amoverview

2004-04-21 Thread Christian Molière
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On one server I have this result after running amoverview conf : ~ date 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 host disk 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 client /etc

Re: amoverview

2004-04-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
Christian Molière wrote: On one server I have this result after running amoverview conf : ~ date 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 host disk 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 client /etc 0 E E 0 0 0 0 1 1

Re: Amanda backup levels

2004-04-21 Thread Nicolas Ecarnot
Jeroen Heijungs wrote: Probably very stupid questions, but can someone shed some light on very simple questions: what exactly are the differences between the different levels of backup? I searched the documentation and arcives but so far I have not found the exact definitions. Level n backup is

Re: Amanda backup levels

2004-04-21 Thread Nicolas Ecarnot
Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: Today, I speak to myself : PS. CALLING ALL CARS : Are the guys working on the web frontend reading this e-mail ? http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Computing/AmControl Not tested... -- Nicolas Ecarnot

Re: amoverview

2004-04-21 Thread Christian Molière
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I saw this morning this result of amadmin command on one server : 2004-04-20 client /space1/processed 0 --- 0 FAILED (driver) [dump to tape failed] 2004-04-20 client /space1/processed 0 --- 0 FAILED (dumper) [data

Re: amoverview

2004-04-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
Christian Molière wrote: I saw this morning this result of amadmin command on one server : 2004-04-20 client /space1/processed 0 --- 0 FAILED (driver) [dump to tape failed] 2004-04-20 client /space1/processed 0 --- 0 FAILED (dumper) [data write: Connection

Re: Amanda backup levels

2004-04-21 Thread Jeroen Heijungs
I asked about the differences between the levels of backup and I got (sofar) two different answers (thanks to you both), so I still do not know for sure: Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: Level n backup is a backup where you save what has changed since the last level n backup. period. Gertjan van Oosten

Re: Amanda backup levels

2004-04-21 Thread Gertjan van Oosten
Hi Jeroen, As quoted from Jeroen Heijungs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: what exactly are the differences between the different levels of backup? A level N backup includes all files modified since the last level M backup where M N. So a level 1 backup includes all files changed since the last level 0

Re: Amanda backup levels

2004-04-21 Thread Gertjan van Oosten
Hi Jeroen, As quoted from Jeroen Heijungs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I asked about the differences between the levels of backup and I got (sofar) two different answers (thanks to you both), so I still do not know for sure: My answer was paraphrased from the ufsdump documentation. Some more

Re: Amanda backup levels

2004-04-21 Thread Nicolas Ecarnot
Jeroen Heijungs wrote: I asked about the differences between the levels of backup and I got (sofar) two different answers (thanks to you both), so I still do not know for sure: Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: Level n backup is a backup where you save what has changed since the last level n backup.

Incremental tape too low when using amrestore

2004-04-21 Thread Hans van Zijst
20040416 Dagtape-04 22 1318285 2636570 362 1 20040421 Dagtape-02 19 67215 134430 51 - (I replayed yesterday's scenario today, so the dates are rather recent) First question: do I get it right if I draw the conclusion that I need to restore Dagtape-04 first

Re: Incremental tape too low when using amrestore

2004-04-21 Thread Gertjan van Oosten
Hello Hans, As quoted from Hans van Zijst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I tried a bare metal recovery yesterday, Why didn't you just use amrecover? It prompts you to insert the right tapes in the tape server as needed, without you having to figure it out yourself. Kind regards, -- -- Gertjan van

Re: Amanda backup levels

2004-04-21 Thread Gertjan van Oosten
Hi Nicolas, As quoted from Nicolas Ecarnot [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 20040402, to restore a complete system that was set up on january 1th and crashed today, you'll have to provide : - L0 2004 - L1 200404 - L2 20040402 Correct. Salut, -- -- Gertjan van Oosten, [EMAIL PROTECTED], West

Re: Incremental tape too low when using amrestore

2004-04-21 Thread Hans van Zijst
Hi Gertjan, Two reasons. First, UNIX Backup and recovery (O'Reilly) says: amrecover should not be used to do full system recovery with vendor restore tools [...] Full system recovery with vendor restore should be done with amrestore. Makes sense. And the second reason is that I want to build

