Re: Amanda Backup

2005-03-02 Thread Eric Siegerman
entirely. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus

Re: Linux Storage Options

2005-02-28 Thread Eric Siegerman
capacity pulls ahead in the race. If in that eventuality you are going to have to adopt another backup solution, the reasonable choice is to adopt that other backup solutiuon now. Gentlemen, your timing is impeccable :-) :-) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL

Re: CVS info on FAQ

2005-02-25 Thread Eric Siegerman
, but someone new might not know that.) This update should go on Amanda's CVS page on Sourceforge, too. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist

Re: Amanda-2.4.4p4 - RedHat 7.3 - Samba-3.0

2005-02-24 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:19:31AM +, Tom Brown wrote: FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: I posted about this in the last week or two. Look for strange in the list archives. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle

Re: Amanda's report

2005-02-24 Thread Eric Siegerman
by traversing the file system via readdir() like any other process -- even though it does the actual backup directly, via the special file. Well, I've seen things done in even-weirder ways... -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle

Re: Runtar error

2005-02-21 Thread Eric Siegerman
) groups=... -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus

Re: Issue making amanda on Solaris 8

2005-02-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
configure; otherwise, stale feature detections from the previous setup might continue to screw things up. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because

Re: invalid compressed data--crc error and other corruption on disk files

2005-02-18 Thread Eric Siegerman
the tape drive was in the loop? I'm wondering about the possibility that two independent sources of data corruption -- NFS and the tape subsystem -- might be confounding your attempts to isolate the problem. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: invalid compressed data--crc error and other corruption on disk files

2005-02-18 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:33:44PM +, Thomas Charles Robinson wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 16:30, Eric Siegerman wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 11:36:46AM +, Thomas Charles Robinson wrote: [an excellently clear, concise, and complete [1] problem report Oops, I forgot to type

Re: invalid compressed data--crc error and other corruption ondiskfiles

2005-02-18 Thread Eric Siegerman
as Amanda now runs simultaneous gzip's. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling

Re: invalid compressed data--crc error and other corruption on disk files

2005-02-18 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 04:27:30PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: It might be a beta, but its a beta thats been used by the whole planet since back in 2002, without noticable errors. Fair enough. I stand corrected. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Amanda's report

2005-02-16 Thread Eric Siegerman
recognize are in hard-coded lists in sendbackup-dump.c and sendbackup-gnutar.c. If you get a recurring STRANGE message and want Amanda to classify it for you, you can add an appropriate regex to the appropriate list. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: amrecover @#%%%@@!!!!!

2005-02-16 Thread Eric Siegerman
? -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus. - Umberto Eco, Foucault's

Re: AMDUMP not working under DEBIAN 3

2005-02-16 Thread Eric Siegerman
reasoning as for gtar. Hmmm, maybe rundump could take care of running dump in the correct group, on those systems where that matters, instead of not being used at all on such systems... -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle

Re: VXA-2 packet-loader issues -- a scsi question added

2005-02-15 Thread Eric Siegerman
it. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus

Re: forcing skipped incrementals into holding disk

2005-02-15 Thread Eric Siegerman
tape space, and time as well. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling

Re: Exabyte VXA-2-Packet-Loader: new problem

2005-02-15 Thread Eric Siegerman
as 20 or 30 second delays IIRC. Rather than a hard-coded delay (which is suboptimal if it's too long and breaks things if it's too short), why not write a little mtsync script that polls the drive for readiness, by doing mt status commands in a loop until one succeeds? -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric

Re: Flushed, but not forgotten

2005-02-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
think what that might be. But simply the fact that they've been superceded doesn't keep them from being deleted once they've been flushed.) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many

Re: VXA-2 packet-loader issues and AMANDA [Fwd: hard luck with the new autoloader]

2005-02-08 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:41:17PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: Can on look at the device connectors, or better yet, the external connectors, and tell if a device is LVD or SE? Or does one have to check the HW doc? I have no idea. Sorry. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont

Re: VXA-2 packet-loader issues and AMANDA [Fwd: hard luck with the new autoloader]

2005-02-07 Thread Eric Siegerman
...) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus. - Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

