config amanda to backup to holding disk instead of tape changer

2001-08-28 Thread auto216416
Do you know if it is possible to have Amanda backup to the holding disk instead of to tape? The reason is that my tape drive will arrive in two weeks, but my professor would like Amanda to be installed on the pc and backing up to the holding disk in the meantime. When the tape drive arrives,

dump to tape failed

2001-08-28 Thread wanadoo
Hi, I'm trying to resolve a problem with amanda, but I don't know why. Every time I run amdump I receive a report like this: These dumps were to tape Diaria-001. Tonight's dumps should go onto 1 tape: a new tape. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: volinux.ay /home/sanzm lev 0 FAILED [dump to

Re: /etc/inetd.conf

2001-08-28 Thread Gaby Hornik
Hello! On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, chandra wrote: I have finally managed to install the client for the sun box. I suppose there has to be a entry in /etc/inetd.conf. I have searched and tried to figure out what to put in there but haven't succeeded. Can someone please help. I assume you are

file permissions for rundump in 2.4.1p1

2001-08-28 Thread Kris Boulez
Dear all, We have amanda-2.4.2p2 running here internally well. This is mostly on Irix 6.5 machines. I also want to add a client machine running Irix 6.3 (upgrading is not an option at the moment). As there is no compiler on this machine I installed amanda 2.4.1p1 from a binary release

Re: dump to tape failed

2001-08-28 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, wanadoo wrote: driver: result time 3.503 from dumper0: FAILED 01-2 [taper port open: Resource temporarily unavailable] driver: result time 123.497 from taper: TAPE-ERROR 00-1 [port connect timeout] It sounds like another process already has the port that

Re: config amanda to backup to holding disk instead of tape changer

2001-08-28 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 27 Aug at 10:47pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Do you know if it is possible to have Amanda backup to the holding disk instead of to tape? The reason is that my tape drive will arrive in two weeks, but my professor would like Amanda to be installed on the pc and backing up to the

Re: tape reuse

2001-08-28 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 at 10:40pm, Oliver Aldulea wrote Let's number the tapes 1 2 3 4. I would like to use them like this: Mon: level 0 on 1 Tue: level 1 on 2 Wed: level 1 on 3 Thu: level 1 on 2 Fri: level 1 on 3 Mon: level 0 on 4 Tue: level 1 on 2 and so on. Is it possible using just

Overland DLT LoaderXpress LXL1B10

2001-08-28 Thread Karl, Matthew
Amanda-users, We have an Overland DLT LoaderXpress LXL1B10, and Amanda (latest) is running on Solaris 7. We are unable to get Amanda to work the autoloader. I have just recently started in this area, so please pardon my ignorance as I do not know exactly what to ask. If anyone has any

Re: Overland DLT LoaderXpress LXL1B10

2001-08-28 Thread Eric Doutreleau
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Karl, Matthew wrote: Amanda-users, We have an Overland DLT LoaderXpress LXL1B10, and Amanda (latest) is running on Solaris 7. We are unable to get Amanda to work the autoloader. I have just recently started in this area, so please pardon my ignorance as I do not know

AmandaOnMacOSX

2001-08-28 Thread ThomasRatliffDDS
Anyone have amanda running on MacOSX?

Re: AmandaOnMacOSX

2001-08-28 Thread bhlewis
Hi, ThomasRatliffDDS wrote: Anyone have amanda running on MacOSX? There was some discussion of this back in May and then again in June. At that time, there was no restore program available from MacOS X (but dump did exist!?), and GNU tar was horrendously slow. Perhaps 10.1 remedies one or

Reading Indices

2001-08-28 Thread Lorrie Wood
I didn't catch any answers to this the first time, but I may have missed it -- so I'm resending. -- Lorrie - Forwarded message from Lorrie Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:40:24 -0700 From: Lorrie Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Reading

how do you test for a bad tape...?

