(expecting a new tape?)

2005-05-27 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, Ok, so setting up amanda has been a wild trip... but i think i have it mainly under control now. my backup server is connected to a Spectra S12000(gator) tape machine... right now, the only client i have configured for backup is my desktop computer (for testing purposes). anyway, amanda

sending backup to the tape as well as disk

2005-05-27 Thread Mangala Gunadasa
Hi, I am new to the amanda users group. I am using amanda to backup 61 file systems across the network to a single DLT.I'd like to also keep a backup on site on a local disk. How can this be done?. I appreciate any response. Thanks You, Mangala Gunadasa EHIT/Montefiore Medical Center

Re: tar versions (was Re: implausibly old time stamp)

2005-05-27 Thread Alexander Jolk
Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: Did you compile from source or use the debian package from sid? I compiled from source and installed tar into a different location. Now if only one could specify which tar to use for amrecover, that would be most perfect. :-) Alex -- Alexander Jolk

Re: Debugging lufs vtape and amanda flushing-throtle for amanda

2005-05-27 Thread Vlad Popa
Eric Dantan Rzewnicki schrieb: On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 03:08:02PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 03:23:34PM +0200, Vlad Popa wrote: Hi Jon , Jon LaBadie schrieb: On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:53:57PM +0200, Vlad Popa wrote: Hello Jon ! Jon

Re: tar versions (was Re: implausibly old time stamp)

2005-05-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
Alexander Jolk wrote: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: Did you compile from source or use the debian package from sid? I compiled from source and installed tar into a different location. Now if only one could specify which tar to use for amrecover, that would be most perfect. :-) Making

amcheck question

2005-05-27 Thread Brian Cuttler
Is there a simple way to amcheck to see if the clients are responding properly without checking the tape ? ie: jukebox is at a satellite office and has no new tapes (all tapes are ACTIVE and can not be overwritten) and running amcheck to see if the client where I just hup'd inetd, is working, is

Re: tar versions (was Re: implausibly old time stamp)

2005-05-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 03:47:29PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: Alexander Jolk wrote: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: Did you compile from source or use the debian package from sid? I compiled from source and installed tar into a different location. Now if only one could specify which tar

Re: amcheck question

2005-05-27 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 01:50:05PM -0400, Brian Cuttler enlightened us: Is there a simple way to amcheck to see if the clients are responding properly without checking the tape ? ie: jukebox is at a satellite office and has no new tapes (all tapes are ACTIVE and can not be overwritten) and

Re: Sending a backup to disk and Tape

2005-05-27 Thread Mangala Gunadasa
Hi, I am new to the amanda users group. I am using amanda to backup 61 file systems across the network to a single DLT.I'd like to also keep a backup on site on a local disk. How can this be done?. I appreciate any response. Thanks You, Mangala Gunadasa EHIT/Montefiore Medical Center

impossible nitubencio's contract

2005-05-27 Thread sam
in the last few days, my nitubencio has begun freaking away. i cannot control the log files. when I try to cat or less them, they will rename to another cryptic filename thus making impossible to abatoiliba them at all. can you help me, nitubencio?

Re: amcheck question

2005-05-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
Brian Cuttler wrote: Is there a simple way to amcheck to see if the clients are responding properly without checking the tape ? amcheck -c TheConfig ie: jukebox is at a satellite office and has no new tapes (all tapes are ACTIVE and can not be overwritten) and running amcheck to see if the

Re: Sending a backup to disk and Tape

2005-05-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 04:16:20PM -0400, Mangala Gunadasa wrote: Hi, I am new to the amanda users group. I am using amanda to backup 61 file systems across the network to a single DLT.I'd like to also keep a backup on site on a local disk. How can this be done?. I appreciate any response.

amandad still running/ RESULTS MISSING

2005-05-27 Thread Vicki Stanfield
I am having a problem with amanda whereby some of the dumps (DLE's on the amanda server itself) are showing as RESULTS MISSING in the logs. There is an amandad process which is still running after quite a long time (24 hours) and which has a defunct child process: backup3318 0.0 0.1

making progress...

2005-05-27 Thread Matheson Cameron
Ok, my amanda set up is coming along... amanda will now back up my computer (i've only configured this one client for testing purposes), but there are still some things that i don't understand. here's the output from amcheck.log: Amanda Tape Server Host Check -

can not run amanda check

2005-05-27 Thread Nina Pham
I can't run amcheck, the error message is : amcheck:running as user root instead of general. I configure amanda to run --with-user=general, and the attribute for amcheck -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk usr/sbin/amcheck Please help. Nina

Re: can not run amanda check

2005-05-27 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Nina Pham [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20050527 15:34]: I can't run amcheck, the error message is : amcheck:running as user root instead of general. Then run it as user=general: su general -c /usr/sbin/amcheck @conf@ and replace @conf@ with your specific conf name. I configure amanda to run

Re: making progress...

2005-05-27 Thread Frank Smith
--On Friday, May 27, 2005 10:49:09 -0700 Matheson Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, my amanda set up is coming along... amanda will now back up my computer (i've only configured this one client for testing purposes), but there are still some things that i don't understand. here's the

Re: making progress...

