Re: {Spam?} backup still messed up...

mine for an Apple Mac - SATA drives and dual PPCs, tar is really slow;-(. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 ** This email and any files transmitted

Re: amrecover Tape is not a dump tape but amrestore works?

and later will use UFS2 as the default filesystem type, before this it was plain old UFS. hance the dump/restore programs will different, which is prob why it's not working. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

Re: Graphical User Interface for Amanda

for option 1. Then people can add it should they wish. Also means there's not fork in the code, ie you don't to re-implement every patch etc which you would have to do with option 2. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

Dump too big for tape

the dumps are way less that this.. Any ideas where I should be looking for issues.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 ** This email and any files transmitted

Re: Using 10 tapes for fortnightly DailySet backup scheme and for a Monthly Config 12 tapes.

Chuck on closer thought dumpcycle will need to be zero as the config assumes one run per day - ie the dumopcycle is really per invocation of this config, and doesn't count actual days -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Chuck Amadi

Re: Using 10 tapes for fortnightly DailySet backup scheme and for a Monthly Config 12 tapes.

chuck yup assuming labelstr ^MonthlySet1[0-1][0-9]*$ -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Hi Martin Please check over So create in /etc/amanda/MonthlySet1/amanda.conf dumpcycle 0 weeks

Re: WARNING: server.domian.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

Chuck so nothing in /tmp/amanda -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Chuck Amadi wrote: I have nuked the source version of amanda and installed amanada version rpm's 2.4.4 using Yast2 on SuSE Linux Enterprise server. I have used chkconfig

Re: WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

/xinet.d is properly configured to allow the local host access to itself. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Chuck Amadi wrote: Hi I added the files amanda and amandaix to /etc/xinetd.d enable running chkconfig -s xinetd 345 and rebooted. server

Re: SATA hardware raid/multiple disk controllers/pci bus performance (was Re: slow client)

hdparm is good for getting raw info, but you'll need something like bonnie++ to get actual file stats. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: My current amanda server lives

Re: Example of amanda implement the infinite grandfather-father-son strategy dumpcycle.

of the documentation and esp how the planner handles incrementals/full backups. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Chuck Amadi wrote: Has anyone example of amanda implement the infinite grandfather-father-son strategy. Cheers Chuck

Re: Example of amanda implement the infinite grandfather-father-son strategy dumpcycle.

month so it give me lots of tapes... -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Chuck Amadi wrote: Hi Yes I have but before I run my first test I would like confirmation that my amanda.conf handle incremental monday to thursday and a full backup

Re: How to reconfigure email notifications?

Matt so what happens if you email out as root to [EMAIL PROTECTED] do the emails arrive? have a look in the maillog for clues.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Matt Emmott wrote: This sounds like an easy mod, but I can't for the life of me

Re: Amanda server crashed!!!

Kevin yes.. http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda-24.html -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Kevin Alford wrote: My Amanda backup server crashed, and I had to rebuild it. I was running Amanda 2.4.2p2 on AIX 5.1 ML6. I desperately need to restore

Re: OT: which tape technology/drive to use

I'd echo Glenn's comments about airflow / ambient temp. I've had 3 DLTs (HP) die on me, all when in a non temp controlled rooms. Since we moved 2/3 into temp controlled environment I've had (touches wood) no problems with those. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel

Re: Upgrading via source from 2.4.4p3 to 2.4.4p4.

