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Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Lucio
Lucio: Until all the tapes have been used at least once, Amanda had no idea of which tape to use next. All the tapes have already been used at least twice, and during the first two cycles (more or less) Amanda had been telling me what tape number to put in the unit. Then a cloudy day it

amrecover: Why does it use disklist and log files

2003-10-22 Thread Toralf Lund
As far as I can't tell, amrecover won't work unless 1. Log file from the backup you are trying to recover is still present 2. DLE is still in the disklist Why? Shouldn't amrecover work from the index alone? - Toralf

Re: tape type for HP DDS3 C5708A

2003-10-22 Thread Rohit
Thanks Eric, Jon. As adviced, I'm introducing DLE's one by one. I also temporarly removed windows backups from this amanda process (I'll handle it manually for now). I'll closely monitor amanda when it backups up my linux servers and maybe at some point later.. reintroduce windows boxes.

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 05:23, Lucio wrote: Are you telling me that this is a known problem of 2.4.3? It's a production system, I'm afraid it's quite a risk to update a rpm by compiling from source (especially for an amanda newbie like me). I'm going to do this only if I have no other

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Gene Heskett
this: -- 20031022 DailySet1-04 reuse 20031021 DailySet1-03 reuse 20031020 DailySet1-02 reuse 20031019 DailySet1-01 reuse 20030817 DailySet1-28 reuse 20030816 DailySet1-27 reuse 20030815 DailySet1-26 reuse 20030814 DailySet1-25 reuse 20030813 DailySet1-24 reuse 20030812 DailySet1-23 reuse

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Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:04:29AM -0400, Gene Heskett enlightened us: We did at one time have someone subscribed here that was doing the redhat rpm's, and he would speak up anytime we started to get down on the rpm vs the tarballs, but he has not made any posts here in many months now that

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:56:10AM -0400, Matt Hyclak enlightened us: If anyone is interested in this, you can get it from (sorry it wraps): http://www.math.ohiou.edu/mirror/casit/contrib/9/SRPMS/amanda-2.4.4p1-2mrh3.src.rpm Oops, that should be

RE: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread donald . ritchey
Lucio: Check to see if some problem has truncated your tapelist file. If a problem (e.g., no space left on a device) prevents the tapelist from being created or some other problem truncated the file, then you could expect to see a problem like this. Check to see if there have been any drive

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check to see if some problem has truncated your tapelist file. If a problem (e.g., no space left on a device) prevents the tapelist from being created or some other problem truncated the file, then you could expect to see a problem like this. Check to see if there

tapecycle: Are no-reuse tapes counted?

2003-10-22 Thread Toralf Lund
It looks like Amanda will count *all* tapes written after the tape in question, even the ones marked as no-reuse, when comparing count with tapecycle to determine if a tape may be overwritten. Is this observation correct? Should no-reuse tapes be included like that? -- Toralf

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 08:56, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:04:29AM -0400, Gene Heskett enlightened us: We did at one time have someone subscribed here that was doing the redhat rpm's, and he would speak up anytime we started to get down on the rpm vs the tarballs, but he

How to handle archival runs (again)?

2003-10-22 Thread Toralf Lund
Reviewing the amanda config again in conjunction with a tape format update... I forget (and list search doesn't return anything conclusive): How do you people recommend handling archival runs? There are two obvious ways: 1. Via a special config. 2. Using the normal config, but special

Help, Strange Error !!!

2003-10-22 Thread Roberto Samarone Araújo (RSA)
Hi, I have an Amanda Backup that was working fine now, when I try to use: su -c /usr/sbin/amlabel Daily1 DAILY1-01 backup, the system return me: st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sense key Medium Error Additional sense indicates Write error

Help, Strange Error !!

2003-10-22 Thread Roberto Samarone Araújo (RSA)
Hi, I have an Amanda Backup that was working fine now, when I try to use: su -c /usr/sbin/amlabel Daily1 DAILY1-01 backup, the system return me: st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sense key Medium Error Additional sense indicates Write error

Re: Help, Strange Error !!

2003-10-22 Thread Frank Smith
--On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 12:41:02 -0700 Roberto Samarone Araújo (RSA) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an Amanda Backup that was working fine now, when I try to use: su -c /usr/sbin/amlabel Daily1 DAILY1-01 backup, the system return me: st0: Error with sense

Re: Help, Strange Error !!

2003-10-22 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 at 12:41pm, Roberto Samarone Araújo (RSA) wrote st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sense key Medium Error Additional sense indicates Write error Try cleaning the drive. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke

Re: How to handle archival runs (again)?

2003-10-22 Thread JC Simonetti
For archival purposes, personnaly I use a combination of your two solutions. I use a different config of Amanda with dumpcycle 0, strategy noinc, but the main goal of a different config for me is concerning the logs: it's easier to restore data if your archives are not in the middle of your

Re: Help, Strange Error !!

