Re: How to flush a wayward dump

2010-02-24 Thread James Smallacombe
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:26 PM, James Smallacombe u...@3.am wrote: I waited until the network issues cleared up and started a new dump on a new virtual tape.  It appears the amcleanup had deleted it from the tapelist, so I manually re-entered

How to flush a wayward dump

2010-02-23 Thread James Smallacombe
cruft file, perhaps you should delete it. 20100221082556: found Amanda directory. Could not find any valid dump image, check directory. Is this data salvagable? James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor u...@3.am

Re: Amanda Source IP ?

2009-09-29 Thread James Smallacombe
will call it the Tao of Programming. James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor u...@3.am http://3.am =

Re: strange twist on FAILED [data timeout] -- compress none not working correctly

2009-05-13 Thread James D. Freels
, James D. Freels wrote: I got into debugging mode and discovered why this was happening. Apparently this upgrade, or a recent change in AMANDA, now forces (or by error) the data to be compressed with gzip before going from the client to the server. Even if I specify compress none (which I

Upgrade

2008-11-11 Thread James D. Wilson
Is there anything special you have to do to upgrade from amanda 2.5.0p2-1.fc5 to the latest version?

Re: trouble with AIX clients and Linux server

2008-05-22 Thread Freels, James D.
? Presently, it is out of the box, and we run ./configure before the make. On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 12:38 -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Freels, James D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /-- aixclient hd3 lev 0 FAILED [missing size line from sendbackup] sendbackup: start

Re: trouble with AIX clients and Linux server

2008-05-22 Thread Freels, James D.
for AMANDA and AIX. Not many folks still using AIX these days ... On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 15:35 -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Freels, James D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We took a look at uustat and the only locked files were some batch jobs we had running

Re: trouble with AIX clients and Linux server

2008-05-22 Thread Freels, James D.
to 2.6.0p1 since it has not hit the debian/unstable tree yet, but we could if necessary. What advantage would running this new version give us in this situation ? On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 15:53 -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: James, You need amanda 2.5.1p3 or newer if you have gnutar = 1.16

trouble with AIX clients and Linux server

2008-05-21 Thread Freels, James D.
system 1216 May 19 15:43 /etc/amandates We are puzzled as to how to fix this problem and would appreciate any and all helpful information. James D. Freels, Ph.D. Senior Research Staff High Flux Isotope Reactor Oak Ridge National Laboratory http://www.comsol.com/academic/papers/1780

Email notifications

2008-04-01 Thread James Wilson
I recently did and upgrade/move of our mail server and now I no longer get the email notifications from Amanda. I didn't think there was a setting to specify your email server in amanda. Is it caching it somewhere? Any help is appreciated.

Backups on new tape drive appear to be successful but...

2008-02-08 Thread James Dykes - Adhost
to the latest version of Amanda? Thank you, James Dykes -- James Dykes | Sr. Technical Analyst Adhost Internet 140 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 360, Seattle, Washington 98109 USA D 206.404.9024P 206.404.9000T 888.234.6781 (ADHOST-1)F 206.404.9050 E [EMAIL PROTECTED]W

Re: New Development in Amanda poster available

2007-11-16 Thread James da Silva
, everyone! Jaime ... : James da Silva : this space for rent : Stand on my shoulders, : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : not on my toes. :

Re: RE amanda in domU

2007-10-10 Thread James Wilson
= ['00,11,00'] to my guest configuration. (Didn't succeed yet though). Maybe, you should do the same for a tape drive? I have find http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Assign_hardware_to_DomU_with_PCIBack_as_module that might well help you. That was my 5cents help, Cyrille *James Wilson [EMAIL

Re: autoflush and amstatus

2007-05-30 Thread James Brown
below 100. With reserve==100, amdump record full dump only once they are put on tape, that's why it retry it. With reserve 100, amdump record full dump once they are on holding disk. Jean-Louis James Brown wrote: --- Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James

