Re: report status of amanda-2.5.2-20070523 which fixed chuncker port problem

2007-05-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 01:59:40PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Can you try different ordering in perl argument on the first line? Try: #!/opt/csw/bin/perl -t -T -w -W Try: #!/opt/csw/bin/perl -T -t -w -W Try: #!/opt/csw/bin/perl -t -w -W Try: #!/opt/csw/bin/perl -T -w -W Try:

Re: amanda 2.4.4, compression issue

2007-05-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:21:50AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: Good morning amanda users, I'm running amanda 2.4.4 on solaris 9, just built it on solaris 8. Finding that my TAR dumptypes seem to be running compression though I believe I've configured it not to. The (ufs)DUMP DLEs

Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:29:12AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: I want to thank you for your help. I did find an older version of gtar - that I believe to be working. Its a 1.13 but I don't see a more specific version number (from SFW collection). I will replace as suggested if I have any

Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:10:02PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: Jon, Think I found a good kit for 1.15.1, which seems to be on the good list at amanda.org. Unless you advise otherwise I will try to build using that version. It looks like 1.15.1 compiled easily on my Solaris 9 x86 box.

Re: how to even tape over multi tapes.

2007-05-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:53:12PM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: My archive backups are taking 4 tapes but I think I could get by with 3 if my files were more evenly spread over the tapes. Consider using the tape spanning feature, at least for your large DLE. Your tape seems to be

Re: Hardware suggestion

2007-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 08:59:40AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I am considering replacement for my Amanda server, the guy has been in production for about 6 years now and I want to be ready for the time when the tape drive will die. ... Could anyone advise on some disk tray

Re: first attempt with tape spanning...nogo.

2007-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 02:40:22PM -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: My first attempt at using tape spanning just failed. Anyone can offer some guidance? Server is an sgi with 28 cpus 28G of ram and client is a debian Xeon quad-core with 4GB of ram. I've setup an amanda test config for a

Re: amanda upgrade questions

2007-05-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:38:20PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: Replying to myself: It's my second attempt at trying to get any input as to how difficult it may be to upgrade amanda. I have not received any reply on both occasions. Are my questions too dumb ? I would like to read some sort

Re: amverify - reality check?

2007-05-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:26:27AM -0400, Donofrio, Lewis wrote: Thanks one and all for your input, I am planning on using a holding disk, vtapes for storage and archiving to ati2 tapes. I realize that the amverify would be rough on tape drives, but if I use d2d I should be fine. And I'm

Re: amverify - reality check?

2007-05-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:10:15AM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: The second part can only be done by actually doing restores. Perhaps you could schedule periodic recoveries of files or directory trees. Do some sort of varying selection of clients, tapes, and data

Re: amverify - reality check?

2007-05-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:42:52AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: I've been tasked with guaranteeing that the backup vtapes or in the future real tapes are good. So I found the command amverify that seems to be the correct routine but I want to know does it completely check the archive and

Re: External HDD recommendations

2007-05-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 10:58:16PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: Hello! The 160 GB external HDDs that we are currently using for backups are getting too small, so I'm thinking about getting new bigger ones. Would be interested to hear whether anyone has had particularily bad (or good)

Re: activate HW compression

2007-05-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 08:25:13AM -0400, Donofrio, Lewis wrote: This is my first post here - I thought people should never use tape hw compression because each vendor implements their own compression protocols. Say you need to restore files from a different tape host and if your not using

Re: amcheck fails

2007-04-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 04:19:59PM +0300, Teodor Nicolescu wrote: Hello! I have a problem with performing a backup for a Windows share. Amcheck fails with the following error Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: 172.16.1.61: selfcheck request

Re: which report do I believe?

