Re: Release of Amanda-2.6.1b1

2008-12-04 Thread Bruce Thompson
. It is not in the database, so if found at the startup, it should just be deleted, it is of zero value anyway. Gene, thanks so much for testing! I'll see what I can do about the crash. On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Bruce Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the requirements [for Platform Experts

Re: Release of Amanda-2.6.1b1

2008-12-02 Thread Bruce Thompson
On Dec 3, 2008, at 2:42 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Matt Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are the packages on http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php going to be updated soon? Amanda-2.6.1b1 is on that page. We'll be releasing another beta once we

Re: Problem with amanda and MacoS X

2008-07-20 Thread Bruce Thompson
19 juil. 08 à 22:30, Bruce Thompson a écrit : I'm running Amanda 2.5.2p1 on Fedora 9 (server) and three MacBook Pros (client) (10.4.X and 10.5.X) without difficulty. A few quick questions that might point in the right direction: 1. What version of amanda are you running on the Macs

Re: Problem with amanda and MacoS X

2008-07-19 Thread Bruce Thompson
I'm running Amanda 2.5.2p1 on Fedora 9 (server) and three MacBook Pros (client) (10.4.X and 10.5.X) without difficulty. A few quick questions that might point in the right direction: 1. What version of amanda are you running on the Macs? 2. What config options did you use? 3. What user is

How can I find what tapes are actually active?

2008-07-14 Thread Bruce Thompson
This seems like an obvious question, and yet I'm stumped figuring out how to do it. I am backing up four machines onto vtapes that I burn to DVD. Because the vast majority of my data being backed up never changes, this is almost effectively an archival setup (but not quite, and I'm not

Re: amdump fails: port open: Resource temporarily unavailable

2008-06-13 Thread Bruce Thompson
I recently ran into this same issue. After some digging, web scouting and experimenting I found the root cause: There's a bug in Fedora 9's /etc/services file. The clue came in the debug log: dumper: time 19.944: connect_port: Skip port 0: Owned by spr-itunes. dumper: time 19.944:

Re: Release of Amanda-6.2

2008-04-02 Thread Bruce Thompson
This is great news for April Fool's Day! On Apr 1, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 6.2. snip Here's a list of the changes for release 6.2 (from the NEWS file): Look at the ReleaseNotes and ChangeLog

Tape questions for 2.6 (not 6.2...)

2008-04-02 Thread Bruce Thompson
. On Apr 1, 2008, at 10:07 PM, Bruce Thompson wrote: This is great news for April Fool's Day! On Apr 1, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 6.2. snip Here's a list of the changes for release 6.2 (from the NEWS

Re: amanda and dumpdates - aka amandates - file

2007-09-22 Thread Bruce Thompson
/etc/amandates is the amanda equivalent of /etc/dumpdates, but I wouldn't recommend symlinking them. While it might work out, I wouldn't assume that it will: dumpdates is dump's file, amandates is amanda's file. What I do is: % cat /dev/null /etc/amandates % chown amanda /etc/amandates

Re: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY

2007-06-08 Thread Bruce Thompson
On Jun 8, 2007, at 1:15 AM, fedora wrote: Is there any proper mysql backup that can backup database without stopping it?? If so, I don't have to worry about it? Of course it wasn't failed but I just worried if I recover it and the database or tables might be corrupt just because

Re: Amanda 2.5.2 bug report

2007-05-28 Thread Bruce Thompson
is now gone. Cheers, Bruce. On May 26, 2007, at 6:36 AM, Bruce Thompson wrote: Hi Jean-Louis, I'm giving that a try right now. Well, I tried it last night but awoke this morning to discover that I'd filling the /tmp partition and all h*ll was breaking loose with MailScanner! I hadn't realized

Re: autoflush and amstatus

2007-05-28 Thread Bruce Thompson
On May 28, 2007, at 11:36 AM, James Brown wrote: Hi, After enabling 'autoflush' in amanda.conf, and starting new amdump, I saw two entries for a backup job that was already on holding disk. One was waiting to be flushed, the other was getting estimates. (I had to kill the job since I

Re: Amanda 2.5.2 bug report

2007-05-26 Thread Bruce Thompson
the following lines to amanda.conf: debug_auth 1 debug_protocol 1 debug_dumper 1 Send me the Backtrace and the dumper.*.debug if it still crash. Jean-Louis Bruce Thompson wrote: Hi all, I've been having troubles with Amanda on my new box (an eMachines desktop running Fedora Core 6). I

Amanda 2.5.2 bug report

2007-05-25 Thread Bruce Thompson
Hi all, I've been having troubles with Amanda on my new box (an eMachines desktop running Fedora Core 6). I have four machines being backed up to vdisks with about 500Gb total being backed up with two clients active at the time of the crash. All three are running builds of 2.5.2. I

Re: Mac OSX dump

2006-10-09 Thread Bruce Thompson
Hi Robert, I run amanda on two PowerBooks and a Linux server. My amanda server is one of the PowerBooks using vtapes that get burned to DVD. That said, I would urge you _not_ to use dump to backup a Mac. Assuming you are using a recent version of Mac OS X (10.4.X, possibly 10.3 I'm not

Re: Failed with strange errors

2006-09-27 Thread Bruce Thompson
On Sep 27, 2006, at 12:15 PM, JB Segal wrote: Sadly, it's not that easy: (I'm a totally different person having the same problem. -sh-3.00$ amcheck smarterliving Amanda Tape Server Host Check - WARNING: holding disk /backup/smarterliving: only 57203900 kB free

Does a mixed environment of 2.5.1 server with pre-2.5.1 clients work?