Re: autoflush and amstatus

2007-05-29 Thread James Brown
--- Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Brown wrote: Hi, After enabling 'autoflush' in amanda.conf, and starting new amdump, I saw two entries for a backup job that was already on holding disk. One was waiting to be flushed, the other was getting estimates. (I

autoflush and amstatus

2007-05-28 Thread James Brown
Hi, After enabling 'autoflush' in amanda.conf, and starting new amdump, I saw two entries for a backup job that was already on holding disk. One was waiting to be flushed, the other was getting estimates. (I had to kill the job since I didn't want to run the 500GB backup again!). With

Tapes not reusing

2007-05-25 Thread James Wilson
Amanda is not reusing tapes in my library. I have them setup to overwrite when it reaches the last tape but now I am getting this tape error. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No writable valid tape found]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush

Re: Tapes not reusing

2007-05-25 Thread James Wilson
:26:46PM -0500, James Wilson wrote: Amanda is not reusing tapes in my library. I have them setup to overwrite when it reaches the last tape but now I am getting this tape error. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No writable valid tape found]. Some dumps may have been

question on splitsize

2007-05-07 Thread Freels, James D.
this parameter incorrectly ? James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computational tools are important, but there is no substitute for understanding. -Will Zimmerman, 05/01/2007

question about error message

2007-05-04 Thread Freels, James D.
if they are not really a failure ? James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amanda Client

2007-04-24 Thread James Wilson
field should that be the client name or the amanda server name? I can't test right because amanda is doing a backup but I will test as soon as the backups are done. Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 23 April 2007, James Wilson wrote: Are you talking about the /etc/xinetd.d/amanda file? in my

Amanda Client

2007-04-23 Thread James Wilson
Hey All, I have amanda version 2.5.0p2 I have installed version 2.5.0p2-4 for the amanda client. I have added the amanda server and the amanda user in the .amandahost file on the client I checked the /etc/services and all the amanda ports are there. But when I try to do an amcheck tape

Re: strange behavior when tape drive needs cleaning

2007-04-16 Thread Freels, James D.
+0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Freels, James D. wrote: I discovered today that my tape drive was dirty and did not realize it. What happened was the drive sent a scsi error to the kernel/OS and somehow the root (/), home (/home), and holding disk area recognized

strange behavior when tape drive needs cleaning

2007-04-13 Thread Freels, James D.
higher-capacity tapes so that the same number of tapes will get the driver dirtier quicker. Does the switch from rw to ro by AMANDA make sense ?? Is this a feature ? This is first I have heard of this. -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windmills can't

questions on VXA-2/X23 tape drive configuration

2007-04-02 Thread Freels, James D.
buffering=1 mode1 blocksize=0 compression=0 mode2 blocksize=0 compression=1 mode3 blocksize=32768 compression=0 mode4 blocksize=32768 compression=1 } -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RAIT questions

2007-03-12 Thread James Brown
A couple of RAIT questions (Running amanda 2.5.1p2 on solaris10) : 1) The wiki says RAIT with tape changers is not supported. Is this true? 2) Does tape spanning work with RAIT tape mirroring? 3) Anyone used the 'amdd' utility to do mirrored tape backups using native tools (gtar for

Amanda should fail dumps of directories

2007-01-31 Thread James Brown
Is it possible for amanda to automatically fail backup jobs of directories specified in the disklist with dump dumptypes (as opposed to gtar)? A dump of a directory completes successfully even though the dump utilitity is meant for filesystems. For me at least, we can not restore from such

PARTIAL backups going to tape

2006-11-28 Thread James Brown
Is there a way to stop PARTIAL backup jobs from being written to tape? Why does Amanda even keep PARTIAL jobs on the /holdingdisk for that matter? As far as I am concerned, backups of this nature are failed jobs. -JB

Re: amanda-2.5.0p2-1.src.rpm

2006-11-09 Thread James Wilson
I got the source bilt and changed the path to amandad in the /xinetd.d/amandaclient config to point to /usr/local/libexec/amandad. Put when I run amcheck on the server for this host it still times out. Any ideas? Paddy Sreenivasan wrote: James, libamclient-2.5.0p2.so should be installed