2007-04-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
Expanding on JLM's accurate comment. On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:07:45AM -0400, Steven Settlemyre wrote: I am looking to restore a disk from one of my machines and am having a little trouble understanding which report to believe. Using amadmin find, I see there was a level 0 on 4/12 and again

Re: activate HW compression

2007-04-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 02:31:21PM -0400, FM wrote: Hello, I'm using HP ultrium 3 tape drive on RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 How can I enable Hw compression ? do I have to do it for each tape ? What if A reboot the server ? Look into mt for interactive changes and stinit for creating

Re: TAPE-ERROR 00-00001 [writing file: File too large]

2007-04-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:33:59AM +0400, Igor V. Ruzanov wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 08:52:24PM +0400, Igor V. Ruzanov wrote: Hello! I run Amanda under FreeBSD-4.11, so when Amanda trying to make file of dump with size of more than 4GB (exactly, 2

Re: STRANGE dump summaries

2007-04-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:25:21PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: If I remember well, You have to edit the source code and have amanda consider it normal. Can't recall where exactly in the source code, but there is a list of keywords that amanda is loomnking for in the tar output, that you can

Re: restore not finding all incremental levels

2007-04-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:31:33PM -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote: -In response to your message- --received from Jon LaBadie-- On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 07:13:09PM -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote: Hi, I'm testing my backup system and am finding something unexpected. ... I would presume

Re: restore not finding all incremental levels (SOLVED)

2007-04-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:50:44PM -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote: -In response to your message- --received from Jean-Louis Martineau-- Paul Yeatman wrote: So, as I continue to look at the problem, I haven't seen before that an amflush is require for the directories on holding disk to

Re: restore not finding all incremental levels

2007-04-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 07:13:09PM -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote: Hi, I'm testing my backup system and am finding something unexpected. I'm using amanda 2.4.4p3-1 on a server running RedHat linux ES 4. The restore I'm attempting is performed all on the server using a spare disk on the server.

Re: Using FreeBSD snapshots during backups

2007-04-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:16:46AM -0600, Chris Kottaridis wrote: Thanks I'll check into it. I assume there is no way to pass dump options in via the dumptype to get different options for different partitions. Like it's recommended that if you use -L you should use -C which takes a size

taperwait/taperstart/taperflush [was Re: HELP ! Setting up ...]

2007-04-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 03:23:12PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: I really wish there was an easy way to instruct amanda to wait for all the client files, before starting dumping the holding disk to tape, but there isn't. New feature ? Several possibilites were suggested, none added to the

Re: testing a patched tar question.

2007-04-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 09:43:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:29:53PM -0500, Marc Mengel wrote: Couldn't someone hack up a utility to do a major number swapout in the file where tar keeps track of what is in the last incremental/full/etc.? That's what I

Re: testing a patched tar question.

2007-04-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 08:41:56PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I don't know if everyone has been following the trail of tears regarding doing backups with the newer kernel versions, but there is a gotcha coming up. There needs to be a patch applied to the linux kernel that

Re: Solaris packaging

2007-04-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:21:27AM -0500, Lee, Raymond wrote: Hi, I compiled and installed the amanda client on one of my Solaris 10 server and used pkgmk to create a package of all the files installed. Is that package compatible with all the other versions of Solaris, or do I have to

Re: Question about backup schedules

2007-04-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 02:48:26PM +0100, Michael Keightley wrote: I have setup Amanda to backup to vtape. I want to do a full backup once per week, incremental other days (weekdays only), but keep 1 month of backups. I'm a bit confused about how to set this up in amanda.conf. Would this

Re: Compression

2007-04-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:01:20AM +0200, Sebastian Henrich wrote: On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Sebastian Henrich wrote: Hello, I'm using amanda 2.4.5 to backup my server. The tape is a HP DAT 72. This drives stores 36 GB of uncompressed data. I switched the hardware compression off and

Re: Compression

2007-04-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 02:09:52PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 at 11:39am, Jon LaBadie wrote On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:01:20AM +0200, Sebastian Henrich wrote: How can I put the ratio in the dumptype spec? Can't. The history of last 3 dumps at full

