On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 01:31:04PM +1000, Craig Dewick wrote:
After hunting around for a while in Google I found a reference to an old
post to this list (!) dating back to about 2003:
http://marc.10east.com/?l=amanda-usersm=106975454004344w=2
which pointed me to a script in the contrib
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 10:00:51AM -0400, William Baroniunas wrote:
Hi.
I would like to get some feedback on certain Sun copyright statements
which can be found in /contrib/sst directory. These appear to be a
chunk of example code that someone upstream copied inadvertently. We
are
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 12:33:45PM -0400, Ian Turner wrote:
On Friday 15 September 2006 11:21, Jon LaBadie wrote:
I scanned throught the 2.4.4 code and found no indication it is used
by any code there. It is unlikely sst gets used more in later amanda
releases.
A quick grep of 2.5.1
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:58:28AM +0200, Dennis Ortsen wrote:
Hi all,
I'm running amanda 2.4.5. on a number of FC4 servers.
I'm using gnutar (1.15)
Is there an option available to turn the --one-file-system option off
in a dumptype config? By default this command line option is parsed
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:56:55PM +0200, Dennis Ortsen wrote:
On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 14:58 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
On 2006-09-14 10:58, Dennis Ortsen wrote:
Hi all,
Is there an option available to turn the --one-file-system option off
in a dumptype config? By default this
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:14:43PM +0100, Fabio Corazza wrote:
Somebody knows why I receive this error when I label a tape?
-sh-3.00$ amlabel mybbookInSite mybbookInSite-10 slot 10
labeling tape in slot 10 (/dev/nst0):
rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape (Input/output error)
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 09:10:49AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to resume a level0 dump wheree it left off, rather than
starting all over again, in the even of a client reboot during the dump?
no
--
Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JG Computing
4455
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 05:18:46PM -0600, Chan, Victor wrote:
To all,
I've changed up to Amanda 2.5.1. For some reason, these three
parameters that used to work in Amanda.conf didn't work anymore.
diskdir var/tmp:
No '/' at start of /var/tmp
No '' at end of string
Did you
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 09:29:38AM -0500, Lee, Raymond wrote:
P.S., I did a make uninstall and make distclean on the 2.5.0p2
version before trying to install 2.5.1.
Thanks,
Ray
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee, Raymond
Sent:
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:47:26PM -0400, Zembower, Kevin wrote:
Frank and Alex, thanks for replying. Alex, you're right, I believe,
GNUtar behaves differently than tar with respect to symbolic links, and
I'm using GNUtar:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.14
Likely
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 07:07:52AM -0700, Stephen Carville wrote:
Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 10:48:08PM -0700, Stephen Carville wrote:
I've been using Amanda for about five years now. The only problems I've
ever had are because a single dumps has to fit on a single tape. I
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:54:13PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ERROR: label FULL0 match labelstr but it not listed in the tapelist file.
(expecting a new tape)
I thought that amanda would simply create a new tapelist...I deleted the
old one because it was years old. Do I need
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 04:25:56PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote:
Using amanda 2.4.5 with gnu-tar.
This has probably been already answered somewhere but I can't find an answer
in the list or the wiki
Is there a way to list the content of an amanda tape (without having to load
and read the
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:47:39AM -0600, Steven Backus wrote:
Last night my 2.5.1 backups failed spectacularly:
ambiance.med.utah.edu sdc1lev 0 FAILED [cannot read
header: got 0 instead of 32768]
episun7.med.utah.edu c0t11d0s0 lev 1 FAILED [cannot read
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 04:27:08PM +0200, Dominik Schips wrote:
Hello,
I am new to AMANDA but I like it very much but I didn't get a good answer
from
all the documentation I read already and hope to get answers from the mailing
list now.
I use a Overland PowerLoader with a Ultrium LTO
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 07:14:45PM +0200, Dominik Schips wrote:
For your information.
The holding disk is on another harddisk as the data harddisk to back up.
So the holding disk dumps are from a RAID5 (S-ATA) were the backup files
are to another harddisk.
