maxpromoteday

2006-10-18 Thread Frank Smith
Debian Amanda package 2.5.0p2-2.1 I got tired of my Amanda setup at home continually promoting many dumps 5 or 6 days ahead (on a 7 day dumpcycle), so I thought I would add: maxpromoteday 3 to my config as line number 24. However, Amanda doesn't seem to like this, as an amcheck yields" $ amcheck

Re: Infinite loop - still looping...

2006-10-18 Thread Kevin Till
is /etc directory permission similar to the following: drwxr-xr-x 85 root root 12288 Oct 17 12:13 /etc Please list the content of /etc/xinetd.d/amanda* file? Need to make sure the service is started by amandabackup --Kevin Brad Willson wrote: Amanda Tape Server Host Check ---

Infinite loop - still looping...

2006-10-18 Thread Brad Willson
Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /data/amanda: 185 GB disk space available, that's plenty slot 1: read label `B001', date `X' NOTE: skipping tape-writable test Tape B001 label ok NOTE: host info dir /etc/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo/hostname0 does not exi

Re: Looooooooong backup

2006-10-18 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:14:57PM -0400, Steven Settlemyre wrote: > I have a monthly (full) backup running for about 22 hrs now. Do you > think there is a problem, or is it possible it's just taking a long > time? about 150G of data. Is it closer to 150G in on file or 150G in one million files?

Re: Looooooooong backup

2006-10-18 Thread Steven Settlemyre
Thanks for all the responses. It finished about 10 mins after I sent the last message, but it did run out of tape(s)... But that's another issue. Steffan Vigano wrote: Sometimes on my FreeBSD box 'amstatus' output doesn't change during really long dumps. I've found the best way to find out if

Re: Looooooooong backup

2006-10-18 Thread Steffan Vigano
Sometimes on my FreeBSD box 'amstatus' output doesn't change during really long dumps. I've found the best way to find out if it's still running is to use the 'ps' command and grep for the phrase 'done' ie: 'ps -ax | grep done' Dump does a good job of reporting back how far it thinks it

Re: Looooooooong backup

2006-10-18 Thread Steven Settlemyre
looks ok, but i'm not too experienced reading these See attached. Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:14:57PM -0400, Steven Settlemyre wrote: I have a monthly (full) backup running for about 22 hrs now. Do you think there is a problem, or is it possible it's just taking a long t

Re: Looooooooong backup

2006-10-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:14:57PM -0400, Steven Settlemyre wrote: > I have a monthly (full) backup running for about 22 hrs now. Do you > think there is a problem, or is it possible it's just taking a long > time? about 150G of data. Have you tried a few amstatus cmds to see if it is still prog

RE: tape order

2006-10-18 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
This is what I do to keep my tapes in sequence. Say I have the following tape list. 20061010200953 D00025 reuse 20061009201023 D00024 reuse 0 D00023 reuse 20061009141704 D00022 reuse 20061008200944 D00021 reuse I change the time for D00023 to something in

Re: Looooooooong backup

2006-10-18 Thread Frank Smith
Steven Settlemyre wrote: > I have a monthly (full) backup running for about 22 hrs now. Do you > think there is a problem, or is it possible it's just taking a long > time? about 150G of data. > > Steve It depends on the speed of your network, disks, tape drive, and how busy the servers involve

Looooooooong backup

2006-10-18 Thread Steven Settlemyre
I have a monthly (full) backup running for about 22 hrs now. Do you think there is a problem, or is it possible it's just taking a long time? about 150G of data. Steve

Re: amanda 2.5.1 doesn't compile on FreeBSD 4.11 - atoll

2006-10-18 Thread Pavel Pragin
Error: .libs/amandad amandad.o ./.libs/libamandad.so ../common-src/.libs/libamanda.so -lm -lreadline -ltermcap -lcam ../common-src/.libs/libamanda.so: undefined reference to `atoll' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/local/src/amanda/amandad-src. *** Error code 1 Solution: 1.Edit ./common-src/amanda.h

amanda 2.5.1 doesn't compile on FreeBSD 4.11 - atoll

2006-10-18 Thread Oscar Ricardo Silva
(Not sure if my messages are reaching the list so apologies if you're received this twice) I've been attempting to compile amanda 2.5.1 on FreeBSD 4.11 but run into this error on the make: amandad.c:826: warning: zero-length format string amandad.c:882: warning: zero-length format string aman

Re: Amanda error "Unexpected field value..."

2006-10-18 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Paul Yeatman wrote: > Just to follow up on this, I was forced to downgrade to tar version > 1.15.1 before things worked correctly and without the "Unexpected field > value" messages. Things were just not working as expected with 1.15.91. Indeed. JFYI, Debian recently release