index tee cannot write problem with 2.5.1

2006-09-06 Thread Steven Backus
I upgraded to the new 2.5.1 yesterday, bleeding edge, that's me. All but one of my clients got backed up. The amanda report says: ambiance.med.utah.edu sdc1 lev 1 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 instead of 32768] ambiance.med.utah.edu sdc1 lev 1 FAILED [cannot read header: go

Re: Amanda vs. rsync vs. ... (was: Re: using disk instead of tape)

2006-09-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Ian Turner wrote: > On Wednesday 06 September 2006 04:23, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > So my ideal backup solution would be Amanda, with support for incrementally > > storing backups at a remote location :-) > > Well, Amanda does that, via incremental backups. What it doesn't

Re: Amanda vs. rsync vs. ... (was: Re: using disk instead of tape)

2006-09-06 Thread Ian Turner
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 04:23, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > So my ideal backup solution would be Amanda, with support for incrementally > storing backups at a remote location :-) Well, Amanda does that, via incremental backups. What it doesn't do (because of tool support) is incremental bac

Re: amanda.conf include file question

2006-09-06 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:10:30AM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: > > > I am looking at using the includefile feature in the amanda configuration > file. > > I am running 2.4.5P1. > > 1) Is the includefile available in 2.4.5P1. Its been around a long time, so yes. > > 2) What would happen

Re: amanda.conf include file question

2006-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 09:10, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: >I am looking at using the includefile feature in the amanda configuration >file. > >I am running 2.4.5P1. > >1) Is the includefile available in 2.4.5P1. > >2) What would happen if I have the same configuration parameters in both > the

Re: Amanda vs. rsync vs. ... (was: Re: using disk instead of tape)

2006-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 04:23, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Phil Howard wrote: >> If you want all those benefits of restore, and don't mind having a disk >> with a filesystem already on it, then why not use something like rsync >> to make backups? As long as you aren't wor

amanda.conf include file question

2006-09-06 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
I am looking at using the includefile feature in the amanda configuration file. I am running 2.4.5P1. 1) Is the includefile available in 2.4.5P1. 2) What would happen if I have the same configuration parameters in both the include file and the amanda.conf file? Which one would have precedence

Re: Can I change the /tmp/amanda dir somewhere on the client host to another mount point as I have disabled executables in /tmp dir

2006-09-06 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi List sorry I had a typo " No Amanda Admin errors" Just to let you know solved my issue it was my SuSE Default Firewall I ran tcpdump -X -s 1500 udp and port 10080 0 packets captured 0 packets received by filter 0 packets dropped by kernel Thus via Yast turned the Firewall off and after runn

Re: Can I change the /tmp/amanda dir somewhere on the client host to another mount point as I have disabled executables in /tmp dir

2006-09-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-09-06 12:26, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: [...] server#/tmp/amanda # less amandad.20060906111651.debug [...] amandad: time 29.997: dgram_recv: timeout after 30 seconds amandad: error receiving message: timeout amandad: time 29.998: error receiving message: timeout amandad:

Re: Can I change the /tmp/amanda dir somewhere on the client host to another mount point as I have disabled executables in /tmp dir

2006-09-06 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi List I have removed /tmp/amanda directory. Thus cd /usr/lib/amanda/ and run ./amandad This re created the amanda directory and the debug file: server#/tmp/amanda # less amandad.20060906111651.debug amandad: debug 1 pid 498 ruid 37 euid 37: start at Wed Sep 6 11:16:51 2006 amandad: version

Amanda vs. rsync vs. ... (was: Re: using disk instead of tape)

2006-09-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Phil Howard wrote: > If you want all those benefits of restore, and don't mind having a disk > with a filesystem already on it, then why not use something like rsync > to make backups? As long as you aren't working with over about a million > individual files, it works great.

Re: Can I change the /tmp/amanda dir somewhere on the client host to another mount point as I have disabled executables in /tmp dir

2006-09-06 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi List Thanks for your help and direction. As a previous post from Paul stated my /etc/fstab entries for the mounted /tmp shouldn't prevent amanda from writing the debug logs So I am going go back to basics and trouble shoot why "amcheck' report `selfcheck request timed out" for my web server.