Hi, Brendon,
on Mittwoch, 24. März 2004 at 08:46 you wrote to amanda-users:
BS Hi all,
BS I am having a small struggle with Amanda. The problem is that I have
BS labled the tapes Monday - Friday. In the case like Monday which was a
BS public holiday, Mondays backup didn't run. This morning it
Title: Bericht
Hi,
In the dump
summary in Amanda's mail report I'd like to see megabytes instead of kilobytes?
Can I change this easily?
thanks,
Anne
As this is still a very common question when it comes to AMANDA there
is a document called TOP-TEN-QUESTIONS. It could be found in the
archives of this list and is already part of the AMANDA-CVS.
I have put it up at
http://www.oops.co.at/oops_technical_amanda_contrib.htm until the next
Hi, Brendon ,
on Mittwoch, 24. März 2004 at 09:53 you wrote to amanda-users:
Look for the friday-tape-question, it's the third section.
BS Thanks, This helps and it doesn't. So you cannot force a dump? Their
BS answer was no and yes, and their yes answer was about an incremental
BS backup that
Also, how do
I force a backup, even though it expects a labled tape.
What do you mean? AMANDA always expects a labelled tape. It does not
use tapes without label.
I don't understand that question well enough to help you.
If you saying that AMANDA doesn't use tapes without a label,
Hi, Brendon,
on Mittwoch, 24. März 2004 at 10:31 you wrote to amanda-users:
What do you mean? AMANDA always expects a labelled tape. It does not
use tapes without label.
I don't understand that question well enough to help you.
BS If you saying that AMANDA doesn't use tapes without a
Brendon Standing wrote:
Also, how do
I force a backup, even though it expects a labled tape.
What do you mean? AMANDA always expects a labelled tape. It does not
use tapes without label.
I don't understand that question well enough to help you.
If you saying that AMANDA doesn't use tapes
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 02:46, Brendon Standing wrote:
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
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 03:53, Brendon Standing wrote:
As this is still a very common question when it comes to AMANDA
there is a document called TOP-TEN-QUESTIONS. It could be found in
the archives of this list and is already part of the AMANDA-CVS.
I have put it up at
Hi all,
I am a cpio man, and am used to getting a backup to do what I want it to
(IE flexible, without to many complications).
This is why Amanda is irritating me at the moment. Earlier I had the
problem where I was being ask for Monday's tape (Which was a public
holiday and so didn't run). After
Hi, Brendon Standing,
on Mittwoch, 24. März 2004 at 13:25 you wrote to amanda-users:
BS However when trying to backup (# amdump CLG), I am receiving the error:
BS *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [tape_rdlabel: tape open: /dev/nsa1: Device
BS not configured].
This is not an AMANDA-problem but a
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 14:37, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Hi, Brendon Standing,
on Mittwoch, 24. März 2004 at 13:25 you wrote to amanda-users:
BS However when trying to backup (# amdump CLG), I am receiving the error:
BS *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [tape_rdlabel: tape open: /dev/nsa1:
Brendon Standing wrote:
I am a cpio man, and am used to getting a backup to do what I want it to
(IE flexible, without to many complications).
Well, I'm a cpio man too :-) That's why I switched to amanda, i.e.
flexible, without too many complications.
You do realize that a tape label is just a
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:46:08PM +0800, Mathias Koerber wrote:
d) I was looking into pre-post dump actions (eg to stop a database or email
delivery)
I found the tips to write a specialized tar (amgtar) script which does
this.
My question however is whether the protocol between
There are a few more things to try. First, there may be an mt command
to set the default compression for the drive--that will at least help
make sure if you use some new tapes, they will get started with the
correct compression. The tricky part is that some drives, such as 8mm,
use the
Hallo everyone,
I´d like to know if it is possible to prepare a floppy-disk to reinstall an OS with
it. E.g. a harddisk crashs and a full dump has been made before of every partition. I
want to use a new PC with a nonformated harddisk drive then insert a floppy-disk and
run amanda. Is that
Hi list!!!
I have my amanda configureted as Diaria and when it check the clients hosts
its tell me:
WARNING: medulio: selfcheck reply timed out.
medulio is the server and the only client.
I have the NIS deactivated because doesn´t works well. Should it be the
error??
Thanks
if you are running a redhat machine or fedora you have:
kickstart.
This will automate everything
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 at 4:40pm, Pablo Quinta Vidal wrote
I have my amanda configureted as Diaria and when it check the clients hosts
its tell me:
WARNING: medulio: selfcheck reply timed out.
medulio is the server and the only client.
I have the NIS deactivated because doesn´t
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 at 4:47pm, pascal thomas wrote
I´d like to know if it is possible to prepare a floppy-disk to
reinstall an OS with it. E.g. a harddisk crashs and a full dump has been
made before of every partition. I want to use a new PC with a
nonformated harddisk drive then insert a
Hi, pascal,
on Mittwoch, 24. März 2004 at 16:47 you wrote to amanda-users:
pt Hallo everyone,
pt I´d like to know if it is possible to prepare a floppy-disk
pt to reinstall an OS with it. E.g. a harddisk crashs and a full dump
pt has been made before of every partition. I want to use a new PC
pt
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 at 5:26pm, Pablo Quinta Vidal wrote
Doubtful. Do any files appear in /tmp/amanda? Specifically
/tmp/amanda/amandad*debug would be helpful. What OS are you using? Have
you setup (x)inetd appropriately?
I´m running AMANDA in Debian with kernel 2.4.20. The inetd is
Doubtful. Do any files appear in /tmp/amanda? Specifically
/tmp/amanda/amandad*debug would be helpful. What OS are you using? Have
you setup (x)inetd appropriately?
I´m running AMANDA in Debian with kernel 2.4.20. The inetd is allright but
in a file in /tmp/amanda
appears this:
amandad: time
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 11:30, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
Remembet I have the NIS stopped.
Then you need to either fix NIS or define the amanda user locally on the
server.
My experience has been that on linux, NIS (via ypbind) is unreliable and
tends to crash, so I always put the amanda user
Doubtful. Do any files appear in /tmp/amanda? Specifically
/tmp/amanda/amandad*debug would be helpful. What OS are you using?
Have
you setup (x)inetd appropriately?
I´m running AMANDA in Debian with kernel 2.4.20. The inetd is allright
but
in a file in /tmp/amanda
appears this:
Maybe there are some zombie amanda processes hanging in the
background. Try looking at ps to see if any processes need to be
killed. Look at the files in /tmp/amanda on the server and the clients
to see if there are any clues. Try rebooting and see if the problem
still persists.
On Wed,
I am currently trying to configure amanda for our department. The tape
library we have is a Compaq TL891 with two tape drives and 26 storage slots.
I have it connected via a Compaq fibre channel tape controller(FCTC) to a
fedora linux box.
I can view the status of the tape library with an mtx -f
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