Re: barcodes?

2008-12-03 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Nicholas Brockner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am just wondering if there was a real use for the barcodes, i.e. setting up amanda so that during an amcheck run it doesn't have to load and read the amlabels of tapes, maybe it can just

Re: barcodes?

2008-12-03 Thread Nicholas Brockner
Hi Dustin, Ok, thanks. But. . . amanda isn't using the barcodes to load tapes for me, it is still loading/reading amlabels to find an acceptable tape. Is there a way to turn this feature on. I'm using chg-zd-mtx on a quantum superloader 3 LTO3, amanda 2.6.0p1 and Centos 5.2 (x86).

Re: barcodes?

2008-12-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Chris Hoogendyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm. I haven't noticed that behavior. Is there some trick to making it work? just havereader=1 in changer.conf I've had no particular problem, but Amanda does seem to cycle through on my system. It does keep the barcodes

Estimate size question

2008-12-03 Thread Robert P McGraw Jr
AMANDA Version: 2.5.2p1 AMANDA Server: Solaris 10 Sparc Normally I run my backups at night but yesterday I had to run it in the day and was noticing that size estimate part was taking a very long time to run. Looking at the amdump file I see the following: ³planner: time 18363.178: getting

I accidentally ran chown and need help

2008-12-03 Thread Matt Burkhardt
I'm trying to set up a backup for a client machine running 8.10 Ubuntu using an Ubuntu 8.04 server running 2.6.1b1 - but the version on the client machine is an earlier one. Anyway, I fat fingered something and changed the ownerships on all the files in /usr/libexec/amanda and I'm now getting an

Re: dumpcycle

2008-12-03 Thread Paul Yeatman
Yes, it is a bit less likely to know what to expect when dumpcycle is 0 yet tapecycle and rutapes are the parameters used in deciding when to reuse a tape http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Taper_scan_algorithm In short, tapecycle - 1 tapes are always preserved. Until a tape is reused or removed,

Re: Estimate size question

2008-12-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Robert P McGraw Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. I was thinking about using the server estimate for the users in the include list to try and increase the speed of the backup. Our user directories do no change that much so I think I am ok in this area. I think

Re: I accidentally ran chown and need help

2008-12-03 Thread Chad Kotil
Here are my permissions. Notice all the files owned by root have the setUID permission set. [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda]$ ls -alrth total 1.5M -rw-r--r-- 1 amandabackup disk 956 Jun 25 18:11 amanda-sh-lib.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 amandabackup disk 48K Jun 25 18:11 amandad drwxr-xr-x 3 root root

Re: I accidentally ran chown and need help

2008-12-03 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Matt Burkhardt schrieb: Anyway, I fat fingered something and changed the ownerships on all the files in /usr/libexec/amanda ... If you installed by rpm, reinstall it. Or use the rpm command to have a look at the files inside to see the filelist and permissions. If you installed by source, -

Re: barcodes?

2008-12-03 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Chris Hoogendyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm. I haven't noticed that behavior. Is there some trick to making it work? just havereader=1 in changer.conf I have that set. I've had no particular problem, but Amanda does

Re: barcodes?

2008-12-03 Thread Jeffrey D Anderson
On Wednesday 03 December 2008 8:08:51 am you wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Chris Hoogendyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm. I haven't noticed that behavior. Is there some trick to making it work? just havereader=1 in changer.conf I've had no particular problem, but Amanda does

Re: barcodes?

2008-12-03 Thread Michael Loftis
--On December 3, 2008 4:14:12 PM -0500 Chris Hoogendyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this behavior the same across all Amanda code? Or might amrecover behave differently from amdump? I'm not sure why I would have thought it cycled through the tapes looking at the labels unless amrecover were

Fix the order of the dump in Amanda

2008-12-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am using amanda 2.5.1 on the server, is there a way to tell Amanda that dump of certain DLE should be started as soon as possible? I am bacukuping some Unix machines and some Windows machines via Samba. The backup via Samba takes very long time, so I would like to have those started very

Re: Error - tcpm_recv_token: invalid size: amandad:

2008-12-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Matt Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WARNING: 192.168.1.102: selfcheck request failed: tcpm_recv_token: invalid size: amandad: What do you see if you telnet to that IP on port 10080? Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: barcodes?

2008-12-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Jeffrey D Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But somehow amanda chooses not to use that information. She just goes from tape to tape, physically reading the on-tape labels, as though there were no barcodes. I would have expected that amanda would determine the

Re: barcodes?

2008-12-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 57 * 1) If there is a barcode reader, and we have a recyclable tape, use the 58 *reader to load the oldest tape. Ah, the key here is that recyclable means a tape which has been previously written to, is