Re: Q: 'all estimate timed out' error

2012-08-26 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven ge...@linux-m68k.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Albrecht Dreß albrecht.dr...@arcor.de wrote: I use amanda 2.5.2p1 on a Ubuntu 8.04 server to back up several machines. The backup of /one/ disk from /one/ machine, which worked

Re: Q: 'all estimate timed out' error

2012-08-23 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
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Re: [Amanda-users] Changing Next Tape Expected

2010-01-07 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say programmer or something like

Re: A warning for Amanda users on Ubuntu 9.10

2009-11-29 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
normally the case when my laptop is home and running.) Alternatively, you can use encrypted LVM so the whole system is encrypted, incl. swap (and the hibernation area). I use that on my laptop. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven

Re: user amanda on server, user backup on client, access denied to ama...@coyote.coyote.den

2009-10-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say programmer or something like

Re: amcheck gets permission denied error

2009-09-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:13, Geert Uytterhoeven ge...@linux-m68k.org wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Well, I have to confess I'm puzzled by this one. I added a couple of partitions to the disklist on my backup server, expecting it to be a totally routine thing. However, I

Re: amcheck gets permission denied error

2009-09-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
the directory. Adding the backup user to this group fixes at least the amcheck issue (will see what happens with the dump next night), but this doesn't sound like The Right Thing to do to me... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots

Re: how large must the data volume be...

2008-11-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
(and bring some of them offsite). Pricewise, I guess you can get to the point were a bunch of HDs is still cheaper than an autoloader with tapes, but it becomes more of a hassle to manage your hard drives. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven

Re: Out of space problem

2008-05-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
have hardware compression enabled on the drive? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking

Re: Curiosity vs a cat named Gene

2008-02-19 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: What would be the correct syntax to use in determining how many lines of code there is in the current 2.6.0b2 tarball? sloccount Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux

Re: /usr/lib/amanda/chg-disk:: tape_rdlabel: tape open: line 146: [: -le: unary operator expected

2007-12-05 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
last week. IIRC, I fixed it by letting the changer move to an explicit slot number: amtape DailySet1 slot 1 Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations

Re: excluding directories for amanda bare metal restores

2007-11-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say programmer or something like

RE: Wasted Space, capacity under 50% over multiple tapes

2007-11-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
of (precompressed) data on the tape. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I

Re: Probably very stupid question about chg-disk

2007-11-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
a holding disk, but try and put it on another disk for performance reasons. A holding disk allows to run multiple dumps in parallel. Without a holding disk, all dumps will run sequential. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's

Re: RE AS400 Amanda?

2007-10-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
the latter, because AFAIK, AIX doesn't have a native ext2/ext3 fs driver... On AS/400, `partition' doesn't mean `disk partition', but `logical partition' (lpar). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32

Re: HP DAT 160 tapetype

2007-08-08 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
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Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
have to. I'm using 1.16 (from Debian) since a while. Seems to work fine (no restore done so far, though ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations

Re: Hardware suggestion

2007-05-11 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
for a big server with a holding disk and vtapes, you can use much more than a bandwidth of 5 MB/s. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical

Re: strange behavior when tape drive needs cleaning

2007-04-14 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
the upper layer about an error on the disk. Is there some more info about the actual error(s) in the kernel logs? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations

Re: dumps way too big

2007-03-26 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
DLEs were dumped (or estimated to dump) to tape, but Amanda noticed the remaining DLEs couldn't fit anymore? I see it from time to time, too. No harm, it just gets solved the next night :-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's

Re: Slow performance with dump + LVM

2007-01-23 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
/ 0.45 Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say programmer

Re: lev 1 FAILED [no backup size line]

2006-11-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Since a few days one of my DLEs consistently fails with: | /-- anakin /home/src lev 1 FAILED [no backup size line] | sendbackup: start [anakin:/home/src level 1] | sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar

lev 1 FAILED [no backup size line]

2006-11-25 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
this be /var running out of diskspace? I'm using Debian, with Amanda 2.5.1p1-2 and tar 1.16-1. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people

Re: Amanda error Unexpected field value...