Re: amanda-2.5.0p2-1.src.rpm

2006-11-09 Thread James Wilson
I changed the permissions on the /tmp/amanda directory and now I get this. ERROR: NAK apexdev.transolutions.net: getpwnam(amandabacup) fails Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: James Wilson wrote: I got the source bilt and changed the path to amandad in the /xinetd.d/amandaclient config to point

Re: amanda-2.5.0p2-1.src.rpm

2006-11-09 Thread James Wilson
I did a make uninstall and ran ./configure again but it still comes up with the user amandabacup instead of amandabackup. How can I totally remove the configuration? Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: James Wilson wrote: I got the source bilt and changed the path to amandad in the /xinetd.d

Re: amanda-2.5.0p2-1.src.rpm

2006-11-09 Thread James Wilson
config command? Thanks, Paddy On 11/9/06, James Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a make uninstall and ran ./configure again but it still comes up with the user amandabacup instead of amandabackup. How can I totally remove the configuration? Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: James Wilson wrote: I

Re: amanda-2.5.0p2-1.src.rpm

2006-11-09 Thread James Wilson
, James Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a make uninstall and ran ./configure again but it still comes up with the user amandabacup instead of amandabackup. How can I totally remove the configuration? Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: James Wilson wrote: I got the source bilt and changed the path

Re: amanda-2.5.0p2-1.src.rpm

2006-11-08 Thread James Wilson
Can you point me to some examples on building from source rpm? Paddy Sreenivasan wrote: James, libamclient-2.5.0p2.so should be installed in /usr/lib directory and is part of the binary rpm. Source rpm (amanda-2.5.0p2-1.src.rpm) will not contain the libamclient library. You have to build

selfcheck not running

2006-11-07 Thread James Wilson
Hey All, Any ideas on why selfcheck would not run on a client. I have a rhel4 server that I just installed the client on and I always get the selfcheck error. When I look in the /tmp/amanda directory there is no logs for selfcheck but there are logs for amandad. The logs for amandad say,

Timeout

2006-11-06 Thread James Wilson
Hey All, I keep getting this error for one of my hosts. selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK Client check: 4 hosts checked in 30.153 seconds, 1 problem found I have added this in my amandaclient file in the xinetd.d directory. service amanda { disable = no

Re: Timeout

2006-11-06 Thread James Wilson
troubleshooting wiki page: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amcheck:_selfcheck_request_failed Paddy On 11/6/06, James Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey All, I keep getting this error for one of my hosts. selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK Client check: 4 hosts checked in 30.153

Selfcheck not running

2006-11-06 Thread James Wilson
be owned by amanda user. How did you install amanda client? Paddy On 11/6/06, James Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not selfcheck debug files in the /tmp/amanda directory. How ever I do have this files on my other servers that are running amanda client. Paddy Sreenivasan wrote

Server FC4 and Client RE4

2006-11-02 Thread James D. Wilson
Hey All, I was wondering if my amanda server is running FC4 and has the amanda server version for FC4 and I have another server running RE4 do I install the client version for RE4?

Re: IP address change

2006-11-01 Thread James Wilson
client work fine the ones that are using samba do not work. Jon LaBadie wrote: I didn't follow the earlier thread, so if this is way off base, sorry. I picked this out of your HTML posting: On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:52:15AM -0600, James Wilson wrote: ... . The servers that have

Re: Monthly backup

2006-11-01 Thread James Wilson
Well I have a folder lets say its called voice and in voice I have a bunch of folders in there labeled by date. Starting with todays date all the way back to 10-01-2005. I want to backup everything till may of 2006 for the. Then I'm going to delete all those files because I have them on tape.

