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Hi! I have here a tape-changer from Overland with 10 Tapes. All Tapes are labeled corectly (Daily00 - Daily09). All tapes are working fine, but safely i will change the tapes, call i will using new tapes. I put the tapes in the changer and i will label the tapes with amlabel. I will label the

Re: amrecover problem

Hi John! extracting files using tapedrive 0 on host fileserver Note the tapedrive 0. That can't possibly the path to your tape drive. You probably need to put -d /dev/whatever on the amrecover command line. For security: My NoRewinding device ist /dev/nst0. Shall i take this device for my

Re: amrecover problem

Am Mittwoch, 20. Juni 2001 22:17 schrieben Sie: Hi John! For security: My NoRewinding device ist /dev/nst0. Shall i take this device for my changer? It should be the tape device name. Whether it is also your changer device name depends on your hardware. When i take amrecover -d /dev/nst0

amrecover problem

Hi! After a backup i need to restore some files from tape. I changed into a directory and give amrecover as root. Amrecover Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting Fileserver ... 200 DISK is set to sdb1 WARNING: not on root of selected filesystem, check man-page! amrecover is starting, i can select files

Re: Problem with device sg*

Hi! Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 08 Lun: 00 Vendor: QUANTUM Model: DLT8000 Rev: 0119 Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Here's a thought. Are you sure everything on that bus is wide SCSI? Yes! You cannot have ID's = 8 on narrow SCSI. Maybe

Re: Problem with device sg*

Hi! Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 08 Lun: 00 Vendor: QUANTUM Model: DLT8000 Rev: 0119 Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Here's a thought. Are you sure everything on that bus is wide SCSI? yes, i'm shure, because the system was running before i

Re: Problem with device sg*

Hi! I'm not sure where the problem is, so I suggest a few steps to find what's working and what's not. First see if the Tapedrive is found at all. Cat /proc/scsi/scsi and see if you find a device of type Sequential-Access like this: cat /proc/scsi/scsi brings: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 08

Re: Problem with device sg*

Hi John! Hm...the tape haven't and hasn't SCSI ID 5 ... But earlier you said: Before i installed a new hard drive in the system (only scsi devices), the changer device was /dev/sg6 and the tape device was /dev/sg5. Yes, because i read that the first scsi device becomes the device

Re: Problem with device sg*

Hi! But i have another Problem. I can't open the no-rewinding device /dev/nst0. So, are we just supposed to guess what error message you're getting??? Yes. as user amanda an ./amcheck Daily brings: amanda@fileserver:/usr/local/sbin ./amcheck Daily Amanda Tape Server Host Check

Re: Problem with device sg*

Hi John! See above. Mtx status sends changer SCSI commands to a device (although info is a generic command all devices support). So you can't use mtx to talk to the tape drive except with some specific commands -- status isn't one of them, info probably is. OK, i understand. Is /dev/sg6

Re: Problem with device sg*

Am Mittwoch, 25. April 2001 16:47 schrieben Sie: Have you tried different devices ? What mtx -f /dev/sgX status says on them ? Also make sure the device is readable by amanda user. Problem is fixed, the major and minor numbers are not set correct. mtx is working fine,

Changer don't run after installing a new hard drive

Hi All! Amanda, Version 2.4.2-19991216-beta1, runs a lot of time very well. Now i have installed a new SCSI Hard Drive, and than i want to start amanda. But amanda don't run. Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /dumps/amanda: 2095692 KB disk space

Re: Changer don't run after installing a new hard drive

Am Mittwoch, 18. April 2001 19:10 schrieben Sie: Holding disk /dumps/amanda: 2095692 KB disk space available, that's plenty amcheck-server: could not get changer info: error could not read result from "/usr/local/libexec/chg-scsi" (got signal 11) Odds are excellent that you have set the

Re: amrestore problem

Am Montag, 12. März 2001 09:25 schrieben Sie: Hi! Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD amrecover What is wrong? In short NOTHING. When you start amrecover it assumes that you want to recover directly into your current working directory. You need to sethost, then setdisk. So,

Re: amrestore problem

Am Freitag, 9. Mrz 2001 16:10 schrieben Sie: Hi John! Should i make a fileserver.medienwerft.de root king.medienwerft.de root in the /home/amanda/.amandahosts, too? Yes. That's exactly what it's telling you. Thanks, thats good, working of amrecover will be better. OK, i have

Re: amrestore problem

Am Freitag, 9. Mrz 2001 04:48 schrieben Sie: Hi! And I also said exactly what I thought was wrong, based on what you posted. However what you wrote in that letter is not the same as what Sorry, this mail didn't come to me! And some mails are more than once by me. you wrote in this one:

Re: amrestore problem

Am Montag, 5. März 2001 09:17 schrieben Sie: Hi! vi /etc/services /amandaidx amanda 10080/udp amandaidx 10082/tcp amidxtape 10083/tcp Is that correct? Bye Juergen -- Dies ist eine Microsoft freie Mail!