Re: Incremental tape too low when using amrestore

2004-04-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
compK secs 0 20040416 Dagtape-04 22 1318285 2636570 362 1 20040421 Dagtape-02 19 67215 134430 51 - (I replayed yesterday's scenario today, so the dates are rather recent) You didn't mention the version of amanda on the server. It used to be (pre-2.4.3

Re: Incremental tape too low when using amrestore

2004-04-21 Thread Hans van Zijst
Paul, Every machine here runs Amanda 2.4.4p2. I'm sure the tapes that amadmin lists, are the correct ones: Dagtape-04 was made last thursday and on fridays I make a full dump, using another configuration. This monday and tuesday I went on with Dagelijks. I got exactly the same message

Re: amoverview

2004-04-21 Thread Christian Molière
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul, I tried in using your code line but it doesn't run with this error message : syntax error at (eval 4) line 3, near }, Paul Bijnens wrote: | Christian Molière wrote: | | I saw this morning this result of amadmin command on | one server : | |

Re: amoverview

2004-04-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
Christian Molière wrote: I tried in using your code line but it doesn't run with this error message : syntax error at (eval 4) line 3, near }, Of course, substr should have been inside the quotes. Like this: map(substr(\$level{\$host}{\$disk}{'$_'},-2), sort keys %dates)) ... Giving this block:

How to examine a tape?

2004-04-21 Thread Mats Blomstrand
Hi All I have been given a tape with useful data on. I dont know how the data is put on the tape so cant figure out how to get to it. I have tried to use tar to read directly from tape-device but it doesnt recognize anything. Please enlight me with some tape-basics on how to investigate an

Re: amoverview

2004-04-21 Thread Christian Molière
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul, with this line : map(substr(\\$level{\$host}{\$disk}{'$_'}\,-2), sort keys %dates)) it runs. Thanks for your help and your explanations. Paul Bijnens wrote: | Christian Molière wrote: | | I tried in using your code line but it doesn't |

Re: How to examine a tape?

2004-04-21 Thread Nicolas Ecarnot
Mats Blomstrand wrote: Hi All I have been given a tape with useful data on. I dont know how the data is put on the tape so cant figure out how to get to it. I have tried to use tar to read directly from tape-device but it doesnt recognize anything. Please enlight me with some tape-basics on how

not in your disklist error

2004-04-21 Thread nejat onay erkose
Hello, I am a new user in amanda. I got the below message after trying to execute the command amrecover with config name test : amrecover -C test AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p1. Contacting server on localhost ... 220 amandatux AMANDA index server (2.4.4p1) ready. 200 Access OK Setting restore date to

Re: Incremental tape too low when using amrestore

2004-04-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
Hans van Zijst wrote: Restore can get confused when doing incremental restores from dumps that were made on active file systems. Of course I make backups of active file systems. If this really is the problem, I can't imagine I'm the only one who ran into it. Or am I just the only one who's

Re: not in your disklist error

2004-04-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 08:08, nejat onay erkose wrote: Hello, I am a new user in amanda. I got the below message after trying to execute the command amrecover with config name test : amrecover -C test AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p1. Contacting server on localhost ... 220 amandatux AMANDA index

Re: Incremental tape too low when using amrestore

2004-04-21 Thread Hans van Zijst
Hi Paul, Funny that you mention tar. The reason why I chose dump is that dump was supposed to handle open files better than tar. Plus, I don't like the idea of atime being updated because of a backup. Anyway, I couldn't find anything about this in the changelogs of dump/restore between my

Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD...