Re: mounting/identifying a new tape drive

2005-02-03 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:47:34PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: rm -f /dev/rmt/* devfsadm -c tape Does that do (the tape-related subset of) the same thing as a reconfiguration boot, i.e. with -r? -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal

Re: mounting/identifying a new tape drive

2005-02-03 Thread Eric Siegerman
error message, instead of a generic one; that means the system now understands that /dev/rmt/0n is in fact a tape drive. So, taking the message at face value ... Was there a tape loaded? Was the drive online? -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: VXA-2 packet-loader issues and AMANDA [Fwd: hard luck with the new autoloader]

2005-02-03 Thread Eric Siegerman
it was before ... send the #!*~ thing back for a refund! :-) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun

Re: AW: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-31 Thread Eric Siegerman
-ideal conditions (magnetic) or too new for there to be much real-world data (optical) -- not that I've made much of a study of it recently, I admit. But whatever technology(ies?) you choose, making multiple copies is excellent insurance. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont

Re: Removing unwanted dumps.

2005-01-31 Thread Eric Siegerman
for dumps that *have* been taped -- until the tape gets overwritten one tapecycle hence. How does it work for untaped dumps like these?) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults

Re: Removing unwanted dumps.

2005-01-31 Thread Eric Siegerman
info that Amanda keeps around. What you say applies to curinfo itself, but what about the rest? If nothing else, those index files will take up some space; will they ever be deleted, or will they hang around forever? -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-27 Thread Eric Siegerman
idea. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus

Re: Fedora Core 3 - which version of tar??

2005-01-24 Thread Eric Siegerman
remain necessary until the bug gets fixed. Gene, on your system, if you build Amanda as a vanilla, unprivileged user -- not root, not in the disk group -- and then install it as root, what specifically goes wrong? -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Fedora Core 3 - which version of tar??

2005-01-24 Thread Eric Siegerman
looking forward to the results :-) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling

Re: Dump level, behaviour change

2005-01-21 Thread Eric Siegerman
. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus. - Umberto Eco

Re: Dumper Timeouts

2005-01-21 Thread Eric Siegerman
) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus. - Umberto Eco, Foucault's

Re: Dump level, behaviour change

2005-01-21 Thread Eric Siegerman
of file away from its hardware implementation -- but as I recently described in another thread, that experiment failed, which is why we have to worry about buffer lengths and short reads and all that bs= with tapes, but not with disk files. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto

Re: Fedora Core 3 - which version of tar??

2005-01-21 Thread Eric Siegerman
*anything* as root. I've never had a problem building Amanda under my own user account, and it's hard to see why such a problem might ever occur. make install as root This *is* necessary, of course. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal

Re: GNU tar versions (was: Backups failing on Solaris 9 with GNU tar)

2005-01-17 Thread Eric Siegerman
, or just a case of shooting the messenger... -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-12 Thread Eric Siegerman
we've got an actual engineer in the e-room? Awesome! (Despite my rambling about impedences and such, I'm sure no hardware guy.) From the context it's pretty clear what vswr means, but what does it stand for? /off-topic -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 17:00:00

2005-01-10 Thread Eric Siegerman
is the output of stat of the original file that was backed up [...] Access: 2005-01-10 13:02:04.0 -0700 Modify: 2005-01-07 17:07:31.0 -0700 Change: 2005-01-07 17:07:31.0 -0700 Just out of curiosity, what does stat say about the *restored* file? -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-08 Thread Eric Siegerman
when the conversion buffer is or is not needed. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-08 Thread Eric Siegerman
Apologies for following up my own post. On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 06:20:59PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: [...] in neither case does [dd] need to copy the data from one buffer to another. It can just have a single buffer that's max(ibs,obs) long [...] Oops; I'm wrong about this. It's only

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-07 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:59:54AM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: samar 126# which xfsrestore /sbin/xfsrestore samar 127# which xfsdump /usr/sbin/xfsdump I suppose the theory must be that anyone can do a restore, but only root can use [xfs]dump. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-07 Thread Eric Siegerman
the necessary block-length conversion itself, using its internal RAM buffer. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-07 Thread Eric Siegerman
it couldn't hurt to do a final: mt rewind dd bs=32k /dev/sdlt2 ./scratch2 mt -f /dev/sdlt2 blksize to verify that that hasn't happened. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent

Re: Samar amanda output (with holding area)

2004-12-02 Thread Eric Siegerman
)? :-) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus. - Umberto Eco

Re: Samar amanda output (with holding area)

2004-12-02 Thread Eric Siegerman
. Also, amstatus will tell you, down near the bottom of its output, why no more dumps can be started at the moment. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent

Re: Samar amanda output (with holding area)

2004-12-01 Thread Eric Siegerman
compression is taken into account. As if you didn't have enough problems... -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent

Re: Several large partitions, no spool

2004-11-30 Thread Eric Siegerman
; the remainining DLEs are processed (one at a time of course) in their order in the queue, which in turn is the order that the planner process chose, based on a whole other set of criteria... -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils

Re: Several large partitions, no spool

2004-11-30 Thread Eric Siegerman
not sure; alas, no. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus

Re: netusage

2004-11-26 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 02:07:03PM -0300, Fabricio Luiz Machado wrote: I have a doubt about this Kbps, it´s kylobits per second, right? Kilo*bytes*/sec, I believe. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle

Re: Problem with amandad?

2004-11-25 Thread Eric Siegerman
something wrong with amandad or could there be some other problem. defunct means that the process has exited, but its parent process hasn't yet collected its exit status. Such undead processes are called zombies. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric

Re: Maybe OT but a big problem with SOLARIS

2004-11-23 Thread Eric Siegerman
concern about frying the hardware, it's only at power-up time, when the POST detects the missing keyboard, that the boot ROM switches to serial-console mode. Maybe you already know this stuff; if so, consider this post as being for the benefit of the archives :-) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric

Re: 3-hole.ps template working

2004-11-15 Thread Eric Siegerman
required multiple report pages)? -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling

Re: dumpcycle / runspercycle / tapecycle best practices?

2004-11-04 Thread Eric Siegerman
) { runs_per_cycle = 1; } So pick the one that looks nicer :-) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun

Re: Please help: amrecover says file is there, amidxtaped says its not!

2004-10-28 Thread Eric Siegerman
list to report a bug? Could well be. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a good place. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent

Re: Multi-Gb dumps using tar + software compression (gzip)?

2004-10-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus. - Umberto Eco

Re: Multi-Gb dumps using tar + software compression (gzip)?

2004-10-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:52:12PM -0400, Eric Siegerman wrote: echo $* /securedirectory/sum$$ md5sum /securedirectory/FIFO$$ /securedirectory/sum$$ Oops: the echo command shouldn't have an . -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Amanda client on Redhat 2.4.9-31

2004-10-04 Thread Eric Siegerman
thinking of, but take a look. (I'm also not sure whether it even matters in a gtar context...) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's

Re: Amdump keeps running

2004-09-23 Thread Eric Siegerman
level - if the latter, you get any error messages directly, neither interpreted by Amanda nor shunted off to the /tmp/amanda logs -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so

Re: Amanda Compression

2004-09-23 Thread Eric Siegerman
, move the compression between clients and server, etc. (We compress most of our DLEs on the clients, but a couple of ancient boxes are too slow for that, so their DLEs get compressed server-side.) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal

Re: Still hoping for answer for amanda port usage

2004-09-16 Thread Eric Siegerman
of) that in Amanda, it is not dependable that initiator==client and listener==server. The client initiates some connections, but the tape server initiates others. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why

Re: Still hoping for answer for amanda port usage

2004-09-16 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 08:56:15PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: I thought that the tape server initiates ALL the connections (and hence client==listener). It looks as though that's the case for backups, but amrecover initiates TCP connections to the tape server. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric

Re: Still hoping for answer for amanda port usage

2004-09-16 Thread Eric Siegerman
() and stream_initiator(), things would be clearer. Likewise docs/PORT.USAGE, which is a lot of why that document is so brain-twisting: When Amanda creates a TCP server socket to listen for incoming connections (sendbackup) [...] Geez! -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL

Re: planner failes: all estimate failed

2004-09-01 Thread Eric Siegerman
bytes written: [0-9][0-9]* The - sign causes the line not to match the regexp -- which is good, since the negative size would thoroughly confuse Amanda :-) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better

Re: Need help with backup plan

2004-08-31 Thread Eric Siegerman
need more than one tape to do a multi-file restore; it'll ask for each one in turn, again by label -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members

Re: Need help with backup plan

2004-08-31 Thread Eric Siegerman
be configured not to guard against them, if that better suits your requirements. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss

Re: Need help with backup plan

2004-08-31 Thread Eric Siegerman
be a useful tool for this (http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/). It's smart enough to only copy the changed portions of a file, so even if your data is a single huge database, rsync might be able to back it up in reasonable time every time but the first. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto

Re: Need help with backup plan

2004-08-31 Thread Eric Siegerman
that! Besides the robustness problem you've mentioned, it's also bad for backup performance. Put it on its own spindle. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band

Re: Restore buffer?

2004-08-25 Thread Eric Siegerman
do not want to overwrite existing files, create a subdirectory to run amrecover from and then move the restored files afterward. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't

Re: 'strange amanda header' errors

2004-08-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
what to make of that :-( -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit around during songs. - Patrick Lenneau

Re: 'strange amanda header' errors

2004-08-18 Thread Eric Siegerman
fsf 1 always exits with status 0; just CTRL-C it once the dds start producing errors. I left in the || break for the benefit of systems whose mt commands might be better behaved. I'm too lazy to fix it to catch the dd errors.) Thanks. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont

Re: Errors from changing dtimeout/ctimeout settings

2004-08-12 Thread Eric Siegerman
:-) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit around during songs. - Patrick Lenneau

Re: planner problem

2004-08-04 Thread Eric Siegerman
-- so yes, it could well make things worse :-/ It prevents Amanda from going to a higher dump level; what you want is to prevent Amanda from going to a *lower* level (i.e. 0). -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have

Re: authorisation failure

2004-07-05 Thread Eric Siegerman
lookup on the Amanda server's IP address, the old BIND predictably returns one of the host's FQDN's, but the new BIND can return either of them. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer

Re: Rebuilding my backup server

2004-07-05 Thread Eric Siegerman
through the tape looking for DLEs for nonexistent-host-name, and in the process of not finding any, it'll print a nice list of the files on the tape. A lot less painful than all those dd's... -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said

Re: Rebuilding my backup server

2004-07-05 Thread Eric Siegerman
=1 | whatever Without a count=, dd will run till end-of-file, and not worry about how many blocks it's copied. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band

Re: Troubleshooting a slowdown problem?

2004-06-17 Thread Eric Siegerman
a large file -- preferably while one of those DLEs is still progressing slowly, so that if there's an intermittent network problem, you'll have a better chance of catching it red-handed. Is there an overloaded firewall in between the two machines? -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
other user. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit around during songs. - Patrick Lenneau

Re: /dev/null caused backups to fail

2004-06-07 Thread Eric Siegerman
explicitly that it was a failure, rather then leaving the reader to infer it. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum

Re: streaming

2004-06-02 Thread Eric Siegerman
disk on a dedicated Amanda server like ours. The only exception I can think of is raw platter RPMs; I don't know whether that'd make the difference between keeping your DLT streaming and not (with our lowly DDS3, it's not exactly an issue :-/) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-06-01 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:10:54AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: The only thing I've come up with is Enough 'Fine' Data Already, but that's just reusing the joke of the 3rd name. I'm open to suggestions... DINE -- does it never end? -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont

Re: disk offline error

2004-06-01 Thread Eric Siegerman
this: On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:14:16PM -0700, gen2 wrote: Seems like this would be the way to back up a partition regardless of formatting (like an HFS+ or NT part, which is really what I'm after). -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must

Re: suggestions for RH amanda installation

2004-05-31 Thread Eric Siegerman
susceptible to operator error. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit around during songs. - Patrick Lenneau

Re: Archiving With Amanda?

