amanda server cannot back itself up

2008-03-20 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
I know I'm missing something simple here; but I have beat my head against this for hours. Here's the deal: I have a RHEL 4 machine 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL (Slightly older kernel due to Apple XServe SCSI Drivers). I have installed Amanda 2.5.2p1 server, it works; several other clients have connected

RE: can't make on Solaris 10: Failed make install!

2008-01-09 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
so... WAB -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dustin J. Mitchell Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 4:44 PM To: Byarlay, Wayne A. Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: can't make on Solaris 10 Compiling on Solaris is always an adventure

RE: can't make on Solaris 10: Failed make install!

2008-01-09 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dustin J. Mitchell Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:37 AM To: Byarlay, Wayne A. Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: can't make on Solaris 10: Failed make install! On Jan 9, 2008 10:19 AM, Byarlay, Wayne A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

RE: can't make on Solaris 10: Failed make install!

2008-01-09 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
, Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote: Yes; in fact here's a tall screen grab of the tail end of the make install: [...] ranlib /usr/local/lib/libamanda.a ../libtool: line 6226: ranlib: command not found *** Error code 127 The program ranlib makes an index of the archive to speed up the linking

can't make on Solaris 10

2008-01-08 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Greetings... I am trying to ./configure and make Amanda 2.5.2p1 on a Sun Solaris 10 sparc machine I'm a solaris noob. I read the manual on http://www.amanda.org/docs/systemnotes.html#id323498 which advised me to add /usr/ccs/bin to the path, which I did; and the ./configure works fine with

LTO Tape Bar Codes...

2007-03-20 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Greetings Amanda users, Somewhat off-topic since it concerns hardware, but, hey, it's still a backup/archive question... Does anybody know of a utility which allows me to print my own LTO3 bar code labels? Man, these things are a RIP-OFF to buy! One sheet of 20 stickers, like $70! WAB

RE: LTO Tape Bar Codes...

2007-03-20 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: LTO Tape Bar Codes... Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote: Greetings Amanda users, Somewhat off-topic since it concerns hardware, but, hey, it's still a backup/archive question... Does anybody know of a utility which allows me to print my own LTO3 bar code labels? Man

RE: bare metal restore, basically

2007-02-28 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
, basically On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote: So, I have this machine which had all its filesystems being backed up by AMANDA, and the /dev/sda died. Is there a method I can use to boot from, say, Ubuntu, or knoppix, or some other CD-based OS, run the AMANDA client, connect

bare metal restore, basically

2007-02-27 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
So, I have this machine which had all its filesystems being backed up by AMANDA, and the /dev/sda died. Is there a method I can use to boot from, say, Ubuntu, or knoppix, or some other CD-based OS, run the AMANDA client, connect to the server where the latest backups reside, and basically rebuild

estimate in dumptype in amanda.conf

2006-07-03 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Hi all, I want to specify estimate server in my dumptype definition in my amanda.conf file; however, amanda doesn't seem to like it: /etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda.conf, line 68: dump type parameter expected /etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda.conf, line 68: end of line expected Here's the section of the

New AMANDA server cannot one reach old client. (hostname lookup failed with the wrong IP)

2006-03-13 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Hi, I have a RHE4 machine with the standard AMANDA config, and then I copied over my amanda.conf file, disklist, and chg-conf file from the old AMANDA server. Now, all the clients report OK, except one! Stupid old AIX! Amcheck says, ERROR: stupid.server.edu [addr 555.555.555.555: hostname

RE: New AMANDA server cannot one reach old client. (hostname lookup failed with the wrong IP)

2006-03-13 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
PM To: Matt Hyclak Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: New AMANDA server cannot one reach old client. (hostname lookup failed with the wrong IP) On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 at 4:03pm, Matt Hyclak wrote On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 03:46:13PM -0500, Byarlay, Wayne A. enlightened us: I have a RHE4

RE: New AMANDA server cannot one reach old client. (hostname lookup failed with the wrong IP)

2006-03-13 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
server cannot one reach old client. (hostname lookup failed with the wrong IP) On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 at 4:03pm, Matt Hyclak wrote On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 03:46:13PM -0500, Byarlay, Wayne A. enlightened us: I have a RHE4 machine with the standard AMANDA config, and then I copied over my amanda.conf

RE: New AMANDA server cannot one reach old client. (hostname lookup failed with the wrong IP)

