Re: dumper and planner error.

2004-04-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 22 April 2004 14:49, Sören Edzen wrote: >* Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-21 23:58]: >> 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: >> >chm

Re: dumper and planner error.

2004-04-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
Sören Edzen wrote: * Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-21 23:58]: The proper way is to "make install" as root, instead of fixing it with chmod. I did that. Maybe I should remove amanda and make a fresh install? You mean that the "make install" as root did not set the suid-bit on those pro

Re: dumper and planner error.

2004-04-22 Thread Sören Edzen
* Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-21 23:58]: > 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

Re: How to examine a tape?

2004-04-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 01:07:18PM +0200, 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 anyth

Re: How to examine a tape?

2004-04-22 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:01:26AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Essentially, you just dd the first 4k or so from each "tape file" into a > uniquely-named file, then skip to the next "tape file" with mt(1). Then, if the files' format isn't immediately obvious, you can use the "file" command to

Re: How to examine a tape?

2004-04-22 Thread brad
Essentially, you just dd the first 4k or so from each "tape file" into a uniquely-named file, then skip to the next "tape file" with mt(1). I've had good luck with something like the following (sorry, don't have source handy right here): - 8< cut here >8 - #!/bin/YOUR_SHELL_HERE I=1 SKIP=0

Re: [OT] stupid question: amanda company references?

2004-04-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:08:03AM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Kristian Rink wrote: > > >software we use, so I am searching for sort of a list of companies, > >institutions,... that successfully run amanda to store their > > > Here are some posting that might be of interest: > > http://marc.th

Re: [OT] stupid question: amanda company references?

2004-04-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 22 April 2004 03:19, Kristian Rink wrote: >Hi all,... > >...after our amanda installation works pretty smoothly right now >(thanks to all those around here who were of very much help during >getting this done!), I'm left with a slightly non-technical, >probably rather stupid question wh

Re: Problem configuring full dump

2004-04-22 Thread Brian Cuttler
Gertjan, Stupid idea to try - maybe planner will not try to size the level 1 until min-days for the dump level are passed ? I think the parameter is "bumpdays", min days at a level before amanda will try to change the dump level. Increase that value, do it in the always-full rather than the glob

Re: Problem configuring full dump

2004-04-22 Thread Gertjan van Oosten
Hi Paul, > As quoted from Christoph Scheeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: As quoted from Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You probably have to add "skip-incr" to the dumptype. Yep, that does the trick! > Maybe I found a bug in the source or in the manpage. :-) Seems like it. > >> dumpcycle 1 day

Re: Problem configuring full dump

2004-04-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
Gertjan van Oosten wrote: Is there still nobody here who can answer my question? I'll try... I have a similar configuration, but mine does NOT do estimates for incrementals. You probably have to add "skip-incr" to the dumptype. Maybe I found a bug in the source or in the manpage. :-) I tried to

Re: Problem configuring full dump

2004-04-22 Thread Gertjan van Oosten
Hi Christoph, As quoted from Christoph Scheeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > your config is wrong, see comments later on... [...] > >> dumpcycle 1 day > > set this to 0 > > >> runspercycle 5 > > and this to 1 as you won't do 5 runs in a 0 day cycle. I've changed it as per your directions, but Amanda

Re: Problem configuring full dump

2004-04-22 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, your config is wrong, see comments later on... Gertjan van Oosten schrieb: Is there still nobody here who can answer my question? As quoted from Gertjan van Oosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm having a problem configuring Amanda-2.4.4p2 (on sun-sparc-solaris8) to always do a full dump of a filesy

Re: Problem configuring full dump

2004-04-22 Thread Gertjan van Oosten
Is there still nobody here who can answer my question? As quoted from Gertjan van Oosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm having a problem configuring Amanda-2.4.4p2 (on sun-sparc-solaris8) > to always do a full dump of a filesystem. The filesystem in question is > over 100 GByte, and no matter what I

Re: [OT] stupid question: amanda company references?

2004-04-22 Thread Nicolas Ecarnot
Kristian Rink wrote: Hi all,... Hi all, Your name: Nicolas Ecarnot Your organization: ACCIM Your location: France Version(s) in use: 2.4.4_1 Total length of time AMANDA has been in use (including use of older versions): one year Platform(s) backed up with AMANDA: OpenBSD 3.2 and 3.3, FreeBSD 5.1R

Re: [OT] stupid question: amanda company references?

2004-04-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
Kristian Rink wrote: software we use, so I am searching for sort of a list of companies, institutions,... that successfully run amanda to store their Here are some posting that might be of interest: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=amanda-users&w=2&r=1&s=amanda+survey+results&q=b -- Paul Bijn

[OT] stupid question: amanda company references?

2004-04-22 Thread Kristian Rink
Hi all,... ...after our amanda installation works pretty smoothly right now (thanks to all those around here who were of very much help during getting this done!), I'm left with a slightly non-technical, probably rather stupid question which, somehow, is important as I am doing documentation of t