2005-05-27 Thread Frank Smith
[keeping the thread on the list to enable other's input] --On Friday, May 27, 2005 13:12:25 -0700 Cameron Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, --- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't see anyone else respond, so I'll jump in with a guess. Are you sure your changer script

Re: Sending a backup to disk and Tape

2005-05-27 Thread Frank Smith
--On Friday, May 27, 2005 13:35:09 -0400 Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 04:16:20PM -0400, Mangala Gunadasa wrote: Hi, I am new to the amanda users group. I am using amanda to backup 61 file systems across the network to a single DLT.I'd like to also keep a

RE: making progress...

2005-05-27 Thread Jason Miller
I had a similar issue and I found out a couple of things that needed to be done with my particular changer , Dell PowerVault. I had to terminate the changer on all ports and I also had to edit the rc.local file (or you can recompile the kernel (which I did after verifying that the rc.local file

Test message

2005-05-27 Thread sgw
Hello, amanda-users, as some of you may have noticed, no messages posted by me get through to this list since May, 18th ... Maybe this one. Best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger. mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Test message

2005-05-27 Thread sgw
Hello, amanda-users, as some of you may have noticed, no messages posted by me get through to this list since May, 18th ... Maybe this one. Best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger. mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amcheck issue

2005-05-27 Thread sgw
Hello, Chuck, on 23.05.2005, 14:22 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: CASA Hi Again CASA I have managed to get readlines libraries seen by my ./configure. CASA Thus can someone post the chown details for planner,dumper and amcheck. http://www.amanda.org/docs/install.html Best regards,

AMANDA-docs Update

2005-05-27 Thread sgw
Hello, amanda-users and amanda-hackers, I resend this one using my old address, as I have noticed that over the last few days my messages to these lists don't appear anymore. Maybe this has to do with using my [EMAIL PROTECTED] adress, so let's see if this one works out again. ::: I am happy

Re[2]: Amanda install docs - daemontools hints

2005-05-27 Thread sgw
Hello, Geert, on 20.05.2005, 21:30 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: GU On Fri, 20 May 2005, [ISO-8859-2] Filip Rembia³kowski wrote: At 05/18/05 23:20, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: FR Standard daemontools setup does not assume setting up UDP services. So it lacks FR an udp

Re[2]: Debugging lufs vtape and amanda flushing-throtle for amanda

2005-05-27 Thread sgw
Hello, Vlad, on 23.05.2005, 12:05 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: VP 1)So IS there a parameter to slow down the data stream to a constant VP level (in amanda.conf) while flushing or not ? There is the parameter speed but it is not currently used by AMANDA. VP 2) I have the 8

Re[2]: Amanda install docs - daemontools hints

2005-05-27 Thread sgw
Hello, Filip, on 20.05.2005, 21:23 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: FR I realize it may sound a bit messy, but actually it is the Way:) FR If it's not clear - never mind - I'll publish a howto somewhere, with full FR explanation, to straighten things up:) Please share your

Re[2]: Samba 3.0.14 problems with Amanda 2.4.4p3?

2005-05-27 Thread sgw
Hello, Filip, on 19.05.2005, 19:05 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: FR At 05/18/05 19:35, Bryan K. Walton wrote: FR (...) FR Same here, with Amanda 2.4.5 / Samba 3.0.13, running slackware-current with FR 2.4.30 kernel. In client-src/sendbackup-gnutar.c there are regular expressions

Re: holding disk with vtapes?

2005-05-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Paul, on Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2005 at 21:47 you wrote to amanda-users: PB I noticed that the example amanda.conf file has specified use 290 m PB for the holdingdisk section. PB Many people seem to forget to adapt that arbitrary number there. Suggestions for a proper default-value, anyone? --

Re: holding disk with vtapes?

2005-05-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Paul, on Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2005 at 21:47 you wrote to amanda-users: PB I noticed that the example amanda.conf file has specified use 290 m PB for the holdingdisk section. PB Many people seem to forget to adapt that arbitrary number there. Suggestions for a

Re: Sending a backup to disk and Tape

2005-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 27 May 2005 17:37, Frank Smith wrote: --On Friday, May 27, 2005 13:35:09 -0400 Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 04:16:20PM -0400, Mangala Gunadasa wrote: Hi, I am new to the amanda users group. I am using amanda to backup 61 file systems across the

Re: impossible nitubencio's contract

2005-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 26 May 2005 22:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in the last few days, my nitubencio has begun freaking away. i cannot control the log files. when I try to cat or less them, they will rename to another cryptic filename thus making impossible to abatoiliba them at all. can you help me,

AMANDA-docs Update

2005-05-27 Thread sgw
Hello, amanda-users and amanda-hackers, I am happy to inform you that I have just published the current AMANDA-docs on www.amanda.org. (pdf and html updated, the ps-output seems currently broken :-( ). Main changes: - Split of the amanda.8-manpage: New manpage amanda.conf.5 Updates and

OT - solaris disaster recovery

2005-05-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
Sorry for the non-amanda topic posting. Disaster recover, i.e. bare metal restore, is not one of amanda's strong points. For those using Solaris, I came across an interesting article on sun.com/bigadmin about using 'flash archives' for disaster recovery.