2004-04-21 Thread nejat onay erkose
Hello Gene, I tried with the FQDN and it works now I have another message like the one below. Since I am trying to to use a FILE-DRIVER to simulate tape behaviour I have 15 pseudo-tapes. However,I didn't define any disk type in amanda.conf; do you think that might be a problem? If it is, what

Re: Incremental tape too low when using amrestore

2004-04-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
Hans van Zijst wrote: Funny that you mention tar. The reason why I chose dump is that dump was supposed to handle open files better than tar. Plus, I don't like the idea of atime being updated because of a backup. Tar and dump handle open files just as bad. Or maybe tar is a little better in

Re: Amanda backup levels

2004-04-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:03:24AM +0200, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: Level n backup is a backup where you save what has changed since the last level n backup. period. Minor correction: A level N backup saves all files that have changed since the last level N-1 backup. Level 0 gets everything,

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

2004-04-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 09:35, nejat onay erkose wrote: Hello Gene, Gaack! See my private post, and ignore the diatribe about the list. I tried with the FQDN and it works now I have another message like the one below. Since I am trying to to use a FILE-DRIVER to simulate tape behaviour I

access still not allowed

2004-04-21 Thread Pablo Quinta Vidal
Hi all !! I have this errors doing amcheck ERROR: irixoa06.des.udc.es: [access as inspqv00 not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] open of /home/alumnos/inspqv00/.amandahosts failed The problem is that I first installed AMANDA --with-user=inspqv00 then I uninstalled it and reinstalled

Re: access still not allowed

2004-04-21 Thread Alexander Jolk
Pablo Quinta Vidal wrote: ERROR: irixoa06.des.udc.es: [access as inspqv00 not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] open of /home/alumnos/inspqv00/.amandahosts failed Does this file (/home/alumnos/inspqv00/.amandahosts) exist on irixoa06.des.udc.es? What are its permissions? Do you have a line in it

DLT 20/40 vs. DLT vls80

2004-04-21 Thread Chris Lee
I have a DLT VLS 80 which when backing up 10 gigs seems to run out of tape (terminates the backup part way through with an I/O error) I dont have any other VLS80 drives to compare against, is the drive broken or is my ST driver not doing something right or is it a setting I have to give amanda?

Re: amanda config question

2004-04-21 Thread Fran Fabrizio
Doug, tapedev /dev/nsa0 # the no-rewind tape device to be used I'm not sure if this is your problem, but my amanda.conf's tapedev looks like this: tapedev 0 # the 0 says to look at chg-scsi.conf config 0 Your setting above might be causing amanda to not look in chg-scsi for

dumper and planner error.

2004-04-21 Thread Sören Edzen
Hi, First I'll inform you that I'm new to amanda. I use it only locally for now on SuSE 9.0 with an AMD Athlon. If you need to know more, just let my know. Now for my problem. When I first started to use amanda I managed to make one or two backups. Then when I tried to schedule them as cron jobs I

Re: amanda config question

2004-04-21 Thread Doug Penny
Great... that seems to have worked. Now I am getting the following message: amlabel: could not load slot 0: open: /dev/ch0: Permission denied I think I just need to be sure that the operator is in the right group. Thanks for your help. Doug Doug, tapedev /dev/nsa0 # the no-rewind

Re: dumper and planner error.

2004-04-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
Sören Edzen wrote: I belive I have dumper setuid root. It was one of the problems I solved before I managed to create backups with amanda. I used the following command: chmod +s /usr/lib/amanda/dumper Is this the right way to do it? Besides dumper there are others that have to be suid root. The

does not support multiple exclude

2004-04-21 Thread rwk
Can anyone tell me what the conditions are which cause this message to be displayed by amcheck: WARNING: wookie.internal.americom.com:/ does not support multiple exclude Thanks, Dick

Re: does not support multiple exclude

2004-04-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 11:12:16PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me what the conditions are which cause this message to be displayed by amcheck: WARNING: wookie.internal.americom.com:/ does not support multiple exclude Same as I suggested yesterday, is wookie running an

Re: amanda config question

2004-04-21 Thread Fran Fabrizio
Yes, that's a signal that amanda user doesn't have the right privs...in my case I had to make sure amanda was in the 'disk' group since that's the group of the tape device. -Fran Doug Penny wrote: Great... that seems to have worked. Now I am getting the following message: amlabel: could not