Gavin that's what I do - anothe reason to document the configure options :-) -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Gavin Henry wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Just wondering if upgrading is just a simple case

Re: Amrecover on Redhat 7.3 failing

TJ This is all client side. how did you install, from an RPM, hand compile??? -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 TJ wrote: Hi Martin Thanks for this I am not really sure if you're saying that it has to be recompiled on the main Amanda server

Re: Amrecover on Redhat 7.3 failing

program (see the backup styles in amanda.conf on the server). Again you have to compile with --tar= pointing to the correct spot. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 TJ wrote: Hi I have amanda set up on a Solaris 8 serevr and it is successfully

Re: Problems with HP SureStore VS80e (DLT1)

nothingdrive replace anyway.. I think next drives I'll try are the LTO 3's which are now down below 4,500 euro in the UK (2,900 UK pounds). -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Andreas Haumer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi

Re: Problems with HP SureStore VS80e (DLT1)

lasted for about 12 months and the second has been going fine for about 10 months so far. Dave. - -- Dave Ewart And here - seems to be heat related. Of the drives that have died (2xDLT1's and 1x VS80 all HP), have died on hot days in not temp controlled rooms. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems

Re: Problems with HP SureStore VS80e (DLT1)

Dave Ewart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 25.11.2004 at 13:57 +, Martin Hepworth wrote: The situation quickly became worse and at some point the tape drive refused to eject the tape cartridge. We called the HP support and they replaced the drive without

Re: Problem with amandad?

Hej have a look in the /tmp/amanda directory on the client and see if any of the debug files there give you any further information. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Sören Edzen wrote: Hi! amanda work for me for a few weeks when today amcheck

Re: Maybe OT but a big problem with SOLARIS

Michael There's of diagnostics you can do with a SUN. It may well be bad RAM or other hardware issue. SUN should be able to talk you through all this.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Michael Schaller wrote: Hey! Maybe this Thread

Re: Bacula vs. amanda?

Kai sounds like an index on a table was missing to me, that sort of performance from mysql isn't normal. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Kai Zimmer wrote: Hi Jonathan, i used Bacula before i came to Amanda. Bacula is really nice - easy

Re: Restoring an ArcServe tape on Linux without ArcServe

Hi dd the entire tape to disk, so you've got the binary to play with^W^W inspect. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Iulian Topliceanu wrote: I don't want to get spefic files. I just want to have a big ugly dump (or whatever) to show them

Re: data timeout - no replies...anyone???

The problem isn't amanda, its with dump (and Linus' hate of the program!) nocomp doesn't make a difference, apart from using more tape to store the results. your could make sure you use a 'dump-type' that specifies to use tar with no issues..with or without compression. -- Martin Hepworth Snr

Re: Rebuilding my backup server

distribution). -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Gavin Henry wrote: Dear all, Disaster strikes!!! My Red Hat 8.0 backup server hard drive has died, and I need some advice in rebuilding it. I have all the backups tapes and I have backup up /etc

Re: Rebuilding my backup server

thing. Depends on how borken the disk is - ie will it mount and how good your debugfs skills are if it won't mount.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Gavin Henry wrote: I do use knoppix heavily, maybe it's my ignorance, but how will it know

Re: Rebuilding my backup server

Gavin sure its the HD then and not the IDE - or is the disk SCSI?? CD-ROM drives are cheap anyhow.. Now that 1GB usb keyfob things are £200 I wonder how long it will before we a knoppix for a USB dongle (for BIOS'es that can boot from these things!) -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator

Re: Q: prevent deleting existing files after recover a backup

Sebastian there's no way for the restore not to overwrite the files. What I do is to cd to somewhere that's *not* the start point for the backup, restore the files then mv them to where I need them to be possibily with a new name eg fred.c.restore. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator

Re: AW: Q: prevent deleting existing files after recover a backup

Sebastian same technique will work then you can manually merge the directories. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Sebastian Ksters wrote: Hi! The overwriting is not the Problem. Thats ok. When I recover in directory, where files exist

Re: streaming

said you run 2.6.x but it's worth checking.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Glenn English wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 17:07, Frank Smith wrote: If it's linux, try using hdparm to verify the modes and speed of your disk. Like Jon says, a good

Re: Archiving With Amanda?

steven create a new backup set called 'archive', as opposed to the one you have now. then run it whenever... -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Steven Backus wrote: I have some files I'd like to permanently remove from my system (archiving

Re: BNCHMARK DLT1 tape Problem

do the mknod in order to create the device path. -- -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely

Re: BNCHMARK DLT1 tape Problem

that will be mt -f /dev/st0 rewind... note the leading / and v not w in the path name... -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 nejat onay erkose wrote: Hello I have a problem with BNCHMARK DLT1 tape . May machine doesnt seem to see the tape

Re: Tape error - how 'bad' is this?

just a little slower) I could free up for a lunch time if you need a test unit.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Dave Ewart wrote: Hi, Many months of happy activity and then suddenly, last two nights, the AMANDA job has failed to finish properly

Re: Troubles with Amanda on AIX 5.2L:

in /tmp/amanda on the AIX machine there will be some debug files. what do they say? -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Dmitry Likhachev wrote: I've some trouble with amanda on aix 5.2L (it's a client machine) Maybe you can help me or introduce me

Re: newbie questions

files and write them? Thank you, Mogorva You might want to have a good trawl through the docs on how amanda works.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 ** This email and any files

Re: Solaris ACLs

Talking of snapshots, FreeBSD 5.x can do this too with the -L flag to dump. Can someone remind me of how to generate a specific backup type (in amanda.conf) that passes the -L flag to dump on the remote system. Ta -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865

Re: building 2.4.4p1 under Solaris 9 with native-built gcc-3.3

Craig what's the LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to? does it include the location of libgcc_s.so? -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Craig Dewick wrote: Hi everyone, Further to the problems I've been experiencing with trying to build the amanda

Re: Suggestions for a dedicated Amanda-System

version and lock down as usual (remove uneeded inetd entries, daemons etc etc). I guess alot of the optimisation is down to parrelletisation params, where you do the compression (server of client) size, how big the cpu is etc.. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd

Re: Doubt in amanda.conf

Hi dumpcycle should be 7 days as should the runspercycle., -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Rodrigo P. Telles wrote: Hi Amanda Users, This is my first post in that list. I'm using/testing amanda by 4 weeks and now I have a doubt about

Re: Amanda don't work with Exabyte VXA-2

Hi you've not set the tape device correctly in the amanda.conf - still /dev/null by the looks of it. on the client what do you see the the /tmp/amanda denug logs? have you setup inetd.conf (or xinetd.conf) correctly the HUP-ed inetd afterwards? -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems

Re: Lot's of I/O errors...

Hi what does the /var/log/messages (or /var/adm/messages whichever) say around this time? You could have dirty heads, bad tapes or indeed a broken drive. Or something like a bad SCSI cable. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Toralf Lund

Re: lurk mode off...amanda time-frame question

.. BUT ... she doesnt see media, so doesnt like that are you doing tape or tapeless backups? Personnally I like 'tapes' cos you have something to take off-site so when a 767 hits your buidling you can still get to the data! -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd

Re: spanning tapes

medium and splitting the individual partitions up so they will fit onto a tape., -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** This email and any files transmitted

Re: Backup plan needs advice.

bao wrote: Hi Martin I forgot to state that this is a tapeless setup to back up to disk. Then the full backup will be transferred to tape, and also is kept on disk for one week. Martin Hepworth wrote: Bao Amanda will need two separate config's to do this, BUT they will have idea of each

Re: Help compiling on OS X/Darwin

remember messing with some file to get this right. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely

Re: Backup plan needs advice.

Bao Amanda will need two separate config's to do this, BUT they will have idea of each others existance so the 'daily' will to full backups as and when the amanda planner thinks it's time to do one. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 bao

Re: Solaris 8 compile problem with amanda 2.4.4

Jim where's libgcc_s.so.1 ??? in /usr/local/lib ? if it is then you'll have to include that in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This a a runtime path (like $PATH, $MANPATH etc) that is used by Solaris to search for libs during execution. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic

Re: Q: Backing up Netware3 via ncpfs?

find anything helpful in the archives about backing up Netware servers in this way. Anyone got any hints? Dave. Dave how are you backing up the mount point? gnutar I guess, in which case are you using the latest version... -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44

