Re: Missing files from Samba backup

2003-06-05 Thread JC Simonetti
First let me say that you have an old version of Amanda. But I don't know where your problem come from. I only thing I can say is that, in my case (amanda 2.4.3), I also have problems with Cygwin and index generation. Amanda does not tell me that there was a problem during the backup; but when I

Re: recommendations for new changer for home user

2003-06-05 Thread Dietmar Goldbeck
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 01:18:48AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The Sony AIT-1 looks ok, but many of those are probably worn out by > now. So does the AIT-2, but again, the $ slow me down. > > So what does the retired home user with a 600 dollar budget (500 for > the deck, 100 for media) lo

Re: tape hardware choices

2003-06-05 Thread Tom Brown
> If you are mechanically inclined, remove the changer from its normal > location and re-attach the cables so that you can see what its doing. > It might be something so simple as a rubber roller thats become > polished up and is now slipping someplace in the robotics. Or even > a very bad case o

Re: tape hardware choices

2003-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 05 June 2003 07:37, Tom Brown wrote: >> Our DDS4 autoloader has just died and we are looking at >> alternatives. Has anyone had any joy with SDLT as we need added >> capacity now and we were planning an upgrade anyway so this is >> just 'assisting' in us getting a > >move > >> on with t

strange error NT server backup to disk NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND

2003-06-05 Thread shaun feeley
hi guys, wondering if anyone has an idea whats going on here. im backing up an NT server ip 192.168.1.10 from my amanda setup on william.(to disk not tape) now the backup appears to be working ie.. despite reams of strange results i am able to recover random files from my nightly backup. however i

Compaq DLT Drive compatibility issue.

2003-06-05 Thread Jan Szumiec
Hello, Has anybody tried to use this drive with amanda ?: sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa0: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit) pass0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 pass0: Removable Changer SCSI-2 device pass0: 10.000MB/s transfer

recommendations for new changer for home user

2003-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
Hi All; It appears my drive has had a fatal brain embolism. After replaceing the one bad tape yesterday, it used it ok last nite. Then today, amcheck starts bugging me that it can't find the next tape. Nothing unusual about that of course. In due time I exchange the tapes and attempt to re

SUN StorEdge L7 jukebox

2003-06-05 Thread Bean, N. Curt
Does any one have a clue where I can find software to drive this beast on Solaris 2.6? Thanks in advance N. Curt Bean Sr. System/Network Administrator Raytheon 7700 Arlington Blvd. Fallschurch Va. 22042 Phone: 703.560.5000 Ext 4203 Fax: 703.849.1591 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tape hardware choices

2003-06-05 Thread Tom Brown
> Our DDS4 autoloader has just died and we are looking at alternatives. Has > anyone had any joy with SDLT as we need added capacity now and we were > planning an upgrade anyway so this is just 'assisting' in us getting a move > on with this! following this up. this is the error i get when i try a

autoloader configuration

2003-06-05 Thread Mark Le Noury
Hi, If any one has any experience setting up a Tandberg DLT autoloader (10 slot DL0101H) on RedHat Linux 7.3 could you please let me know what the best way is to do it. i.e. should I use chg-multi and put the loader into sequential access mode and if so how should I set up the config file?? (the

Re: tape hardware choices

2003-06-05 Thread Tom Brown
> > I'm looking into upgrading my tape hardware, and while a I know lots of > > sales types will give me lots of info, I was wondering what folks are > > using for amanda. Our DDS4 autoloader has just died and we are looking at alternatives. Has anyone had any joy with SDLT as we need added capaci

RE: Permissions wrong - amcheck -m error - Can't create transcript fi le ./xfh54EUCZ09037: Permission denied

2003-06-05 Thread Kevin Passey
Paul you are correct : - echo hallo world | /usr/bin/Mail -s "Test" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does give the same error - so it is not amanda that is wrong it is my system. Thanks anyway. I'll take this off list. Thanks for all your help (list members) Kevin -Original Message- From: Paul Bijne

Re: Permissions wrong - amcheck -m error - Can't create transcriptfi le ./xfh54EUCZ09037: Permission denied

2003-06-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
Paul Bijnens wrote: Kevin Passey wrote: bash-2.05$ /usr/sbin/amcheck kdp -m bash-2.05$ Can't create transcript file ./xfh54EUCZ09037: Permission denied Can anybody tell me where my permissions are wrong or where amanda is trying to create this file. That seems to be a message from sendmail (in

Re: Permissions wrong - amcheck -m error - Can't create transcriptfi le ./xfh54EUCZ09037: Permission denied

2003-06-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
Kevin Passey wrote: bash-2.05$ /usr/sbin/amcheck kdp -m bash-2.05$ Can't create transcript file ./xfh54EUCZ09037: Permission denied Can anybody tell me where my permissions are wrong or where amanda is trying to create this file. That seems to be a message from sendmail (invoked by Mail, invoked

Re: Disk & tape backup (was: RE: rait output driver)

2003-06-05 Thread rwk
> > Some time ago I have tried to configure something similar with the > > rait driver. I wanted to have backups going to an online disk, for > > onsite fast recovery, and to tape for off-site and longer > > term historic storage. > > This idea seems to come up on a regular basis, and I know I'

Disk & tape backup (was: RE: rait output driver)