Re: Monthly backup

2006-11-01 Thread James Wilson
the folder name doesn't change. for example if I have folders 2006-01 2006-02 2006-03 2006-04 And I only want to back up folders 2006-01 and 2006-02. Is this possible? To back up certain folders and not others in a particular directory. Steven Kurylo wrote: James Wilson wrote: Well I

Re: Monthly backup

2006-11-01 Thread James Wilson
This is a good idea. Thanks for your reply. Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:17:09AM -0800, Steven Kurylo wrote: James Wilson wrote: Well I have a folder lets say its called voice and in voice I have a bunch of folders in there labeled by date. Starting with todays date

Re: IP address change

2006-11-01 Thread James Wilson
configuration? Thanks, -Aaron Taylor On 11/1/06, *James Wilson* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The server and client are installed on the same box. This was working fine before I split my network up into vlans and changed the ip of the amanda server along

IP address change

2006-10-31 Thread James Wilson
Hey All, We just did a big network over haul at my job and every since the change amanda does not back up some machines. I looked in the latest log file and it states. Error planner request to amanda.transolutions.net failed: timeout waiting for ACK. amanda.transolutions.net

No more holding disk space

2006-09-26 Thread James Wilson
Hey All, Lately I've been gettting the Failed [no more holding disk space] for this one client. Is there something I can do to fix this? It has been backing up fine until Sunday night and Monday night. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: amanda.transolutions.net //192.168.1.38/etc

Re: No more holding disk space

2006-09-26 Thread James Wilson
I have a server with 60 GB of disk space left after installing everything. I thought I gave amanda the whole 60 gigs. Should it need more that that? Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 08:42:58AM -0500, James Wilson wrote: Hey All, Lately I've been gettting the Failed

Re: No more holding disk space

2006-09-26 Thread James Wilson
Thanks for the reply Jon. I thought I had 60 gig specified but infact I only had 10gig specified. Sorry for the inconvience. Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 08:42:58AM -0500, James Wilson wrote: Hey All, Lately I've been gettting the Failed [no more holding disk

Re: AMRESTORE

2006-08-09 Thread James Wilson
Never mind I found the -C option and that worked fine. Thanks for any replies. James Wilson wrote: I am trying to do a test restore from amanda and I get this error Could not read config file /etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda.conf! I don't have a DailySet1 directory. Where do I change the path for this?

Compression

2006-08-04 Thread James Wilson
How can I tell what compression I am using? Also how do I make sure hardware compression is off?

Amanda, Novell

2006-08-03 Thread James Wilson
I was wondering if amanda was capable of backing up an older version of novell. 5.0, 3.12?

Re: Partial backup

2006-07-14 Thread James Wilson
\* ? Call timed out: server did not respond after 2 milliseconds listing \T\* | tar: dumped 178 files and directories | Total bytes written: 11032576 sendbackup: size 10774 sendbackup: end \ Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 05:34:50PM -0500, James Wilson wrote: Here

Partial backup

2006-07-13 Thread James Wilson
Here is an amstatus before and after the backup. Before it estimated 1231m but after it only backed up 171m. Howcome amanda isn't backing up everything? amanda.transolutions.net://192.168.1.133/ifxsessions 0 1231m partial estimate done SUMMARY part real estimated

Re: Cannot restore XFS partitions with Amanda 2.4.5

2006-05-23 Thread James Lamanna
On 5/23/06, Jean-Francois Malouin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * James Lamanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060522 21:52]: Hi. I have a couple of XFS + TAR partitions that I'm backing up onto tape. There are no errors thrown when backing up, however whenever I try to amrestore one of the XFS partition

Cannot restore XFS partitions with Amanda 2.4.5

2006-05-22 Thread James Lamanna
be happening here? Thanks. -- James

Amanda

2006-05-19 Thread James Wilson
This is the 2 errors I get when I run amlabel. Does anyone know why? I've attached my amanda.conf file and changer file. Thanks for any advice. cannot determine first slot amlabel: could not load slot current: line 31: Product: command not found #! /bin/sh

Amanda

2006-05-19 Thread James Wilson
Here is the full error I am getting now. amlabel: could not load slot current: cannot determine first slot

Amanda

2006-05-18 Thread James Wilson
it just backup the whole hard drive? Can I write more than one dump to a tape? Any config examples or pointers are appreciated, right now I only have the basics completed like the client setup the hosts, directories, etc. Thanks, James

Windows archive bit

2006-04-25 Thread James Brown
Hi, Does Amanda samba backups reset the windows archive-bit for each file? If so, is there a way to disable this? My intention is to run redundant full backups of a Windows box. I already have a commercial backup product running full/incrementals on the machine. Thanks, JB