2006-10-18 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
on the client began failing during the size estimation stage with the same tar error message, Unexpected field value. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal

Re: Problems with gtar

2006-10-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
backing up /etc, the listed-incremental file is much smaller, and does not trigger the error. Have you recently upgraded tar to 1.15? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problems with gtar

2006-10-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
the Debian version ignores --one-file-system when doing incrementals), that's why I reverted to 1.14. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical

Re: Leaving backups on disk vs. using file driver

2006-09-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
on the holding disk? Any suggestions/information would be appreciated. Amanda only keeps track of what was written to `tape'. You cannot restore from the holding disk without resorting to a manual restore. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.1

2006-09-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-09-20 11:56, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Josef Wolf wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:34:42PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: * Works with GNU tar 1.15.91

RE: Release of amanda-2.5.1

2006-09-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
: On Wednesday 20 September 2006 05:56, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: But be careful, at least the tar 1.15.91-2 from Debian is broken: it ignores the --one-file-system option when doing incrementals, causing exorbitant backup sizes

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.1

2006-09-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 21 September 2006 05:09, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-09-20 11:56, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Josef Wolf wrote

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.1

2006-09-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Josef Wolf wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:34:42PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: * Works with GNU tar 1.15.91 - work with new gtar state file format. Can someone please explain what this exactly means

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.1

2006-09-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 20 September 2006 05:56, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Josef Wolf wrote: But be careful, at least the tar 1.15.91-2 from Debian is broken: it ignores the --one-file-system

Re: amtapetype aborts on XServe running Yellow Dog Linux 4.1

2006-09-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
it under valgrind? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say

Re: amtapetype aborts on XServe running Yellow Dog Linux 4.1

2006-09-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Nick Jones wrote: Here is what I've gotten twice, with hardware compression on and off. [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda]# ./sbin/amtapetype -f /dev/tape -e 400g -o Writing 2048 Mbyte compresseable data: 31 sec Writing 2048

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.1

2006-09-11 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
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Re: Debian packages for Amanda

2006-09-08 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
install suggested packages' option enabled? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking

Re: using disk instead of tape

2006-09-08 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
IDE does that too. But if there are too many of them, you loose (same for SCSI). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself

Amanda vs. rsync vs. ... (was: Re: using disk instead of tape)

2006-09-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say programmer or something like that. -- Linus

Re: Amanda vs. rsync vs. ... (was: Re: using disk instead of tape)

2006-09-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Ian Turner wrote: On Wednesday 06 September 2006 04:23, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: So my ideal backup solution would be Amanda, with support for incrementally storing backups at a remote location :-) Well, Amanda does that, via incremental backups. What it doesn't do

Re: using disk instead of tape

2006-09-05 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
DLE, you need more logic. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just

Re: using disk instead of tape

2006-09-05 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 05 September 2006 05:24, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Phil Howard wrote: On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 06:39:40PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: | It certainly would destroy one of amanda's features, | the ability to easily recover

Re: Amanda is creating files (locale problem)

2006-08-24 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
it (aandré.nsf and aandr?.nsf). LANG is en_US.UTF-8. Is it a problem in my config or bug in Amanda? It's a bug in the low-level backup tool Amanda uses (e.g. dump or tar). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux

Re: need regex help

2006-08-24 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
, or is there a better way to accomplish this? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists

Re: Why tar with amanda?

2006-08-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
? which internal mechanism use amanda? Through the setuid wrapper runtar: | $ ls -l /usr/lib/amanda/runtar | -rwsr-xr-- 1 root backup 5196 May 26 07:09 /usr/lib/amanda/runtar* | $ Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots

Re: Amanda Server on Cygwin amdump not working :-S

2006-08-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say programmer or something like

Re: [RFE] - Footer file on tape

2006-08-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
the trailer, or as part of the trailer. In a large installation it could get quite large and could result in an extra tape being used if the last DLE nearly filled the tape. IIRC, Gene has a script to add this info. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert

Re: Is GNU tar 1.13.25 still good with 2.5.0p2?

2006-08-19 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
. As Debian stable has 1.14-2.2, I guess there do exist good (patched) versions... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself

Re: amanda client inetd problem

2006-08-11 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say programmer or something like

Re: Next Tapes are Offsite

2006-08-08 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
is ultimately chosen. Very simple: the tape in the currently loaded slot. And if that one is not eligible, Amanda skips to the next slot, until she finds an eligible tape. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond

Re: FATAL driver reading result from taper: Connection reset by peer

2006-08-07 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
backup belongs to the cdrom group, so Amanda can run cdrecord. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when

Re: restoring from DVDs

2006-08-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
, but just buy a new one instead... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists

Re: 2.5.0p2-20060424 just took me down.

