Re: Nitpicks? -- permissions

2010-09-11 Thread Lisa Seelye
> I bet most of you have some small nitpick with Amanda that you've > never felt warranted an email. Well, now's your chance! I'd like to put > some polish on Amanda, and it's hard for me to see the areas that need > burnishing, since I work on Amanda all day, every day. > > - typo in a manpage?

Nitpicks? -- C.O.D.

2010-09-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 10:55:55AM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > I bet most of you have some small nitpick with Amanda that you've > never felt warranted an email. Well, now's your chance! I'd like to > put some polish on Amanda, and it's hard for me to see the areas that > need burnishing,

Re: Nitpick -- alternative to spindle numbers

2010-09-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > I would like to see a way of saying "do not back more than > one of these DLEs at the same time". Duly noted. I don't see a quick way to do that, but I'll create a bug for it so it's not forgotten. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer ht

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Florian Lengyel wrote: > Not an amanda tape: Can't open tape device @DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE@: No such Hopefully the error here is pretty obvious. I'm not sure how they managed to get that into their configuration, but it's obviously wrong. > With Amrestore, I get t

Nitpick -- alternative to spindle numbers

2010-09-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 10:55:55AM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > I bet most of you have some small nitpick with Amanda that you've > never felt warranted an email. Well, now's your chance! I'd like to > put some polish on Amanda, and it's hard for me to see the areas that > need burnishing,

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-11 Thread Florian Lengyel
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Florian Lengyel > wrote: > They have had to recover by hand -- see below (there was a disk crash of some kind, but I have been unable to elicit precise details). See below for errors > > AMANDA: SPLI

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, September 11, 2010 01:19:44 pm Dustin J. Mitchell did opine: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And find out it doesn't work. Without the "" quotes around the mailto > > string, it upchucks all over itself & fails to run. They have been > > added and last n

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Florian Lengyel wrote: > 3. They didn't know--or bother to read--that to recover the files, you list > the first couple of lines (they configured a custom compression with bzip2): > AMANDA: SPLIT_FILE 20100222 guass.engr.ccny.cuny.edu /home1/skgottipati >  part 8/

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > And find out it doesn't work.  Without the "" quotes around the mailto > string, it upchucks all over itself & fails to run.  They have been added > and last nights backup s/b running now.  The manpage doesn't say that > mailto needs those.  P

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, September 11, 2010 10:31:37 am Gene Heskett did opine: > On Friday, September 10, 2010 08:57:23 pm Dustin J. Mitchell did opine: > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Florian Lengyel > > > > wrote: > > > Shouldn't amcheck -m DailySet3 send email if there is a changer > > > problem? I