Re: Zmanda Windows Client ZIP files

2013-11-14 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Hello Markus, We have mostly win clients on Amanda for several years now. What you describe should work fine. I'll double check my procedure later this morning and post exactly how it goes. Chris -Sent from my droid On Nov 13, 2013 5:14 PM, Markus Iturriaga Woelfel mitur...@eecs.utk.edu wrote:

Re: ZWC on W2008-SP2 fails with Connection timed out

2012-11-06 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Neil Carter nltra...@gmail.com wrote: Well, after your eMail I checked and the firewall was enabled, with exceptions. I turned it completely off, no difference. So, I've uninstalled and re-installed, same exact situation. I've not been able to find much in

Re: ZWC on W2008-SP2 fails with Connection timed out

2012-11-05 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Neil Carter bigfoot...@gmail.com wrote: This box used to backup fine, along with all of the other servers in my disklist. Then, in comes 'Big Brother' and both changes the root password and adds the server to a domain. This was done with a couple of other

Taper died

2012-06-06 Thread Chris Nighswonger
I woke up this morning to the following in my last evening's backup report: FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY: taper: FATAL TypeError in method 'log_add', argument 2 of type 'char *' A look a the log shows what appears to be an mtx error the taper or changer does not know about. This appears to cause the

Re: Taper died

2012-06-06 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.comwrote: Chris, Apply the attached patch, this bug is already fixed in 3.3.1 Thanks Jean-Louis! Jean-Louis On 06/06/2012 11:13 AM, Chris Nighswonger wrote: I woke up this morning to the following in my last

Re: New problem, no access to ubuntu clients

2012-04-06 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Hi Gene, 2012/4/6 gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com On Friday, April 06, 2012 01:13:17 AM Nathan Stratton Treadway did opine: On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 23:37:51 -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: $ netstat -a | grep amanda on those machines... Does the output from that

Re: Windows - ZWC Encryption

2012-04-03 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:33 PM, April Rosenberg apr...@yelp.com wrote: Thank you, I am. I will look at upgrading. This seems to be the motive behind not releasing the code for the Win32 client under some OSS license. *From:* prashant.zma...@gmail.com [mailto:prashant.zma...@gmail.com]

Re: Fit algorithm revisited

2012-03-27 Thread Chris Nighswonger
FWIW here is info from my 3.3.0 I have a large DLE which seems to end up lumped in as well. amandabackup@scriptor:/etc/amanda/campus$ amadmin campus balance due-date #fsorig kB out kB balance -- 3/23 Fri2 301391927 239048829

Windows Vista/7

2012-01-23 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Hi all, Does anybody have a disklist used for backing up Windows Vista/7 user data they would be willing to share in a sanitized form? From my little bit of reading, it appears that the storage of user data changed quite a bit from XP to Vista to 7. What I am looking for specifically is a

Robot Woes

2012-01-20 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Having exhausted all other resources, I'm turning to the list... I have just installed a Superloader 3 with a DLT-V4 drive on my Amanda backup system. This drive replaces a non-robotic DLT-V4 which failed recently. I loaded up my original 12 tapes along with three fresh tapes and a cleaning tape

Tapetype request

2012-01-12 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Does anyone have a tapetype for a Quantum Super Loader 3 with a DLT-V4 drive they would be willing to share before I go off hacking up my own? The wiki has one for the Super Loader 3 with a DLT-S4 drive, but I'm not sure if that will work. Kind Regards, Chris Christopher Nighswonger Faculty

Re: Zmanda Windows Client with dumpuser other than amandabackup

2011-07-21 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Hi Alden, On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Alden Timme alden.ti...@gmail.com wrote: Is there really no other way for the backup to work? I.e. something like being able to set client_username as you can with rsh or ssh authentication? The truth of the matter is that ZWC is a proprietary

Re: Fare Thee Well

2010-10-15 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: Dustin, I've been a member of the Amanda community sufficiently long to have seen the departure of a handful of star contributors. I count you among them, your impact on the project has been enormous. As you leave for

Re: Amanda changes bite me again.

2010-09-29 Thread Chris Nighswonger
amcheck dead in water: [ama...@coyote amanda-3.2.0alpha.svn.3460]$ amcheck Daily Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /usr/dumps: 620929024 kB disk space available, using 620417024 kB amcheck-device: syntax error at

Re: Nitpicks?

2010-09-21 Thread Chris Nighswonger
This may be a little late, but it would be nice to have a switch on most status, etc. utils to format the output for texting to a mobile device rather than email. According to Verizon's website, the 160 char limit on text messages is as follows: The 160 character limit includes the sender's

Re: Problems After Upgrading to 3.1.2

2010-08-29 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Steven Backus bac...@whimsy.med.utah.edu wrote: Perhaps you've built Amanda without indicating the printing utility? This was not necessary in the past.  The 3hole.ps just worked. Check the amreport logfile for more detail, and have a look at the source to

Re: More on 3hole.ps Problem

2010-08-25 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Hi Steven, On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Steven Backus bac...@whimsy.med.utah.edu wrote: Dustin and Jean-Louis are both on vacation, Dustin asked me to look into this further.  Here's the pertinent log: Tue Aug 24 23:59:10 2010: amreport: pid 31955 ruid 0 euid 0 version 3.1.2: start at

Re: Review Request: amvault --only-fulls option

2010-08-23 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: I've already rewritten amvault to use the same underlying machinery as amfetchdump and taper -- at the same time.  That means that amvault can now re-assemble dumps from the source volume and re-split them on the