2003-06-05 Thread Bruce Fletcher
> -Original Message- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Milos Brkic > > Some time ago I have tried to configure something similar with the > rait driver. I wanted to have backups going to an online disk, for > onsite fast recovery, and to tape for off-site and longer > term historic stora

Re: tape hardware choices

2003-06-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
I have been using SLR (Tandberg) for a couple of years without problem. Working in difficult conditions (high humidity, lot of dust) I find linear reccording (SLR, DLT) better than helicoidal reccording: less density on the tape (more fault tolerant), much much simpler mechanic (less moving parts

Re: tape hardware choices

2003-06-05 Thread John Allen
Frankly I like LTO. Supported by numerous vendors, IBM HP. Storagetek. As far as AIT and Sony goes don't forget Beta format. jfa George Kelbley wrote: I'm looking into upgrading my tape hardware, and while a I know lots of sales types will give me lots of info, I was wondering what folks are usi

Re: rait output driver

2003-06-05 Thread rwk
Jean-Louis, That seems to have done it, for amlabel at least. I'll let you know as I try other thing if any problems remain. Thanks again, Dick > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 06:51:48AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Jean-Louis, > > > > I just tried amanda-2.4.4-20030603.tar.gz > > > > With t

Re: tape hardware choices

2003-06-05 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 at 2:38pm, George Kelbley wrote > I'm looking into upgrading my tape hardware, and while a I know lots of > sales types will give me lots of info, I was wondering what folks are > using for amanda. > > Currently using an OverlandData LoaderExpress, 1 DLT8 drive, 10 tape > libra

tape hardware choices

2003-06-05 Thread George Kelbley
I'm looking into upgrading my tape hardware, and while a I know lots of sales types will give me lots of info, I was wondering what folks are using for amanda. Currently using an OverlandData LoaderExpress, 1 DLT8 drive, 10 tape library. We get almost 2:1 compression using software, but I'm start

Re: rait output driver

2003-06-05 Thread Milos Brkic
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:35:27AM -0400, Milos Brkic wrote: Some time ago I have tried to configure something similar with the rait driver. I wanted to have backups going to an online disk, for onsite fast recovery, and to tape for off-site and longer term

Re: rait output driver

2003-06-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:35:27AM -0400, Milos Brkic wrote: > Some time ago I have tried to configure something similar with the > rait driver. I wanted to have backups going to an online disk, for > onsite fast recovery, and to tape for off-site and longer term historic > storage. I could not

RE: Permissions wrong - amcheck -m error - Can't create transcript fi le ./xfh54EUCZ09037: Permission denied

2003-06-05 Thread Kevin Passey
Paul you are correct - I ran amcheck without the -m option and it works fine. I am assuming my dump will still run ! I did copy/paste this output. Thanks for your help - if it helps the amanda version is the RPM with RH7.2. Regards Kevin -Original Message- From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:[

Re: rait output driver

2003-06-05 Thread Milos Brkic
Some time ago I have tried to configure something similar with the rait driver. I wanted to have backups going to an online disk, for onsite fast recovery, and to tape for off-site and longer term historic storage. I could not get the rait to do it properly to tape and disk, so I ended up with

Re: Permissions wrong - amcheck -m error - Can't create transcriptfi le ./xfh54EUCZ09037: Permission denied

2003-06-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
Kevin Passey wrote: I've had some problems with my RH7.2 amanda server - the backup runs ok but when I run amcheck I get this. Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check Client check: 1 host checked in 3.996 seconds, 0 problems found (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.2p2) bash-2.

Re: Permissions wrong - amcheck -m error - Can't create transcript fi le ./xfh54EUCZ09037: Permission denied

2003-06-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:39:23PM +0100, Kevin Passey wrote: > Hi, > > I've had some problems with my RH7.2 amanda server - the backup runs ok but > when I run amcheck I get this. > > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check > > Client check: 1 host checked in 3.996 seco

Re: Permissions wrong - amcheck -m error - Can't create transcriptfi le ./xfh54EUCZ09037: Permission denied

2003-06-05 Thread Jim Summers
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 09:39, Kevin Passey wrote: > Hi, > > I've had some problems with my RH7.2 amanda server - the backup runs ok but > when I run amcheck I get this. > > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check > > Client check: 1 host checked in 3.996 seconds, 0 proble

Permissions wrong - amcheck -m error - Can't create transcript file ./xfh54EUCZ09037: Permission denied

2003-06-05 Thread Kevin Passey
Hi, I've had some problems with my RH7.2 amanda server - the backup runs ok but when I run amcheck I get this. Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check Client check: 1 host checked in 3.996 seconds, 0 problems found (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.2p2) bash-2.05$ /usr/sbin

Re: restore from holding disk

2003-06-05 Thread Galen Johnson
Galen Johnson wrote: Is it possible to pull a restore from the holding disk without pushing to tape first? If so, how? =G= sorry for the delayed response...thanks for the insights. =G=

Re: rait output driver

2003-06-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 06:51:48AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jean-Louis, > > I just tried amanda-2.4.4-20030603.tar.gz > > With tapedev "rait:{file:/backup,file:/mirror}" > > I now get: > > $ amlabel Tapeless Tape00 > rewinding > amlabel: tape_rewind: rewinding tape: rait:{file:/backup,