Re: client was working, now suddenly is getting self check hostdown? errors

to 'someotherhostname' all the tapes etc still reflect the correct hosts! what do the debug logs in /tmp/amanda say when this happens, also anything else in /var/log/messages indication anything odd at this time? -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865

Re: Problems to run 'amrecover' - Again

Roberto for the first bit try using the hostname for -s rather than localhost. for the last bit have you put in the correct tape. This is the error 'I' get when I put in the wrong tape for the recovery. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300

Re: List of files on tape

Dalton don't need to try each tape. just use amrecover and it will tell which tape to get..for me this is the best bit of amanda. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Dalton Hubert wrote: Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 at 1

Re: Flushing interrupted backups

tape? Alex Hi Alex not really, if you force the flush to tape it will overwrite the stuff already there. Prob best to not put in a tape tonight. This will force the backups to the holding area, then flush everything to tape tomorrow when you get in. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator

Re: Installation Problem

Hi well like the error says you need to specify the --with-user flag. You also need to specify the --with-group as well! Have a look in the docs esp the oneline chapter from Backup and Recovery mentioned on the amanda home page. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State

Re: help requested designing once a week dump cycle

. That way I can specify to just do level 0 dumps (ie full backups) always for all disks. If you just 'take out' a tape it will more than likely just have incrementals on it and an only level 0 if you by chance coincide with the amamda planner's view of when to do a level0. -- Martin Hepworth Senior

Re: Help With Restore

, where you want it to go and from what date. anyway back to your tar problem. you haven't used the 'f' option to tell tar to use a non default file ie.. tar xvpfS hostname._.1_shares.20030206.0 -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300

Re: no-rewind pass0 on FreeBSD

my kernel config just mentions the sa driver. (no zero or one etc) that way it should detect the sa devices on boot. Once you've got that far you may need to make the /dev/*sa0 devices by cd /dev Makedev sa0 -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865

Re: Tape Cycle calculations

) tapecycle 20 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation If ya want to do 'archive' runs then setup a separate backup set that only does full's (via the disklist and backuptype specifier) -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300

Re: Error after installing/configuring amanda

1 amanda operator12053 Feb 4 16:30 amverify 34821 -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda operator 1123 Feb 4 16:30 amverifyrun Where have I gone wrong ??? Thanx in asdvance Madhvi -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300

Re: question (if tape server crash)

and specifically the area where all the indexes etc are kept. Then all you need to do is restore the amanda indexes, conf files etc to the new server. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300

Re: Tape running out of space, NOT possible

Rebecca What does the tapetype say in amanda.conf? -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote: Hi all - I have amanda 2.4.2p2 running on a RH 7.3 box with a Quantum SuperDLT 110GB tape drive. I am currently sending 11

Re: sol 2.6 HP-C1557A (12000e) changer device

Sounds like you need to get the chg-insert_option working first. have a look at the docs in the tape-changer directory. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 10 February 2003 06:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Backup problem

. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Angie Yee wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I have a problem with the amanda backup. All the files are not seems fully backup to the backup tape every time. For example, file A and file B are stored in the same folder C

Re: cannot fit anything on tape, bailing out ....

changers need tapedev and others don't. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use

Re: Windows backups

Bill have you tried amcleanup? Sounds like the first run didn't exit clean. also make sure that the disktype doesn't mention an exclude list for the gtar varient. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Bill Hults wrote: Taking the $ out

Re: Windows backups

Bill what do the debug files in /tmp/amanda say - anything interesting? Bill Hults wrote: amcleanup said there was nothing to do. The disklist is as the documentation suggests. No exclude list. -Original Message- From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January

Re: Amanda correct hostname resolution

in /tmp/amanda look like? There may be a clue in there as to why. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential

Re: amandad without xinetd

on servers. Would be nice if we could at least run amanda on the clients without running an inetd varient. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** This email and any files

Odd tape block size problems

parameter. Am I missing something in the amanda.conf file?? -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential

Re: Permissions with Amanda-client

. archiver). But when I run amcheck I have this error: ERROR: meclient.mydomain: [can not execute /usr/local/libexec/runtar: Permission denied] On server and on client user archiver can run runtar. What's wrong? Thax for any advises. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State

Re: Permissions with Amanda-client

, but as I understand, group archiver can execute this file. What probles? hmm ok looks good, and the amanda user is group archiver I presume.. What do the debug files in /tmp/amanda on the client say? -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300

Re: Permissions with Amanda-client

installing amanda, it's a bit of a expletive to actually configure, you've got to run through all the debug files etc to find out what's wrong. Also you'll need the /usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude-gtar file as well -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865

Re: holding disk via nfs?

to with the 'reserve' parameter in the holding disk. This is a precentage of the disk to keep for degraded mode backups. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** This email and any

odd block size config problems

with the same issues. How can I force the block size in the amanda.conf (or elsewhere) to use 20 rather than the 32 is looks like it uses by having a very quick look at the code. (yes I have messed with maxtapeblocks in the config line for 2.4.3)?? -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator

Re: RedHat, amanda, and permission denied

Peter Seebach wrote: In message 1027611162.2658.46.camel@stimpy, Mark Cooke writes: On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 16:24, Peter Seebach wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Hepworth writes: Peter Did you configure amanda with the --with-user=operator config option? I think so; if nothing

Re: amanda sending mail

Hi in you amanda.conf make sure you have the mailto line set correctly and it should send an email out after each run. Mine is mailto root and I alias root to real people in my /etc/aliases file. Also I presume that the amanda server can use email anyhow? -- martin Eduardo Ceva wrote:

Re: Amcheck: acess denied

Trevor Fraser wrote: Hello all. I've been through this problem before, I just can't remember hoe I fixed it. I've reinstalled RH 7.3 and copied the conf files onto the new installation. When I run amcheck, I get the error: ERROR: merlin: [access as amanda not allowed from root@merlin]

Re: Amcheck: acess denied

Trevor Fraser wrote: I tried that, didn't work. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Trevor. - Original Message - From: Christoph Scheeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Trevor Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 2:36 PM Subject: Re: Amcheck: acess

Re: autochanging tapes after tape is full...

Patrick in a word 'no' It's up to you to make sure that the individual dumps can fit on a single tape. For my money this is the amanda's greatest downfall. BUT you can get around it by using gnutar and splitting the filesystems up by user or group (or whatever) to make sure that it will fit

Re: MacOSX and gnutat problem

Dirk OK I'll give it a go - got a copy hfspax I can download without having to muck around with sea.hqx files etc ie a tar.gz file so I can to this remotely with an ssh connection. -- martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone trying tomake this work with hfspax ? Dw

Re: MacOSX and gnutar problem

arrghhg the one at freeforums doesn't work and the the itunes site insists you're on a Mac. I'll do it later:-( -- martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Martin Hepworth wrote: OK I'll give it a go - got a copy hfspax I can download without having to muck around

Re: MacOSX and gnutat problem

Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 02:35:09PM +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote: Try ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar/ Jon Ok got it, compiled it with the change you recommended and put it in a different location from the MacOSX one. Recoompiled amanda client to point and the new tar

Re: MacOSX and gnutat problem

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone trying tomake this work with hfspax ? Dw Hi OK I checked the report from last night's run and it worked fine. Hurray. I'll try Jon's patch for amanda next week. BTW in case you've missed the earlier bits of this thread the f/s is (as far as I can

Re: MacOSX and gnutat problem

Jon Well it's not happy - amanda is constantly trying to do a level 0. So it's seeing this as a fail. -- Martin Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 03:47:41PM +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote: Hi all well I've been fiddle with my new shiney iMac G4 trying to get amanda to back

Re: MacOSX and gnutat problem

Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:30:17AM +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote: Jon Well it's not happy - amanda is constantly trying to do a level 0. So it's seeing this as a fail. I find it is generally easier to follow a thread if new comments are added at the bottom