Re: Compression

2007-04-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:49:15PM +0200, Sebastian Henrich wrote: At 17:39 04.04.2007, Jon LaBadie wrote: ... I diabled the hardware compression before I used the tapes for the first time like it's described in the docs. mt shows me that hardware compression is off after inserting

Re: Compression

2007-04-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:05:47AM +0200, Sebastian Henrich wrote: So the best way will be to delete the configuration and start from the beginning? Does anybody know how this could happened and how to avoid such problems? I don't want to restart the backup from the beginning every 3

Re: Compression

2007-04-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 07:58:29PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Sebastian, amanda think your data are not compressible because you didn't use software compression before. It will adapt to the new config after a few run. Temporary, you can lie to amanda and increase the length of

Re: questions on VXA-2/X23 tape drive configuration

2007-04-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 03:24:17PM -0400, Freels, James D. wrote: I have a new set of X23 tapes from Exabyte (now Tandberg) that I want to make sure I get the most out of with my AMANDA backup system. The tapes are rated at 80/160 GB (uncompressed/compressed) for my VXA-2 drive. A few

Re: post-upgrade, multiple errors

2007-03-31 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 11:48:36PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Gene Heskett wrote: First is the tape size issue: [devel2]/var/log/amanda # grep FAIL log.20070329.0 FAIL planner b02.foo.com /var/qmail 20070329 0 [dump larger than available tape space, 2147483647

Re: missing result

2007-03-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 12:01:16AM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote: I left it 644 and it seems ok. Strange the whole amandates thing isn't in the docs (except for the cygwin part so you'd think it wouldn't apply) and it's not in the faq either. Seems like it should be part of the installation

Re: large dumps - 2.4.2

2007-03-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:29:40AM +0100, Jurgen Pletinckx wrote: Jon LaBadie | Guessing here. You are using DLT tape with a 35GB native capacity | and believe the marketing hype that they are 70GB tapes. | | Further guessing. The previous amanda admin is using | software compression

Re: large dumps - 2.4.2

2007-03-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 04:27:56PM +0100, Jurgen Pletinckx wrote: Except for the following types of failures, that is: deepskyblue:/dev/xlv/xlv10 [dumps too big, but cannot incremental dump skip-incr disk] deepskyblue:/dev/xlv/xlv20 [dump larger than tape,

Re: problem with client on 64bit machine

2007-03-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:29:49AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: Kenneth Kalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've poke around the list and didn't find this problem there. I have a RHEL 4 box with two dual core Xeon's and 16 Gig's of ram. Naturally it's running x86_64 of Red Hat. It has the

Re: Tape backup from server disk

2007-03-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 05:42:15PM -0400, FL wrote: I'm using AMANDA to back up a disk that is periodically rsynced from a NAS. At a certain point in the backup, amdump complains that it doesn't have enough diskspace, persumably for the holding disk. Is this something I should be concerned

Re: Detecting shoe shining with modern libraries?

2007-03-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:35:54PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: New drives are really quiet. Not to mention some new libraries (like our Spectra T50) bury the drives in the middle of the library so you can't really hear the mechanism working like you can older libraries with louder drives.

Re: amdump performance problem

2007-03-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:58:09AM -0600, Kenneth Berry wrote: Hello list, I have been working on a performance problem for about a month and I am out of ideas. I hope someone can help me. What is happening is that backups of large DLE that start very early seem to dump at a very slow

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

2007-03-06 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:09:42PM -0500, FL wrote: On 2/22/07, Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After watching the trouble recur, I see that the device associated with the changer SCSI device ID moved: it was /dev/sg2, today it is /dev/sg1. No changes were made to the Exabyte

Re: AMANDA 2.51p*3* and gtar 1.16.1 and error 2

2007-02-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:28:04AM -0500, Mark Hennessy wrote: Sorry for the delay in this e-mail being delivered to the list. I had originally tried to send it on 16 Feb 2007. -- Mark Hennessy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: URGENT HELP PLZ-Multi volume backup

