Re: strange "disk offline" error

2003-07-23 Thread Marc Mengel
Kurt Yoder wrote: Weird errors here. The root user is definitely in the passwd file. Could this be part of the problem? Thanks for any ideas on fixing this... Maybe a silly question, but, can your amanda backup user read the passwd file on that system? Marc

Re: Running shell script during backup

2003-07-11 Thread Marc Mengel
Kin-Ho Kwan wrote: Since I have to do a "hot backup" on my Oracle database. I just want to know if I can do this in Amanda. 1. Bacup / directory 2. Run shell script to switch Oracle into backup mode 3. Backup /d1 directory 4. Run shell script to switch Oracle back into normal. 5. Backup /d2 direc

Re: Rewinding tapeless "tapes": why? error?

2003-07-11 Thread Marc Mengel
That is what I used Paul ammt -f rewind. Okay, but if you specified /dev/null as your tapedev in amanda.conf, you are *not* using disk-pseudo-tapes; you are simply leaving files in your staging area. If you were using disk-pseudo-tapes, you would have a tapedev of "file:/some/directory/name" and

Re: Rewinding tapeless "tapes": why? error?

2003-07-10 Thread Marc Mengel
bao wrote: Hi everyone, It makes sense that before recovering from a real tape, the tape has to be rewound. But for backup to disk (tapeless), the "tape" is just a file on hard disk, why does amanda require it to be rewound?? Recovery works, but rewinding the "tapes" gives unpleasant error mes

Re: remote site, no changer

2002-11-19 Thread Marc Mengel
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 19 November 2002 03:59, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM wrote: As far as I know, unfortunately there is no way to get around this dilemma becuase Amanda is not capable of appending tapes. Ouch... Any other suggesti

Re: Windows backups

2002-11-08 Thread Marc Mengel
Paul Bijnens wrote: Does there exist a native Windows program that can backup open files? The standard backup program on e.g. win2000 can't (but most pc users are not aware of that problem :-). There are Windows calls to break open file locks; BackupExec, Legato, and other commercial packages ca

Re: another wishlist thought

2002-11-08 Thread Marc Mengel
Todd T. Fries wrote: - support public key encryption type of schemes 'pgp' or 'openssl' style methods You should read the SECURITY-API file in the docs directory, that's the design to handle that; the API is in the 2.5 code (that is, the main CVS branch) If you want to roll up an "openssl" a

Re: EXB-10i and Solaris 8

2002-10-14 Thread Marc Mengel
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 16:00, Galen Johnson wrote: > Paul T. Root wrote: > > > Hi, > > I've just moved my Exabyte 10i changer from > > a Solaris 2.6 box to Solaris 8. Is there a device > > driver available? I've been searching Exabyte and > > I can even find the chs stuff I had before. In Sol

Re: Windows-XP

2002-07-18 Thread Marc Mengel
On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 10:39, Bruce Lilly wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear amanda-users, > > > > Has anyone given any thought to (or done) a port of amandad to > > Windows-XP?] See: http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda-win32/ They have been seeking beta testers, etc. for some time.

RE: 2.4.3 Tapeless file-driver pure-disk backups

2002-06-24 Thread Marc Mengel
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 16:47, Steve Follmer wrote: > FWIW I understand Solaris 9 put a lot of effort into GUI, so that is a > counter example suggesting that Sun feels that GUIs are useful to large > installations. Probably what is happening is, if you spend several years > writing and maintaining

Re: tape changer

2002-06-24 Thread Marc Mengel
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 10:37, Craig Hancock wrote: > Hello all I have a Overlan Ait-3 Library Pro. I beileve I have everything > configured. When I attempt to issue a command such as amtape config update > > I always get this error could not load slot 2: Drive not ready after 120 seconds, >rewind

Re: Expanding tapecycle

2002-05-03 Thread Marc Mengel
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 18:08, Brandon Moro wrote: > Here's where the problem is (unless you see one above that I have > overlooked). I send the tapes from the last week of every month offsite for > 1 year. Can I arrange the tapecycle in such a way that I can get amanda to > recognize a tape as b

Re: Invalid Argument with amlabel

2002-05-01 Thread Marc Mengel
On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 14:19, Cory Visi wrote: > I have checked an double-checked and the tapes I use are not > write-protected. In fact, when I attempt to label a write-protected tape, > I receive the error "Read-only device" > Well, I was thinking more along the lines of: mt -f /dev/nst0 st

Re: Invalid Argument with amlabel

2002-05-01 Thread Marc Mengel
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 21:28, Cory Visi wrote: > I searched the list archives and read all the documentation and I cannot > find this error anywhere. > > $ amlabel gcs DailySet1 > insert tape into slot 0 and press return > > labeling tape in slot 0 (/dev/nst0): > rewinding, reading label, not an

Re: OT: Backing up large raw partitions

2002-04-30 Thread Marc Mengel
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 09:51, Johannes Niess wrote: > Hi, > > I could need help in a somewhat unusual situation: A fellow PhD > student is doing work time measurements with a proprietary digital > video recoder based on Linux. His 120 GB disk is approaching full > capacity and our only backup solu

Re: HP Surestore 24x6 and cleaning tapes

2002-04-29 Thread Marc Mengel
On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 14:14, Scott Rixon wrote: > > Hi, > > I am new to Linux and tape drives! I have an HP Surestore 24x6. > > Slot 6 has a cleaning tape in. How to I tell Linux/Amanda to run a > cleaning cycle? With the standard drives you just pop in the tape and > then it spits it out. >

Re: NT share basckup

2002-04-12 Thread Marc Mengel
David Flood wrote: > With all this fixed I've got it down to one error: > > ERROR: father: [can not read/write /opt/amanda/var/amanda/gnutar- > lists/.:No such file or directory] > I suspect this is a default value because /opt/amanda/var/amanda > does not exist for me. I keep my config files