MacOSX and gnutat problem

Hi all well I've been fiddle with my new shiney iMac G4 trying to get amanda to back the thing up. Currently I'm getting this from the backup report.. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: stuartdmg4 / lev 0 FAILED [/usr/bin/gnutar returned 2] and in the senbackup log I get... sendbackup:

Re: GNU Tar for SunOS 4.1.3 Amanda client

Jonathan I've got amanda running here to Sunos 4.1.3/4 clients using dump as the file grabber. If you wish I can have have a go at getting the latest version compiled on my systems. My current version of gnutar is 1.12, I can't remember if this works with amanda or not?? -- martin Jonathan

Re: netusage, high or low?

Brandon d'oh just read the whole email.. If your SUN is connected to a cisco switch make sure is actually running at 100m fdx as alot of the older SUNs and Cisco have some wierd problem with autonegotiate. I've also seen problems with Cisco's under high load with SNMP turned on giving

Re: full backups all the time not working

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 at 9:32am, Martin Hepworth wrote However when I try and do an 'archive' backup set that should use the 'always-full' and 'always-fulltar' dump styles I get failures like the following for all disks on the disklist even the local machine

Mac OSX 10.1.5 and dump ...

HI guys Trying to get amanda working on Mac OSX 10.1.5 using dump as the backup service. However when I try and run dump I get the following.. sendsize: debug 1 pid 354 ruid 0 euid 0 start time Mon Jun 17 21:30:01 2002 /usr/local/amanda/libexec/sendsize: version 2.4.2p2 calculating for amname

not enough coffee to figure out samba restore

Hi Guys.. well can't seem to figure out how to restore a file on a samba from the amanda server.. I did it when I was testing then thing, but didn't get around to documenting it for myself ;-( I did the amrestore -C Daily -s myserver -t myserver -d /dev/sa0 but I can't seem to find the

Re: Amanda users does not get full access to files

David make sure that the 'bin' user has access to the /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 (or whatever). It will probably need to be a member of sys on a solaris box, check the file group membership of the actual device. -- Martin David Flood wrote: I've just upgraded from 2.4.2p2 to 2.4.3b3, at the same

Re: netusage, high or low?

' attribute? B -Original Message- From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 9:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Brandon Moro Subject: Re: netusage, high or low? Brandon err you mention the le0 interface in the config. Is this correct

Re: netusage, high or low?

Brandon err you mention the le0 interface in the config. Is this correct 'cos the the le0 interface is a 10base system, not 100base!.. -- Martin Brandon Moro wrote: Hello all! I am having some troubles with my AMANDA backups running too long. They often take 20+ hours, sometimes even

Re: netusage, high or low?

Brandon d'oh just read the whole email.. If your SUN is connected to a cisco switch make sure is actually running at 100m fdx as alot of the older SUNs and Cisco have some wierd problem with autonegotiate. I've also seen problems with Cisco's under high load with SNMP turned on giving

Re: backup Mac files on Windoze

Brian we do this without any problems. BUT the servers in Question are Unix (running netatalk or Pacers now defunct appletalk stuff) or running off a SNAP server which we use smblient to backup. What happens if you try and open the file with w2k - do you still get the error? -- Martin

Re: full backups all the time not working

yay it worked adding the reserve 0 field in solved the problem.. TVM -- Martin Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 at 9:29am, Martin Hepworth wrote nope still no luck. Somewhat random question -- there *is* a tape in the drive when you run amdump, right? IOW

Re: full backups all the time not working

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 at 9:32am, Martin Hepworth wrote However when I try and do an 'archive' backup set that should use the 'always-full' and 'always-fulltar' dump styles I get failures like the following for all disks on the disklist even the local machine

Re: full backups all the time not working

Tried all that and same error Joshua has commented that there may be issues if there's no tape in the drive, which is our case, as we'd like to do normally nightly backups and use this as the archive to be moved to somewhere else and kept for ever... If this doesn't work I'll be back(tm)

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