Re: anybody USING the krb5 version?

2013-06-09 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
would be nice as well, since it is still stated as a supported feature. Thanks Andreas Sundstrom

Backup to removable disks

2012-10-21 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
I'm probably using quite ancient versions of amanda (using Debian, and due to a kerberos problem I'm still on 2.5.2p1). Anyway.. I want to use external disks instead of tapes for my backups. I don't like having the disks connected all the time since it would be possible for them to be erased when

Re: Backup to removable disks

2012-10-21 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
On 10/21/2012 07:41 PM, Robert Heller wrote: At Sun, 21 Oct 2012 17:29:30 +0200 Andreas Sundstrom sun...@zappa.cx wrote: I'm probably using quite ancient versions of amanda (using Debian, and due to a kerberos problem I'm still on 2.5.2p1). Anyway.. I want to use external disks instead

kerberos question

2010-03-06 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Hi.. long time since I posted to this ML now... Amanda has been working great for me so far. But I decided to have a look at the krb5 auth support, since I already use kerberos for a lot of other stuff. I have finally got it working for both amdump and amrecover. One question though, when using

Re: DDS-3 tapetype ???

2005-06-17 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Michael Loftis wrote: --On June 17, 2005 9:51:48 AM +0200 Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Estimated time to write 2 * 12288 Mbyte: 26880 sec = 7 h 28 min wrote 298832 32Kb blocks in 76 files in 10632 seconds (short write) wrote 310628 32Kb blocks in 158 files in 10840

Re: Keeping backups on holding disk after writing to tape

2005-05-10 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
SND wrote: Hi all, i want the backed up files from a nightly amdump-run to remain on the holding disk (after they were successfully written to tape!) at least for one day. So it would be possible to do faster and more comfortable restores the next day. Is there an option to acomplish that? And if

Re: backup Oracle DB at AMANDA server

2005-03-04 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Paul Bijnens wrote: Mike Delaney wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:07:19PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: Last time I looked at doing backups of Oracle (Ora 6-7-8), I approached it as follows: first set each tablespace in hot backup mode (alter tablespace TS begin backup) then doing a filesystem

Re: Fedora Core 3 - which version of tar??

2005-01-19 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Matt Lung wrote: I have hard disk backups setup using amanda on Fedora Core 3. Everything is great except when I use amrecover. Trying to restore an old file I will get tar errors like this: tar: ./dir/somefile: invalid sparse archive member tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains

Re: GNU tar versions

2005-01-16 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Kurt Raschke wrote: On Jan 16, 2005, at 4:25 AM, Paul Bijnens wrote: For the record: plain gtar 1.12 needs to be patched to handle large files ( 2GB). plain gtar 1.13 makes bad index-lists which amrecover cannot handle, as does the rarely used 1.13.9x, which changed the index-format again in an

Re: DLT tape streaming and amanda blocksize

2005-01-14 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Dan Rich wrote: I have a DLT IV drive that I cannot get to stream with amanda. With a little bit of experimentation, I have found that it will stream with tar if I set the block size to 128KB. However, amanda only seems to support block sizes of 32kb. The constant rewind/seek motion of the

amtapetype bug - 2.4.4p4 - new tape

2004-11-03 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
I might have stumbled on a bug in amtapetype. I believe it's the new functionality to check for a amanda label that has introduced it. This explains it quite well I think: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ amtapetype -c -e 35g -f /dev/nst1 amtapetype: /dev/nst1: reading label: Input/output error [EMAIL

Re: all estimates failed for gnutar

2004-10-13 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Fernan Aguero wrote: +[ Matt Hyclak [EMAIL PROTECTED] (13.Oct.2004 11:58): | | On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:42:33AM -0300, Fernan Aguero enlightened us: | I did the installation as root, of course. I'm not using the | amanda sources 'as is', however, but through the added layer | of the

Re: Need help with backup plan

2004-08-31 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Joe Konecny wrote: Gavin Henry wrote: Amanda is much better than that. It will but the backup in a holding disk i.e. folder/partition until space runs out or hits the limit you set. It will not overwrite another tape unless you force it by hand, which is good. You don't have to figure out which

Re: HPUX client index database format problem

2004-08-21 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
tar betas had problems but that change was reversed (had to do with the ./ that files begin with in current gnutar versions). /Andreas Sundstrom

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-08-13 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Quoting Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Andreas, on Dienstag, 15. Juni 2004 at 09:29 you wrote to amanda-users: AS Well, now I have created a user named amanda which has default group membership AS disk and is also a member of users. Then I recompiled with user=amanda, AS

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-08-13 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Quoting Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Andreas, on Dienstag, 15. Juni 2004 at 09:29 you wrote to amanda-users: AS Well, now I have created a user named amanda which has default group membership AS disk and is also a member of users. Then I recompiled with user=amanda, AS

Re: iptables and ip_conntrack_amanda

2004-07-28 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Owen Williams wrote: Hi, I've just upgraded one of my clients to Fedora Core 2, 2.6.6-1.435.2.3smp and want to try ip_conntrack_amanda (if its even appropriate). Make sure this patch is in: http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2004-June/015806.html I have verified that it fixes

Re: Speed up 400GB backup?