2006-03-13 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
oh, and the incorrect IP is actually the host address; so it's thinking that its own IP is that of the stupid.aix.client. So I guess actually the stupid server is the amanda host... :( -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Byarlay, Wayne

RE: New AMANDA server cannot one reach old client. (hostname lookup failed with the wrong IP)

2006-03-13 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
OK I GOT IT! Stupid.server's hosts file was WRONG! And super duper old. thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Byarlay, Wayne A. Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 4:57 PM Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: RE: New AMANDA server cannot one

Preparing to migrate

2006-03-04 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Hi folks, I'm getting to migrate my AMANDA from one server to another, and I was just wondering if there were any pitfalls I should be aware of. Let me describe my config: Current setup: AMANDA 2.4.4p1 on a RH9, backing up to Disk using the tape changer method. Installed using the downloaded

Dump larger than tape error

2005-02-28 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Hi, all! I've been running dumps to hard disk using chg-multi stuff for about a year now, very good, no complaints. But recently, suddenly, one of the computers I back up is failing. Here's what's in the e-mail: _+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+

RE: Dump larger than tape error

2005-02-28 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
] On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 1:58 PM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Dump larger than tape error On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 01:35:15PM -0500, Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote: Hi, all! /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/luke.lib.purdue.edu_var_0.new: Cannot write

RE: Amanda server crashed!!!

2005-01-31 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
I believe you can just untar the files straight off the tape? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Alford Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 6:30 AM To: Amanda Mailing List Subject: Amanda server crashed!!! My Amanda backup server crashed,

RE: The use of Amanda without tapes ?

2004-08-13 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Oh, another guy who wrote a good tutorial is Andreas Ntaflos. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Moser Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 12:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The use of Amanda without tapes ? Hello everyone, I've got

What does it mean: ERROR: hostname: [host hostname:Port XXXX not secure]

2004-08-13 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
I'm working on installing AMANDA on a new RH9 server. All my clients still have an older version of the client installed; and they work fine with the old backup server. However, with this new RH9 one, when I run amcheck, AMANDA appears to try and contact them, but I get an error message that says:

RE: The use of Amanda without tapes ?

2004-08-13 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Andreas, I myself have been working to this end off on for a while now. It just so happens that this week, I am attempting to finalize my backups to Disk. I suppose you could do the holding-disk trick the other guy mentioned. But if you want to use a large disk to mimic several tapes, thus

Rewind a disk backup tape

2004-05-26 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Hi All! I'm using AMANDA 2.4.3, and backing up to disk by faking a chg-multi device. Everything's set up, it's backing up correctly, but I am now trying to restore. I tried to restore a filesystem using amrestore that does not exist... and now, whenever I try to do one that DOES exist, Amanda

RE: Rewind a disk backup tape

2004-05-26 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
heh, I found a file called info, which said: position 30 I changed it to say position 1 and it worked! Hopefully this wouldn't mess it all up... -Original Message- From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 1:24 PM To: Byarlay, Wayne A. Cc: [EMAIL

amrestore: 28: reached end of information

2004-05-26 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
OK, I've got another problem. Figured out how to position the fake tape; thanks to Paul for help. Now, when I'm restoring stuff via the following command: /usr/sbin/amrestore -p file:/data1/amanda/tape4 servername usr | tar -xvf - Eventually, it looks as though it's right in the middle of

RE: tape device /dev/st0 not responding - RH9

2004-04-01 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gene Heskett Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: tape device /dev/st0 not responding - RH9 On Tuesday 30 March 2004 11:37, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 at 11:25am, Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote That unfortunately

tape device /dev/st0 not responding - RH9

2004-03-30 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Greetings all. I have a computer here, that I'm trying to get amanda installed configured on. The OS is RedHat9, and I've got an adaptec SCSI card with a Quantum DLT7000 in there. I know the tape device is fine hardware-wise, because I have a different hard drive with an old Debian image on it,

RE: tape device /dev/st0 not responding - RH9

2004-03-30 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
11:18 AM To: Byarlay, Wayne A. Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: tape device /dev/st0 not responding - RH9 * Byarlay, Wayne A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040330 11:14]: Greetings all. I have a computer here, that I'm trying to get amanda installed configured on. The OS is RedHat9, and I've got

RE: tape device /dev/st0 not responding - RH9

2004-03-30 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
-Original Message- From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:25 AM To: Byarlay, Wayne A. Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: tape device /dev/st0 not responding - RH9 On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 at 11:14am, Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote Problem with the RH9

RE: why too large ?