Re: System Crash when using Amanda

2006-01-11 Thread Freels, James D.
. They all end up calling adpt_i2o_post_wait(), which if you call it unlocked, might return with host_lock locked anyway and that causes a deadlock. Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL

Re: System Crash when using Amanda

2006-01-10 Thread Freels, James D.
Do you happen to be using the aic7xxx driver ? If so, I had the same problem until the new kernel 2.6.15. -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.comsol.com/stories/hfir/ ---BeginMessage--- I hope

Re: System Crash when using Amanda

2006-01-10 Thread Freels, James D.
The problem I had started at kernels greater than 2.6.12.x (starting at 2.6.13.0) and was finally cleared at 2.6.15.0. -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.comsol.com/stories/hfir/ ---BeginMessage

linux 2.6.15 and tape problems with aic79xx driver

2006-01-06 Thread Freels, James D.
blocksize=32768 compression=0 #mode4 blocksize=32768 compression=1 } Does anyone have an idea as to what could be wrong ? Are there others having problems with aic79xx driver and their tape drives ? -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL

Re: trouble with AMANDA server (taper) on amd64 using Debian/AMD64/Sarge

2005-11-17 Thread James D. Freels
, Alexander Jolk wrote: James D. Freels wrote: I am also using the aic7xxx driver also in a vanilla 2.6.14.2 kernel. You might also want to tell linux-scsi about this problem, I recall there's been a few aic7xxx related problems lately. Alex -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National

Re: trouble with AMANDA server (taper) on amd64 using Debian/AMD64/Sarge

2005-11-16 Thread James D. Freels
I am also using the aic7xxx driver also in a vanilla 2.6.14.2 kernel. Will one of the other Adaptec drivers work for the Adaptec 29160N Ultra160 SCSI card ? On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 14:11 -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi James, I have the same problem since my upgrade to Fedora Core 4

Re: trouble with AMANDA server (taper) on amd64 using Debian/AMD64/Sarge

2005-11-15 Thread James D. Freels
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 15:36 -0500, James D. Freels wrote: Hello folks ! I have been using AMANDA now for several years and find it to be a superb backup tool. I just converted one of my AMANDA backup servers (fea5) from an Alpha 64-bit machine running Debian/Sarge to a new AMD64 64-bit

Re: amlabel Issue

2005-08-24 Thread James Jacocks
Indeed, amtape produces the same response. Does this help us to determine the cause? Thanks! On Aug 23, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:04:13PM -0400, James Jacocks wrote: We are currently experiencing the below issue using amlabel. I have tried

Re: amlabel Issue

2005-08-24 Thread James Jacocks
Thanks for the help, everyone. This was a permissions issue. Thanks! On Aug 24, 2005, at 5:02 PM, James Jacocks wrote: Indeed, amtape produces the same response. Does this help us to determine the cause? Thanks! On Aug 23, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005

amlabel Issue

2005-08-23 Thread James Jacocks
We are currently experiencing the below issue using amlabel. I have tried with and without a tape loaded, with and without a slot specified etc.. All chg-zd-mtx tests described in the script notes have been confirmed to work.. amlabel: could not load slot 1: no slots available

Tape Library Recommendations

2005-06-23 Thread James Marcinek
(LTO, DLT, etc.) and pros and cons of each. If anyone has any links where I can get equipment for a reasonable cost I'd be interested in those too! Thanks, James

Re: new problem with the Exabyte VXA-2 packet-loader system

2005-02-28 Thread James D. Freels
I put the cartridge in backwards (which looks like forwards for traditional tape drives). I will always have to remember this !!! Now in the process of taking the unit apart to take out the cartridge. On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 09:17 -0500, James D. Freels wrote: The Exabyte lack of timely

new problem with the Exabyte VXA-2 packet-loader system

2005-02-24 Thread James D. Freels
The Exabyte lack of timely tech support may be hurting them. I get better help through this forum which may discourage people from purchasing from Exabyte. I have great success with the first round of 10 tapes with the autoloader. Each day, a new tape was loaded and the AMANDA backup