2007-02-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 08:54:36PM +0530, kamalesh krishna murthy wrote: hi stefan this is my disklist entry 129.227.150.124 /home/kamalesh/kamalesh/amanda-2.5.0p2 user-tar-span ^^ 129.227.150.124:/home 0 planner: [dump larger

Re: AMANDA 2.51p*3* and gtar 1.16.1 and error 2

2007-02-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 11:27:12AM -0500, Mark Hennessy wrote: I'm actually running AMANDA 2.51p3 now, sorry about the confusion caused by my mistake in the subject. How would I set this gtar setting with AMANDA? Would it be in the source for sendbackup-gnutar? Does anyone know what the

Re: AMANDA 2.51p*3* and gtar 1.16.1 and error 2

2007-02-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:25:54PM -0500, Mark Hennessy wrote: Mark, looking at the gnutar code shows the message memory exhausted in about 3 locations. One that I noted was the pattern matching compiler (regcomp). Do you use a lot of include/exclude patterns on this DLE?

Re: Using amanda on AIX 5.2

2007-02-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 08:31:55PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am new to these list and if I use amanda with Linux (at home), I have never used it with AIX. I have installed amanda on an AIX server at work, but amanda core dumps each I try it. Even amcheck xxx fail with core

Re: dumpers

2007-02-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 07:23:27AM +0100, Dipl.Ing.Trompler Wilhelm wrote: Dear reader, I am using VERSION=Amanda-2.4.4p2 on a LINUX 2.6.5 with LTO-3 tapes. In general the performance is great, but on every forced, complete backup, the procedure takes almost 24 hours. I have to backup

Re: amanda/tar deletes files

2007-02-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 01:03:33AM -0800, Sascha wrote: hey list, we are using amanda 2.4.4 on debian sarge for about a year and had never problems with it. since two weeks amanda cant recover certain files from tape. it just show tar: deleting files xyz. but i know that these files are on

Re: Hardware Compatibility Question...

2007-02-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 03:26:40PM -0800, A R wrote: Hi All, I have been tasked with updating my company's aging backup equipment. ... Loader: Overland ARCvault24 w/ two LTO-3 tape drives I guess the main questions I'm trying to figure out are... ... and is the tape equipment that I

Re: selfcheck request failed

2007-02-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:46:20AM -0800, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hi, I had to upgrade to amanda-2.5.1p2 for some reason. I ... In my setup the same host acts as a client as well as the server. So I have only installed the amanda-backup_server-2.5.1p2-1 rpm. In my experience when

Re: A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED

2007-02-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 12:21:56PM -0400, Adriana Liendo wrote: Hello, Sorry, some message coming from the list were marked as spam, probably I got your message before I release it. Thanks for your help, but I don't understand everything. When you say I was not using a holding

Re: Amanda should fail dumps of directories

2007-01-31 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:52:54AM -0800, James Brown wrote: 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

Re: Use of RegEx in exclude

2007-01-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:45:10PM +0100, Lars Monsees wrote: (snip) ... But, as Jean-Louis said, regex is not supported for tar, so I guess my only options are to specify every domains? httpdocs dir separately (for 30+ domains and don?t forget it for new domains) -- bad, bad, bad But

Re: Query about full backups

2007-01-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:16:34AM -0600, Frank Smith wrote: Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: --- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hi All, As per the AMANDA faqs, AMANDA spreads full backups along the dumpcycle, so you wont' have any full-only or

Re: Differential backups

2007-01-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 04:05:48AM -0800, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hi All, Does AMANDA support differential backups? Can anybody provide me pointers about the terms level 0 backup, level 1 backup..level 9 backup etc? Descibing it is easy. A level 'N' is all changes since the most

Re: amrecover doesn't see all the index entries?

