Re: AMANDA and the Windows world

2003-02-13 Thread Christopher Odenbach
Hi, Actually in my experience, you are more likely to see development to support other OSes OUTSIDE of M$. What might be an interesting idea is if there is a freeware/opensource backup/restore program for Windows that could be integrated into the AmandaClient... As a long time amanda user

Re: [amanda@fractal.Mines.EDU: DDS4backup AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX BEFORERUN, IF POSSIBLE]

2003-02-13 Thread Michael Robbert
Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 19:23, Michael Robbert wrote: Here is an update on the problem that I sent yesterday. I had entered my DDS4backup into cron and last night the backup actually worked, sort of. It looks like it wrote to the tape in slot one, which I labeled

Re: question (if tape server crash)

2003-02-13 Thread Martin hepworth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the tape server is crashed, and I reinstall Amanda, can the NEW tape server recognize previous backup tapes and retrive the files? It looks unlikely. How solve this problem? Thanks advanced! David David Hopefully you're backing up the tape server and

Re: question (if tape server crash)

2003-02-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the tape server is crashed, and I reinstall Amanda, can the NEW tape server recognize previous backup tapes and retrive the files? It looks unlikely. This is just one of the strengths of Amanda. You don't need Amanda software to do a restore. A shell, dd, and dump

Re: Amanda and the windows world [Q]

2003-02-13 Thread Dieter Meinert
Does anyone have experience with an amanda = SERVER in a windows environment ? Unfortunately I don't have any Unix/Linux host available. I compiled the complete amanda package under Cygwin 1.3.10, I just don't know how to start the server and how to connect to the client. I used amanda on

Re: degraded mode

2003-02-13 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! Since this left /amanda/work as unavailable I'd have expected amanda to have run in degraded mode writing directly to the tape drive, however amanda reported that there was no more room in the work area and exited without performing any dumps at all. Isn't the term 'degraded mode' used

Re: question (if tape server crash)

2003-02-13 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! If the tape server is crashed, and I reinstall Amanda, can the NEW tape server recognize previous backup tapes and retrive the files? It looks unlikely. Why do you think it looks unlikely? The backups done by Amanda are in dump or tar format, and I don't see why you couldn't read the

Re: [amanda@fractal.Mines.EDU: DDS4backup AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX BEFORE RUN, IF POSSIBLE]

2003-02-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 13 February 2003 02:53, Michael Robbert wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 19:23, Michael Robbert wrote: Here is an update on the problem that I sent yesterday. I had entered my DDS4backup into cron and last night the backup actually worked, sort of. It looks like

Re: question (if tape server crash)

2003-02-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 21:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the tape server is crashed, and I reinstall Amanda, can the NEW tape server recognize previous backup tapes and retrive the files? It looks unlikely. How solve this problem? Thanks advanced! David As Martin Hepworth aludes to,

RE: Backing up Windows shares

2003-02-13 Thread Bill Hults
Thanks all for the help. The problem was referring to the same computer by 2 different names. The share was backed up last night but the log showed the following error. FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: /-- BS1//ADS1/AMRightFax$ lev 0 STRANGE sendbackup: start [BS1://ADS1/AMRightFax$ level

Re: another chg-zd-mtx problem

2003-02-13 Thread Pete Poggione
Jon - Perhaps I'm have a blonde moment over this whole configuration issue. Please excuse my ignorance... and I do appreciate your help. Below see my comments embedded in your last email.. On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 15:16, Jon LaBadie wrote: Is there a groups command on your system. Or maybe the

Re: degraded mode

2003-02-13 Thread Brian Cuttler
Hello Toomas, I'd thought degraded meant a performance loss but the data still moved to tape. If degraded means no tape, files left in holding partition then what is the term for moving to tape directly ? On another note, to follow up, or ask again on a note I posted a few days ago... Last

Re: Amanda and the windows world [Q]

2003-02-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 08:47:09AM +0100, Dieter Meinert wrote: Does anyone have experience with an amanda = SERVER in a windows environment ? Unfortunately I don't have any Unix/Linux host available. I compiled the complete amanda package under Cygwin 1.3.10, I just don't know how to

Re: [amanda@fractal.Mines.EDU: DDS4backup AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX BEFORE RUN, IF POSSIBLE]

2003-02-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:53:54AM -0700, Michael Robbert wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 19:23, Michael Robbert wrote: Gaack! Either its not advancing the magazine, or you've labeled all tapes alike. If the latter, I'm fairly certain that amlabel would have had

Re: AMANDA and the Windows world

2003-02-13 Thread marc . bigler
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Re: question (if tape server crash)

2003-02-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 21:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the tape server is crashed, and I reinstall Amanda, can the NEW tape server recognize previous backup tapes and retrive the files? It looks unlikely. As Martin Hepworth aludes to, one must have a backup of

Re: 2.4.4b1 cygwin client and specifying DLEs with spaces...