I have to check them with bonnie
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:38:55PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
If you have several nfs mounts under /nfs and want them all backed
up as a single DLE, you could do a set of include directives
in the dumptype.
host /nfs NFSDIRS {
user-tar
include file./rmtdir1
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 04:51:08PM -0700, Steffan Vigano wrote:
Frank-
Thanks so much for your reply... that did the trick! I knew it had to
be something simple... I'll be adding that to the Amanda Wiki for
future users.
Thanks again
-Steffan
Frank Smith wrote:
Dump works on
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 03:58:11PM -0500, Phil Howard wrote:
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:01:10AM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote:
| On a Debian system, the backup user is a member of the appropriate
| system groups to allow backups to function, i.e. a member of 'disk'
|
| For what it's worth, on a
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:10:30AM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote:
I am looking at using the includefile feature in the amanda configuration
file.
I am running 2.4.5P1.
1) Is the includefile available in 2.4.5P1.
Its been around a long time, so yes.
2) What would happen if I have
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 08:56:15AM +0200, David Sánchez Martín wrote:
Now for something completely different ( ;-) )
The chg-zd-mtx changer script knows about barcodes, but,
What's the difference between using it or don't?
Just time looking for the next tape on the changer?,
or it will
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 03:21:33PM -0500, Phil Howard wrote:
| That functionality (if it will be created) should IMHO be optional,
Absolutely. If you want to use it, specify in the configuration. If you
don't want to use it, don't specify it.
| considering people who aren't using
As no one has responded, I guess no one else has a clue either. :((
Of course, not having a clue seldom stops me from posting ;)
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 04:56:03PM +0100, Stephen Carter wrote:
I have 2 physical boxes I'm backing up, one called srv1 and the other called
srv2.
srv1 is
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 08:50:20AM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote:
Is there a way to limit the highest backup level? Presently on some backups
it will go to level 4. I would like to only have backup level 0-2.
I have pursued the amanda.conf file but there is nothing obvious that I can
see.
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:46:47AM +0200, Sebastian Kösters wrote:
Hi!
Today i noticed something strange.
I use a tapecycle of 14 and a dumpcycle of 7. Every Wednesday and Saturday i
force a Level 0 (i use v-tapes with tape-changer - slot1, slot2 .).
I started using this Server on
Can anyone supply their experiences in changing the name
of an amanda configuration?
Months back I aquired an old PC and set it up as standalone
amanda server. I first set it up using my DDS changer I
had used on the old server (config tstdds). Then I got
a good deal on eBay for an lto-1 drive,
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 11:09:24AM -0400, Jeff Portwine wrote:
This morning first thing I looked in my email to see the amanda backup report
to see how it ran last night there was no report there.So I checked the
server and doing a ps showed:
backup 17511 0.0 0.2 2272 1064 ?
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 01:17:14PM +0200, Charles Stroom wrote:
Hi all,
last day's dump of Amanda (version 2.5.1b1) failed and files were
left over in the holding disk. So I tried to do an amflush which
also fails, nearly immediately. Below is some more info:
logfile amflush.1:
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 10:40:15AM -0400, Jeff Portwine wrote:
Please forgive me if this comes across twice, I sent the same question
yesterday but it seems that it never made it to the list.. at least I didn't
receive my own message if it did.
I want amanda to back up
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 06:16:03PM +0200, Charles Stroom wrote:
Thanks.
As I have a Suse specific RPM installation, I might prefer to wait
until 2.5.1 is made available in RPM.
To John LaBadie: yes, there were dumps!
My question was moot once JLM noted it was a know and fixed defect.
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:15:30AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 at 6:23am, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 at 1:53am, Jon LaBadie wrote
Others have a cost consideration for how many tapes
physically are offsited (can offsite be a verb? :)
Verbing
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 12:37:02PM +0200, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
Is this the right forum to report a CGI server error on
http://www.amanda.org/cgi-bin/fom ?
The contacts page at the website lists a [EMAIL PROTECTED]
for problems with the website.
--
Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 12:49:32PM +0200, Natalia García Nebot wrote:
Hi all! I have a doubt.
I'm making test with amanda. I have executed amdump with the tape out of
the tape device to force amanda to dump on holding disk.
Then i have executed amflush to write on the tape de backup. And
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 09:17:49AM +0200, David Sánchez Martín wrote:
...
