RE: Amanda 2.6.1p2 man page problem

2010-04-23 Thread McGraw, Robert P
-Original Message- From: Darin Perusich [mailto:darin.perus...@cognigencorp.com] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 1:23 PM To: Dustin J. Mitchell Cc: Darin Perusich; McGraw, Robert P; amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Amanda 2.6.1p2 man page problem Yes

RE: Amanda 2.6.1p2 man page problem

2010-04-23 Thread McGraw, Robert P
as I have http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/2.6.1 I am good to go for now. Thanks for your help. Robert -Original Message- From: Darin Perusich [mailto:darin.perus...@cognigencorp.com] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 1:10 PM To: Dustin J. Mitchell Cc: McGraw, Robert P; amanda-users@amanda.org

Amanda 2.6.1p2 man page problem

2010-04-22 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Amanda-2.6.1P2 Solaris 10 x86. I have compiled, make'ed, and installed amanda. I then went to share/man/man8 and did nroff -man amcheck.8 and all I get is - [24][ama...@hertz]:~/share/man/man8% nroff -man amcheck.8 System Administration Commands AMCHECK(8

RE: REF: compile issue on solaris X/x86_64 (resolved)

2010-04-21 Thread McGraw, Robert P
With the help of several people I was able to finally tweak my local configure to get amanda-2.6.1p2 to compile. I ran the make check and it ran without any errors. Here is what I had to do 1) Install SunStudio12.1 in /opt/Sunstudio 2) linked /opt/SUNWspro to /opt/Sunstudio 3) One of my

RE: REF: compile issue on solaris X/x86_64

2010-04-20 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am still fighting compiling amanda on a Solaris 10 x86 computer. I installed SunStuido12.1. and linked /opt/SUNWspro to /opt/SunStudio This is my configure file. ./configure \ CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc \ --prefix=/local/amanda/AMANDAVERSION \ --with-user=amanda \

RE: REF: compile issue on solaris X/x86_64

2010-04-20 Thread McGraw, Robert P
:?] file(s) So I manually ran the libtool command which created and ran the /opt/SunStudio/bin/cc command. Robert -Original Message- From: Elaine Ashton [mailto:elaine.ash...@oracle.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 3:22 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: Elaine Ashton; 'amanda-users

Having problems compiling Solaris 10 x86 2.6.1p2

2010-04-16 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am running Sun Solaris 10 x86 I have SunStudio12.1. I am trying to compile amanda 2.6.1.p2 I went the SunStudio12.1 route because of all the heart ache with gcc and glib-2.0. I have read all the information about the glib-2.0 on the zmanda wiki. It seems no matter which direction I go I

DLE Inclue not working

2010-02-02 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Running Amanda 2.5.2p1 on Solaris 10 Sparc. The following two entries are in my disklist. zorn /export/users-r /export/fssnap/xexport_users { users-tar include ./r* } zorn /export/users-R /export/fssnap/xexport_users { users-tar include ./R* } Amanda seems to

using exclude with tar

2009-10-07 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I have a filesystem called /export/comm. In this filesystem I have ./ftppub/site/mirrors which has a lot files and take a long time to backup at level 0. Since this mirror directory can be rebuilt from the master site I have decided to not backup the mirrors with Amanda. My question is how do

Backup leve tonight

2009-10-06 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Is there a command that will tell me what backup level will run tonight on the different DLE? Robert _ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer SystemEMAIL: rmcg...@purdue.edu Purdue University

include in DLE question

2009-09-29 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I need to track down a problem that in in a user that begins with the letter r. I was using include ./r* but I need to know the exact user so I am using the following: zorn /export/users-r /export/fssnap/users { users-tar include ./rabridge ./ram ./rcp ./reden ./rferrazd

the dreaded selfcheck request failed.

2009-06-04 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Presently we are running Amanda-2.5.2p1 on our Solaris 10 server zorn. I am trying to test run Amanda-2.6.1p1 on our Solaris 10 server but I am getting the dreaded error: zorn-[6] ./sbin/amcheck -c daily zorn Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check

How to debug a sendbackup.

