Fwd: Cron amanda@coyote /GenesAmandaHelper-0.6/backup.sh Daily

2011-01-19 Thread gene heskett
I tried the newest 3.2.1 last night, this is from my wrappers log. An amstatus returns the same list of errors. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If loving linux is wrong, I

Fwd: The Coyote Den STRANGE: AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR January 19, 2011

2011-01-19 Thread gene heskett
This is the email from amanda for last nights run. As that is formatted with only 1 digit to the right of the decimal point, it is readable although the - sign in front of the output size for GenesAmandaHelper is a puzzle. However, the printed report is unreadable as the right hand column is

Re: Fwd: Cron amanda@coyote /GenesAmandaHelper-0.6/backup.sh Daily

2011-01-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gene, If you have a bug with amstatus, post the error message and the amdump log file used. I can do nothing if I don't see the log file. Jean-Louis gene heskett wrote: I tried the newest 3.2.1 last night, this is from my wrappers log. An amstatus returns the same list of errors.

Re: Fwd: Cron amanda@coyote /GenesAmandaHelper-0.6/backup.sh Daily

2011-01-19 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Am 19.01.2011 14:20, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: I can do nothing if I don't see the log file. Just a question: I also have tried to post logfiles to the list, but they all never arrived. Could it be possible that mails with attachments are automatically removed? -- Marc Muehlfeld

Re: Fwd: Cron amanda@coyote /GenesAmandaHelper-0.6/backup.sh Daily

2011-01-19 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 10:00:44 am Marc Muehlfeld did opine: Am 19.01.2011 14:20, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: I can do nothing if I don't see the log file. Just a question: I also have tried to post logfiles to the list, but they all never arrived. Could it be possible that mails

Re: Fwd: Cron amanda@coyote /GenesAmandaHelper-0.6/backup.sh Daily

2011-01-19 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Am 19.01.2011 16:07, schrieb gene heskett: No, the whole thing is sent to /dev/null. That's what I said. Maybe this should be changed by the list-admin then users won't just only send the questions to the list, when they can attach the logs also. -- Marc Muehlfeld (IT-Leiter) Zentrum

Amvault: No acceptable volumes found -- what does this mean?

2011-01-19 Thread Robert Heller
sh-3.2$ amvault -otapetype=ARCHIVAL --src-timestamp 20101226 --label-template 60villagedrive-20101226-% --dst-changer archive_tape --dry-run 60villagedrive-traditional 60villagedrive-51 1 bach / 20101226001001 0 60villagedrive-51 2 ravel /data 20101226001001 0 60villagedrive-52 1 ravel /data

UTC time zone change

2011-01-19 Thread Jack O'Connell
Hello, Should I expect to encounter any problems with Amanda v3.2.0 after changing from the local time zone to UTC on the server an client hosts. Thanks, Jack O'Connell ALCF - Storage (630)252-3610 joco...@alcf.anl.gov

Re: amanda 3.2.1 on Solaris x86 -- open file limit

2011-01-19 Thread Brian Cuttler
Jean-Louis, I've installed 64 bit libraries and altered the .configure accordingly. Ok, the libraries have been included in the build, I should have but have not dropped the 32-bit libraries. [curie]: /tmp/am-inst/amanda-3.1.2-64bit ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=sys

Re: amanda 3.2.1 on Solaris x86 -- open file limit

2011-01-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brian Cuttler wrote: Jean-Louis, I've installed 64 bit libraries and altered the .configure accordingly. Ok, the libraries have been included in the build, I should have but have not dropped the 32-bit libraries. [curie]: /tmp/am-inst/amanda-3.1.2-64bit ./configure --with-user=amanda

Removing and adding a tape to a set

2011-01-19 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
Hi All: We have Amanda 2.6.1 up and running for about a year now on an HP DL380G5 running RHEL 5.5 and using an HP MSL2024 tape library. We have plenty of time and tape so we have been running full backups nightly (no incremental). We have two sets of tapes, DailySet1 and WeeklySet1. DailySet1

RE: Removing and adding a tape to a set

2011-01-19 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Hugh E Cruickshank Sent: January 19, 2011 14:23 Some follow up to my previous post... 1. What is the correct method of removing a tape from a set and ensuring that Amanda will use the next one in the sequence? It appears that I needed to change the tapecycle from 5 to 4 to reflect

Amanda Backup USB?

2011-01-19 Thread Christ Schlacta
I'm evaluating possible solutions for Drop in USB backup. as an existing amanda user, I was interested by the possibility of having amanda run a backup of a flash drive whenever it's connected. I've got a few simple requirements for this backup operation. 1) a backup should happen whenever a