Autoloader SLR100: Installation under debian 3.0, kernel 2.4

2002-10-03 Thread GERHARD Daniel
Hello, I'am trying to install an Autoloader SLR100 from Tandberg Data of Debian 3.0, the kernel is 2.4, I have installed the amanda-common, amanda-server, amanda-client and mtx packages I have this result, for this command cat /proc/scsi/scsi: Attached devices: Host: scsi0

Re: tape changer

2002-10-03 Thread Martin A. Brooks
At 11:27 03/10/2002 +0200, you wrote: Hm, are you shure /dev/sg0 is your changer? does it have scsi-id 0 or is the lowest id on your scsi-bus? if not count the devices with lower id's and use this number as x in /dev/sgx. Christoph I can successfully load and unload tape using mtx. So, yes, I'm

Re: tape change

2002-10-03 Thread Alan Horn
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Martin A. Brooks wrote: Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 10:40:50 +0100 From: Martin A. Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: tape changer At 11:27 03/10/2002 +0200, you wrote: Hm, are you shure /dev/sg0 is your changer? does it have scsi-id 0 or is the lowest

Re: tape change

2002-10-03 Thread Martin A. Brooks
At 03:03 03/10/2002 -0700, Alan Horn wrote: What sort of output are you seeing in /tmp/amanda/changer*.debug (or whatever it's called). Those can be useful files to look in. I think I've found the cause of the problem, but not the cure. I previously didn't have a sane changer.conf file, I've

Re: installing into /opt

2002-10-03 Thread Jerry
This makes more sense than creating a zillion symbolic links. Would be nice if it defaulted nothing to /usr/local if you changed the prefix. i.e. sysconfig should be $prefix/whatever But this certainly will work for me as well. Thanks again! --- Sven Kirmess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry

RE: tape changer

2002-10-03 Thread Bort, Paul
I don't use either, but I thought chg-mtx and chg-zd-mtx were different, and that difference was in the output of the two commands, hence what looks like a parsing error below. -Original Message- From: Martin A. Brooks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 5:41

shortest dumpcycle possible

2002-10-03 Thread Benjamin Gross
Hello, I'm backing up ~90 GB's (before compression) worth of data from 6 hosts. I have 45 - 1 GB tapes to work with. I would like to have the shortest dumpcycle possible to allow for the greatest amount of history preservation. How can I calculate this ? What type of compression rate can I

Re: tape change

2002-10-03 Thread Galen Johnson
Martin A. Brooks wrote: At 03:03 03/10/2002 -0700, Alan Horn wrote: What sort of output are you seeing in /tmp/amanda/changer*.debug (or whatever it's called). Those can be useful files to look in. I think I've found the cause of the problem, but not the cure. I previously didn't have

Re: tape change

2002-10-03 Thread Martin A. Brooks
At 13:54 03/10/2002 -0400, Galen Johnson wrote: firstslot=1 lastslot=24 cleanslot=31 --- 13:27:46 SLOTLIST - firstslot set to 2 13:27:46 SLOTLIST - lastslot set to 26 13:27:46 Config info: Actually, I've run across this and would have to say it's a bug in the code. The

[2.4.3b4-20020829] amrecover problem.

2002-10-03 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
I have stumbled on this in the past but looks like I'm brain dead today...when I run amrecover I get [blade]# cat /tmp/amanda/amindexd.20021003153113.debug amindexd: debug 1 pid 1683 ruid 33 euid 33: start at Thu Oct 3 15:31:13 2002 amindexd: version 2.4.3b4-20020829 amindexd: time 0.000: could

backup won't be done on loaded machine

2002-10-03 Thread Eric . Doutreleau
Hi I have quite serious problem for backup up 2 redhat7.3 machine here One is our mail server and the other one is our mail machine who does the distribution of mail. These machines have quite some partitions to backup. The server is undr RH7.3 too with the amanda2.4.3b3 version. The two

Re: [2.4.3b4-20020829] amrecover problem.

2002-10-03 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Jean-Francois Malouin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20021003 16:21] thus spake: I have stumbled on this in the past but looks like I'm brain dead today...when I run amrecover I get Replying to myself...I'm brain dead, but not totally flat-lined (yet)! ;) Turns out that I had a bogus server_args

Overland Ultrium LTO LoaderXpress ?

2002-10-03 Thread pete.lega
Is anyone using amanda with the Overland Ultrium LTO LoaderXpress? I'm considering getting this library drive, but I really want to know that it will work without much hassle with Amanda. Thanks! Pete

selfcheck getting stuck

2002-10-03 Thread Matt McLeod
I'm seeing selfcheck timeouts on a client. When I look at /tmp/amanda/amandad* and /tmp/amanda/selfcheck*, it appearsA that the request is being received and processed, but selfcheck just sits there. I.e.: - selfcheck: debug 1 pid 5848 ruid 500 euid 500 start time Fri Oct 4 15:34:13 200