2004-05-28 Thread Eric Siegerman
-access timestamps, if nothing else.) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit around during songs

Re: amdadad trouble on Linux

2004-05-21 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 08:38:06AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 20 May 2004 at 10:23pm, Eric Siegerman wrote Hmm, loopback suggests that your disklist refers to the machine in question as localhost. Try replacing that with its FQDN. Not necessarily. In my experience, the OS

Re: amdadad trouble on Linux

2004-05-21 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:23:13PM -0400, Eric Siegerman wrote: Just to forestall comments from others, let me remind folks that [emergeing a Gentoo package] *does* involve compiling from source :-) Damn. I had a feeling that was going to get me in trouble, but I was too sleepy to figure out

Re: Can't open exclude file ???

2004-05-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
as though you gave the amanda user rwx permissions on the home directories. It should suffice to give that user x on /export/home/*, and r on /export/home/*/.amanda.exclude. In particular, write permission shouldn't be needed at all. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL

Re: amcheck/amdump fails (sometimes) to amanda client

2004-05-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
as far as the kernel is concerned. (And even for uid's, =10 has no significance -- only ==0 is magic.) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members

Re: amdadad trouble on Linux

2004-05-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
to get verbose debugging output somewhere? It should already exist. Take a look at the debug files, in /tmp/amanda by default, but you (or in this case, the ebuild) might have configured them to go elsewhere. Start with the amandad.MMDDHHMMSS.debug files. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman

Re: backing up amanda server

2004-05-18 Thread Eric Siegerman
is the bottleneck or not simply determines *which* argument for using a holding disk applies to you :-) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground

Re: amcheck errors

2004-05-18 Thread Eric Siegerman
. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit around during songs. - Patrick Lenneau

Re: Getting empty schedule from planner.

2004-05-18 Thread Eric Siegerman
to the client (else how did amandad get launched in the first place?), but blocking them the other way. Since the server doesn't see the client amandad's response, it doesn't ACK it; hence the complaint from the client. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: location of amandahosts

2004-05-17 Thread Eric Siegerman
(the extra / has no significance; it probably comes from the code's doing the C equivalent of: homedir=/ # Actually, looking it up in /etc/passwd file=${homedir}/.amandahosts ). -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said

Re: Monthly Backup Problem

2004-05-03 Thread Eric Siegerman
of tapes used :-/ reserve 0 taperalgo largestfit That's what we have. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit

Re: Performance tweaking?

2004-04-27 Thread Eric Siegerman
of its output. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit around during songs. - Patrick Lenneau

Re: How to examine a tape?

2004-04-22 Thread Eric Siegerman
of it; or it isn't, in which case you already knew that from just the label. Press to test. (click) Release to detonate. :-) For some reason Don Norman comes to mind. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better

Re: AIT-2

2004-04-07 Thread Eric Siegerman
-- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit around during songs. - Patrick Lenneau

Re: big dump compare to tape size

2004-03-26 Thread Eric Siegerman
{ length 4 mbytes # 40 Gig tapes filemark 8 kbytes # 16 also works, 32 doesn't speed 1536 kbytes # 6 Mb/s accd to Compaq ??? see bellow def of DLT } thanks in advance Cédric Briner -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL

Re: Samba and strange dumps revisited

2004-03-26 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 09:10:53AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: Where do I go to tell amanda that these SUCCESS... messages should be considered normal? It's a hard-coded list. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would

Re: big dump compare to tape size

2004-03-26 Thread Eric Siegerman
is realistic at all, and even 40 GB is a bit dubious. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit around during songs

Re: dumps too big

2004-03-26 Thread Eric Siegerman
was left in the amanda work area. This left laksha's root in work area as well as the partition it was trying to put to tape when EOT was hit. It looks that way to me. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded

Re: nfs mounted executable

2004-02-19 Thread Eric Siegerman
with LDFLAGS=-static, if you're using gcc... I haven't tried either of these. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum

Re: Making two copies of a backup -- CONCLUSION

2004-02-16 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:01:21PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: I want to make two identical copies of an Amanda backup. I have enough holding-disk space to hold all of the client's DLEs at once, so what I'm thinking is this: 1. Build a new Amanda configuration that backs up only

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