2006-09-20 Thread Bruce Thompson
Hi, I've got a situation where an update of gtar has broken my backups on the server. I'll revert if I have to, but I'd prefer to get 2.5.1 working on the server. Meanwhile, 2.5.1 client is not building successfully on my Mac OS X clients. I've got 2.5.0p2 running successfully on the

Re: Does a mixed environment of 2.5.1 server with pre-2.5.1 clients work?

2006-09-20 Thread Bruce Thompson
On 9/20/06, Bruce Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a situation where an update of gtar has broken my backups on the server. I'll revert if I have to, but I'd prefer to get 2.5.1 working on the server. Meanwhile, 2.5.1 client is not building successfully on my Mac OS X clients. I've

Has anyone successfully built the client on Mac OS X 10.4.7?

2006-09-17 Thread Bruce Thompson
I'm getting the following error during the build: gcc -dynamiclib ${wl}-flat_namespace ${wl}-undefined ${wl}suppress - o .libs/libamanda-2.5.1.dylib .libs/alloc.o .libs/amfeatures.o .libs/ amflock.o .libs/bsd-security.o .libs/bsdtcp-security.o .libs/bsdudp- security.o .libs/clock.o

Sometimes clients aren't there...

2006-04-11 Thread Bruce Thompson
Hi all, I've got a small network at home that I'm now backing up regularly (Whew! I've been nervous ever since Retrospect died on me). With our setup, there are a couple of clients that may or may not be present when amdump runs. What I'm wondering is if there is a way I can tell amanda

Okay, this one's going to sound like a stupid idea :-)

2006-04-11 Thread Bruce Thompson
Hi all, Now that everything appears to be working, I'm getting ambitious (possibly stupid). For context, I'm backing up a small network to DVD-R sized vtapes that I then burn to DVD-R. Oh, did I mention that I'm somewhat paranoid? :-) I know that DVD-R, especially the cheap media that

Re: Anyone got 2.5.0 running with Mac OS X 10.4.6 clients?

2006-04-07 Thread Bruce Thompson
An update... First, thanks for the wild guess, Paul (nowait vs wait in xinetd.d). Setting nowait resulted in port unreachables... I've started using ethereal to see what the traffic looks like and it appears that amandad simply isn't responding. I'm seeing the UDP packet from the server

Re: Anyone got 2.5.0 running with Mac OS X 10.4.6 clients?

2006-04-07 Thread Bruce Thompson
BroadbandTuner (which adjusts some other parameters as well), I added: net.inet.udp.maxdgram=65535 to the end of /etc/sysctl.conf and rebooted. After that amcheck and amdump are working fine! Cheers, Bruce. On Apr 7, 2006, at 8:15 AM, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-04-07 16:23, Bruce Thompson

Anyone got 2.5.0 running with Mac OS X 10.4.6 clients?

2006-04-06 Thread Bruce Thompson
Hi all, Again, thanks to everyone for their quick help and suggestions so far. You've been invaluable! I've got my server backing up successfully and have moved on to setting up the PowerBooks. I've followed the steps at https://

Another setup question...

2006-04-05 Thread Bruce Thompson
Hi all, First of all, thanks Paul for the help with my server's setup. I've completed a full backup, a test restore, and I'm now burning the vtapes to DVD (thanks for the capacity note too, I've adjusted my tapedev accordingly). Next step is to set up our two PowerBooks. Currently, both

Re: Another setup question...

2006-04-05 Thread Bruce Thompson
Hi Geert, Thanks for the idea. At the moment I'm using my WRT54G access point as my DHCP server and HyperWRT doesn't provide that option. If switching my PowerBook becomes an issue then I'll switch over to using my Linux box as the DHCP server which will allow me to set up dhcpd as you

Re: DUMP: You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory

2006-04-05 Thread Bruce Thompson
On Apr 5, 2006, at 11:00 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 at 6:51pm, Anne Wilson wrote Following advice from Gene and the advice in the thread 'Strugging with splits in 2.5.0' I tried to set up to dump in DVD-size chunks. The dump appeared to run, but eventually the

Re: Strugging with splits in 2.5.0

2006-04-04 Thread Bruce Thompson
On Apr 4, 2006, at 8:16 AM, Paul Bijnens wrote: You probably have runtapes 1 (the default if not specified). Amanda still has to be able to put all the (eventually split) dumps somewhere on (v)tape. And 4000 MB 5089230 KB. Use a changer (chg-disk or chg-multi) and set runtapes 1. That