Re: GNU Tar for SunOS 4.1.3 Amanda client

2002-06-24 Thread Martin Hepworth
Jonathan I've got amanda running here to Sunos 4.1.3/4 clients using dump as the file grabber. If you wish I can have have a go at getting the latest version compiled on my systems. My current version of gnutar is 1.12, I can't remember if this works with amanda or not?? -- martin Jonathan

Re: GNU Tar for SunOS 4.1.3 Amanda client

2002-06-24 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Martin Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:33:42AM +0100) Jonathan I've got amanda running here to Sunos 4.1.3/4 clients using dump as the file grabber. If you wish I can have have a go at getting the latest version compiled on my systems. My current version of gnutar

tape verifying and listing

2002-06-24 Thread Hery Zo RAKOTONDRAMANANA
Hi all, I suspect some odd behavior on my DDS2 tapes. can anyone give me advice about: - how to periodically verify if my backups are good for restoring? I understood that amverify only do consistency check on a tape but amverify report can't be a good indicator to conclude that my backups are

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old messages, have they ceased?

2002-06-24 Thread Gene Heskett
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RE: multiple types of systems.

2002-06-24 Thread Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
Yes you can backup multiple systems. I've got redhat and sco unixware being backed up Michael Martinez System Administrator (Contractor) Information Systems and Technology Management CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture (202) 720-6223 -Original Message- From: dave

RE: amandad

2002-06-24 Thread Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
Amandad is not a continually running daemon. It only starts up when you run one of the am programs. Do a netstat to see if amanda is listed in the registered services. Michael Martinez System Administrator (Contractor) Information Systems and Technology Management CSREES - United States

RE: Dump does not support exclude file

2002-06-24 Thread Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
You're using dump instead of tar for your backups. The exclude option that is passed to the backup program will only work with tar. Michael Martinez System Administrator (Contractor) Information Systems and Technology Management CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture (202) 720-6223

Tape and dump cycles

2002-06-24 Thread adi adi
Hello list, i'm a lil confused abt the dump and tape cycles to put in amanda.conf. This is my situation. I am dumping everyday, 7 days a week. The tapes are labelled for week 1 as monday1, tuesday2, wednesday3 and for the second week would be monday2, tuesday2 and so on. Would it be right to put

RE: 2.4.3 Tapeless file-driver pure-disk backups

2002-06-24 Thread Lee Fellows
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 17:47, Steve Follmer wrote: FWIW I understand Solaris 9 put a lot of effort into GUI, so that is a counter example suggesting that Sun feels that GUIs are useful to large installations. (...) Just my $0.02 worth. Re: to disk backups. I think it is good Amanda

short block 0 bytes from amrecover

2002-06-24 Thread Hery Zo RAKOTONDRAMANANA
Can anyone sched some light on this matter. I've already looked into the mailing list and found I should rewind the tape before launching amrecover, somehow it seems this doesn't resolve this issue. Excerpt of amrecover here under: Restoring files into directory /tmp/test Continue? [Y/n]: Y

Probelms building 2.4.3B3 in SCO

2002-06-24 Thread stan
I have one SCO box remaining :-( I am trying to get all my Amanda clients up to the latest I'm geting the following when I try to build on the SCO box. /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../config -I./../regex-src -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -c -o alloc.lo

Need advice on backing up a large directory

2002-06-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
I'm in the process of converting about 400 CDs to .oggs. The destination directory is currently approaching 9GB in size, and I'm using Amanda to backup to DDS-3 (12GB) tapes. Given that oggs and MP3s are essentially uncompressible, I'm getting pretty close to the limits of what I can fit onto

Re: Need advice on backing up a large directory

2002-06-24 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On 24 Jun 2002, Kirk Strauser wrote: I'm in the process of converting about 400 CDs to .oggs. The destination directory is currently approaching 9GB in size, and I'm using Amanda to backup to DDS-3 (12GB) tapes. Given that oggs and MP3s are essentially uncompressible, I'm getting pretty close

More on SCO build problems

2002-06-24 Thread stan
It dwaned on me that this might be useful, in diagnosing my problem: # uname -a SCO_SV cems 3.2 5.0.5 i386 -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin

RE: Excludes not working

2002-06-24 Thread Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
And if that doesn't work, try exclude ./tmp/* Michael Martinez System Administrator (Contractor) Information Systems and Technology Management CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture (202) 720-6223 -Original Message- From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: tape changer

2002-06-24 Thread Marc Mengel
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 10:37, Craig Hancock wrote: Hello all I have a Overlan Ait-3 Library Pro. I beileve I have everything configured. When I attempt to issue a command such as amtape config update I always get this error could not load slot 2: Drive not ready after 120 seconds, rewind

RE: amanda excludes

2002-06-24 Thread Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
I don't think anyone knows. I tried everything also, and continued to have the same problem as you. Michael Martinez System Administrator (Contractor) Information Systems and Technology Management CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture (202) 720-6223 -Original Message- From:

RE: Who uses Amanda?