2009-05-28 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I need to run the commands that will reproduce this error. I need to see what is the unexpected field value. What is the input to the gtar line sendbackup: time 0.396: started index creator: /opt/csw/bin/gtar -tf - 2/dev/null | sed -e 's/^\.//' Thanks Robert

sendbackup gtar error

2009-05-27 Thread McGraw, Robert P
SOFTWARE INFORMATION: VERSION=Amanda-2.5.2p1 BUILT_DATE=Thu Jun 7 09:00:57 EDT 2007 BUILT_MACH=SunOS zorn.math.purdue.edu 5.10 Generic_118833-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R [494][r...@zorn]:/tmp/amanda/amandad# /opt/csw/bin/gtar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.22 Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software

RE: PLEASE DISREGARD FOUND THE PROBLEM-amcheck error on local server

2009-05-21 Thread McGraw, Robert P
FYI One thing that I have noticed in going from Amanda 2.5.2p1 to Amanda 2.6.1p1 on a Solaris 10 box is that some of the paths have changed. The most important is libexec. Under 2.5.2p1 amandad amindexd amidxtaped all resided under libexec. Under Amanda 2.6.1p1 they reside under

PLEASE DISREGARD FOUND THE PROBLEM-amcheck error on local server

2009-05-20 Thread McGraw, Robert P
AG. Sorry for wasting your time. The problem was caused by [424][r...@zorn]:index/zorn/_export_users-z# svcs -a | grep amanda online Feb_11 svc:/network/amandaidx/tcp:default maintenanceMay_19 svc:/network/amanda/udp:default cleared the maintenance mode and things are

amcheck error on local server

2009-05-20 Thread McGraw, Robert P
ANAMDA SERVER zorn-[48] uname -a SunOS zorn.math.purdue.edu 5.10 Generic_120011-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R AMANDA SOFTWARE 2.5.2p1 Last night none of my backups ran on the host zorn, which happens to be my Amanda server. All my other clients ran with out problems as they have been for

FSF AFTER FILEMARK patch

2009-05-19 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I have Amanda 2.6.1p1. Darin Perusich mentioned a patch FSF_AFTER_FILEMARK that needs to be added for Solaris hosts. Where or how do I get this patch or a patched source. Thanks Robert _ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager,

amanda-2.6.2p1 compile error on Solaris 10

2009-05-18 Thread McGraw, Robert P
SYSTEM: SunOS zorn.math.purdue.edu 5.10 Generic_120011-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R AMANDA: 2.6.1p1 When I run configure I get the following error. | ; | return 0; | } configure:53701: error: in `/pkgs/src/amanda-server/amanda-2.6.1p1': configure:53704: error: cannot compute sizeof

Amanda and dual tape libraries.

2009-05-14 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I have a tape library (38) unit with one lto2 tape unit and one empty tape slot. I need to speed up our backups. One option is to purchase a second tape unit but not sure how Amanda works with a two tape drives. I searched the wiki for information but did not get any hits. I am going to

RE: Amanda and dual tape libraries.

2009-05-14 Thread McGraw, Robert P
. McGraw, Robert P wrote: I have a tape library (38) unit with one lto2 tape unit and one empty tape slot. I need to speed up our backups. One option is to purchase a second tape unit but not sure how Amanda works with a two tape drives. I searched the wiki for information but did not get

Red Hat amanda question

2009-03-03 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I have set up an Amanda client on a Red Hat 5.2 server and amcheck recognizes the new client. One of the things that I had to do for the 5.2 client to work is change the permissions and group for the device /dev/root. The problem is that this change will not last past a reboot. I had this same

flush questions

2009-02-18 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am considering moving to Amanda 2.6.x to try and get better tape usage. The following was found in the zmanda documentation. During amdump run, flush-threshold-scheduled and flush-threshold-dumped determine if the taper can start writing to a new tape. At the end of a run, taperflush is used

amdump entry question

2008-12-04 Thread McGraw, Robert P
In the amdump log I get a bunch of these entries. Can someone explain numbers at the end. planner: time 4820.600: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users-x: 0 - -2K, 1 - -2K, -1 - -2K planner: time 4820.600: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users-w: 0 - -2K, 1 - -2K, 2 -

