Re: amrecover: Why does it use disklist and log files

2003-10-22 Thread Bao Ho
Hello Jean- Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi Toralf, On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:09:56AM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: As far as I can't tell, amrecover won't work unless 1. Log file from the backup you are trying to recover is still present The log are needed to find which dump are on which

amanda skipped two runs.

2003-09-22 Thread Bao Ho
Hi List, I just found out the Amanda skipped two days' worth of backup on last Sat and Sun. It now insists on using the tape for Sat as the next tape for today's run. Is there any way I can force it to use the correct tape for today w/o messing up the cycle? Is there anything I can do to

Re: amanda skipped two runs.

2003-09-22 Thread Bao Ho
but callls wait(). (see the NOTES section of 'man 2 wait'). Workaround activated. Then, the server seems to be rebooted by someone at our place. It must have been a crash and then a hang that caused someone to do that. Bao Ho wrote: Hi List

Re: amanda skipped two runs.

2003-09-22 Thread Bao Ho
at 11:01am, Bao Ho wrote RedHat Linux 9.0, kernel 2.4.20-18.9 Amanda 2.4.4p1-20030716 Server only backs up itself. No suprious email, ie cron output ? I reported in my subsequent email. I see two unusual messages in syslog: application bug: dumper (PID) has SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN

Re: Rewinding tapeless tapes: why? error?

2003-07-11 Thread Bao Ho
That is what I used Paul ammt -f tape-file rewind. Okay, but if you specified /dev/null as your tapedev in amanda.conf, you are *not* using disk-pseudo-tapes; you are simply leaving files in your staging area. If you were using disk-pseudo-tapes, you would have a tapedev of

Re: Backup plan needs advice.

2003-06-24 Thread Bao Ho
This is getting longer and longer. So, I am going to reply to both Jon's and Gene's emails in this one email. -Original Message- From: Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Amanda Users (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 2:57 PM Subject: Re: Backup plan needs advice. On

Re: fixed day backup

2003-03-14 Thread Bao Ho
Hi David, Jay, and Wayne, Thanks for replying. I had tried the options strategy noinc and strategy nofull as Jay has mentioned. In fact, we can get away with only one config with two dumptypes and have to call the correct one on the correct day with cron. We just override the dumpcycle options

Re: EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file [..]

2003-03-04 Thread Bao Ho
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:54:40PM -0800, bao wrote: I just got a similar problem to what Odd Rune Dahle described, with a slightly different message. In the amidxtaped.timestamp.debug file, almost everything went fine until: amrestore: error reading file header: Is a directory amidxtaped:

Re: holding disk and full dumps

2003-02-28 Thread Bao Ho
-Original Message- From: Dietmar Goldbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: bao [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: amanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, February 27, 2003 6:28 PM Subject: Re: holding disk and full dumps On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:09:33PM -0800, bao wrote: 1. If I want to do a full dump of