2003-10-22 Thread Galen Johnson
Roberto Samarone Araújo (RSA) wrote: Hi, I have an Amanda Backup that was working fine now, when I try to use: su -c /usr/sbin/amlabel Daily1 DAILY1-01 backup, the system return me: st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sense key Medium Error Additional sense

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Paul, I commited your patch with a small change. In write_tapelist, it return 1 instead of calling error(), all caller handle the return code correctly. Jean-Louis On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:04:19PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check to see if some problem has

RE: How to handle archival runs (again)?

2003-10-22 Thread Martinez, Michael
I use a separate config for Archives. I find it easy to maintain and easy to think about. The disklist looks the same for both. And the amanda.conf looks the same for both (with the exception of the config name). I do monthly archives. So I set up the amanda.conf for two years worth of tapes (24

Re: amrecover: Why does it use disklist and log files

2003-10-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Toralf, On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:09:56AM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: As far as I can't tell, amrecover won't work unless 1. Log file from the backup you are trying to recover is still present The log are needed to find which dump are on which tape and where on that tape. 2. DLE is

Re: amrecover: Why does it use disklist and log files

2003-10-22 Thread Bao Ho
Hello Jean- Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi Toralf, On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:09:56AM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: As far as I can't tell, amrecover won't work unless 1. Log file from the backup you are trying to recover is still present The log are needed to find which dump are on which

Re: Help, Strange Error !!

2003-10-22 Thread kend
I had something very similar to this happen with my AIT-2 changer when it had to be reset to company defaults. Unbeknownst to me, the default tape for the changer (drive? I don't remember) was DLT -- and, when it didn't find AIT-2 tapes, it complained bitterly, but not with any error that was

Proposal for more run-time configuration

2003-10-22 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:07:17AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 08:56, Matt Hyclak wrote: The problem with packaging binary files for amanda is that you have to resort to using localhost where a hostname is required so the thing will at least mostly work. We

Re: How to handle archival runs (again)?

2003-10-22 Thread Toralf
I use a separate config for Archives. I find it easy to maintain and easy to think about. The disklist looks the same for both. And the amanda.conf looks the same for both (with the exception of the config name). I do monthly archives. So I set up the amanda.conf for two years worth of tapes

Re: amrecover: Why does it use disklist and log files

2003-10-22 Thread Toralf
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi Toralf, On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:09:56AM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: As far as I can't tell, amrecover won't work unless 1. Log file from the backup you are trying to recover is still present The log are needed to find which dump are on which tape and

Re: How to handle archival runs (again)?

2003-10-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:35:38PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: Reviewing the amanda config again in conjunction with a tape format update... I forget (and list search doesn't return anything conclusive): How do you people recommend handling archival runs? There are two obvious ways: 1.

port range

2003-10-22 Thread Brian Cuttler
...realized this might be an amanada-hackers thing. I've got a fairly old system Solaris 2.6, that I've just pushed into a DMZ and in order to reach the previous amanda server I've been asked to recompile so that we can restrict the port ranges. Possible in future releases that amanda can be

Mixing backups to disk and tape?

2003-10-22 Thread Frank Smith
Since the list has been pretty quiet lately: Is there a (relatively) easy way of backing up to both disk and tape from a single config? I was thinking of using the file driver to do backups to disk (for faster recoveries) while also using tapes (for archiving and offsite purposes). Options I've

amanda build problem

2003-10-22 Thread Brian Cuttler
There aren't pre-compiled binaries around with port restrictions already in place, are there ? From my amanda config.log $ ./configure --with-tcpportrange=10084,10100 --with-udpportrange=932,948 --with-group=sys --with-user=amanda From my build [newton] /tmp/amanda-build/common-src 27 make

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 14:45, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:07:17AM -0400, Gene Heskett enlightened us: FWIW, I have made packages of 2.4.4-p1 that are pretty much the RH packages with a couple tweaks to the .spec file. Namely, there are 2 variables at the top of the

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:54:52PM -0400, Gene Heskett enlightened us: Q: Does this automaticly set the ownerships and perms in the built rpm? Amanda should be built by a non-priviledged user, then installed by root. Otherwise the perms get fubared. I ask because I've never done it this

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 21:19, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:54:52PM -0400, Gene Heskett enlightened us: Q: Does this automaticly set the ownerships and perms in the built rpm? Amanda should be built by a non-priviledged user, then installed by root. Otherwise the

Re: Help, Strange Error !!

2003-10-22 Thread C.Scheeder
Hi, have you tried it with a brand new tape? or only with tapes the old drive failed on? I had a sdt-9000 die similar, producing write-errors with medium-errors. the Tapes wreer unusable even in a new drive until i took a big magnet and wiped every bit on these tapes. after that they started