Two can this be done question

2008-11-05 Thread McGraw, Robert P
1) I ran a backup several days ago but it had some errors but it did write some data to tape. I would like to remove this backup and reuse the tape. Is there an Amanda command that can remove all the necessary files for a particular backup or is this something that I need to do manually. 2) Is

amadmin info look for a file name

2008-08-12 Thread McGraw, Robert P
We have people who come and ask about recovering a file but the only know the file name and not where it was located. Is there an Amanda command that will search through the Amanda indexes looking for a particular file name listing all the available dates that it exist? I realize that I could

amadmin daily tape question

2008-08-04 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I have a tape library that had 36 slots. I was using slots 1-28 for my daily run. When tapecycle was equal to 28 tapes, I got the following: zorn-[44] amadmin daily tape The next Amanda run should go onto tape D6 or a new tape. tape D7

Checking for GLIB error

2008-07-24 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Solaris 10 SPARC Amanda 2.6.0p1 My configure looks like ./configure \ PKG_CONFIG=/opt/csw/bin/pkg-config \ CC=/pkgs/$GCCVERSION/bin/gcc \ LDFLAGS='-R/opt/csw/lib' \ PERL=/opt/csw/bin/perl \ --prefix=/local/Amanda/$AMANDAVERSION \ --without-client \ --with-user=amanda \ --with-group=operator \

sizeof error for 2.6.0p1 compile

2008-07-23 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I tried to compile amanda-2.6.0p1 on a Sparc Solaris 9 10 host and get the following error: AMANDAVERSION=amanda-2.6.0p1 GCCVERSION=gcc-3.4.3 + ./configure CC=/pkgs/gcc-3.4.3/bin/gcc MT=/opt/csw/bin/mt MTF=-f MTX=/opt/csw/sbin/mtx PERL=/opt/csw/bin/perl --prefix=/local/Amanda/amanda-2.6.0p1

Another dumporder parameter question.

2008-07-22 Thread McGraw, Robert P
When I backup I would like all my larger size files to be put on the first part of the tape and work down to the smaller size files toward the end of the tape. This I believe and hope will provide better tape usage. If large size files are dumped last to tape there is a good chance that it will

amdump return code quesion

2008-07-18 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I did an exit code check of my amdump last night and I got an exit code 8 Don't know the status of a dle (RESULTS_MISSION in the report) Can some one tell me what this means. Thanks Robert Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager,

amanda and hobbit monitor

2008-07-18 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Is anyone monitoring their Amanda run with the monitor software hobbit? If so how do you monitor? Thanks Robert Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University

software compression

2008-07-18 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I have decided to start useing software compression to see if I can get a little better tape utilization. I have set up the .conf file to use server best. I ran amdump with a test DLE with one file. The backup system log that was email said every thing went fine. The problem is that I do not

how to check for a good amanda run

2008-07-17 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I run a script every that that does some preprocessing, and then runs amdump, then does some post processing. I need to determine if the run was successful and most important if the amdump completed successful. How can I determine the status of an amdump run? How do others handle this?

RE: how to check for a good amanda run

2008-07-17 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Of McGraw, Robert P Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:35 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: how to check for a good amanda run I run a script every that that does some preprocessing, and then runs amdump, then does some post processing. I need to determine if the run was successful

Amanda failed.

2008-02-22 Thread McGraw, Robert P
OS: Solaris 10 SPARC AMANDA Version: 2.5.2P1 Last night my Soalris 10 sparc host Amanda failed with the following errors zorn /export/users-z lev 0 FAILED [/local/Amanda/amanda-2.5.2p1/libexec/runtar exited with status 1: see /tmp/amanda/client/daily/sendsize.20080221182142.debug] A

no index records

2007-09-14 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am trying to manually merge some old amanda index data into my present date. When I run amrecover I get the following message. 200 Working date set to 2006-07-02. amrecover listdisk 200- List of disk for host zorn 201- /export/users-q 201-

amrecover question tape drive

2007-08-31 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am running amanda 2.5.2p1 on a Solaris sparc host. Below is output from an amrecover run. amrecover add tidyview-1.13.tar.gz Added file /rmcgraw/tidyview-1.13.tar.gz amrecover extract Extracting files using tape drive /dev/rmt/1bn on host zorn. The

RE: Amanda 2.5.2p1 release.

