Re[2]: Backing up only one host at a time and ...

2001-12-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hello Joshua, Monday, December 03, 2001, 8:23:33 PM, you wrote: JBL On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 at 9:56am, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote 1) Not all hosts to be backed up have 100M-NICs inside, so while dumping them it slows down the connection to 100M-hosts. (Getting about 10kB/s right now on the

Re[2]: Backing up only one host at a time and ...

2001-12-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hallo Joshua, Monday, December 03, 2001, 8:23:33 PM, you wrote: JBL What is your runspercycle? Tapecycle *must* be = (preferebably ) JBL runspercycle. Otherwise, you may be overwriting the *only* full dump of a JBL filesystem you have on tape. If that happens, you're SOL at restore time.

FW: Running amrecover

2001-12-04 Thread Potts, Ross
Perhaps it would help if I used the correct address, no? Anyways, I found the problem. In the amanda home directory there is a .rhosts file. I set that to be the same as the .amandahosts settings. I have CLI now. Thanks again to all who replied! Ross -Original Message- From:

strange amanda failure

2001-12-04 Thread Mihai Lozoveanu
1332.502 inparallel 4 bandwidth 600 diskspace 12167192 dir OBSOLETE datestamp 20011204 driver: drain-ends tapeq LFFO big-dumpers 1 driver: result time 1332.502 from taper: TAPER-OK driver: send-cmd time 1332.517 to dumper0: FILE-DUMP 00-1 /mnt/SCSI4/am_hold/20011204/ra._etc.1 ra /etc 1 2001:11:28

Re: amrecover: No index records for host?

2001-12-04 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 at 11:56am, Rafe Thayer wrote 06573011000/./security/dev/audio 06573011000/./security/dev/fd0 06573011000/./security/dev/sr0 06573011000/./security/dev/st0 06573011000/./security/dev/st1 (these are just the contents of /etc on each host). The version of tar on the

Re: Problems dumping a big partition with Solaris and Linux

2001-12-04 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 at 4:53pm, José Vicente Núñez Zuleta wrote I upgraded the dump version but then i got the following problem: lnxsrv0001:/dev/hdc1 1 [/sbin/dump returned 3] (17:48:39) lnxsrv0001:/dev/hdc6 1 [/sbin/dump returned 3] (17:48:23)

Re: amrecover: No index records for host?

2001-12-04 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 at 11:56am, Rafe Thayer wrote Hi Folks, Another question for ya. After I did an amdump to test out dumping our disks to tape, I tried to do an amrecover to see if restoring the data would work. It seems to work for our linux machines, but the solaris box has some

Re: Tape change driver?

2001-12-04 Thread Thomas Hepper
Hi, On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 07:47:25AM -0900, Jennifer Peterson wrote: Good morning, I've been trying for the past week to install stctl on my Sun 2.8 system. This has included installing the Sun compiler and following every piece of advice that I could find on this list and through

Re[3]: Backing up only one host at a time and ...

2001-12-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hallo Joshua, Tuesday, December 04, 2001, 2:59:03 PM, you wrote: JBL I'm wondering if you're seeing lots of collisions when the 10M clients JBL start dumping. I don´t know how to use netstat correctly. How should I look for the collisions ? JBL I believe (taking into account your next mail)

Re: Problems dumping a big partition with Solaris and Linux

2001-12-04 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
Hello, --- Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 at 4:53pm, José Vicente Núñez Zuleta wrote I upgraded the dump version but then i got the following problem: lnxsrv0001:/dev/hdc1 1 [/sbin/dump returned 3] (17:48:39)

schedual line 10: syntax error

2001-12-04 Thread Dan Garthwaite
A moment of introduction: I'm the UNIX administrator for a branch of Science Applications International Corporation. I've been using amanda quite happily now for ~6 months to feed an HP SureStore Ultrium 1/20 ( that's 2TB native ) backing up a data center of RH7.1 and HPUX 10.20 boxen. The

Full dump not running in dumpcycle days

2001-12-04 Thread ahall
Hello, I am seeing some strang behavior with my amanda setup. I have an dump that has a dumpcycle of 7 days, yet seven days has passed and I have not see a full dump. In fact my last full dump was on Nov 20. I have had a successful incremental dump every day since, but no full. Below are the

Re[3]: Backing up only one host at a time and ...

2001-12-04 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 at 3:14pm, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote Tuesday, December 04, 2001, 2:59:03 PM, you wrote: JBL I'm wondering if you're seeing lots of collisions when the 10M clients JBL start dumping. I don´t know how to use netstat correctly. How should I look for the collisions ?