BTW have you tried accessing your tape drive with other amanda and/or
cygwin commands? Can you tar directly to and from your tapedrive without
amanda?
I do not use a real tapedrive/robot with amanda, and I
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:43:14AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:
Hi,
Time to add my 2 cents to that thread, and ask for advice from Amanda
gurus too.
The way I solvedthe offsite tapes thing is the following:
I declared:
dumpcycle 1 week
runspercycle 5
tapecycle 6 tapes
I labeled
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:23:13AM +0200, David Sánchez Martín wrote:
On 2006-08-21 09:48, David Sánchez Martín wrote:
$ /usr/local/sbin/amcheck DailySet1
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-
WARNING: program /usr/local/libexec/planner: not setuid-root
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 01:58:16PM -0500, Nick Jones wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sbin]#./amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 -e 400g
amtapetype: could not open /dev/nst0: Input/output error
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sbin]#mtx -f /dev/nst0 inquiry
cannot open SCSI device '/dev/nst0' - Input/output error
I don't
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 01:28:29PM +0100, Chris Lee wrote:
I was wondering if anyone thought it would be a good idea for Amanda to
write a footer file to tape after completing a dump providing a record
of the tapes needed to produce a full restore to the state the system
was in when this
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 10:26:02AM +0200, Mathias Gisch wrote:
Hello,
I managed to get my amanda backup server running. It is currently backing up
2 hosts. The first hosts works perfectly, while the second gives me strange
errors in the nightly amanda mail report. Does anyone have a
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:06:48PM +0100, Fabio Corazza wrote:
Sorry for the length of the email, but it's been a bit difficult to
explain everything... :-)
Followed by a long-winded answer without apologies.
Hi there,
I'm wondering which is the best backup technique that I can
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:13:22PM -0500, Nick Jones wrote:
Hello everyone, I'm attempting to set up amanda on my YDL 4.1 XServe
G5. I've compiled the app and everything seems well. I have
modified the kernel (according to Overland) so that my tape library
(Overland Loaderxpress with 1
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:45:27PM -0500, Nick Jones wrote:
I can use mtx to get tape status. I have not tried to load or unload
a tape. Basically, assuming everything works and the problem lies
with amanda, how do I use amtapetype? What device do I use?
Last login: Fri Aug 18 13:40:00
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:29:46AM +0200, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
Hi all,
I'm running a configuration without holding disk. Well, there's one
defined actually but none of my DLE use it.
...
However, I have enough place to store a few degraded backups should it be
needed. And I would like
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 12:05:12PM +0100, Gavin Henry wrote:
quote who=Gavin Henry
Just testing recovery like a good support company and getting permission
errors:
nas1:/storage # /usr/local/sbin/amfetchdump Test nas1 /storage/samba
20060811 -o /storage/
Scanning /storage/amanda...
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 04:20:33PM +0200, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit sur 17/08/2006 15:03:28 :
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:29:46AM +0200, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
Hi all,
I'm running a configuration without holding disk. Well, there's one
defined actually but none
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:15:21PM +0200, Charles Stroom wrote:
Hi all,
I have recently installed Amanda version 2.5.1b1 on my SuSE 10.0 PC,
via an binary rpm. After some struggling, I start to understand
how it works and backups are being made.
...
Another question I have is why I
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:25:03PM +0200, Kristian Rink wrote:
Hi all,
please forgive me posting longer texts to that list, but right now I am
into a situation where I sort of feel lost within my amanda
configuration and log files. After working well for quite a while, our
tape backup
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 08:23:51PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From 'man dump':
-level#
The dump level (any integer). A level 0, full backup, guaran-
tees the entire file system is copied (but see
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 07:35:33PM +0200, Karsten Fuhrmann wrote:
hello,
i have some disk that are too big too fit on one tape. I thought this
is no problem anymore since amanda 2.5 but i experience a strange
behavior.
I think amanda would split this big dump onto multiple tapes now. But
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 09:06:19PM +0100, Alan Pearson wrote:
On 14 Aug 2006, at 20:37, Henning Brauer wrote:
there an established method for keeping privileges lower when
doing dumps, i.e.
add a user who can dump and not using root to do this?
you don't need root to do backups, a
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 08:13:44PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
Hello.