2007-06-07 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
The Core Team, This is just a simple THANK YOU for the time and effort that you put into the complicated Amanda project. Robert _ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System

Amanda compression questions

2007-06-01 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
My configuration: zorn-[8] amadmin daily version build: VERSION=Amanda-2.5.2-20070530 BUILT_DATE=Thu May 31 09:14:26 EDT 2007 BUILT_MACH=SunOS zorn.math.purdue.edu 5.10 Generic_118833-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R CC=/pkgs/gcc-3.4.3/bin/gcc

amanda-20070530 amrecover problem with restoring from older amanda version.

2007-06-01 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
My configuration: build: VERSION=Amanda-2.5.2-20070530 BUILT_DATE=Thu May 31 09:14:26 EDT 2007 BUILT_MACH=SunOS zorn.math.purdue.edu 5.10 Generic_118833-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R CC=/pkgs/gcc-3.4.3/bin/gcc CONFIGURE_COMMAND='./configure'

RE: FW: amrecover problem

2007-05-31 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street FAX: (419) 821-0540 West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067 -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 4:53 PM To: McGraw, Robert P. Subject: Re: FW: amrecover

RE: chunker error

2007-05-31 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
:12 PM To: McGraw, Robert P. Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: chunker error On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:55:27PM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: I looked in the amanda group searching for could not bind to any port but did not fine any helpful hits. There were a few errors

FW: amrecover problem

2007-05-30 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
I am forwarding this from my partner SA. Is this a know problem with a fix or something newly discovered? Thanks Robert -Original Message- From: Chapman Flack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:03 PM To: Robert McGraw Subject: amrecover Robert,

dump order questions

2007-05-25 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
My amanda is the following: amandad: time 0.170: security_getdriver(name=bsd) returns ff2d8f20 amandad: version 2.5.2-20070523 amandad: time 0.170: build: VERSION=Amanda-2.5.2-20070523 amandad: time 0.170:BUILT_DATE=Thu May 24 10:07:47 EDT 2007 amandad: time 0.170:

Amanda-2.5.2-20070523 amstatus

2007-05-25 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
When I run amstatus --config daily --date zorn-[13] amstatus --config daily --date Using /var/amanda/daily/amdump from Fri May 25 07:51:23 EDT 2007 20070525075123 bers:/ 0 4649m finished (9:20:41) 20070525075123 bessel:/

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

2007-05-24 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
-Original Message- From: Dustin J. Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 6:12 PM To: McGraw, Robert P. Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: chunker error On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:55:27PM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: I looked in the amanda

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

2007-05-24 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
Street FAX: (419) 821-0540 West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067 -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 2:00 PM To: McGraw, Robert P. Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org; Dustin J. Mitchell Subject: Re

changerfile

2007-05-23 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
The following is from the chg-lib.sh file. What file is the changerfile that is mentioned below. # These are the defaults discovered by configure when Amanda was installed. # They can be overridden here, or by by 'mt_binary' and 'mtx_binary', # respectively, in the changerfile (currently only for

chunker error

2007-05-23 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
I have installed amanda 2.5.2 on a Solaris SPARC server. My clients are amanda 2.5.1p1. I manually ran amdump config on a small dle list to test the new install, and I get the following errors in the chunker. zorn-[20] cat chunker.20070523161733.debug chunker: debug 1 pid 18782 ruid 30002

RE: gtar version

2007-05-21 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
You might want to look at http://www.blastwave.org. The have a lot of precompiled binary for Solaris SPARC and X86 and easy to update. Robert _ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: [EMAIL

how to even tape over multi tapes.