Re: Full dump not running in dumpcycle days

2001-12-04 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 at 10:51am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I am seeing some strang behavior with my amanda setup. I have an dump that has a dumpcycle of 7 days, yet seven days has passed and I have not see a full dump. In fact my last full dump was on Nov 20. I have had a successful

Excludes not working

2001-12-04 Thread Stephen Carville
Redhat 7.0 w/tar 1.13.17 Solaris 8 w/tar 1.13.19 amanda 2.4.2p2 I have an exclude list that looks like: /proc /devices /tmp /temp /var/lock /var/spool/postfix/private /spool/postfix/private /var/tmp /lost+found *..LCK But amrecover tells me that amanda is still backing up these directories.

Re: Problems dumping a big partition with Solaris and Linux

2001-12-04 Thread Christopher S. Dahn
I was running dump on 7.1, and had nothing but problems. I was told that Linus himself came out on the list and claimed that people should stop expecting reliable behavior from dump, as there were things being changed in the kernel that might make it unreliable. I switched to GNUtar, and have

Re: running Amrecover

2001-12-04 Thread Christopher S. Dahn
Amrecover must be run as the root user (after all, the amanda user can't write those files!). In the amanda user's home directory there will be (or you can create) a .amandahosts file. Make sure that the root user is listed there instead of the amanda user for purposes of the amrecover. And

amrestore read error: Input/output error

2001-12-04 Thread Benjamin Gross
Hello, Just a follow up to the email I sent out earlier. I determined that I was using the wrong dumptype in my disklist file. Now, instead of not being able to read a header, amrestore gives me the following: amrestore: 0: skipping start of tape: date 20011204 label Eatoni-01 amrestore: 1

Re: Full dump not running in dumpcycle days

2001-12-04 Thread ahall
I do not have anything defined for runspercycle. What messages are your refering to? I have the mails for each day. Andrew On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 at 10:51am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I am seeing some strang behavior with my amanda setup. I have

Re: Full dump not running in dumpcycle days

2001-12-04 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 at 2:42pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I do not have anything defined for runspercycle. What messages are your refering to? I have the mails for each day. OK, runspercycle defaults to be the same as dumpcycle. Are you running amdump every night? Are there any messages in

Re: Excludes not working

2001-12-04 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 at 10:10am, Stephen Carville wrote I have an exclude list that looks like: /proc /devices /tmp /temp /var/lock /var/spool/postfix/private /spool/postfix/private /var/tmp /lost+found *..LCK But amrecover tells me that amanda is still backing up these Indicates

amrestore open the tape RW

2001-12-04 Thread Nicolae Mihalache
Hello! I'm using amanda for tapeless operation (using file: types) and write the data created on DVD. When I try to resore directly from DVD using amrestore, it complains that the DVD is mounted read-only. I've seen that it tries to open the info file in read-write mode, is this really needed?

Re: Problems dumping a big partition with Solaris and Linux

2001-12-04 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 01:41 PM 12/4/2001 -0500, Christopher S. Dahn wrote: I was running dump on 7.1, and had nothing but problems. I was told that Linus himself came out on the list and claimed that people should stop expecting reliable behavior from dump, as there were things being changed in the kernel that

amrestore open the tape RW

2001-12-04 Thread Nicolae Mihalache
Hello! I'm using amanda for tapeless operation (using file: types) and write the data created on DVD. When I try to resore directly from DVD using amrestore, it complains that the DVD is mounted read-only. I've seen that it tries to open the info file in read-write mode, is this really needed?

Re: Problems dumping a big partition with Solaris and Linux

2001-12-04 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 at 4:40pm, Dan Swartzendruber wrote At 01:41 PM 12/4/2001 -0500, Christopher S. Dahn wrote: I was running dump on 7.1, and had nothing but problems. I was told that Linus himself came out on the list and claimed that people should stop expecting reliable behavior from

tar version

2001-12-04 Thread Murari Pillapakkam
Hi At first I thought tar failed as given below because the files were changing. But apparently, only one directory (/grove1) keeps failing. Its always the same message - the only difference are the levels. It seems to me to be too much of a coincidence that this directory is the only one to

Tried this before....

2001-12-04 Thread Ken Clark
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replacing a tape

2001-12-04 Thread Gregory LeBaron
I'm running Amanda-2.4.1p1, with a 32 day tape cycle, tapes labeled daily01 to daily32 (config name is daily) Recently, my drive ate daily32. I continued to run without problems until today when I did what I thought would be the Right Thing: $ amrmtape daily daily32 And then with a new tape: $