Re: Database Backup

Axel - Look in the Postgresql source area and/or perhaps your distribution for this: files/502.pgsql It is a shell script that does a live dump of your database to files which can then be backed up. Backing up Postgresql directly will be of no use as you already know. Just fire it off a few

Re: Long numbers running together in amanda output

a different format line? Look for columnspec in amanda.conf. Here's one I use that stays under 80 columns (it's 79, I think): columnspec OrigKB=1:8,OutKB=1:8,DumpRate=1:7,TapeRate=1:6 -- ~~ Doug Silver Network Manager Urchin Software Corp

Re: sanity check, please

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Doug Silver wrote: On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a server farm of about 30 machines, most on various RedHat distributions, a few AIX. I have 3 tape drives, an 8, a 24 and a 40Gig, all HP DAT

Re: OT question about tape drive cleaning...

cycle (~60 days, roughly 3 hours per Amanda run). I'm certainly not an expert on this, so YMMV :) ps - I found my cleaning tape on mwave.com, it was a 4mm Sony tape. -- ~~ Doug Silver Network Manager Urchin Corporation http://www.urchin.com ~~

Re: getting further

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Re: Backing up PostgreSQL?

run. -- ~~ Doug Silver Network Manager Urchin Software Corp. http://www.urchin.com ~~

Re: ./var/adm not being excluded

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Re: Tape Labelling

e.g. on my FreeBSD box with a SCSI tape drive, I'm using /dev/nrsa0 where sa0 is the TAPE_DEVICE take a look in /dev/ (and dmesg) for what your system is using for it's tape device and give it another try. HTH -- ~~ Doug Silver Network Manager Urchin

Re: amcheck inetd looping error

-- ~~ Doug Silver Network Manager Urchin Corporation http://www.urchin.com ~~ On 28 May 2002, James Shearer wrote: A two-fold newbie (Amanda, Solaris) asks: I am having some problems making amanda happy as a client on a Solaris 8 box

Re: manual backup

--with-udpportrange=1200,1250 then you can open up that port range on your firewall. If you have some specific questions I might be able to answer them off list if necessary. -- ~~ Doug Silver Network Manager Urchin Corporation http://www.urchin.com ~~

Re: I need help getting amanda working

]' (1st Monday is VOL11). If I try to put in VOL 22 on a Monday, Amanda will not dump it to the tape but it will dump it to the holding disk. Time for some coffee ... -- ~~ Doug Silver Network Manager Urchin Corporation http://www.urchin.com ~~

Re: I need help getting amanda working

in the various configuration areas, i.e. /tmp/Amanda and /var/amanda/log/TestSet1 for information as to what Amanda is doing -- or not doing. -- ~~ Doug Silver Network Manager Urchin Corporation http://www.urchin.com ~~

Re: How to set up clients

is all about is backing up a classroom environment. So, how do I setup a client? Andy -- ~~ Doug Silver Network Manager Urchin Corporation http://www.urchin.com ~~

Re: Turning down messages

3890 sendbackup: end \ Which are making my logs and email large (some have a bunch of sockets that are ignored). I don't want to lose valuable information, though. Thanks for any help you can provide. -- ~~ Doug Silver Network Manager

Re: don't know what's next

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Re: localhost: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

amandahosts entry it would give a different error, like this: ERROR: fred: [access as operator not allowed from operator@fred] amandahostsauth failed -- ~~ Doug Silver Network Manager Urchin Corporation http://www.urchin.com

Re: Which nst0 or st0 in post amdump functions is desireable?

night for me. And no, you don't need to use the same device as is referenced in the amanda.conf file. ~~ Doug Silver Network Manager Urchin Corporation http://www.urchin.com ~~ On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Doug

Re: sanity check, please

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Re: sanity check, please

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Doug Silver wrote: On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a server farm of about 30 machines, most on various RedHat distributions, a few AIX. I have 3 tape drives, an 8, a 24 and a 40Gig, all HP DAT

Amrecover error -- index directory DNE?

/dumps: 13302407 KB disk space available, that's plenty NOTE: skipping tape-writable test Tape VOL35 label ok Server check took 0.029 seconds Am I missing something here?!! ~ Doug Silver Network Manager Quantified Systems, Inc ~

Re: Permission _still_ denied

to open up privileged ports (1024 -- I think)? That almost seems the problem since if that user can't open up a connection on port 960 to listen, but it can on 59116. I could be wrong though ;) -doug -- ~ Doug Silver Network Manager Quantified Systems, Inc

RE: Amanda and Firewalls.

. Or rather, it's worth the risk ;) Let me know if you would like further advice with the firewall setup/etc. My setup is the same as yours, though I'd guess we probably have different firewall software. -doug -- ~ Doug Silver Network Manager Quantified Systems

Re: Amrecover error -- index directory DNE?

On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Chris Pascoe wrote: Doug Silver writes: [root@dev amanda]# ll /var/amanda/daily/index total 21 drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 1024 Apr 5 11:07 ./ drwxr-x--- 5 root wheel 1536 Apr 5 07:21 ../ .. drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Apr 5 11:07 dev

Re: Mysql backup

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Re: Amanda and Firewalls.

portranges, it won't open up anything on your firewall that the public can see, it's more that your firewall is configured to pass such connections on to the clients and vice-versa. -- ~ Doug Silver Network Manager Quantified Systems, Inc ~

Re: SCSI tape error with FreeBSD

-- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Dyslexics of the world, untie! -- ~ Doug Silver Network Manager Quantified Systems, Inc ~

SCSI tape error with FreeBSD

of this level 0 dump: Mon Apr 1 17:27:47 2002 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /etc to /dev/nsa0 DUMP: bad sblock magic number DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. Any suggestions? Thanks! -- ~ Doug Silver Network Manager

Re: Not writing tape label...

