } That length is

Re: Amanda on RH7.1

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Olivier Nicole wrote: How do I backup my Samba server running on Redhat 7.1 using Amanda? There' s a part in the INSTALL which mentions about inetd.conf. But Redhat 7.1 don't use inetd.conf, is there a problem? Don't use Linux :) Why those people always want to do

Re: gnu tar woes

then an entry like /fs/somedirectory is not excluded. In /fs, you should have one exclude file that contains ./something Olivier

Re: selfcheck request timed out

I am getting this error WARNING: xxx: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? on amanda-2.4.2p2 As a short guess, I's say you have to open the ports on tcp.wrapper. What do you use in disklist? localhost of the FDQN Olivier

condense many tapes to few

What would be the best way to pull full backups from several different tapes reassemble them onto one or two tapes? These tapes would then be archived. Ideally, it would be nice if amrestore would work in the normal ways with the reassembled tapes. -- toby You are what you eat -

driver failed?

amanda 2.4.1p1 tar 1.13.17-3 system not backing up properly . not sure why . . errors in the log file state START planner date 20010711 START driver date 20010711 START taper datestamp 20010711 label DailySet103 tape 0 FINISH planner date 20010711 STATS driver startup time 35.238 SUCCESS

RE: upgrading from DAT to DLT

thanks jason, I understand. I recommend you pick up the book unix backup and restore. this book also has a HUGE section on amanda. This is the same section online whose link can be found at http://www.amanda.org. - i've been an o'reilly reader since '93. i have pretty much everything but

Amdump takes forever

My amdump is suddenly running for days. I have a special configuration named Weekly that does a level 0 dump of all file systems (with no record) that I have been running every Friday night. This always took until some time on Sunday, but lately it has carried over to Wednesday or even

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Re: selfcheck request timed out

sendoro wrote: Hi Folks, Pls help, I have spent a lot of time but I haven't yet succeded, I am getting this error WARNING: xxx: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? on amanda-2.4.2p2 I trying to backup the client from the same machine which is tape server. so that I can backup

Re: Amdump takes forever

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 at 10:44am, Gary Algier wrote I have tried to read the amdump log, but I can't decode it. Are there any tools to help me figure out where the time is being used? 'man amstatus' I can supply configs and logs upon request, but a little info may be helpful: Are you using

Appending incrementals

Is there a way to cause amanda to add incremental backups after an existing tar archive? I have a 3gb filesystem to backup on 5 gb disks. It is therefore feasible to backup the entire filesystem on a single tape and still have room for additional incrementals. --Dan --

Re: Amdump takes forever

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 at 10:44am, Gary Algier wrote I have tried to read the amdump log, but I can't decode it. Are there any tools to help me figure out where the time is being used? 'man amstatus' Just what I needed! I missed that one. I guess somebody

amrecover

Hi everybody: I was trying to use amrecover on a machine with amanda2.4.2p2 and I got this error did not get a reserved port: 30009 . I configured amanda with portrange=3,30015 but I don't think so that it is the problem because I ran amrecover from another machine that still has the

Tapetype for hp dat24

How do I know the tapetype for hp dat24? Thanks a lot. Kit

Re: amanda on macos X

Hi all. I'm referring to a May post from Chris Stone and others about using amanda (client) on a Mac OS X (Darwin 10.0.4 in my case). I finally been able to backup the Mac! It was really a long quest but seems to work: c1t3d0s02 94495 9152 9.7 0:38 244.0 0:10 879.7

Re: Tapetype for hp dat24

Wai-Kit Ho wrote: How do I know the tapetype for hp dat24? Thanks a lot. Kit It should be in the amanda.conf file. If not, you can find it with the tapetype program. To use it, go in the amanda directory (the one extracted from the tar) and into tape-src. Then do: #make tapetype and you will

Exabyte 100L Tape Library, Solaris 8 and Amanda?

Hi all, new to the group! :-) I have a 400GIG RAID array on an Sun E3500 and a new Exabyte 110L tape library to back it up. No Oricle, or anything, just GIS data. The Exabyte uses LTO tapes (100GIGnative, 200GIG compressed) and has 10 slots for 10 tapes. Also, the 110L has scsi mode and

Re: amrecover

I was trying to use amrecover on a machine with amanda2.4.2p2 and I got this error did not get a reserved port: 30009 . I configured amanda with portrange=3,30015 ... Please try this patch. I posted it a little over a week ago but nobody has said whether it fixes the problem or not (I

one tape is not enough

Hi . My problem is very 'simple'... I have to dump 13 GB using 2 GB tapes. Can i do this? How ? Thanks a lot for your help. Vicent.