Re: new problem with the Exabyte VXA-2 packet-loader system

2005-02-24 Thread James D. Freels
This request did not seem to go through. Try again. On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 09:17 -0500, James D. Freels wrote: The Exabyte lack of timely tech support may be hurting them. I get better help through this forum which may discourage people from purchasing from Exabyte. I have great

RE: amandahostsauth failed

2005-02-22 Thread Scheuerman, James
I ran into the same problem. I believe the answer was in Amanda FAQ @ http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html Jim Scheuerman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ddaasd Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 11:18 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org

Using MRU 1.7 changer program with amanda

2005-02-17 Thread Scheuerman, James
Title: Using MRU 1.7 changer program with amanda Has anyone tried configuring the Media Robot Utility (version 1.7) to work with Amanda? OS: TRU64 5.1B Amanda: 2.4.4p4 Jim Scheuerman

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

2005-02-16 Thread James D. Freels
it to work. I will post back here if I figure something out. At least I have a workable backup system running now with the new packet loader and AMANDA. On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 13:00 -0500, James D. Freels wrote: Recall I had a problem getting this device to work properly when it failed

Exabyte VXA-2 Packet-Loader and chg-zd-mtx nagging problem

2005-02-16 Thread James D. Freels
>From the packet-loader manual the following timing information is available: Autoloader power-on sequence time (power-on to ready status): 53 seconds when autoloader contains 10 cartridges with bar code labels 105 seconds when autoloader contains 10 cartridges without bar code labels

Exabyte VXA-2-Packet-Loader: new problem

2005-02-15 Thread James D. Freels
Recall I had a problem getting this device to work properly when it failed to write to the tape. This problem was correct by a new and separate scsi card dedicated to the packet loader. When I use the older ncr53c7xx driver in Linux, it works OK, but does not automatically reload tapes. Here

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

2005-02-15 Thread James D. Freels
I think I missed something here. The response below, where did it come from ? (about the sleep delays, etc.) On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 13:56 -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:40:44PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: If I issue another command to the drive before it is really

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

2005-02-15 Thread James D. Freels
max_drive_wait=240 initial_poll_delay=10 On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 13:00 -0500, James D. Freels wrote: Recall I had a problem getting this device to work properly when it failed to write to the tape. This problem was correct by a new and separate scsi card dedicated to the packet loader. When I use

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

2005-02-14 Thread James D. Freels
the driver to the newer sym53c8xx-2 and also experimenting with the amtape and mtx commands to manipulate this new autoloader. I may be asking some additional good questions if I have any more problems. Thanks for all the great help ! On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 16:20 -0500, James D. Freels wrote: I am near

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

2005-02-14 Thread James D. Freels
a separate scsi card. My question is: you have 15 devices available on a wide scsi card. When will it ever get fully populated ? I guess only if all the devices are the same (like 15 hard drives ?) On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:11 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 03:55:31PM -0500, James D

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

2005-02-07 Thread James D. Freels
I am near positive I did not fry anything since everything is working correctly except a sustained write to the tape. If anything were damages, I would expect nothing to work at all. I have ordered the new scsi card and I will report back in to this thread when I find the results. I am also

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

2005-02-04 Thread James D. Freels
the tapes, but not write a larger data set to the tape. On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 23:17 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2005 17:49, James D. Freels wrote: No. It should be still Alpha compatible. The problem is that the firmware upgrade utilities for Linux are binary-only so I cannot

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

2005-02-04 Thread James D. Freels
Uytterhoeven wrote: On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, James D. Freels wrote: When you say cabling issues, does this include a separate scsi card specific for the tape drive ? I think my cable connections are good. The cable may be too long, or not properly terminated. The scsi card I have is a LSI Logic

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

2005-02-04 Thread James D. Freels
cable plugged to the rest of the devices. Come to think of it, the 50-pin is just out there; no termination. Hmmm... let's try that next. On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 16:12 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, James D. Freels wrote: The tape drive is within the VXA-2 Packet-Loader 1U

