error in backup amanda

2007-12-05 Thread Charles Stroom
Greeting, since a number of days Amanda reports: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: fiume.localnet / lev 0 STRANGE The details given below in the backup report are: FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: /-- fiume.localnet / lev 0 STRANGE sendbackup: start [fiume.localnet:/ level 0]

Reusing a tape

2007-12-05 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi All, I have two different amanda configurations - one for daily incremental backups and the second for monthly full backup. The most recent monthly full backup failed for some reason. The error reported in the amanda email is as follows: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:

Re: how to recover the whole month backups

2007-12-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
zuki wrote: There are a number of issues here that are hard to answer without more information about your setup, volume of data and budget. These are things that every backup administrator has to answer, and there is no particular right answer. One issue is how and when to do archives with

Re: how to recover the whole month backups

2007-12-05 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
zuki (a.k.a. fedora?) wrote: hoogendyk wrote: There are a number of issues here that are hard to answer without more information about your setup, volume of data and budget. These are things that every backup administrator has to answer, and there is no particular right answer. snip So,

Re: error in backup amanda

2007-12-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 01:36:15PM +0100, Charles Stroom wrote: Greeting, since a number of days Amanda reports: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: fiume.localnet / lev 0 STRANGE The details given below in the backup report are: FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: /--

Re: problem with maxpromoteday set to 0

2007-12-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Thomas Ginestet wrote: Sorry for the delay, we just changed the backup server and it does the same thing on the new one (i suppose there is a mistake in my amanda configuraiton). Like before, the full dump should have been made on 2007-11-30 instead of the incremental level 4. I expected:

/usr/lib/amanda/chg-disk:: tape_rdlabel: tape open: line 146: [: -le: unary operator expected

2007-12-05 Thread Dennis Ortsen
Hi all, I've just hit a 100% full root filesystem (as in / )(ouch). I managed to get it a bit larger (using LVM on RHEL5). After the root file system had space left again, I thought I could check the upcoming backup with AMANDA again. So I ran a amcheck jobname -a and got the following result

DLE Regexp?

2007-12-05 Thread Dan Brown
I have a couple of disk list entries for a samba client which seem to be causing the disks to be backed up with a full dump nearly every time. I am suspecting it's a regular expression problem since the DLEs are almost identical. The DLEs look like so: # Design Resources Mac moi

Re: how to recover the whole month backups

2007-12-05 Thread zuki
There are a number of issues here that are hard to answer without more information about your setup, volume of data and budget. These are things that every backup administrator has to answer, and there is no particular right answer. One issue is how and when to do archives with Amanda. It's

Does anybody have a LTO4 tapetype ?

2007-12-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I get a brand new LTO4 tape and I wonder about the tape definition to use. Regards JPP

Re: Reusing a tape

2007-12-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Yogesh Hasabnis schrieb: I would like to use the same tape again. What do I need to do to get this done (ie to use the same tape again)? Did I understand you right: You backuped your clients and one DLE failed. And now you want to rerun the complete set on the same

Re: problem with maxpromoteday set to 0

2007-12-05 Thread Thomas Ginestet
Jean-Louis Martineau a écrit : The problem is in the way amanda compute time between different run, it use the time the backup for a DLE is terminated, not the time the amdump started. You should get this problem if a run take more than 12 hours. How much time took the 23th of November

Re: how to recover the whole month backups

2007-12-05 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
fedora wrote: (hoogendyk wrote:) yup. I would say you are a bit confused. The 26th is the last full backup (the 0 in the column after the date), and the 29th is the most recent incremental based on that full (the 1 in the column after the date). Anything else is older, out of date,

Re: Reusing a tape

2007-12-05 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Yogesh Hasabnis schrieb: The most recent monthly full backup failed for some reason. The error reported in the amanda email is as follows: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: amanda_client_name /vol/vol1/home lev 0 FAILED [data timeout] amanda_client_name /vol/vol1/home lev 0 FAILED

Re: how to recover the whole month backups

2007-12-05 Thread zuki
There are a number of issues here that are hard to answer without more information about your setup, volume of data and budget. These are things that every backup administrator has to answer, and there is no particular right answer. One issue is how and when to do archives with Amanda. It's

Re: Does anybody have a LTO4 tapetype ?

2007-12-05 Thread Michael Loftis
you can use the tapetype program to generate your own. --On December 6, 2007 12:33:31 AM +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I get a brand new LTO4 tape and I wonder about the tape definition to use. Regards JPP -- Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its

Re: error in backup amanda

2007-12-05 Thread Charles Stroom
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 13:18:37 -0500 Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 01:36:15PM +0100, Charles Stroom wrote: Greeting, since a number of days Amanda reports: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: fiume.localnet / lev 0 STRANGE The details given

Re: Reusing a tape

2007-12-05 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Paul Bijnens schrieb: amrmtape theconfig FULLBACK-10 ... If you omit this, then amanda will e.g. plan a level 2, based on the level 1 DLE that did not had errors, but was stored on that tape. Yes, you're right. This is better to do first. I just thought, this won't happen in his

Re: Does anybody have a LTO4 tapetype ?

2007-12-05 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I get a brand new LTO4 tape and I wonder about the tape definition to use. You can use amtapetype to generate your own one: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amtapetype And if you have done, you can add it to the wiki

Re: /usr/lib/amanda/chg-disk:: tape_rdlabel: tape open: line 146: [: -le: unary operator expected

2007-12-05 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Dennis Ortsen wrote: I've just hit a 100% full root filesystem (as in / )(ouch). I managed to get it a bit larger (using LVM on RHEL5). After the root file system had space left again, I thought I could check the upcoming backup with AMANDA again. So I ran a amcheck

RE: /usr/lib/amanda/chg-disk:: tape_rdlabel: tape open: line 146: [: -le: unary operator expected

2007-12-05 Thread Dennis Ortsen
Hi Geert, thanks! that solved my problem! Gr./Br. Dennis -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: donderdag 6 december 2007 08:27 Aan: Dennis Ortsen CC: amanda-users@amanda.org Onderwerp: Re: /usr/lib/amanda/chg-disk:: tape_rdlabel: