Re: amdadad trouble on Linux -- fixed

2004-05-21 Thread Glenn English
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MegaThanks to all who answered. I'm not sure why it started working, but I think the problem had to do with xinetd, not amanda at all. When emerge built amanda, it put a "from-only localhost" in /etc/xinet.c/amanda. I changed that to the fqdn of th

Re: switching between drives

2004-05-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
Myron Kowalski wrote: I've been running Amanda (VERSION="Amanda-2.4.3") on a tape server that has two drives, but I've been using only one of the drives. Anyway to configure Amanda to use a different drive each night? Use changer script chg-multi, like this: In amanda.conf: tpchanger "chg-multi" ch

Re: amdadad trouble on Linux

2004-05-21 Thread Glenn English
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 May 2004 11:44 am, Eric Siegerman wrote: > In particular, I suspect that by default, the Amanda ebuild > configures the package with "--without-debugging" (I suggested to > Glenn privately how to override that, but haven't yet heard > bac

Re: amdadad trouble on Linux

2004-05-21 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:23:13PM -0400, Eric Siegerman wrote: > Just to forestall comments from others, let me remind folks that > ["emerge"ing a Gentoo package] *does* involve compiling from source :-) Damn. I had a feeling that was going to get me in trouble, but I was too sleepy to figure ou

Re: amdadad trouble on Linux

2004-05-21 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 08:38:06AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Thu, 20 May 2004 at 10:23pm, Eric Siegerman wrote > > Hmm, "loopback" suggests that your disklist refers to the machine > > in question as "localhost". Try replacing that with its FQDN. > > Not necessarily. In my experienc

switching between drives

2004-05-21 Thread Myron Kowalski
I've been running Amanda (VERSION="Amanda-2.4.3") on a tape server that has two drives, but I've been using only one of the drives. Anyway to configure Amanda to use a different drive each night? --myron

Re: Wildcards in disklist?

2004-05-21 Thread Lars Kellogg-Stedman
On Fri, 21 May 2004, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Fri, 21 May 2004 at 8:19am, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote > > > A ridiculously simple solution to this whole problem would be using > > wildcards in the disklist file, e.g.,: > > > > localhost /export/data/[a-mA-M]* dumptype > > localhost /e

Re: Getting empty schedule from planner.

2004-05-21 Thread jlm17
I can't believe that there is some firewall in the way, so I ran ethereal on both ends and came up with the same set of packets. I have the data part of those packets below. Notice how the last three pairs of packets are exactly the same. I also noted that the first six packets happened within tw

Re: Wildcards in disklist?

2004-05-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 21 May 2004 at 8:19am, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote > A ridiculously simple solution to this whole problem would be using > wildcards in the disklist file, e.g.,: > > localhost /export/data/[a-mA-M]* dumptype > localhost /export/data/[n-zN-Z]* dumptype > > But of course this doesn't w

Re: Wildcards in disklist?

2004-05-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Lars Kellogg-Stedman, on Freitag, 21. Mai 2004 at 14:19 you wrote to amanda-users: LKS> Howdy all, LKS> I'm using Amanda with a Dell PV120T tape library, which has a DTL 4000 LKS> drive capable of writing 20GB uncompressed data to each tape. I have a LKS> directory that's currently tipping

Re: amdadad trouble on Linux

2004-05-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 20 May 2004 at 10:23pm, Eric Siegerman wrote > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 07:11:51PM -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > tcpdump shows packets on loopback going to the amanda port, but no > > response. > > Hmm, "loopback" suggests that your disklist refers to the machine > in question as "local

Wildcards in disklist?

2004-05-21 Thread Lars Kellogg-Stedman
Howdy all, I'm using Amanda with a Dell PV120T tape library, which has a DTL 4000 drive capable of writing 20GB uncompressed data to each tape. I have a directory that's currently tipping the scales at 30GB, and is only going to get larger. Normally, I would look into splitting this backup ap

Re: amdadad trouble on Linux

2004-05-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Eric, on Freitag, 21. Mai 2004 at 04:23 you wrote to amanda-users: ES> On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 07:11:51PM -0600, Glenn English wrote: >> tcpdump shows packets on loopback going to the amanda port, but no >> response. ES> Hmm, "loopback" suggests that your disklist refers to the machine ES>

Re: missing tape?

2004-05-21 Thread Gene Heskett
s used is in lines 72-76. The word 'block' should have been stripped by this statement: LOCATION=`mt -f /dev/nst0 tell | tr -d '[a-zA .]'` Then later, anyplace a dd operation was to write to the tape: /dev/nst0: Input/output error DailySet1-05 was not written to And la

Re: I need advice about Amanda

2004-05-21 Thread Andreas Moser
Hello Paul, Hello Stefan, thx for your statements. I think I will try to install and configure amanda for myself. In two weeks I will be on holliday and then I'll have enough time to try the installation and configuration of amanda. If I am in trouble, I will send an email to this list. Solong t