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

2005-02-04 Thread James D. Freels
for this Alpha machine ? On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 11:04 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 04 February 2005 10:12, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, James D. Freels wrote: The tape drive is within the VXA-2 Packet-Loader 1U rack mount. It is connected via an external scsi cable

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

2005-02-04 Thread James D. Freels
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 14:36 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: The cable IS completely disconnected from the scsi card and the cd-rom IS the only device on that cable. This is what is so strange. I did this test thinking it might fix my problem since I am down from 2-internal, 1-external on the same

/etc/stinit.def file for the Exabyte VXA-2 tape drive

2005-02-03 Thread James D. Freels
I need to properly create an /etc/stinit.def file for the Exabyte VXA-2 tape drive for purposes of initializing the tape drive using mt-st prior to usage by AMANDA. Currently, AMANDA cannot write to the tape drive since it is initialized incorrectly. A first attempt at the initialization looks

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

2005-02-03 Thread James D. Freels
I am getting scsi sense errors using the new drive about 1-2 minutes after an amdump or amflush starts. Below are the reommendations from Exabyte tech support to fix it. Any comments ? Forwarded Message From: James D. Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2005-02-03 Thread James D. Freels
No. It should be still Alpha compatible. The problem is that the firmware upgrade utilities for Linux are binary-only so I cannot compile them for the alpha nor run them on the alpha. On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 16:19 -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 03:03:22PM -0500, James D

Re: Exabyte VXA-2 PacketLoader

2005-02-02 Thread James D. Freels
I finally have time to work on this new tape drive (vxa-2-packet-loader). I am having difficulty since this is my first autoload-type system. I have amanda running fine for years with a single manually-loaded tape drive. Here are a few questions: 1) it appears that I must get mtx to respond

Re: Exabyte VXA-2 PacketLoader

2005-02-02 Thread James D. Freels
-0500, James D. Freels wrote: I finally have time to work on this new tape drive (vxa-2-packet-loader). I am having difficulty since this is my first autoload-type system. I have amanda running fine for years with a single manually-loaded tape drive. Here are a few questions: 1

Configuring Compaq MSL 5026 changer with Amanda 2.4.4

2005-01-21 Thread Scheuerman, James
I tried to compile and configure Amanda 2.4.4 for the first time on Compaq Tru64 version 5.1b but Im having problems configuring the changer (Compaq StorageWorks MSL 5026 Library). I have included outputs of Amanda.conf, chg-multi.conf, disklist, and tapelist (empty file). I ran HP

Changer file for Compaq MSL5000 series

2005-01-20 Thread Scheuerman, James
Does anyone have a changer file for a Compaq MSL5000 series library? Im trying to configure Amanda 2.4.4 on Compaq Tru64 5.1b. Jim Scheuerman

Configuration clarification.

2005-01-19 Thread Scheuerman, James
I'm in the process of configuring Amanda 2.4.4 on Tru64 5.1b and have a question about the config.site file. The instruction tell me to copy this file to the $prefix/etc or $prefix/share directory. When I invoke the configure command I'm assmuming I need to add the --prefix=/cmrf/alpha/amanda

Still need help with amflush!!!

2004-12-10 Thread James Marcinek
, James

Re: Question using amflush

2004-12-08 Thread James Marcinek
That's what I did to make me believe something was a miss and post to the list. Thanks, James Christoph Scheeder lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote: Hi, there is a verry easy way to tell what amflush is doing: amstatus configname it shows you which dump is actualy getting flushed, which

Re: Question using amflush

2004-12-08 Thread James Marcinek
somewhat... Paul Bijnens lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote: James Marcinek wrote: I've recently deployed amanda. The client forgot tapes on several occasions and I've got 4 backups in my holding area. I initiated the amflush command and followed the instructions. The job kicked off

Exabyte Packetloader and AMANDA ?

2004-12-07 Thread James D. Freels
Exabyte sells a new and relatively inexpensive auto loader device. Called the VXA-2 PacketLoader 1x10 1U Autoloader. I have no experience with autoloaders and AMANDA as I have been using AMANDA now for years with manually-loaded tapes. I do know from reading the AMANDA docks that some

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