Re: [Amanda-users] sdt 5000

2001-12-19 Thread Joseph Sirucka
Hi I have compiled tapetype and the output of this is tapetype -e 4096m -f /dev/rmt/1 -t sdt-5000 wrote 44540 32Kb blocks in 34 files in 11477 seconds (short write) wrote 45850 32Kb blocks in 70 files in 11506 seconds (short write) define tapetype sdt-5000 { comment just produced by

Re: Need exact settings for firewall with amanda

2001-12-19 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi KEVIN! On 18 Dec 01 at 13:52 you wrote: Unfortunately, I don't control the firewall, I have to just tell the folks who do exactly what I need. So far, I've told them I need the following ports opened: 10080/udp 10082/tcp 10083/tcp Actually, you need more than that. In addition to

Re: backup failed and nothing in holding disk

2001-12-19 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 at 8:18am, Hery Zo RAKOTONDRAMANANA wrote I think it seems like my tape is out of service. This we can replace. Somehow, I just thought that when amanda encounters problems during backup, it just performs it into holding disk, so I was expecting having something written

Re: backup failed and nothing in holding disk

2001-12-19 Thread Hery Zo RAKOTONDRAMANANA
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 at 8:18am, Hery Zo RAKOTONDRAMANANA wrote I think it seems like my tape is out of service. This we can replace. Somehow, I just thought that when amanda encounters problems during backup, it just performs it into holding disk, so I was

Perl script to remind someone about changing a tape: anyone interested?

2001-12-19 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
Hello people, This list has been a very good source of information on setting up amanda and i will like to contribute; I made a little Perl script that sents an email to the responsible of changing tapes on a tape unit for the next backup. The script is smart (well kind of :) ), only sents the

What to do about the holidays?

2001-12-19 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
It just dawned on me that I won't be in the office next Monday or Tuesday. I have a backup cronned for M-F at 1800. My first idea of what to do is just to leave the system alone, let it backup to disk Monday and Tuesday, and first thing Wednesday, amflush the backup to tape. Is this okay to do?

Re: Perl script to remind someone about changing a tape: anyone interested?

2001-12-19 Thread Johannes Niess
José Vicente Núñez Zuleta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello people, This list has been a very good source of information on setting up amanda and i will like to contribute; I made a little Perl script that sents an email to the responsible of changing tapes on a tape unit for the next

Re: Perl script to remind someone about changing a tape: anyone interested?

2001-12-19 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
Hello to all, probaly i didn't explained mysefl very well so here i go again :) (please correct me if i'm wrong): The script is used to ask someone else on the datacenter to change the tape if there were no errors; I read in the amcheck man page the following (related to the -m option): -m

Re: What to do about the holidays?

2001-12-19 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 at 10:55am, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote It just dawned on me that I won't be in the office next Monday or Tuesday. I have a backup cronned for M-F at 1800. My first idea of what to do is just to leave the system alone, let it backup to disk Monday and Tuesday, and first thing

Re: What to do about the holidays?

2001-12-19 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
Joshua, thank you for your advice. That's exactly what I'll do. -Kevin Zembower Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/19/01 11:29AM On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 at 10:55am, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote It just dawned on me that I won't be in the office next Monday or Tuesday. I have a backup cronned for

Re: What to do about the holidays?

2001-12-19 Thread Dan Wilder
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 10:55:42AM -0500, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: It just dawned on me that I won't be in the office next Monday or Tuesday. I have a backup cronned for M-F at 1800. My first idea of what to do is just to leave the system alone, let it backup to disk Monday and Tuesday, and

RE: What to do about the holidays?

2001-12-19 Thread Bort, Paul
The way we handle it here is to have several people who know how to do the tape change, and make sure one of them comes in and does it. So far, we haven't all been out of town on the same day. -Original Message- From: KEVIN ZEMBOWER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: Perl script to remind someone about changing a tape: anyone interested?

2001-12-19 Thread Bort, Paul
You might want to consider using Big Brother (www.bb4.com) with Amanda to get alerts when there are backup problems. -Original Message- From: José Vicente Núñez Zuleta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 11:26 AM To: Johannes Niess Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What to do about the holidays?

2001-12-19 Thread Anthony A. D. Talltree
Is this okay to do? Yep, I've done it when eg. I was snowed in for a week and couldn't get in to change the tape. It's a good argument for a large holding disk, and this is a feature that I haven't found in other, rather expensive, backup packages.

amrecover problem with file permissions

2001-12-19 Thread Chris Miller
Hello, I recently had to recover an entire disk from backup. Files were restored from one tape as well as a dump on the holding disk. Once complete, all directory ownership and permissions were set to root and 755. All files however were set appropriately. I'm using amanda2.4.2 server on

Suggestions on how to proceed ...

2001-12-19 Thread Malcolm Herbert
I have recently set up Amanda on a system here and am generally pleased with how it works, although the ideal setup I have in mind doesn't seem to be immediately obvious from the documentation. I have a 160G holding disk to which I spool several 13G partitions. The tape drive is a 20G Mammoth

restore

2001-12-19 Thread Brandon Moro
Hello all, I have recently set up an AMANDA server on a SUN Ultra5 (solaris8) and have been using SAMBA to backup Windows clients. In order to assure myself that I am, in fact, getting real data on tape, I am trying to restore a partition. I found that I can use amrecover to pull down the

More problems with build -- please, someone answer!

2001-12-19 Thread Simon Matthews
I got past the earlier problem with building be editing out the directory pathname (/home/gandalf/). However, I now get the following error. I am trying to build on a Sun AXMP, running Solaris 2.7 Results of 'uname -a' SunOS red 5.7 Generic_106541-18 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-MPA Error