I've recently upgraded to amanda 2.5.0p2 and switched the changer from the
obscure chg-scsi to the much better chg-zd-mtx. All things have been running
great for the past weeks, until yesterday.
I got this error:
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 09:36:21AM -0400, Jeff Portwine wrote:
amanda dgram udp wait backup /usr/local/libexec/amandad amandad
Or was it nowait, and you changed it to wait (or fixed the username
backup), but forgot to sig-HUP the inetd process after you fixed it?
No, I added the inetd
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 11:52:04AM -0400, Luc Lalonde wrote:
Hello Folks,
I'm getting this error when I try to use the tapes (LTO1) on a
StorageTek L40 Jukebox:
st1: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes.
st1: Incorrect block size.
st1: Incorrect block size.
scsi(0): Resetting
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 04:09:08PM -0400, Joe wrote:
Having read the docs about amanda.conf...
I have 7 tapes. Every day I want a full dump on
the tape. So...
dumpcycle 0 days
runspercycle 1
tapecycle 7 tapes
Correct?
By gosh, I think he's got it.
--
Jon H. LaBadie
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 02:39:09PM -0700, Pavel Pragin wrote:
Hello,
Another way to force a full dump on every run is to add strategy noinc
to the the dumptype definition you are using for
this backup.
Pavel
*
Example:*
define dumptype root-tar {
program GNUTAR
compress none
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 01:40:45AM -0700, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
Regular expressions do my head it...but I've come up with this to enable me
to label tapes daily-1 or daily-1b, etc:
labelstr daily-[0-9][0-9]*[a-z]*
:)
Looks good. Would even match daily-8004amanda
--
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:41:29PM +0100, Gavin Henry wrote:
Dear all,
We've put Amandas Holding disk on a NAS, which has 6.6T free on it:
df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 73G 6.0G 67G 9% /
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:22:20PM +0100, Alan Pearson wrote:
Guys,
On this subject, I'd like to do something similar. Unfortunately my
backups don't fit on one tape !
How can I take a _complete_ backup off site in this situation, and
how can I identify which tapes I need to take ?
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 05:22:37PM +0200, Franz-Heinrich Massmann wrote:
Hi,
The same problem as Sven reported on 02-Aug has been seen
with Novell Suse 10.1/Qualstar TLS46120/Amanda 2.5.0.
Six out of 20 tapes have been labelled some time ago,
but no way to label another one.
Does
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 10:27:36PM +0100, Alan Pearson wrote:
On 9 Aug 2006, at 15:15, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:22:20PM +0100, Alan Pearson wrote:
Guys,
On this subject, I'd like to do something similar. Unfortunately my
backups don't fit on one tape !
How can I
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:37:17PM -0400, Ian Turner wrote:
Marilyn,
Amanda's tape selection policy is as follows.
Consider the set of tapes T. We can partition the set into two disjoint
subsets A (the set of active tapes) and I (the set of inactive tapes).
Assuming I is nonempty, there
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 05:19:38PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote:
One thing still up in the air (to me anyway) is final tape selection
from within the tapelist and physical tape changer. Your description
gets to which tapes are eligible
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:48:18AM -0400, Ian Turner wrote:
The rule is slightly different if the changer is a gravity stacker; in that
case, the first tape in I (without regard to P-membership) will be accepted.
And the last gravity stacker was seen in which decade? ;))
--
Jon H. LaBadie
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 12:26:59PM -0400, Ian Turner wrote:
On Tuesday 08 August 2006 12:11, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Just to be clear, suppose I have a large tape library with functioning
barcode reader and associated changer database.
I neglected to mention that if there is a barcode reader
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 10:27:00AM -0500, Frank Smith wrote:
Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:37:17PM -0400, Ian Turner wrote:
Marilyn,
Amanda's tape selection policy is as follows.
Consider the set of tapes T. We can partition the set into two disjoint
subsets
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 08:51:32AM -0700, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
The amanda configuration I'm planning to put live this week includes these
entries in amanda.conf:
dumpcycle 0 (to force a full backup on every run, because all our data fit
comfortably onto a single tape
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 02:48:25PM -0400, Ian Turner wrote:
On Tuesday 08 August 2006 14:32, Jon LaBadie wrote:
From this discussion, your and my observations also, it appears the
order of tapes listed in the tapelist file is immaterial.