2001-08-28 Thread John W. Price
Hi all: I'm sure this is something I should probably already know, aside from being mildly off-topic, but is there a way to test a tape for quality *before* you put a backup on it? I just had a brand new tape come back with i/o errors while trying to restore a backup (this after I had just

Still a newbie...but getting somewhere...amlabel troubles

2001-08-28 Thread Rebecca Pakish
Hi all... Thank you for all of your help on the ./tapetype issue. I learned a lot about my drive from the Seagate site (they have excellent documentation as far as I'm concerned) got my hardware compression turned off. Been working on the amanda.conf file, feel like I'm prepared to label my

Re: how do you test for a bad tape...?

2001-08-28 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
John W. Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure this is something I should probably already know, aside from being mildly off-topic, but is there a way to test a tape for quality *before* you put a backup on it? I just had a brand new tape come back The built-in SCSI chg driver tests for

Re: small changer problem yet

2001-08-28 Thread Thomas Hepper
Hi, On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 11:49:51AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: I've about got amanda working with a Compaq/Seagate 4586 now, but one thing I need to clarify. When I issue as user amanda, amverify config 2 it should proceed to do a verify run on slot 2's contents, or at least thats

RE: Still a newbie...but getting somewhere...amlabel troubles

2001-08-28 Thread Bort, Paul
In the same directory as amanda.conf, try this: su -c amanda touch tapetype This will create a blank tapetype file that amanda can store info about tapes in. -Original Message- From: Rebecca Pakish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 3:46 PM To: '[EMAIL

Re: Still a newbie...but getting somewhere...amlabel troubles

2001-08-28 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 at 2:46pm, Rebecca Pakish wrote Been working on the amanda.conf file, feel like I'm prepared to label my first tape and dump something! Again, running RH 7.1 on a Dell 333 with a SCSI Seagate external and just a 90mm tape for starters. (Had to download the mt command from

level 0 dumps getting overwritten?

2001-08-28 Thread Kurt Yoder
Hello My level 0 dumps seem to be getting overwritten. I run amadmin and see only level 1 dumps: Dunedin# amadmin DailySet1 find dunedin Scanning /usr/local/amanda/holdingdisk... date host disklv tape or file file status 2001-08-25 dunedin.shcorp.com /dev/da0s1f

RE: Still a newbie...but getting somewhere...amlabel troubles

2001-08-28 Thread Rebecca Pakish
I'm not sure why this posted again...sorry everyone...I've already had some responses I'm going to look into tomorrow. :) -Original Message- From: Rebecca Pakish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 2:46 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Still a newbie...but

Re: level 0 dumps getting overwritten?

2001-08-28 Thread Darin Dugan
At 04:01 PM 8/28/2001, Kurt Yoder wrote: Hello My level 0 dumps seem to be getting overwritten. I run amadmin and see only level 1 dumps: [...] Am I setting up my configuration file correctly? I've got: dumpcycle 7 days runspercycle 6 tapecycle 2 tapes So you're telling Amanda to make sure she

Client Installationn on Solaris

2001-08-28 Thread chandra
I think I have stuffed up the installation of a client version of amanda on a sun sparc running solaris 2.5. The configure command I issued was ./configure --without server --with-user=amanda --with-group=sys. Somehow I get the feeling this is incomplete. Can someone please verify that this is

HP changer and BSD/OS 4.2

2001-08-28 Thread Michael Hall
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 01:06:31PM -0700, Michael Hall wrote: We got the HP 24x6i DAT changer I had asked about and finally got a chance to start playing with it. We're running BSD/OS 4.2 and I grabbed the latest tarball (2.4.2p2) and having been making much headway. Got it compiled, installed

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MacOSX_CompileError

2001-08-28 Thread ThomasRatliffDDS
--Client-only compile went OK but wasn't able to get things going from the host so I thought a complete compile would give me a system I could debug before working on host connection stuff. But the full compile fails with /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link cc -g -O2-o amindexd amindexd.o