2007-01-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 01:26:07PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hi, Last Friday a user managed to remove her entire home directory :) so I started an amrecover session (2.5.1p2, client is the server, irix-6.5) using the last full backup of the DLE (backed up with xfsdump). This DLE

Re: Feature suggestion : test restore

2007-01-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:27:53PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Greets to all of you, as some of you may have noticed on amanda-users-ml I ran into trouble when trying to restore data on an older server (and I am still in trouble there). This is the perfect lesson to remember that

Re: Use of RegEx in exclude

2007-01-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:50:34PM +0100, Lars Monsees wrote: Hello, I?m quite new to amanda so I have left something out don?t slap me =) (I know from the documentation that it is possible to use ?* wildcards.) We have a server with several customer domains located at our ISP who

Re: DDS4 drive doesn't like DDS4 tapes

2007-01-28 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 02:00:13PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Sunday 28 January 2007 11:28, you wrote: My suggestion, if you haven't done so already, is to take a fresh DDS4 tape that has never been in any drive and try that in your new DDS4 drive. If you've done this, and it

Re: using removable virtual tapes [changed subj line]

2007-01-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 12:47:34PM +0100, Fritz Wittwer wrote: Hi all, i have an amanda installation (Version 2.4.5) where i make all the backups onto disks. This disks are in a removable container so i can swap the disks. I plan to swap the disks each week or so, so in case of a site

Re: include not included?

2007-01-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 04:02:46PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2007-01-18 20:22, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hi, Got this client (Amanda-2.5.1p2 same as server) for which a few DLEs with includes don't work, ie the include debug files are empty and the DLE backups nothing. Turns out

Re: Speeding up your backups - strategies?

2007-01-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 08:03:32PM +0100, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hi, all! We installed a disk based backup system a couple of months ago, because we have been hitting the capacity of our tape changer on almost every nightly run - and we did not even backup everything. So a new system was

Re: Tapetype defintion for HP Ultrium 960

2007-01-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:52:44PM -0500, Sean Connors wrote: Sir, A simple command, but you must ensure that your tape drive has native compression turned off and you use a no-rewind device. If your tape drive is say /dev/st0, then the command would be: amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 The

Stand-by amanda server

2007-01-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
Any one ever set up a second system, probably one of the regular amanda clients, as a stand-by amanda server? With the use of virtual tapes and external storage, either from USB drives or a file server, it would seem to be a fairly straight forward task. Here is the type of situation I'm

Re: Writing to tape performance issue?

2007-01-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:53:32PM -0500, Mark Hennessy wrote: Many thanks for the answers to my previous questions. I'm just trying to iron out a few minor issues with my backup cycle at this point. It would appear that based on the Tape Time value provided in the report that the rate at

Re: Amanda file driver questions

2006-12-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 01:09:47PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, chg-disk needs a tapedev which points to the root of a directory tree, containing slotN (N = 1... up-to-tapecycle) subdirectories. I used: tapedev file:/mnt/usb/dumps The example page for chg-disk uses:

Re: HARD-DISK tapedev and compression

2006-11-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 08:58:07AM -0800, Joe Little wrote: I've googled and otherwise searched for an answer, but I'm not finding out one disables the chunker from executing gzip --fast when writing to a tape dev. I don't want compression for my virtual tapes since its on a DataDomain box and

Re: questions regarding incremental backup sizes

2006-11-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:50:42AM -0500, Ren Kanters wrote: Hi, On my backup with dump/runs/tape cycle settings of /4/4/5, I get for every backup done that the size of the dump is the same size as the full backup. When I check the disk files (since I doing backups only to disk) I do

Re: DGUX - Any chance amanda would work with this?

2006-11-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 03:39:10PM +, Tom Brown wrote: Hi I have been tasked at making sure we have a valid backup of a box that i know nothing about! Its in a corner of one of our IDC's, has been up for about 3 years and no-one knows anything about it. uname -a gives me dgux

Re: Monthly backup

2006-11-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
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 all the way back to 10-01-2005. I want to backup everything till may

Re: estimate failed question

2006-10-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:08:16AM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: I am getting the following messages. planner: disk coriolis:/local, estimate of level 1 failed. planner: disk mailrelay:/local, estimate of level 1 failed. planner: disk