I'm not sure about this, but I think the definition
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:35:55PM +0200, mario wrote:
Hello List,
i am trying to back up to DVD-RAM and I get the follwoing error:
START driver date 20060807
DISK planner localhost md1
START planner date 20060807
WARNING planner tapecycle (8) = runspercycle (28)
INFO planner Adding new
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:19:12AM -0700, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
Does anyone know, please?
Will appreciate your thoughts a lot.
Thanks.
Joe Donner wrote:
Dear all,
my tapelist has become a bit confused, due to my own fault, by me adding
tapes in the middle
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:02:48AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:19:12AM -0700, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
wrote:
Does anyone know, please?
Will appreciate your thoughts a lot.
Thanks.
Joe Donner wrote:
Dear all,
my tapelist has
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 11:18:52AM -0500, Gordon J. Mills III wrote:
Olivier Nicole wrote:
In particular amadmin export. What I am currently doing is this:
tar -cpPzf /home/myname/cjs-amback.tar.gz /var/lib/amanda/
/etc/amandahosts /etc/amandapass /etc/amanda/ /var/log/amanda/
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:29:32PM -0500, Frank Smith wrote:
HUGHES Marilyn F wrote:
We have a situation where the next Amanda tapes that it is asking for
are currently offsite. It costs $75 for them to be retrieved so we
don't want to do that.
Besides we have available tapes
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 03:14:40PM +0100, Laurence Darby wrote:
Ross Vandegrift wrote:
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 09:41:39AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
I've had quite good luck doing poor man's data recovery. Boot the
This is besides the point, but that wont work, and I'm not
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 01:24:41PM +0200, Sebastian Marten wrote:
Hello,
I use a backup to DVD-RAM since February 2006.
Here the important parts of my config:
runtapes 1
tapedev file:/dvdram
tapetype DVD47G # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes
below)
labelstr
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 04:27:09AM -0700, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote:
Hi All,
I am trying to figure out a proper backup strategy for our setup, using
Amanda as the backup tool. We have roughly 20 Linux/Windows dual-boot
machines and one file server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3
Is it normal for a DLE listed as failed under
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: to still be taped?
I'm having different DLE's exhibit failure, perhaps
three times a week. Reasons are not always timeout
like the one shown below. But one thing struck me
about most of them, the detailed report for
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 04:00:16PM -0700, Pavel Pragin wrote:
James Wilson wrote:
How can I tell what compression I am using? Also how do I make sure
hardware compression is off?
Hello,
If you have compression enabled you will see something like compress
client fast in your amanda.conf
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 11:26:45PM +0200, Kaiser, Hans wrote:
Hello list,
we need urgently a replacement for our current solution. We used until
now a own script based on dump (fsdump), which copied after the dump the
dump-files to dvd-ram. But now we have to big troubles with dump and
want
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:46:06AM -0700, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
That was definitely not the case. The holding disk has been empty all this
time, except on 31 July. And after I ran amflush it was empty again.
What I don't understand is the increase in dump time and tape
on this.
Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:46:06AM -0700, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
wrote:
That was definitely not the case. The holding disk has been empty all
this
time, except on 31 July. And after I ran amflush it was empty again.
What I don't understand
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:31:22PM +0100, David Golden wrote:
As the new security infrastructure seems nice, and as amanda 2.5.x now
pretty much builds on OpenBSD/amd64, I decided to try the bleeding edge.
Not certain from your note, is this a first installation and you
are getting poor
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:53:45PM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote:
Presently I am using an SDLT220 tape drive with hardward compression turn
on. I have a new LTO2 tape drive and I really do not want to run the
amtapetype program if someone else has already done this.
Here is my LTO2 drive:
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:53:45PM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote:
Presently I am using an SDLT220 tape drive with hardward compression turn
on. I have a new LTO2 tape drive and I really do not want to run the
amtapetype program if someone else has already done this.
Here is my LTO2 drive:
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 12:36:57AM +0200, Josef Wolf wrote:
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 11:11:41AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
If talking about amanda's planning, it shouldn't happen.
