Re: Release of amanda-2.5.0b2

2006-02-04 Thread Josef Wolf
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 07:31:08PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.5.0b2. It is stable and we hope to release 2.5.0 soon. test it and report it if you find a bug in this release. I've found one more problem. I reported

Re: gnutar error messages configurable?

2006-02-04 Thread Josef Wolf
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 03:04:26PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: The contents of the file must always be specified as relative to the head directory of the DLE. Since you guys are currently working hard to get 2.5.0 out, it might be a good time to put this sentence into the amanda.conf manpage?

First try at backing up other clients

2006-02-04 Thread Gordon J. Mills III
I am having a problem backing up another host with my amanda server. This is my first try at backing up another linux machine. These are both debian machines. The tape server can backup itself just fine. I installed amanda-common and amanda-client on the client machine. I setup the amandahosts

RE: datcompression Tandberg SLR7

2006-02-04 Thread uwe . kaufmann
Dear All, Please tell me when it becomes OT or boring. Gene Heskett wrote: Not this particular version. But it comes to mind that maybe there is a switch or jumper configuration option on the drive that either locks it on, or locks the config page in the flash from being changed from

Re: gnutar error messages configurable?

2006-02-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Josef Wolf wrote: On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 03:04:26PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: The contents of the file must always be specified as relative to the head directory of the DLE. Since you guys are currently working hard to get 2.5.0 out, it might be a good time to put this sentence into the

Re: dumper: FATAL must be run setuid root

2006-02-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Gordon J. Mills III wrote: Stefan, the only problem I have had with the debian packages was with the amverifyrun script. It probably depends on the version that you use. There were some spaces at the end of the fgrep fields which caused it to not find the tapes used. Once I deleted the extra

Re: about reuse/no-reuse

2006-02-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Cédric Lucantis wrote: amanda has little (or no) code dealing with multiple backups on the same date. I have read somewhere that this was in project, can anyone tell me more about this ? As the REAL amanda-hackers have told me this is a problem that is much tougher to solve than a bad

Re: about reuse/no-reuse

2006-02-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 09:35:25PM +0100, Cédric Lucantis wrote: If my guess is correct, amanda is working fine. You told it 5 tapes were in rotation but only 3 really are. It will not use the 3 again until it gets at least a total of 5 available and used. Your guess is correct :)

Re: datcompression Tandberg SLR7

2006-02-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 07:03:07PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthias Andree gave me some good advice here to use some linux scsi tools to circumvent the error message of mt, which could not write the mode page (datcompression off). As I wrote, I was able to change the compression

RE: First try at backing up other clients

2006-02-04 Thread Gordon J. Mills III
Thanks Stefan, I do have iptables running on the client since it is my firewall machine. It is currently set to allow all connections from the internal network to the fw though. There is always a chance that I have mangled something there though :-). I will check out the article you cited below.

RE: dumper: FATAL must be run setuid root

2006-02-04 Thread Gordon J. Mills III
Gordon J. Mills III wrote: Stefan, the only problem I have had with the debian packages was with the amverifyrun script. It probably depends on the version that you use. There were some spaces at the end of the fgrep fields which caused it to not find the tapes used. Once I deleted the

Re: First try at backing up other clients

2006-02-04 Thread Frank Smith
Gordon J. Mills III wrote: Thanks Stefan, I do have iptables running on the client since it is my firewall machine. It is currently set to allow all connections from the internal network to the fw though. There is always a chance that I have mangled something there though :-). I will check out

Re: dumper: FATAL must be run setuid root

2006-02-04 Thread Paddy Sreenivasan
On 2/4/06, Gordon J. Mills III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gordon J. Mills III wrote: Stefan, the only problem I have had with the debian packages was with the amverifyrun script. It probably depends on the version that you use. There were some spaces at the end of the fgrep fields which