Re: amrestore problem

amandaidx stream tcp nowait amanda /usr/sbin/tcpd/ usr/local/libexec amidxtape stream tcp nowait amanda /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/libexe amanda dgram udp wait amanda /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/libexec Those cannot be right. First, there is a trailing '/' on "tcpd" for

Re: amrestore problem

Hi! Huh? No output at all??? The file has 0 Bytes :-( ... What file? The amrecover program? Yes, and i don't know why amrecover has 0 Byte. Bu i have a copy :-) The first place to look is /tmp/amanda/amindexd*debug on the server. The result of this run is : amindexd: debug 1 pid

Re: amrestore problem

Hi! Running with no Problems and give me: root@fileserver:/usr/local/sbin mt -f/dev/nst0 rewind root@fileserver:/usr/local/sbin dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1 AMANDA: TAPESTART DATE 20010223 TAPE Daily04 The amrestore command is working fine ... I'm confused. You said it didn't work in

Re: amrestore problem

Hi! But, after rewinding the tape i become another error: root@fileserver:/usr/local/sbin ./amrestore /dev/nst0 king amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset This was right after a rewind? If so, then that's not an Amanda tape. Or it cannot be read. Try this

Re: amrestore problem

amanda@fileserver:~ cd /usr/local/sbin/ amanda@fileserver:/usr/local/sbin ./amrestore /dev/nst0 king amrestore: missing file header block Did you "mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind" first? i have forgotten :-( But, after rewinding the tape i become another error: root@fileserver:/usr/local/sbin

Re: amreport Problem

Am Dienstag, 20. Februar 2001 00:22 schrieben Sie: Hi! If ./configure cannot find the right program (it looks for "Mail", "mailx" and "mail"), you can set the "MAILER" environment variable to a full path to a mail program that understands "-s subject user". When you're done, run "amadmin xx

Re: amrestore problem

Hi! root@fileserver:/usr/local/sbin ./amrestore /dev/sg5 king /dev/sg5 is a changer. The tape device is /dev/nst0, and that's what amrestore wants. OK, i tested it with this commands: amanda@fileserver:~ cd /usr/local/sbin/ amanda@fileserver:/usr/local/sbin ./amrestore /dev/nst0

Re: amrestore problem

Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2001 20:57 schrieben Sie: root@fileserver:/usr/local/sbin ./amrestore /dev/sg5 king /dev/sg5 is a changer. The tape device is /dev/nst0, and that's what amrestore wants. OK, i will testing at theses day. Thanks a lot. Bye Juergen -- Dies ist eine Microsoft freie

Re: amreport Problem

Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2001 20:57 schrieben Sie: Hi Alexandre! amreport: mail command failed: /usr/sbin/sendmail -s "Daily AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR BogusMonth 0, 0" [EMAIL PROTECTED] It shouldn't be running sendmail directly. It should be using `Mail', `mailx' or `mail', as per configure.

Re: broken pipe

Am Donnerstag, 15. Februar 2001 08:51 schrieben Sie: Hi Alexandre! Also the backup is finnished correctly? I'd guess so, but you didn't post the part of the report that says which dumps made to which tape, so I can't tell for sure. OK, i send you the complete mail from amanda and hope that

Re: broken pipe

Am Donnerstag, 15. Februar 2001 09:50 schrieben Sie: See? No failures. You can use amtoc or amadmin info to find out in which tape the filesystem was stored. OK, no failure. Amadmin tell me that the backup is ok. I thank you for your help and Infos. Bye Juergen -- Dies ist eine Microsoft

amrestore problem

Hi! I will restore some files from the tape changer, but i become some errors: root@fileserver:/usr/local/sbin ./amrestore /dev/sg5 king amrestore: error reading file header: the argument is not correct (Das Argument ist ungueltig) In chg-scsi.conf i have config 0 drivenum

broken pipe

Hi! At first i installed amanda for a long time on a tape server and amanda works fine. After insatlling amanda on a client i have this problems. ---Begin Amanda Mail These dumps were to tapes Daily01, Daily02. Tonight's dumps should go onto 2 tapes: Daily03, Daily04. FAILURE AND STRANGE

Re: broken pipe

Am Donnerstag, 15. Februar 2001 08:40 schrieben Sie: On Feb 15, 2001, Juergen Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fileserver sdc1 lev 0 FAILED ["data write: Broken pipe"] fileserver sdc1 lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed] [snip] taper: tape Daily01 kb 44245472 fm 4 wr

Client problem

Hi all! I have installed Amanda on a tape server for a long time ago and it works fine. The tape server is called fileserver with ip 10.0.1.50 and have an entry in the DNS, the client is king with ip 10.0.1.49 and have no entry in DNS. Now, i installed Amanda on a client without Server. When

Re: Client problem

Hi Alexandre! I have checked the DNS configuration, and thats ok. I find the computers by giving the name How about finding the name given the IP? That's what Amanda is complaining about. Does `nslookup 10.0.1.50' succeed on 10.0.1.49? reverselookup was not set correct, i fixed ist.

Amanda installation on a client

Hi! I had installed amanda on a tape server and there amanda is running fine. Now, I want to be install amanda on a client running under Kernel 2.2.17, so that the tape server can backup the client. I have decompressed the sources on the client and im not shure which options i need to

Re: more than one Tapes?

Hi! This error suggests that either you have more than one amdump running at the same time, or you have more than one amanda server trying to talk to 'fileserver' at the same time, or else you have 'fileserver' listed in your disklist with more than one name. Basically it means that

more than one Tapes?

Hi! I have installed Amanda on a SUSE Linux with a Tapechanger. So far so good. It works fine, but since Monday Amanda means that one tape is not enough. OK, one Tape can save 40GB native Data, and i must save ca. 50GB. In Amanda.conf i give Amanda one tape runtapes 1 #number of tapes to be