amanda and firewall

2004-03-23 Thread pascal thomas
Good morning, I would like to know how an amanda RPM can be installed with the option of a special port range for firewalling rules. e.g udp port range 890-895. How exactly has the syntax of the rpm command to look like? As I have already installed Amanda and configured the amanda.conf file I

Re: amanda and firewall

2004-03-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
pascal thomas wrote: I would like to know how an amanda RPM can be installed with the option of a special port range for firewalling rules. e.g udp port range 890-895. How exactly has the syntax of the rpm command to look like? As I have already installed Amanda and configured the amanda.conf

Re: amanda and firewall

2004-03-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Paul, on Dienstag, 23. März 2004 at 09:28 you wrote to amanda-users: PB (Don't be afraid, you wont hear any noise during compilation, it's PB quiet and easy :-) ) Seems to get the joke-of-the-week in here. Quiet funny ;) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Amanda vs firewall

2004-03-23 Thread Hans van Zijst
On Monday 22 March 2004 18:56, Frank Smith wrote: Besides the --with-tcpportrange= option, you probably also need the --with-udpportrange= option as well, and open those udp ports on the firewall. See PORTS.USAGE in the docs directory. Thanks. I don't know exactly what my colleague changed

Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD

2004-03-23 Thread edwin valencia
HI... I want to know how to fix this error message. I ran the amrecovet as root; like FAQ page says-- http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/191.html I also believe that my amanda has something missing because when I exec the following comand : [EMAIL PROTECTED] restore]# su amanda

Re: amanda and firewall

2004-03-23 Thread Jonathan Dill
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: on Dienstag, 23. März 2004 at 09:28 you wrote to amanda-users: PB (Don't be afraid, you wont hear any noise during compilation, it's PB quiet and easy :-) ) Seems to get the joke-of-the-week in here. Quiet funny ;) [sound of crickets chirping] I saw that in a

Re: Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD

2004-03-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, edwin, on Dienstag, 23. März 2004 at 14:48 you wrote to amanda-users: ev I also believe that my amanda has something missing because ev when I exec the following comand : ev [EMAIL PROTECTED] restore]# amrecover DailySet1 ev AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2-tapeio. Contacting server on

Re: Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD

2004-03-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 08:48:48AM -0500, edwin valencia wrote: HI... I want to know how to fix this error message. [EMAIL PROTECTED] restore]# amrecover DailySet1 AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2-tapeio. Contacting server on servidor-backup .. 220 servidor-backup AMANDA index server

Re: Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD

2004-03-23 Thread edwin valencia
HI... ev -- ev That is the message. How can I solve this problem? ev -- It is no problem: Just say disklist on the amrecover-prompt, and after choosing the disk you would like to recover, do a setdisk. Ok... thanks for the explanation. I saw this in one of the web pages that find... I

Re: Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD

2004-03-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, edwin, on Dienstag, 23. März 2004 at 16:49 you wrote to amanda-users: ev No index records for disk for specified date ev If date correct, notify system administrator ev any idea,suggestion? To use the indexes with amrecover, they have to be there. Check that your dumptypes use the option

Re: Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD

2004-03-23 Thread edwin valencia
HI.. Hi, edwin ev No index records for disk for specified date ev If date correct, notify system administrator ev any idea,suggestion? To use the indexes with amrecover, they have to be there. Check that your dumptypes use the option index yes. Verify this by: amadmin yourconfig disklist

Re: Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD

2004-03-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, edwin valencia, on Dienstag, 23. März 2004 at 17:54 you wrote to amanda-users: ev HI.. Hi, edwin ev No index records for disk for specified date ev If date correct, notify system administrator ev any idea,suggestion? To use the indexes with amrecover, they have to be there. Check that

Re: Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD

2004-03-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
edwin valencia wrote: ev No index records for disk for specified date ev If date correct, notify system administrator ev any idea,suggestion? [EMAIL PROTECTED] restore]# amadmin DailySet1 disklist ... disk /home: ... index YES ... define dumptype hard-disk-tar { hard-disk-dump

Re: Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD

2004-03-23 Thread edwin valencia
HI... I feel that me a little fool... sorry, for time that I have made them lose... I exec : #amdump DailySet1 -- and work fine : -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# amrecover DailySet1 AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2-tapeio. Contacting server on servidor-backup .. 220 servidor-backup AMANDA index

Missing amidxtaped.timestamp.debug files

2004-03-23 Thread Uwe Beger
Due to a server reboot I lost several of my amidxtaped.timestamp.debug files. Therefore I have some problems while recovering of some files now: output_of_amrecover $ ... Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host ultra. Load tape check001 now Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? Y EOF, check

Re: Missing amidxtaped.timestamp.debug files

2004-03-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 at 9:19pm, Uwe Beger wrote Due to a server reboot I lost several of my amidxtaped.timestamp.debug files. Therefore I have some problems while recovering of some files now: Debug files are created when you do the recovery, they are not needed *for* recovery.

Avg Dump Rate and Compression

2004-03-23 Thread Fernando Serto
hello guys, I'm new to amanda (and the list)... I just installed amanda for the first time, and was doing some backups/tests using it. My doubt is... isn't 324.7 K/s for dump rate too slow? I was backing up 1Gb of data and it's taking almost 1 hour! does that mean that for 12Gb I'll get

Re: Avg Dump Rate and Compression

2004-03-23 Thread Frank Smith
--On Wednesday, March 24, 2004 12:49:11 +1100 Fernando Serto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello guys, I'm new to amanda (and the list)... I just installed amanda for the first time, and was doing some backups/tests using it. My doubt is... isn't 324.7 K/s for dump rate too slow? I was backing

RE: Avg Dump Rate and Compression

2004-03-23 Thread Fernando Serto
My doubt is... isn't 324.7 K/s for dump rate too slow? I was backing up 1Gb of data and it's taking almost 1 hour! does that mean that for 12Gb I'll get something close to 12 hours? Probably, unless something changes. I hope it changes. :o) another thing, I tried using compress

Re: Avg Dump Rate and Compression

2004-03-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 22:48, Fernando Serto wrote: My doubt is... isn't 324.7 K/s for dump rate too slow? I was backing up 1Gb of data and it's taking almost 1 hour! does that mean that for 12Gb I'll get something close to 12 hours? Probably, unless something changes. I hope it

RE: Avg Dump Rate and Compression

2004-03-23 Thread Fernando Serto
yup. anyway, compression is off now (and was already set to none when I sent this one). Drive hardware compression usually has a mind of its own. In particular, many drives look at the header, and set the compression on if the tape has ever been written to with the compression turned

several questions

2004-03-23 Thread Mathias Koerber
a) is there a way to subscribe to amanda-users in digest mode? I was subscribed to the yahoo list in digest mode, bu to post I must subscribe to the main list, and that results in lots of individual traffic, so I'd like to subscribe only to the main list in digest and drop the yahoo

Re: Missing amidxtaped.timestamp.debug files

2004-03-23 Thread Uwe Beger
Hello Joshua On Tuesday 23 March 2004 21:57, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 at 9:19pm, Uwe Beger wrote Due to a server reboot I lost several of my amidxtaped.timestamp.debug files. Therefore I have some problems while recovering of some files now: Debug files are created

Lables and Force

2004-03-23 Thread Brendon Standing
Hi all, I am having a small struggle with Amanda. The problem is that I have labled the tapes Monday - Friday. In the case like Monday which was a public holiday, Mondays backup didn't run. This morning it should have run Tuesday's backup but it's still looking for Monday's tape. I have rum an