2002-06-24 Thread Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
We use it: Research, Education and Extension Program Department of Agriculture Washington, DC Michael Martinez System Administrator (Contractor) Information Systems and Technology Management CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture (202) 720-6223 -Original Message- From: Paul

RE: Linux and Sun Solaris dump / restore FAILS with amanda

2002-06-24 Thread Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
Immediately after I first installed Amanda, I tested recovering. I restored some files, and did a cmp -l between them and their counterparts on the disk. It's a good thing I did too, because there were random byte differences that did NOT affect the checksums or byte counts (ls -l) of these

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RE: Probelms building 2.4.3B3 in SCO

2002-06-24 Thread Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
The qmail web page (www.qmail.org) has a list of REQUIREMENTS. Among these requirements are the GNU packages that you need to install, before trying to compile amanda. Michael Martinez System Administrator (Contractor) Information Systems and Technology Management CSREES - United States

RE: More on SCO build problems

2002-06-24 Thread Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
A couple weeks ago I posted a detailed instructions of how I got amanda compiled on sco unixware 7.1.1 system. Michael Martinez System Administrator (Contractor) Information Systems and Technology Management CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture (202) 720-6223 -Original

RE: how to handle holidays?

2002-06-24 Thread Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
Just wait til you come in, and run amflush Michael Martinez System Administrator (Contractor) Information Systems and Technology Management CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture (202) 720-6223 -Original Message- From: Tom Van de Wiele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: Who uses Amanda?

2002-06-24 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM wrote: We use it: Research, Education and Extension Program Department of Agriculture Washington, DC -Original Message- From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 10:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

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Compile error, resolution, confusion

2002-06-24 Thread Jason Brooks
Hello, I have been reading through the archives and found a bit of information that helped me. for amanda 2.4.3b3, I received errors while compiling on a solaris8 (bybee) machine. I applied a change I found in reference to this error, and the compiler error went away. the wierd part: this

Re: Compile error, resolution, confusion

2002-06-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 01:10:24PM -0700, Jason Brooks wrote: Hello, I have been reading through the archives and found a bit of information that helped me. for amanda 2.4.3b3, I received errors while compiling on a solaris8 (bybee) machine. I applied a change I found in reference to

RE: 2.4.3 Tapeless file-driver pure-disk backups

2002-06-24 Thread Marc Mengel
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 16:47, Steve Follmer wrote: FWIW I understand Solaris 9 put a lot of effort into GUI, so that is a counter example suggesting that Sun feels that GUIs are useful to large installations. Probably what is happening is, if you spend several years writing and maintaining

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2002-06-24 Thread Royce Wolf
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New amtape error

2002-06-24 Thread KennedyG
Trying to get amanda up and running and get the following from error from amtape when I do a slot N or slot next command: amtape: could not rewind [: too many arguments: no tape onlineamtape: changed to slot /usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx: on [: too many arguments I am using the chg-zd-mtx script.

Re: new label templates from Ulrik Sandberg, where are they?

2002-06-24 Thread Patrick C. F. Ernzer
Hiho, --On Saturday, June 22, 2002 11:38:40 PM +0200 Ulrik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Patrick C. F. Ernzer wrote: [...] on Fri Apr 19 Ulrik Sandberg posted about new templates, I fail to find these labels in the CVS and in the archives. [...] I decided to keep

amlabel error

2002-06-24 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
Hello, I'm installing amanda for the first time on solaris 8 with a dlt 8000 drive. It seems like I need to manualing rewind the tape drive when incerting a fresh tape. Otherwise I get this error - why would mt rewind the drive and amlabel only on the 2nd try? bash-2.01# su amanda -c amlabel

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2002-06-24 Thread m . malicky
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