Re: [off-topip] Better Backup Media

2005-06-21 Thread Toomas Aas
Fabricio Luiz Machado wrote: Some of my DDS-4 tapes are bad (I/O error). So... i´m thinking if these tapes are trustworthy... :-/ Are there another better solution, that I can trust more than DDS-4 ? Maybe DLT ? Many people say DLT is better than DDS, but I personally have had some very bad

Re: awstats and amnda

2005-06-21 Thread Anthony Worrall
I might be wrong but amplot seems to give information on a single run. The idea of using awstats is to give historical information over months Also I am already using awstats for web and ftp servers so it would be easier to have on place to look at stats. Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 20

How to read amanda tapes with standard unix/linux tools

2005-06-21 Thread Hommersom, Gerrit (G)
For emergency testing I want to read the amanda files with standard Unix/Linux tools W Curtiss preson's book suggests that amanda tapes can be read with the command dd -if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1 Attempting to move it to the next file with mt /dev/nst0 fsf 1 dd -if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1

Re: many dumps in parallel

2005-06-21 Thread Vects
Hi Everyone, Today I run another 'Full' set and had opportunity to test what Stefan said. I still saw single dumping process per host but something got changes and I found two dumping processes on the same computer in parallel. I'll run amplot on current Full and publish amfiles later today.

Re: many dumps in parallel

2005-06-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Vects wrote: Today I run another 'Full' set and had opportunity to test what Stefan said. I still saw single dumping process per host but something got changes and I found two dumping processes on the same computer in parallel. I'll run amplot on current Full and publish amfiles later today.

Re: How to read amanda tapes with standard unix/linux tools

2005-06-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
Hommersom, Gerrit (G) wrote: For emergency testing I want to read the amanda files with standard Unix/Linux tools W Curtiss preson's book suggests that amanda tapes can be read with the command dd -if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1 Note that dd does not take options with a hyphen, at not on any OS

Re: many dumps in parallel

2005-06-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
Vects wrote: 0 dumpers busy : 0:00:00 ( 0.00%) 1 dumper busy : 0:41:06 ( 70.46%)no-bandwidth: 0:41:06 (100.00%) 2 dumpers busy : 0:17:13 ( 29.53%)no-bandwidth: 0:17:13 (100.00%) 3 dumpers busy : 0:00:00 ( 0.00%) 4 dumpers busy : 0:00:00 ( 0.01%) Here you

HP Storage Works 1/8 Tape Autoloader

2005-06-21 Thread Brian E. Seppanen
Has anyone been able to configure the HP Storage Works 1/8 Tape Autoloader for use with amanda as a tape library. I'm able to access data from individual tapes by manually loading them and accessing them as /dev/rmt/0, but I'm not sure if there is a device id that I can use to access the

Re: [off-topip] Better Backup Media

2005-06-21 Thread Yu Chen
Agree here. We like AIT. And now AIT-4 is out. Chen On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:17:55PM -0300, Fabricio Luiz Machado wrote: Hi. Some of my DDS-4 tapes are bad (I/O error). So... i?m thinking if these tapes are trustworthy... :-/ Are there another better solution, that I can trust more than

Re: [off-topip] Better Backup Media

2005-06-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 at 11:41am, Toomas Aas wrote Fabricio Luiz Machado wrote: Some of my DDS-4 tapes are bad (I/O error). So... i´m thinking if these tapes are trustworthy... :-/ Are there another better solution, that I can trust more than DDS-4 ? Maybe DLT ? I can second the

Re: awstats and amnda

2005-06-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 04:57, Anthony Worrall wrote: I might be wrong but amplot seems to give information on a single run. Yes I believe so. I've never given it a wild card to see what it shows for the whole tapelist. As it treats time as the horizontal scale, I'd guess it would require a

Re: HP Storage Works 1/8 Tape Autoloader

2005-06-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 08:27:44AM -0400, Brian E. Seppanen wrote: Has anyone been able to configure the HP Storage Works 1/8 Tape Autoloader for use with amanda as a tape library. I'm able to access data from individual tapes by manually loading them and accessing them as /dev/rmt/0, but

new amrecover problem

2005-06-21 Thread Cam
Hi, so now amrecover works as far as switching the tape is concerned, but i am still unable to recover files :(. here's the output: amrecover extract Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host db1. The following tapes are needed: DailySet1017 Restoring files into directory /tmp

Re: [off-topip] Better Backup Media

2005-06-21 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:20:45AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: As long as we're talking drives and media (and I'm in the market), does anyone have any experience with S-AIT? According to my vendor, it has the same smart compresser as AIT and a capacity of 500GB/tape (vs. 400GB for

Re: [off-topip] Better Backup Media

2005-06-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 at 9:36am, Brandon D. Valentine wrote On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:20:45AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: As long as we're talking drives and media (and I'm in the market), does anyone have any experience with S-AIT? According to my vendor, it has the same smart