2006-08-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
output looks fairly normal for this time of the night. Is there enough here to allow some finger pointing? Could be a kernel bug. Or a hardware bug. Or an environment-too-hot bug. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots

Re: notes

2006-08-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
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Re: notes

2006-08-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Glenn English wrote: Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Indeed. The only way to get my backups working again was downgrading to tar from sarge: apt-get install tar=1.14-2.2 That's exactly what I did 5 minutes after reading Frank Smith's reply. That fixed

tar escaping into a different file system

2006-07-31 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
1.15.91 breakage? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say

Re: tar escaping into a different file system

2006-07-31 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 09:52:10AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Finally I'm getting back on track after the tar 1.15.91-2 incremental changes. Due to this issue and my yearly holidays, my backups are long overdue and Amanda likes to do lots

Re: planner: disk xxx:/, estimate of level N failed

2006-07-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
it want to run tar for the estimates in that case? Or is this just an argument list for another Amanda program, which ignores the tar command when using server side estimates? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux

Re: planner: disk xxx:/, estimate of level N failed

2006-07-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
to 1.15.91-1 on 2006-07-06 (according to /var/log/dpkg.log). So the backup run of 2006-07-07 created the first corrupt files, which were noticed first during the next run on 2006-07-08. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots

driver: FATAL reading result from taper: Connection reset by peer

2006-06-09 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
with a clue? I'm using vtapes. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I

Re: driver: FATAL reading result from taper: Connection reset by peer

2006-06-09 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-06-09 13:27, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: After upgrading amanda from 2.5.0 to 2.5.0p2 (Debian testing), all backups fail with: | *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY! | | The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DAILY18. | | FAILURE

Re: vtape, end of tape waste

2006-05-24 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
, it will be deleted. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say

Re: Tapecat: a cool tape utility

2006-05-10 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
copy of C99. gcc -Wall -ansitapecat.c cmdline.o debug.o -o tapecat /tmp/ccwCGgux.o(.text+0x6b): In function `get_ioctl_statistics': : undefined reference to `errno' Missing #include errno.h. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven

Re: Newbie needs Help

2006-05-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
at the incrementals collecting on the holding disk. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking

Re: Newbie needs Help

2006-05-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Luis Rodrigues wrote: Ahh, ok I did't had understood that. Does it work with both tar and dump or just with dump? It should work with both (I always used tar). On Thu, 4 May 2006 17:40:34 +0200 (CEST) Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 May 2006

2.4.5p1 - 2.5.0

2006-05-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
for root). After making sure there was free space on / for ordinary users, Amanda continued making backups. So I guess 2.4.5p1 used root privileges to write to /etc, while 2.5.0 falls back to user backup. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven

Re: Another setup question...

2006-04-05 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
; } and make sure myhost.at.mydomain is in your DNS config, too. Then your clients will always receive the same IP address. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations

Re: Whats next after Amanda 2.5

2006-03-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
UTF-8 filenames ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say

Re: Whats next after Amanda 2.5

2006-03-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
will always have the difficulty of what character or sequence is the separator between arguments. That's what single and double quotes, and backslashes are used for... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32

Re: question about external drives

2006-03-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
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Re: question about external drives

2006-03-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
decision? features of one type FS vs another type? No. Isn't there a file size limit with FAT32, which may bite when using it as a holding disk or for virtual tapes? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond

Re: question about external drives

2006-03-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Ian Turner wrote: On Thursday 02 March 2006 04:43, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Isn't there a file size limit with FAT32, which may bite when using it as a holding disk or for virtual tapes? NT refuses to create a FAT32 volume above a certain size -- my memory says 32GB

Re: out of tape with vtapes

2006-02-09 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
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Re: Question: does this DLT Drive work?