I'm pretty sure that amanda does at most, estimates of three
dump levels; level 0, the last dump level
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 04:37:58AM -0700, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
Aha - thanks for that!
That was kind of what I was wondering about - didn't realise that amanda
will add it to the rotation, so I thought what happens to the tape then...
I wonder - how will amanda handle
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 of level 0s (as expected).
I just noticed
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:14:29PM +0530, joseph wrote:
Amanda version: 2.5.0
Linux: Fedora Core 4
Windows Amanda client: Downloaded from
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/amanda-win32/amanda-clients-2.5.0-2001062
8.zip?use_mirror=nchc and installed it on the Windows platform. The
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 02:04:54PM +0100, Alan Pearson wrote:
Guys
I'm have _real_ trouble trying to force Amanda to do a L0 backup of the
system that was effected by Amanda wiping out the last L0.
I've tried to force a L0 backup of it, like :
amadmin DailySet1 force qtvpdc.lab:/Shares
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 06:56:22PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
After the struggle to burn my tape-split backups onto DVD, I find myself
wondering just how useful they are. The current set of backups are still on
hard drive, but what if I want to find an earlier copy of a file which has
since
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 03:24:28PM -0400, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Alan Pearson wrote:
I've tried to force a L0 backup of it, like :
amadmin DailySet1 force qtvpdc.lab:/Shares
amadmin: qtvpdc.lab:/Shares is set to a forced level 0 at next run.
But when amdump
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 12:01:16PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
Hello all,
I'm having trouble with amdump. It has failed for the second time. The facts:
The relevant parts of the mail report:
[includes my comments starting with a (*) ]
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 12:49:26AM +1000, Jeff Allison wrote:
I have just upgraded my client using the binarys at zmanda.com and when
I try a recover I get
[EMAIL PROTECTED] xinetd.d]# amrecover homes -s dalston.blackshaw.dyn.dhs.org
AMRECOVER Version 2.5.1b1. Contacting server on
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 04:05:03PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
On Friday 28 July 2006 15:42, Jon LaBadie wrote:
I'd guess your DLE omni:/home/mn was dumping direct to tape,
bypassing the holding disk.
Right, but I can't figure how why. I can't find any reference to holding disk
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 01:05:47PM -0500, C. Chan wrote:
Also Sprach jeffrey d anderson:
On Friday 28 July 2006 10:17, C. Chan wrote:
Related to Mr. Pearson's previous question:
Is there a quick way to determine which DLEs do not have any
Lev 0s on any tapes?
'amoverview' ought to
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 07:25:29PM +0100, Alan Pearson wrote:
I think I've run into another problem indirectly realted to my earlier
issues.
I've been trying in vein to get a Level 0 dump of the machine onto tape.
I've told amanda to use SERVER compression, but unfortunatley, amanda
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 04:07:40PM +0100, Alan Pearson wrote:
Guys,
I'm running amanda 2.5.0p2.
Last night, I got the following report from amdump (relevant lines
extracted) :
FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
/-- qtvpdc / lev 2 STRANGE
sendbackup: start [qtvpdc:/ level 2]
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:26:28AM -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
Continuing with my estimate saga...
What would cause a level 1 backup of a DLE with gnutar
be as big as a full? Estimates are done with calcsize
and gnutar is 1.13.25 with amanda-2.4.5
Could it be that the gnutar-lists
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:18:32PM +0100, Alan Pearson wrote:
On Thu, July 27, 2006 4:42 pm, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 04:07:40PM +0100, Alan Pearson wrote:
...
Yes I realise it wouldn't fit on the tape, but Amanda should at least
have put it in the holding disk area
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:16:36PM -0500, Mark Griffith wrote:
Pavel,
I think, I did this before, but here goes...
amrecover gssserv -s gssserv -t gssserv
AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p4. Contacting server on gssserv ...
501 Could not read config file /usr/local/etc/amanda/#/amanda.conf!
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:31:51AM -0400, Ronald Vincent Vazquez wrote:
Hello list:
Just want to know if anyone has ever experienced a case where a particular
DLE would get bumped two levels instead of one. For example, let's say
that after a level 0, instead of level 1, that DLE would get
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