2007-05-11 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
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. I am using dumporder BTBTBTBTBT NOTES: taper: tape A00021 kb 337870752 fm 39 writing file: short write taper: retrying zorn:/export/users-d.0 on new

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

2007-02-22 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
FWIW department We have a home directory with about 500GB of user data. I tried using the multiple tapes setting but found that this was a hassle. To get around the tape limit, I wrote a perl script that went thought the /home directory and create files users-a users-b . users-z that

RE: amanda client on MAC, launchd issue

2007-01-10 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
Not sure if this is relivent to your case but; 1) I am new to Mac OSX so take pity if I say something stupid. 2) We run a Mac OSX server 3) Our Mac OSX server uses Apple's launchd to launch programs. 4) Added a LaunchDaemons .plist restarted launchd and I have been backup up our Mac server

How to tell the next tape.

2006-12-06 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
The following is an error message from my last amanda 2.5.1p1 run. These dumps were to tape D00021. *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No more writable valid tape found]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. The

How to delete a run

2006-12-06 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
I have an amanda archive run that usually uses 3 tapes but in this case had an error and used only two tapes. I would like to rerun my archive run and reuse the two old tapes, but would also like to remove any trace of the run in my /var/amanda logs. Is there any command that will do this or

Amstatus report question.

2006-10-27 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
I get this when I run amstatus --config daily --date. 8 dumpers busy : 0:00:39 ( 0.19%) no-dumpers: 0:00:35 (89.89%) start-wait: 0:00:03 ( 10.11%) 9 dumpers busy : 0:21:16 ( 6.13%) no-dumpers: 0:19:34 (92.00%) start-wait: 0:01:42 (

estimate failed question

2006-10-23 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
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 mailrelay:/cygdrive/c/Alligate/agbackupfiles, estimate of level 1 failed. My report shows:

RE: estimate failed question

2006-10-23 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 11:29 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: estimate failed question On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:08:16AM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: I

RE: General backup advice help?

2006-10-21 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
disrupted in the middle of the night for backups doesn't seem a viable solution anymore, as it hits the other people in the middle of the day. [McGraw, Robert P.] The solution to this is to take a snapshot of the data you want to back up and back up the snapshot. Users continue to work without

RE: tape order

2006-10-18 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
This is what I do to keep my tapes in sequence. Say I have the following tape list. 20061010200953 D00025 reuse 20061009201023 D00024 reuse 0 D00023 reuse 20061009141704 D00022 reuse 20061008200944 D00021 reuse I change the time for D00023 to something in

RE: Mac OSX dump

2006-10-10 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
back up their systems. Hu? You would thing that a backup and a restore would be a mandatory part of an OS. Thanks very much for you input. Robert -Original Message- From: Bruce Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 10:28 PM To: McGraw, Robert P. Cc

Mac OSX dump

2006-10-09 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
I am trying to backup a Mac OSX using /sbin/dump. I am getting a sizecheck problem. Question number 1, is it possible to use /sbin/dump with amanda? If someone is doing this can you guide me to what I am missing? Thanks Robert Below is my sendcheck...debug output. sendsize: debug 1 pid

cygwin 2.5.1 upgrade question.

2006-10-04 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
I have upgraded a cygwin WindowXP system from Amanda 2.4.5P1 to 2.5.1p1. The compile and install went with out problems. When I run amcheck on the server to the client I the dreaded waiting for ACK. zorn-[117] !83 amcheck -c daily coriolis Amanda Backup Client Hosts

amoverview something wrong

2006-09-30 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
I am running amanda 2.5.1p1 from amanda.org. When I run amoverview I get this type of output. Has anybody seen this and if it is a know problem has there been a fix. Thanks Robert ' '2006-09-27 zuse / 0 D00011 8 -- OK ' '2006-09-28

amrecover_change do not understand

2006-09-29 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
The following is from the amanda.conf example file amrecover_changer /dev/rmt/0bn # amrecover will use the changer if you restore # from this device. # It could be a string like 'changer' and # amrecover will use your changer if you # set your tape with 'settape changer' I do not understand

tape writes and chuncks

2006-09-28 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
My default chunk size is CHUNKSIZE 1048576. How do the tapers write the chunks that are on the holding disk? Does it combine them into one file before writing or does it concatenate the chunks on the fly. Or what kind of magic does it do to get the data to tape. Does this process slow down the