2006-02-09 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Amanda handle the compression. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just

Re: Question about vtape size

2006-02-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
that would automatically migrate tapes to and from external disks, and create new and destroy old vtapes when needed, but due to limited spare time it's not yet finished... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux

Re: numeric-owner problem

2006-01-31 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
related files that should have the same uid/gid had the one from the original system. So sometimes uids/gids were remapped during restore, but not always... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL

Re: numeric-owner problem

2006-01-31 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:56:13AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: I saw a similar thing when the disk of my backup server died last month. The machine ran Debian testing, and I used an Ubuntu Live CD (the Knoppix I had lying around didn't support

Re: Dumb Q?

2006-01-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
a member of the disk: group in the group file on that box. Doesn't Debian use user `backup' instead of `amanda'? At least it does on my box. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Amanda and DVD-RAM

2006-01-26 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
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Re: Amanda and DVD-RAM

2006-01-24 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
it at least two, and never connect both of them to your system at the same time. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself

Re: handling unreasonably large, non-static directories

2006-01-12 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
aspect. Indeed. Especially if things like `please delete all info about this customer, including your backups' might happen in the future... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: new feature: client-side, server-side encryption dumptype option

2005-12-30 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say programmer or something like

Re: vtapes and runtapes 1

2005-12-30 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 29 December 2005 05:03, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 28 December 2005 11:25, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Is anyone else using vtapes with runtapes 1? Recently I decreased tapelength

Re: vtapes and runtapes 1

2005-12-30 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 30 December 2005 04:12, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 29 December 2005 05:03, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 28 December 2005 11:25, Geert

Re: vtapes and runtapes 1

2005-12-30 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 30 December 2005 10:13, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: [...] Is this on the same machine, or on another client machine? In the latter case, the connection may have timed out during the failure recovery. Client and server are the same

Re: vtapes and runtapes 1

2005-12-29 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 28 December 2005 11:25, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Is anyone else using vtapes with runtapes 1? Recently I decreased tapelength and increased runtapes from 1 to 2. On most days 1 vtape is sufficient. But every time Amanda hits

vtapes and runtapes 1

2005-12-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
backups will fit on one tape (until my vtape partition fills up, of course)... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself

Re: Verizon subscribers -- off topic

2005-12-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say programmer or something like

Re: is excluding /usr/local/var/amanda a bad idea ?

2005-11-11 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
it? He meant a script to read the complete tapes and reconstruct the database from that information. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical

Re: Amanda performance

2005-11-11 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
. -- [...] Damned, the Dutch version of the email disclaimer is missing! ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal

Re: Email delivery

2005-10-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
report to debian seems appropriate. Indeed. On my Amanda server, mail works fine (but I use sendmail ;-). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical

Re: Using DRDB and disks for tapes.

2005-09-26 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
university had a whopping 256 kbps Internet connection... -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say programmer or something like

Re: questions about tunning configuration

2005-09-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Gene, On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 15 September 2005 09:11, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:42:36PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Tue, Sep 13

Re: questions about tunning configuration

2005-09-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:42:36PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:41:34PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura enlightened us: tapecycle is the total number of tapes; only these tapes

Re: questions about tunning configuration

2005-09-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
. Right now the workaround is to make the number of slots equal to tapecycle, but this makes some assumptions I'd prefer not to make. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal

Re: Question about tape label

2005-09-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
is this correct? Indeed. in tapelist of configmonthly i already have bkmontly02, it's not a problem, is it? You have to amrmtape the old bkmontly02 first. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL

Re: dump larger than tape

2005-09-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 10:04:01AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven enlightened us: I just got this in my daily report from Amanda (2.4.5-1, Debian etch/testing): | FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: | | [...] | | host dle lev 5 FAILED

Re: Why Oh Why only THIS DLE is giving me those timeout problems ?

2005-08-31 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Steve Wray wrote: Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Graeme Humphries wrote: Guy Dallaire wrote: Yes, thanks. I know about hard links. But how would it impact the size or performance of my backups ? Well, if a file is hard linked multiple times

dump larger than tape

2005-08-31 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say programmer or something like

Re: Why Oh Why only THIS DLE is giving me those timeout problems ?

2005-08-30 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
backup OK. This always occur on level 1 dumps it seems. Level 0 dumps always work just fine. I don't know what to think. Perhaps the problem DLE has lots of hard links? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond

Re: Why Oh Why only THIS DLE is giving me those timeout problems ?

2005-08-30 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
, Geert [*] Like having `all' Linux kernel source trees on my disk, with identical files hardlinked together, as a poor man's blazing fast SCM system. -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations

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