2004-07-21 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 at 12:00am, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote [...] Kris, I think that you need to some performance testing/optimizing of your system. What controllers are you using? Have you tested with bonnie++ and/or tiobench? Are there mount parameters to ext3 you

Re: Amanda Through firewall

2004-07-14 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Andreas Sundstrom wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Can I allow amanda backup server to talk through firewall for accessing amanda client host, Is there any way out The general answer is to recompile amanda with a dedicated portrange and open those ports in the firewall. See

Re: Amanda Through firewall

2004-07-13 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Paul Bijnens wrote: Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Can I allow amanda backup server to talk through firewall for accessing amanda client host, Is there any way out The general answer is to recompile amanda with a dedicated portrange and open those ports in the firewall. See the explanation in

Re: sendbackup connection problems

2004-06-24 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Jay Ted wrote: Greetings, I'm having trouble with one of my amanda servers. I have one server running 2.4.4p3 compiled from source on a LFS box with 2.6.7. My other server is 2.4.4p3 compiled from source on Slack9.1 with 2.6.7. My clients are a handful of RH with rpm'ed versions of amanda

Re: dump larger than tape

2004-06-20 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Iulian Topliceanu wrote: Hi, I'm running amanda-2.4.4p2 on a Fedora Core 2 having a Dell PowerVault 120T DLT1 with 6 tapes DLT tapes in it. When performind amdump I get this error while watching the status with amstatus: Using /var/lib/amanda/mail1/amdump.1 from Sun Jun 20 11:41:49 CEST 2004

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-18 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Andreas, on Donnerstag, 17. Juni 2004 at 21:07 you wrote to amanda-users: AS It appears that a change occured in ip_conntrack_amanda.c between AS 2.6.5-rc1 and rc2 (this change isn't mentioned in the Changelog or I am AS unable to find it). I don't know what I was

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-17 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Andreas, on Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2004 at 08:09 you wrote to amanda-users: A diff against my current .config shows that this seems to be a pretty fat kernel, many many things compiled into it statically ... I am no kernel-hacker but I know that having ONE of all those

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-16 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Andreas, on Dienstag, 15. Juni 2004 at 21:56 you wrote to amanda-users: Where could that one reside? A faulty network-module? Remember that these things work fine here with each 2.6 .. AS I'm almost sure it's some kind of kernel bug. That's why I have bothered AS

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-16 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Andreas, on Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2004 at 08:09 you wrote to amanda-users: A diff against my current .config shows that this seems to be a pretty fat kernel, many many things compiled into it statically ... I am no kernel-hacker but I know that having ONE of all those

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Quoting Andreas Sundstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Eric Siegerman wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 10:41:14PM +0200, Andreas Sundstrom wrote: --with-user=root \ --with-group=root A stab in the dark here: these settings seem a bit suspicious. Normally one doesn't run

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Quoting Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Andreas Sundstrom wrote: All went well and the backup finished successful. Then I switched to my identically compiled 2.6.6-rc2 kernel and it fails with the same error as earlier: These dumps were to tape dflt10. The next tape Amanda expects

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Quoting Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Andreas Sundstrom wrote: Also what do you recommend as parameters to tcpdump, it's all running on the same host does that mean I can sniff on lo? This works for me on Linux 2.4.22: sudo tcpdump -i lo -w trace.lo I have now made a dump

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2004-06-15 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Andreas, on Dienstag, 15. Juni 2004 at 13:32 you wrote to amanda-users: AS I have now made a dump on the traffic passing through lo during the amdump. AS I AS have also recompiled amanda with these two settings (as another friendly person AS suggested):

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Paul Bijnens wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: It seems ethereal store only the first few bytes of each packet. There is probably an option to set that size; similar to tcpdump -s 1500. That means I don't have the full info, but I believe I've seen enough! Following up on myself. I've digged into the

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Paul, on Dienstag, 15. Juni 2004 at 16:49 you wrote to amanda-users: PB And amanda cleans up the other two connections. PB Amanda tries again with another set of ports a few times PB but always trying to connect to 65535 for the index. PB Then she gives up

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Paul Bijnens wrote: Just for fun: if you disable the indexing, then the backup will run fine, I believe. (index no in dumptype). Well, no it doesn't work that way either. /Andreas

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-15 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Paul Bijnens wrote: Very very strange... Do you have netcat installed? What is the output of this command on 2.6.6rc2? nc -v -v -s 127.0.0.1 -p 1234 127.0.0.1 1234 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/amanda$ nc -v -v -s 127.0.0.1 -p 1234 127.0.0.1 1234 localhost [127.0.0.1] 1234 (?) open /Andreas

2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-13 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
if I need to post more info, don't want to write an unnecessary overly large e-mail. /Andreas Sundstrom

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-13 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Andreas, on Sonntag, 13. Juni 2004 at 15:04 you wrote to amanda-users: AS I have trouble upgrading from 2.6.5 to 2.6.6, I have narrowed AS it down by trying the different rc releases. Between 2.6.6-rc1 and AS 2.6.6-rc2 something happens that make my amanda backups

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-13 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Paul Bijnens wrote: Andreas Sundstrom wrote: I'm sending this now to the amanda-users list, I originally sent it to the linux-kernel ml but the only person who have answered my mail is Gene Heskett which also recommended me to try here. I'm using amanda-2.4.4p2 but I have also tried 2.4.5b1