Re: estimate failed question

2006-10-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 05:44:15PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-10-23 17:08, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: I am getting the following messages. planner: disk coriolis:/local, estimate of level 1 failed. [...] My report shows: coriolis /local 0 0 0--

Re: question about new disks

2006-10-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 09:05:50AM -0400, Steven Settlemyre wrote: Also (unrelated), I have sent a few emails to the list that never seem to make it out. Is this a known issue? Failure to make it out would suggest problems at your end or failure to connect to the receiving end. I'm

Re: question about new disks

2006-10-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:15:04AM -0400, Steven Settlemyre wrote: Server: Debian (sarge) Linux. amanda version: 2.5.0p2 Client: tar: (GNU tar) 1.13.19 amanda-client: ? how do i find this? On any amanda installation, amadmin - version For amanda developers, an RFE, amadmin

Re: autoflush off, but still flushing to tape after amdump

2006-10-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 11:14:20AM -0500, Lee, Raymond wrote: I know Amanda wasn't designed to write to a tape until it's full, but I need to do that for now since I don't have enough tapes to keep the number of days of backups that I want. So as the FAQ suggested, I'd like to keep all the

Re: General backup advice help?

2006-10-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 03:50:25PM -0700, Don Murray wrote: Hello list, I've been lurking on the list a few days (not really long enough to be opening my mouth, but here it goes). I am a relatively novice sysadmin looking for a better backup setup than our handcrafted scripts. Amanda

Re: General backup advice help?

2006-10-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 05:29:05PM -0700, Don Murray wrote: Hi Jon, thanks for the reply! Jon LaBadie wrote: Up is less a concern to me than connected. Actually for those people the main issue is that some key services (like the email server) are shut down during backups

Re: Looooooooong backup

2006-10-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:14:57PM -0400, Steven Settlemyre wrote: I have a monthly (full) backup running for about 22 hrs now. Do you think there is a problem, or is it possible it's just taking a long time? about 150G of data. Have you tried a few amstatus cmds to see if it is still

Re: tape order

2006-10-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 11:44:53AM -0400, Steven Settlemyre wrote: I have 24 tapes and a 8 tape changer. For some reason, it is going 13-16-15-14-17. How can I fix this? can i just force it to take 14 after 13 by only having 14 in there when it's expecting 16? My tapecycle is 10. As

Re: tape order

2006-10-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:03:09AM +1300, Steve Wray wrote: This has been bugging me for years. ... I've been looking for a way to get amanda to try to predict which tape it will want next in good time (a schedule for the next 3 days or so would be ideal). No luck so far... Isn't the

Re: Amanda on USB disks

2006-10-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 10:12:49AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, For the next backup server I'll have to implement, I was asked to see the feasability of using USB disks instead of tapes. I know there are virtual tapes, but do they work on removable disks? That is what I'm using right

Re: Amanda on USB disks

2006-10-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 06:45:41AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:18:38AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 10:12:49AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, For the next backup server I'll have to implement, I was asked to see the feasability

Re: bizarre bug fixed but not explained

2006-09-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 11:17:38AM -0400, Ross Vandegrift wrote: On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:47:42PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:01:46PM -0400, Steve Newcomb wrote: chown root.disk /home/amanda/libexec/runtar All the chown's I've used require a colon

Re: amverify cannot /x/y/tar dumps

2006-09-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:00:13AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, This may be because I am using a prehistoric version of Amanda (2.4.2p2) but, after I make a dump, I make a verify. Some of the DLE cannot be verified becausethe client has been compile to use a GNU tar that is different

Re: amverify cannot /x/y/tar dumps

2006-09-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 07:09:13AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: amverify try to match the name of the program with tar/gtar/gnutar. Your /usr/local/bin/gtar should work but not /usr/local/bin/mygtar, you must add mygtar to the list. What 'list' ? But this features was added after

Re: Duplicating backup

2006-09-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 08:33:58AM -0700, Steven Kurylo wrote: well we run a full monthly backup, rotating through the tapes yearly. Running a weekly backup and then a monthly backup is rather wasteful, the data will almost be identical. Is there anyway I can take the weekly backup