2003-11-20 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Perhaps in the next version, the AMANDA Powers-that-be could change this error message to read, The total size of all of today's dumps exceeds Tapelength size. Is more clear than, Dumps way too big, must skip incremental dumps. ...Unless my version is somehow untrue. wab -Original

RE: data write: File too large

2003-11-18 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Thanks for the responses... Upgrading at this time would be GREAT. Unfortunately this is not going to happen anytime soon. I have another hard drive with RH9 and 2.4.4 on it, but it's only half-configured, and it took a while to get to that point. As per the current, Irridum-dust, ancient setup,

RE: data write: File too large

2003-11-18 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Never Mind, I was under the impression that, for some reason, the holdingdisk {} section of amanda.conf could not exist in my version. But I put it there, with an appropriate Chunksize, and ... amcheck did not complain at all. In fact it said 4096 size requested, that's plenty. If you don't hear

data write: File too large

2003-11-17 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Hi all, I checked the archives on this problem... but they all suggested to adjust the chunksize of my holdingdisk section in my amanda.conf. However, I have ver. 2.4.1, and there's no holdingdisk section IN my amanda.conf! Is the chunksize the problem? I've got filesystems MUCH larger than this

ERROR: server: [access as backup not allowed from backup@server]

2003-11-06 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Greetings all! A little while ago, I suddenly started getting this error message in my Amanda reports: ERROR: server: [access as backup not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Where server is my server name, Not localhost or anything). Thus, the server which actually runs AMANDA is not getting

amrestore + tar not working.

2003-10-09 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Hi. I just want to extract * from a tar'ed tape archive to '.' (current directory on the backup server). I've done it before and it worked OK. Maybe I wrote something down wrong from before. /usr/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0 servername pathname | tar xvf - All I get for any server/filesystem is:

RE: amrestore + tar not working.

2003-10-09 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
: Byarlay, Wayne A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: amrestore + tar not working. AHA! It was a permissions thing, as far as the actual extraction. However, it appears as though I'm not out of the woods yet... the untarring process

Installation instructions for Amanda

2003-09-04 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Does anybody know where I can get detailed instructions as to how to install configure the latest version of amanda? Server and clients. wab

faq-o-matic broken

2003-09-03 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
The Faq-o-matic appears to be broken at amanda.org...? wab

Spam is getting old...

2003-08-27 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Title: Message What is the possibility we could change the address of this mailing list? I don't want to unsubscribe just yet... but it's getting pretty annoying. wab

RE: Configuration Guide.

2003-08-09 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
I've always thought that Amanda for Dummies would be a best-seller. I'd buy it! Even though, (some might disagree), I'm not a dummy. usually. Of course, somebody named Amanda would probably sue them for defamation of character, so they'd have to put A.M.A.N.D.A.. wab -Original Message-

RE: Virus alert

2003-08-04 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Hey, AMANDA is part of Red Hat! so this isn't just a Unix forum. Anyway, I need my Windoze machine so I can play games like Battlefield 1942. Oh yeah, and work, too. OK Back to Topic. sorry for ths spam. -Original Message- From: Marc Rassbach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

RE: Tapeless Backup using chg-multi (ver. 2.4.1p1)

2003-07-18 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
]' Subject: Re: Tapeless Backup using chg-multi On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:26:38PM -0500, Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote: I am attempting to use AMANDA to write to Disk instead of Tape. I have followed the directions in the archives to the best of my ability... but I'm still running into an error. I try

Re: Tapeless Backup using chg-multi

2003-07-18 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Audrey BROCHET wrote: You must use at least the 2.4.3 version of amanda to be able to backup in a file instead of a tape. Is this true?? If so, I found my problem!!! wab p.s. Sorry Jon, meant this to go to the group but accidentally replied to you alone. Wayne Byarlay

Tapeless Backup using chg-multi

2003-07-17 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
I am attempting to use AMANDA to write to Disk instead of Tape. I have followed the directions in the archives to the best of my ability... but I'm still running into an error. I try to use amlabel (/usr/sbin/amlabel -f DailyNAS1 DailyNAS01 slot 1)to prepare the directories, but I keep getting