2003-02-13 Thread Richard Morse
On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 10:42 PM, John R. Jackson wrote: .. /cygdrive/c { comp-tar include list include-1 } and in /cygdrive/c/include-1: ./Documents and Settings/myuserfolder Note that you cannot use include file as that passes the thing to include across

Re: another chg-zd-mtx problem

2003-02-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 13 February 2003 09:54, Pete Poggione wrote: Jon - Perhaps I'm have a blonde moment over this whole configuration issue. Please excuse my ignorance... and I do appreciate your help. Below see my comments embedded in your last email.. On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 15:16, Jon LaBadie wrote:

hosts timing out on amdump but not amcheck

2003-02-13 Thread justin m. clayton
First of all, thanks to all who helped me track down my NAK problems from last week. Having fixed that, all backup hosts pass amcheck with flying colors. However, when it comes time for the amdump, my log report claims Request to host timed out when I return the following morning. However, if I

My problem's solved...

2003-02-13 Thread John Oliver
I'm not sure which did it... turning off hardware compression, or moving the holdingdisk to allow for more space. But that big-ass filesystem fits now... :-) Thanks to everyone who pointed out the mt option... I probably should have thought of that myself. Also, for the archives... it turns out

Re: hosts timing out on amdump but not amcheck

2003-02-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 at 9:15am, justin m. clayton wrote First of all, thanks to all who helped me track down my NAK problems from last week. Having fixed that, all backup hosts pass amcheck with flying colors. However, when it comes time for the amdump, my log report claims Request to host

[LONG] Amanda Tru64 V5.1A client sendsize, /sbin/dump fails

2003-02-13 Thread Sean McGeever
:COMPRESS_FAST_OPT=--fast COMPRESS_BEST_OPT=--best planner:UNCOMPRESS_OPT=-dc planner: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.607 READING CONF FILES... driver: pid 11319 executable /usr/local/libexec/amanda/driver version 2.4.2p2 driver: send-cmd time 0.002 to taper: START-TAPER 20030213

Changing tape order - tapelist not created?

2003-02-13 Thread Paul English
I'm interested in changing my tape order, and I've found the very useful messages in this regard. But then when I went to look at my tapelist it was empty! It is r/w by the amanda user, and in the location specified by the amanda.conf file. Why would this not be getting written? Paul

Any interest in a little Python GUI?

2003-02-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
I just picked up Programming Python, and it inspired me to write a GUI for to replace a collection of little Perl scripts I'd been using to launch and monitor Amanda's various operations. It uses the Tkinter library to draw widgets, so it should be portable to just about any major platform that

Re: [LONG] Amanda Tru64 V5.1A client sendsize, /sbin/dump fails

2003-02-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:14:30PM +, Sean McGeever wrote: Hi, I've failed to find this precise error condition in either the amanda or Tru64 archives, so any hints as to solutions would be most welcome. Sorry for the length of the appended logs, but I hope by including them I've

Re: hosts timing out on amdump but not amcheck

2003-02-13 Thread justin m. clayton
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 at 9:15am, justin m. clayton wrote First of all, thanks to all who helped me track down my NAK problems from last week. Having fixed that, all backup hosts pass amcheck with flying colors. However, when it comes time for

WHFC and Cover Pages

2003-02-13 Thread Jeff Borders
I've got the cover page working ok when I use sendfax. It inputs different names and stuff perfectly. But how do I do this with WHFC? Do I use the same hylafax cover page? Does WHFC use the same macros and variables like sendfax? Thank you. Jeff Borders

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amrecover problems ....

2003-02-13 Thread Jim Richard
I can't seem to get amrecover to work. I have a single server running amanda, with an SDLT drive attached to it. All my clients are being backed up without problems. (I have done recent recoveries "manually.") However, when I try to run amrecover from a client, when I issue the extract,

Mystery: configs seem OK, but almost nothing backed up (withsolution!)

2003-02-13 Thread Mark Stosberg
Hello, I'm working with configuring amanda to back up an OS X client. Both the client and server are running 2.4.3. I got the files to backup across the network using hfstar at some point earlier in my tinkering, so I suspect the issue I'm experiencing now is not an OS X specific issue. amcheck

Re: Amanda and the windows world [Q]

2003-02-13 Thread Brian White
Does anyone have experience with an amanda = SERVER in a windows environment ? Unfortunately I don't have any Unix/Linux host available. I compiled the complete amanda package under Cygwin 1.3.10, I just don't know how to start the server and how to connect to the client. Hmmm... Having