Re: Review Request: don't require that CONT_FILENAME have no spaces

2010-08-21 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote:  http://github.com/djmitche/amanda/commit/z8198 Is it me or is this a broken link? No, it's me.  I totally botched

Re: Review Request: don't require that CONT_FILENAME have no spaces

2010-08-20 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.comwrote: With Jean-Louis out of town, my patches are piling up. We have a strict review policy that at least one other dev needs to review a patch before it goes in. Hopefully someone here can free the logjam. This

Re: Restart of /etc/xinetd.d/amanda

2010-08-02 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Steven Backus bac...@whimsy.med.utah.eduwrote: Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: That particular timeout is hard-coded in amandad.c -- REP_TIMEOUT. It's six hours, though - if your estimates are taking that long, you may want to consider

Re: ZWC exclude path wildcard support question

2010-07-20 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Hi Prashant, On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Prashant Joshi prash...@zmanda.com wrote: Hi Chris, What version of ZWC Community edition are you using? 3.1.beta I added the following disklist and it worked fine for me:

Re: ZWC exclude path wildcard support question

2010-07-19 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote: Since no one has spoken up, I'm calling

Re: ZWC exclude path wildcard support question

2010-07-14 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote: I'm wondering if the problem described below is a bug or expected behavior? Well, if it's not in the docs, then it's

Re: ZWC exclude path wildcard support question

2010-07-14 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote: Since no one has spoken up, I'm calling it a bug. The wildcard is clearly supported in a filename in exclude lists with ZWC

Re: ZWC exclude path wildcard support question

2010-07-12 Thread Chris Nighswonger
I'm wondering if the problem described below is a bug or expected behavior? On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote: Does ZWC support wildcards in exclude path notations? If so, could someone provide an example of the proper syntax? C:\\Documents

ZWC exclude path wildcard support question

2010-07-08 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Does ZWC support wildcards in exclude path notations? If so, could someone provide an example of the proper syntax? C:\\Documents\ and\ Settings\\*\\foo\\bar does not work in my sandbox. (ie. This is intended to exclude foo\bar under every user's documents and settings directory.) Kind Regards,

Re: ZWC and exclude list not behaving as expected

2010-07-01 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: 1. Correct exclude pattern (Added using ZMC): * 192.168.15.217 C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents/My Music C:/Documents and

ZWC and exclude list not behaving as expected

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Hi all, I'm here again with another ZWC-exclude list issue. This paste (http://pastebin.mozilla.org/743992) shows a DLE for a ZWC client and a listing of the resulting dump. This configuration is setup with the sole purpose of testing the ZWC and exclude lists. As you can see, the exclude list

Re: ZWC and exclude list not behaving as expected

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Nighswonger
http://pastebin.mozilla.org/744016 Updated to include a bit more information. On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote: Hi all, I'm here again with another ZWC-exclude list issue. This paste (http://pastebin.mozilla.org/743992) shows a DLE

Re: ZWC and exclude list not behaving as expected

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote: So... am I missing something that I don't know about or is this a bug? Replying on Paddy's behalf: There's a 3.1.1 that's

Re: ZWC and exclude list question (another one)

2010-06-24 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote: So is the only way to do this to have a dumptype setup using 'exclude' and 'exclude append' to catch each of potentially 300 some

ZWC and exclude list question (another one)

2010-06-23 Thread Chris Nighswonger
I'm wanting to exclude from my user's Windows clients all multimedia files. I plan to use regexps to match file extensions (ie. ./*.mp3 and so forth). It is my understanding that ZWC does not respect exclude lists stored on the client. So is the only way to do this to have a dumptype setup using

ZWC and exclude/include lists

2010-06-09 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Does ZWC honor exclude/include lists? I have a DLE like: foo.bar.com C:\\Documents\ and\ Settings { exclude list C:\\.exclude zwc-compress estimate server } c:\.exclude includes several entries like: .\user1 .\user2 Looking at a tcpdump of the resulting transactions, I see the exclude

Re: ZWC and exclude/include lists

2010-06-09 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Paddy Sreenivasan pa...@zmanda.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote: Does ZWC honor exclude/include lists? I have a DLE like: foo.bar.com C:\\Documents\ and\ Settings {  exclude list C:\\.exclude

ZWC template not applying as expected

2010-06-08 Thread Chris Nighswonger
I have a template setup in ZWC which contains the single entry: C:\Documents and Settings. The corresponding DLE is: foo.bar.com c: zwc-compress The problem is that Amanda then backs up the entire C drive rather than just the Documents and Settings folder. What is it I'm missing? Kind Regards,

Re: ZWC template not applying as expected

2010-06-08 Thread Chris Nighswonger
, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: Chris, Glad I was able to help. I'll let you know if I learn more but do believe/agree with you that it seems to be a documentation issue. best, brian On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 01:08:42PM -0400, Chris Nighswonger wrote: Hi Brian, On Tue, Jun 8

Re: ZWC template not applying as expected

2010-06-08 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Paddy Sreenivasan pa...@zmanda.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote: I have a template setup in ZWC which contains the single entry: C:\Documents and Settings. The corresponding DLE is: foo.bar.com c

DLE exclude file problem

2010-05-21 Thread Chris Nighswonger
When defining DLE like this: hostname diskname [ diskdevice ] { normal holdingdisk never } [ spindle [ interface ] ] Is it possible to use the 'exclude' or 'include' directive inside of the disktype definition? I have tried this multiple ways and cannot seem to get it to work. My latest

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