Re: Release of Amanda-6.2

2008-04-02 Thread Bruce Thompson
This is great news for April Fool's Day! On Apr 1, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 6.2. snip Here's a list of the changes for release 6.2 (from the NEWS file): Look at the ReleaseNotes and ChangeLog

Re: Do not start Job if label not correct?

2008-04-02 Thread Theodotos Andreou
Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 2 Apr at 9:47 Theodotos Andreou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a way to tell a Backup job not to start if there is no correct label found on the changer? I do not want to use amflush later because /amandadumps is too small to host

Re: Do not start Job if label not correct?

2008-04-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 2 Apr at 9:47 Theodotos Andreou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a way to tell a Backup job not to start if there is no correct label found on the changer? I do not want to use amflush later because /amandadumps is too small to host all level 0 images during a

Re: Do not start Job if label not correct?

2008-04-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Theodotos Andreou wrote: Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 2 Apr at 9:47 Theodotos Andreou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a way to tell a Backup job not to start if there is no correct label found on the changer? I do not want to use amflush later because

amreport cannot send mail

2008-04-02 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
Hello, from some time now amanda has refused to send me mails. According to amdump.1 this is what happens: amdump: end at Wed Apr 2 01:57:12 WEST 2008 Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character . . . message not sent. /data/amanda/dead.letter 324/19378 amreport: mail command failed:

Tape questions for 2.6 (not 6.2...)

2008-04-02 Thread Bruce Thompson
Okay, so I was had :-) Not the first time, won't be the last... I didn't even notice the 6.2 on the announcement. I read it as 2.6. Guess I'm turning dyslexic in my old age? Given that, my questions about the flush settings still stands for 2.6. Any thoughts? Thanks much, Bruce. On

No index files being generated - possible freebsd-ism or shell specific issues

2008-04-02 Thread Oscar Ricardo Silva
Sorry for the multiple recent posts but as I work my way through enabling encrypted backups I keep running into different issues. In our last episode, I had enabled encrypted backups and corrected an issue with ipv6 and key placement on the amanda server. My current issue is that while backups

amanda-2.6 64bit compile with glib-2.14: success!

2008-04-02 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hello, I've changed the Subject: line for this thread so not to bother people... This is just to relate my first hand-on experience with 2.6.0. I am a happy camper. See below. * Dustin J. Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080401 18:17]: On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin [EMAIL

Re: Release of Amanda-6.2

2008-04-02 Thread Albrecht Dreß
Am 01.04.08 22:35 schrieb(en) Jean-Francois Malouin: dpkg reports 2.12.4 installed: ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2 The GLib library of C routines Doesn't Debian/Ubuntu have the devel libs and headers in the libglib2.0-dev package? Cheers, Albrecht. pgpOfUzZQAsk2.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Release of Amanda-6.2

2008-04-02 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Albrecht DreÃ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080402 15:26]: Am 01.04.08 22:35 schrieb(en) Jean-Francois Malouin: dpkg reports 2.12.4 installed: ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2 The GLib library of C routines Doesn't Debian/Ubuntu have the devel libs and headers in the libglib2.0-dev package

Encrypted backups on FreeBSD ?

2008-04-02 Thread Nomad
I'm having some strange issues as well, trying to do encrypted backups on FreeBSD. Let me ask this: 1. Is encrypted storage of backups a production feature? 2. What documentation is available giving technical details on encrypted backups using amanda? What would really help is a

Re: Encrypted backups on FreeBSD ?

2008-04-02 Thread Paddy Sreenivasan
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Nomad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some strange issues as well, trying to do encrypted backups on FreeBSD. Let me ask this: 1. Is encrypted storage of backups a production feature? Yes. We have done limited testing on FreeBSD as well as encryption