question about tapetype

2002-01-11 Thread Thomas Vander Stichele
Hi, I have an Onstream ADR50, and I'm just learning how to get amanda configured on RH72. One of the things I wanted to try was find the right tape type, so I ran tapetype, thinking it would do some diagnostics and print some information about the tape type. Well, it's been running for more

Re: question about tapetype

2002-01-11 Thread Moritz Both
You should really search the mailing list archives for OnStream and ADR. At the moment, the ADR50 has a firmware bug that prevents it from working with amanda at all. Greetings, Moritz Hi, I have an Onstream ADR50, and I'm just learning how to get amanda configured on RH72. One of the

Re: S.O.S.

2002-01-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 at 11:19am, Túlio Machado de Faria wrote Help me, please. I need to use amanda with two units of tape in one backup. How? Look in the documentation for the parameter 'runtapes' and, if you don't have a tape changer, how to set up 'chg-manual'. -- Joshua

Re: S.O.S.

2002-01-11 Thread Túlio Machado de Faria
Ok, I modifed my amanda.com with: runtapes 2 but, the amcheck is not check my second tape unit. Where is problem? In a message dated: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:19:19 -0200 =?iso-8859-15?q?T=FAlio=20Machado=20de=20Faria?= said: Help me, please. I need to use amanda with two units of tape in

Finding tapes

2002-01-11 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi all, I've been asked to locate a set up tapes based on dates. Any idea how I do this? Basically I just need to search the date stamps for each tape and tell my boss which tapes contain backups for the specified period of time. I looked at the amadmin command, but the sub-commands all

Re: S.O.S.

2002-01-11 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:05:58 -0200 =?iso-8859-1?q?T=FAlio=20Machado=20de=20Faria?= said: Ok, I modifed my amanda.com with: runtapes 2 but, the amcheck is not check my second tape unit. Where is problem? Are you saying you want to backup to 2 tapes or to 2 different tape

Re: S.O.S.

2002-01-11 Thread Túlio Machado de Faria
2 different tape drivers. Em Sex 11 Jan 2002 13:56, you wrote: In a message dated: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:05:58 -0200 =?iso-8859-1?q?T=FAlio=20Machado=20de=20Faria?= said: Ok, I modifed my amanda.com with: runtapes 2 but, the amcheck is not check my second tape unit. Where is

Re: Finding tapes

2002-01-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 at 10:59am, Paul Lussier wrote I've been asked to locate a set up tapes based on dates. Any idea how I do this? Basically I just need to search the date stamps for each tape and tell my boss which tapes contain backups for the specified period of time. I looked at

Re: S.O.S.

2002-01-11 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:24:01 -0200 =?iso-8859-1?q?T=FAlio=20Machado=20de=20Faria?= said: 2 different tape drivers. I don't think you can do this easily. You'll need to set up different amanda configurations each pointing to a different drive and split the total number of

Re: S.O.S.

2002-01-11 Thread Stephen Carville
runtapes 2 You have to have a working changer configuration. On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, [iso-8859-15] Túlio Machado de Faria wrote: - Help me, please. - - - I need to use amanda with two units of tape in one backup. - - How? - - -- -- Stephen Carville UNIX and Network Administrator Ace Flood

Re: Finding tapes

2002-01-11 Thread Stephen Carville
Try amadmin config find This prints out date, host, disk, level, tape, and status for everything in config. On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Paul Lussier wrote: - - Hi all, - - I've been asked to locate a set up tapes based on dates. Any idea - how I do this? Basically I just need to search the date

Re: S.O.S.

2002-01-11 Thread Túlio Machado de Faria
I use two DAT units The /teste have 2GBytes I ran amdump, but got the following messages. why amanda didn't fineshed the backup These dumps were to tapes avati01, avati02. *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: No space left on device]]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding

Short write with tapeio and file: driver

2002-01-11 Thread Jeremy Wadsack
I'm using Amanda version 2.4.2p2-tapeio (from cvs) to run backups to a hard drive instead of a tape. Using the file: driver went fine for a couple days, now consistently produces short write errors. Specifically the error message looks like this: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: 10.0.0.16

Re: S.O.S.

2002-01-11 Thread Dan Wilder
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:42:37PM -0200, T?lio Machado de Faria wrote: I use two DAT units The /teste have 2GBytes I ran amdump, but got the following messages. why amanda didn't fineshed the backup Because it ran out of tape? It tries to put one item from the disklist on one tape.

Re: S.O.S.

2002-01-11 Thread Túlio Machado de Faria
I am using: tpchanger chg-multi for automatically dumb of unit. Em Sex 11 Jan 2002 17:18, Dan Wilder escreveu: On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:42:37PM -0200, T?lio Machado de Faria wrote: I use two DAT units The /teste have 2GBytes I ran amdump, but got the following messages. why amanda

Re: S.O.S.

2002-01-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 at 6:31pm, Túlio Machado de Faria wrote I am using: tpchanger chg-multi for automatically dumb of unit. You cannot have a single filesystem (disklist entry) that is bigger than your tapes -- amanda doesn't span. How big are your tapes? -- Joshua Baker-LePain

samba: subdirectories and/or using *

2002-01-11 Thread Tyler
the general problem is wanting to back up a bunch of win2k machines with amanda. the best solution would be if i could tell amanda to backup: //win2k-machine/C$/directory1 //win2k-machine/C$/directory2 ... //win2k-machine/C$/directoryN the C$ shares already exist, so the administrative

Re: samba: subdirectories and/or using *

2002-01-11 Thread Tyler
replying to myself... the best solution would be if i could tell amanda to backup: //win2k-machine/C$/directory1 //win2k-machine/C$/directory2 ... //win2k-machine/C$/directoryN the C$ shares already exist, so the administrative overhead for the client machines is very minimal. it