Re: bizarre bug fixed but not explained

2006-09-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:01:46PM -0400, Steve Newcomb wrote: Dear Kevin, et al., My bug in which Amanda created its dump-holding directory with permissions that made it impossible for it to write on that directory --- it's fixed. The fix was to change the ownership of one or more of the

Re: Duplicating backup

2006-09-28 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 11:09:37AM -0700, Steven Kurylo wrote: Hi, Right now we run a weekly full backup, rotating through several tapes. As well we run a full monthly backup, rotating through the tapes yearly. Running a weekly backup and then a monthly backup is rather wasteful, the

Re: amrecover

2006-09-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:40:54AM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: I am running amrecover daily. The daily amanda.conf has the following: tapedev /dev/rmt/1bn # the no-rewind tape device to be used changerdev /dev/changer/1 This is not the answer to your problem, but generally amanda

Re: tapelist no-reuse set automatically

2006-09-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 10:54:20AM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: I run an archive once a month and would like to mark tapes that have been used by the archive as no-reuse. I have to do this manually now. Is there a way that this can be done automatically with an amanda configuration

Re: No more holding disk space

2006-09-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
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 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

Re: No more holding disk space

2006-09-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
installing everything. I thought I gave amanda the whole 60 gigs. Should it need more that that?br br Jon LaBadie wrote: blockquote cite=[EMAIL PROTECTED] type=cite pre wrap=On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 08:42:58AM -0500, James Wilson wrote: /pre blockquote type=cite pre wrap=Hey All

Re: amrestore with tar empty directories at mountpoints

2006-09-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 02:23:56PM -0400, Nick Brockner wrote: Hi All. I am new to amanda, and maybe I just don't understand how it works, but here is my problem: I have a remote machine that I back up over my network. The backups and everything go fine. I am doing a disaster recovery

Re: How to use 2 tape drives for backup with amanda?

2006-09-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 08:38:39PM +0200, Dominik Schips wrote: Hello, I have changed my hardware setup. Now I have a Overland PowerLoader with 2 HP Ultrium LTO2 drives. They are /dev/nst0 (/dev/sg1) and /dev/nst1 (/dev/sg2). The PowerLoader has a tape changer (/dev/sg3). The problem is

Re: How can I rename existing config from DailySet1 to daily?

2006-09-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 06:38:17PM -0600, Donald Murray, P.Eng. wrote: I've been running 2.4.4p4 for some time now on a Fedora Core 1 box. I'm going to reinstall, this time using CentOS 4. I've backed up all the goodies I'll need: - /etc/amanda - /var/lib/amanda I've also done an 'amadmin

Re: balance results

2006-09-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 12:34:40PM +0200, Charles Stroom wrote: Hi list, when I do amadmin daily balance, the result is: due-date #fsorig KB out KB balance -- 9/19 Tue1 5704660 5704660+29.6% 9/20 Wed1 4237300 4237300

Re: balance results

2006-09-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:24:39PM +0200, Charles Stroom wrote: In the above output, that means that you did not run any amdump on the 4th day of the dumpcycle, and expects that the next cycle will be the same. Dumps are done daily in principle, but actually, 3 days ago, many

Re: configuring the Solaris 'sgen' driver to bind to L9 changer device

2006-09-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 02:27:41AM +1000, Craig Dewick wrote: On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Brian Cuttler wrote: I know I posted, and exchanged information on this with others on the list some time ago. Give me a chance to look in my outbox, or you can check the list archives, and we'll see what

Re: configuring the Solaris 'sgen' driver to bind to L9 changer device

2006-09-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:48:28AM +1000, Craig Dewick wrote: Hi, I've got Amanda happily seeing the tape drive itself in the L9, but not the robotics controller. The L9 is attached to an Sbus 'isp' SCSI card in the Sparc 20 and it's configured into amanda.conf using the

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