/dev/nrst0 n = non-rewinding On BSDI, FreeBSD the devices were nrst0 and nrsa0 respectively for a SCSI tape drive. Perhaps doing a man mt would give you the correct settings for Solaris. -- ~ Doug Silver Network Manager Quantified Systems, Inc ~

Re: Permissions errors....

permissions on /sbin as well, though that should be ok. Does the /tmp/amanda debug files on the client lend any further insight into this? -- ~ Doug Silver Network Manager Quantified Systems, Inc ~

Re: Amanda through translated addresses

. ;| -- ~ Doug Silver Network Manager Quantified Systems, Inc ~ On 20 Mar 2002, Pedro Caria wrote: yes, i solved this by patching this file security.c it's a dirty hack, but in my setup it doesn't worry me

Re: Amanda through translated addresses

for the hosts. Check the debug files on the server to confirm what amandad reports for the defaults. I use FQDN for all machines, but that's just me ;) ~ Doug Silver Network Manager Quantified Systems, Inc ~ On Mon, 18 Mar

Re: Amanda through translated addresses

amcheck to one or two clients to see what the packets actually look like. -- ~ Doug Silver Network Manager Quantified Systems, Inc ~ On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Lee Parsons wrote: Our NAT addresses are class C (192.168.0.xxx

Re: Amanda through translated addresses

machines. Whats the proper syntax for running tcpdump on amcheck? Thats not something that I often need to run. --- Lee Parsons LAN Administrator The Minnesota Daily www.mndaily.com On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Doug Silver wrote: Ok, if you run this: nslookup `hostname

Re: Amanda through translated addresses

? Debug files will be in /tmp/amanda. -- ~ Doug Silver Network Manager Quantified Systems, Inc ~

Re: amanda debugging

ftp.quantified.net ... 200 Dump host set to ftp.quantified.net. amrecover setdisk /dev/sd0g 200 Disk set to /dev/sd0g. -- ~ Doug Silver Network Manager Quantified Systems, Inc ~

Re: Documentation

the client/end-user perspective, I think it's better than nothing. just my $.02 ;) -- ~ Doug Silver Network Manager Quantified Systems, Inc ~

Re: Exclude list

Default Gnutar backup index yes program GNUTAR compress client fast exclude list /var/amanda/exclude-list } -- ~ Doug Silver Network Manager Quantified Systems, Inc ~

Re: root-tar failing

on exclude.gtar. I got mine to where I wanted it a long time ago, and have attempted to forget about that traumatic ordeal, since. I think you need to wildcard the directories like so: ./tmp/* ./var/spool/* etc -- ~ Doug Silver Network Manager

Re: General Question

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Re: Can you build amanda on one computer and move it to another?

everything is built you could tar it up and copy it over, but your environment will dictate that I'm sure -d ~ Doug Silver Network Manager Quantified Systems, Inc ~

New machine timeout

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Re: Problems with amrecover

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Planner bug in 2.4.2p2 - again

and the planner? I think it previously happened on a partition using gtar as the dumper. the server is a bsdi 4.1 box, with 2.4.2p2 installed. I'm not on the list, so please include me in your replies. Thanks! -- ~ Doug Silver Network Manager Quantified Systems, Inc ~

Re: FreeBSD 4.3/inetd failing

If the guilty party of this thread can put forth another $.1, I just wanted to point out my frustration in trying to determine why amanda was having this problem with inetd. I had honestly forgotten about the tcp wrapper part, and it didn't occur to me how inetd/amanda would react if there

Re: FreeBSD 4.3/inetd failing

74695 finish time Thu Jun 7 10:34:48 2001 Any other suggestions??? Thanks. Doug Silver

Re: FreeBSD 4.3/inetd failing

error receiving message: timeout amandad: pid 74695 finish time Thu Jun 7 10:34:48 2001 Any other suggestions??? Thanks. Doug Silver

Re: FreeBSD 4.3/inetd failing

R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ~ Doug Silver Quantified Systems, Inc ~

FreeBSD 4.3/inetd failing

, it appears to be a FBSD one. Thanks! ~ Doug Silver Quantified Systems, Inc ~

Re: FreeBSD 4.3/inetd failing

Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ~ Doug Silver Quantified Systems, Inc ~

Yet another Insecure Port ...

errors through the firewall, so I'm not sure how to further debug this. Any suggestions? Has anyone got Amanda to work using the udpportrange/portrange options through a firewall? Thanks! ~ Doug Silver 619 235-2665 Quantified Systems, Inc

amrestore/tar problem

to backup "/logs" on one entry and everything else on the other. The tape can't back up everything (it's a DDS4 tape and the partition is 50Gb). Thanks! -- ~~~~~ Doug Silver 619 235-2665 Quantified Systems, Inc ~

Re: amrestore/tar problem

y to force Amanda to accept two disklist entries for the same partition, but with different options? ... Since you're using GNU tar, you can use "logs" for one and "logs/." for the other. Doug Silver John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ~ Doug Silver 619 235-2665 Quantified Systems, Inc ~