Re: [off-topip] Better Backup Media

2005-06-21 Thread Chris Loken
Brandon D. Valentine wrote: AIT-4 sure looks pretty though. We've used AIT-3 for a couple of years and AIT-4 for 6-months or so. No significant problems. BUT - my AIT-4 drive apparently can't even read AIT-3 tapes. Seems mind-bogglingly stupid but my vendor assures me it's true

Re: HP Storage Works 1/8 Tape Autoloader

2005-06-21 Thread Brian E. Seppanen
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 08:27:44AM -0400, Brian E. Seppanen wrote: Has anyone been able to configure the HP Storage Works 1/8 Tape Autoloader for use with amanda as a tape library. I'm able to access data from individual tapes by manually loading them

Re: HP Storage Works 1/8 Tape Autoloader

2005-06-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 01:07:17PM -0400, Brian E. Seppanen wrote: On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Jon LaBadie wrote: mv /etc/path_to_inst to /etc/path_to_inst20050621 reboot -- -ras rebuild path_to_inst I forgot to suggest that a reboot might not be needed. Probably the following would have the

difference between --with-portrange and --with-tcpportrange ?

2005-06-21 Thread Oscar Ricardo Silva
I've been banging my head against a wall trying to figure out why I couldn't backup a few clients even though all the checks seemed to run OK. Sure enough, turned out to be a firewall/iptables issue ... my amanda server was allowed in on ports 10080, 10082, 10083 but NOT on any other ports

Re: Archival backup problems

2005-06-21 Thread Kevin Dalley
Thanks for the suggestion. Setting record to no seems like a good idea. However, dumpcycle set to 0 doesn't work for me. amdump tries to run a full backup each day. I only use 1 or 2 tapes per amdump, and I need 6-10 tapes for a complete archival backup. So I need a few days to complete an

Re: Archival backup problems

2005-06-21 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 01:26:49PM -0700, Kevin Dalley enlightened us: Thanks for the suggestion. Setting record to no seems like a good idea. However, dumpcycle set to 0 doesn't work for me. amdump tries to run a full backup each day. I only use 1 or 2 tapes per amdump, and I need 6-10

Re: Archival backup problems

2005-06-21 Thread Kevin Dalley
Matt Hyclak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 01:26:49PM -0700, Kevin Dalley enlightened us: Thanks for the suggestion. Setting record to no seems like a good idea. However, dumpcycle set to 0 doesn't work for me. amdump tries to run a full backup each day. I only use 1

Unable to Flush Held Backup Jobs

2005-06-21 Thread Andrew Crawford
Greetings, I am working with an Amanda installation that was a little neglected. It backs up nightly and I have run a number of successful restores with it. So, it appears operational. Several tape changes were missed over the last year and the unflushed jobs on the holding disk have

Re: Archival backup problems

2005-06-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:11:34PM -0700, Kevin Dalley wrote: Matt Hyclak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 01:26:49PM -0700, Kevin Dalley enlightened us: Thanks for the suggestion. Setting record to no seems like a good idea. However, dumpcycle set to 0 doesn't

Re: Unable to Flush Held Backup Jobs

2005-06-21 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, June 21, 2005 14:28:42 -0700 Andrew Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I am working with an Amanda installation that was a little neglected. It backs up nightly and I have run a number of successful restores with it. So, it appears operational. Several tape

Please confirm (conf#1a37ff66b556d8955bcfcc81d5939f7f)

2005-06-21 Thread Jonathan Bayer
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Problems compiling Amanda on Solaris

2005-06-21 Thread Aaron Taylor
I'm trying to compile Amanda 2.4.5 on Solaris 10 3/05 on an E450. I searched the list archives and google, but haven't had much luck at finding anything. I created and amanda user and group, my configure line was: ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=amanda. Then, I did a make and get the

Holdingdisk and level 0/1 dumps

2005-06-21 Thread Nicklas Bondesson
Hi, Currently amanda spits out level 1 dumps when pushing data to the holdingdisk. Is there a way to force it to do level 0 (full) backups when dumping to the holdingdisk? When dumping to tape it always does level 0 (full) backups. Regards, Nicklas

amdump email config

2005-06-21 Thread Joe Adkins
Hello everyone, I am looking for a way to send emails for amdump only on error. Is this possible? Has anyone else run into this problem/issue? I'm still searching this list and the documentation, but so far, nothing. Thank you in advance for any information that you may have,

Re: Holdingdisk and level 0/1 dumps

2005-06-21 Thread Frank Smith
--On Wednesday, June 22, 2005 02:09:02 +0200 Nicklas Bondesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Currently amanda spits out level 1 dumps when pushing data to the holdingdisk. Is there a way to force it to do level 0 (full) backups when dumping to the holdingdisk? When dumping to tape it

Re: Holdingdisk and level 0/1 dumps

2005-06-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 02:09:02AM +0200, Nicklas Bondesson wrote: Hi, Currently amanda spits out level 1 dumps when pushing data to the holdingdisk. Is there a way to force it to do level 0 (full) backups when dumping to the holdingdisk? When dumping to tape it always does level 0 (full)