amanda 2.5.1-20060923 log file questions

2006-09-27 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
I am getting the following information in my amanda email and would like to know what it means. There is nothing wrong just want to know. planner: Last full dump of zorn:/export/users-f on tape D7 overwritten in 5 runs. small estimate: zorn /var 1 est: 75M

amrecover

2006-09-27 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
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 When I go to extract a file I get the following tape device. Should not amrecover look at the daily amanda.conf file to get the tape

tapelist no-reuse set automatically

2006-09-27 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
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 parameter? I have looked for something like this and have not seen anything

usetimestamp question

2006-09-27 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
If I start using usetimestamp yes is there any problem using amanda programs on older file names? Is there anything that I need to do to the old files? Robert _ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System

amrecover question.

2006-09-26 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
I am running amanda-2.5.1 on a Sparc Solaris 10 When I run amrecover and do the extract, it tells me what tape needs to be mounted. I then have to go to another window and run amtape to mount the tape. Since it knows what tape to mount, what is the reason to go to another window to run amtape to

RE: Amanda Solaris 10

2006-09-23 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
: Peter Kunst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 5:08 AM To: McGraw, Robert P. Subject: Re: Amanda Solaris 10 Hi Robert, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: Is anyone running Amanda 2.5.1 on Solaris 10 host? If so could you send me the output from inetadm -l svc

RESEND UPDATE - RE: Amanda Solaris 10

2006-09-23 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
at adding this to the zmanda manual pages. Robert * * * -Original Message- From: Peter Kunst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 5:08 AM To: McGraw, Robert P. Subject: Re: Amanda Solaris 10 Hi Robert, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: Is anyone running Amanda

amrecover question

2006-09-22 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
I have upgraded to amanda 2.5.1. I need to restore a file and when I run amrecover I get the following AMRECOVER Version 2.5.1. Contacting server on zorn ... NAK: user root from zorn.math.purdue.edu is not allowed to execute the service amindexd: Please add amindexd amidxtaped to the line in

RE: amrecover question

2006-09-22 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
amandad: dgram_send_addr(addr=ffbff790, dgram=58074) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jean-Francois Malouin Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 11:05 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: amrecover question * McGraw, Robert P. [EMAIL

Amanda Solaris 10

2006-09-22 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
Is anyone running Amanda 2.5.1 on Solaris 10 host? If so could you send me the output from inetadm -l svc:/network/amanda/udp:default inetadm -l svc:/network/amandaidx/tcp:default inetadm -l svc:/network/amidxtape/tcp:default I would like to see how you have set things

RE: Release of amanda-2.5.1

2006-09-21 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
FYIW I am running gnu tar 1.15.1 on my solaris hosts and it does not show a -l parameter. I did tar --help | grep \-l. From the --help I have the following: --check-links print a message if not all links are dumped On a RH X86_64 system I have gnu tar 1.14 and it shows -l,

Amanda error Unexpected field value...

2006-09-08 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
the following are errors in my amanda mail report. Both mailrelay and coriolis are Window machines running cygwin. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: mailrelay /local lev 1 FAILED [no backup size line] mailrelay /cygdrive/c/Alligate/agbackupfiles lev 1 FAILED

amanda configuration file question

2006-09-08 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
Is there an amanda command that will list the .config parameters that will be used in a particular run. I have two types of runs; archive and daily. I have an includefile for most of my parameters and a .config file for each type run. I would like to run a command that will list the

RE: Amanda error Unexpected field value...

2006-09-08 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 10:37 AM To: McGraw, Robert P. Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Amanda error Unexpected field value... The difference is that the good run was a level 0 and the run with the error was a level 1. What is the Unexpected

amanda.conf include file question

2006-09-06 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
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. 2) What would happen if I have the same configuration parameters in both the include file and the amanda.conf file? Which one would have

RE: changer.conf for Powervault 124T

2006-08-28 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
I have a Sun C4 with 38 slots. I have two backups; archive and daily. For the daily run I use slot slots 1 20 and for the archive 30-36. I have my cleaning tape in 37. When I got the C4 I switched to the chg-zd-mtx script. I find it works great. The only parameters I have set are for the

Limit amanda level.

2006-08-28 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
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. Thanks Robert

RE: need regex help

2006-08-24 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
This is from the wiki. testgtar - A perl script to GNU tar exclude patterns. It takes exclude file and DLE as the parameters. I believe the word test is left out between to GNU Robert _ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager,

RE: Next Tapes are Offsite

2006-08-09 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
-Original Message- From: Jon LaBadie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 4:32 PM To: McGraw, Robert P. Subject: Re: Next Tapes are Offsite On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 03:58:21PM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: If Amanda's behavior hasn't changed (I'm

RE: Next Tapes are Offsite

2006-08-08 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
. It appears to just load the next tape until it finds a non-active one, not look for an unused one or find the oldest. From this discussion, your and my observations also, it appears the order of tapes listed in the tapelist file is immaterial. Anyone disagree? [McGraw, Robert P.] Not from what

RE: tapetype question

2006-08-02 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
-Original Message- From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 5:04 AM To: McGraw, Robert P. Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: tapetype question On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 at 1:53pm, McGraw, Robert P. wrote How is length calculated

RE: tapetype question

2006-08-02 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
Street FAX: (419) 821-0540 West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067 -Original Message- From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 11:37 AM To: McGraw, Robert P. Cc: amanda List Subject: Re: tapetype question On 2006-08-02 15

tapetype question

2006-08-01 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
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: Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'HP '

RE: AW: Question about dumbcycle, tapecycle and runspercycle

2006-07-26 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
' to manually schedule a level 0, full dump the next time each DLE is backed up. [McGraw, Robert P.] I have two amanda config directories, daily and archive. The daily I run every day, except for the days that I run the archive, and the Archive I run the first Saturday of the month. My cron

RE: bygwin amanda client behind firewall.

2006-07-15 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
. McGraw, Robert P. wrote: Well I am getting a little closer. My cygwin client is a Window2003 server. So is mine. When I do a amcheck from the amanda server to the cygwin client behind the firewall I now get the following in the events log on the cygwin client

RE: bygwin amanda client behind firewall.

2006-07-14 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
Well I am getting a little closer. My cygwin client is a Window2003 server. When I do a amcheck from the amanda server to the cygwin client behind the firewall I now get the following in the events log on the cygwin client. The following information is part of the event: inetd: PID 2280:

RE: bygwin amanda client behind firewall.

2006-07-14 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 3:29 PM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: bygwin amanda client behind firewall. On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 03:10:34PM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote

Amanda cygwin client behind a firewall

2006-07-13 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
Is anyone else backuping up an amanda cygwin client, where the cygwin client sits behind a firewall and the server sits on the outside of the firewall? I need to ask a few questions on your firewall settings. Thanks Robert

Cygwin amanda client behind firewall

2006-07-12 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
I am running 2.4.5P1 server on a Solaris host. I have a cygwin Win2003 client that sites behind a firewall. Can someone explain the IP address 0.0.0.0:PORTNUM. This seems to be causing me problems in trying to get my amanda server to talk to the Win2003 client. I have one firewall setting that

RE: Cygwin amanda client behind firewall

2006-07-12 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
-Original Message- From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 4:19 PM To: McGraw, Robert P. Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Cygwin amanda client behind firewall McGraw, Robert P. schreef: I am running 2.4.5P1 server on a Solaris host

RE: Cygwin amanda client behind firewall

2006-07-12 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
-Original Message- From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 4:37 PM To: McGraw, Robert P. Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Cygwin amanda client behind firewall McGraw, Robert P. schreef: My question is, is the 0.0.0.0 ip address

Amanda To many dumper retry on cygwin client

2006-07-07 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
As indicated in a previous email yesterday I got amcheck working with my cygwin client. Last night the dump ran and I got the sad news from the amanda server logs: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: coriolis /local lev 0 FAILED 20060706 [too many dumper retry] I went to my

amanda cygwin question(s)

2006-07-06 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
I am running Amanda 2.4.5P1 server on a Solaris 10 host. I want to back up a WindowXP client using cygwin software. The files on my cygwin system look like --/etc/inetd.conf-- amanda dgram udp wait SYSTEM /local/Amanda/amanda/libexec/amandadamandad

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