Re: impressive :)

2011-03-01 Thread Paul Bijnens
, where it would be much more complicated to restore backups when your backup server has crashed etc.) -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.525 Interleuvenlaan 86, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.552

Re: Backup the same data to two vTapes

2010-12-31 Thread Paul Bijnens
to two vTapes)? Here is what I wrote about it a few years ago: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Mirror_Dumps_to_Virtual_Tapes_and_Real_Tapes_using_RAIT However, the page could use some updates for the current version of Amanda. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel

Re: Backup the same data to two vTapes

2010-12-31 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2010-12-31 10:35, Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Hello, Am 31.12.2010 10:19, schrieb Paul Bijnens: Here is what I wrote about it a few years ago: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Mirror_Dumps_to_Virtual_Tapes_and_Real_Tapes_using_RAIT This seems to be a good solution. I'll try

Re: Nitpicks? -- permissions

2010-09-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
, while trying to get it compiled etc. When then later trying to run as the amandabackup user you're in trouble, as e.g. even the debug folder is not even writable by amanda and you have no immediate clue about what is going wrong. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16

Re: lvm snapshots

2010-09-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
any HowTo's. Anyone know of any docs on backing up from snapshots? (and the receprocal restore :) I use a script written by our fellow amanda-user Paul Bijnens (thanks again!). I only slightly modified it regarding XFS. This script is from times when amanda had no script-API, so it would maybe

Re: Backup Barracuda Message Archiver 450 via CIFS/Samba

2010-02-01 Thread Paul Bijnens
the message archive. Thanks in advance, Corey -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.525 Interleuvenlaan 86, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.552 *** * I think I've got the hang

Re: [Amanda-users] Newbie - Confused on How to Backup My WinXP PC to USB Disk

2009-11-18 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 11/18/2009 12:02 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Paul Bijnens schrieb: On 2009-11-17 02:18, Yadda wrote: Total Newbie with Amanda. I only want to backup my WinXP PC to an external USB drive and am lost on how to set this up. Please help!!! :( Airports are where airplaines land

Re: [Amanda-users] Newbie - Confused on How to Backup My WinXP PC to USB Disk

2009-11-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
that runway is already there, not because it's the best bike park). -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.525 Interleuvenlaan 86, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.552 *** * I think I've got

Re: Another oddity from Gene

2009-10-19 Thread Paul Bijnens
ages since bash was updated. This script has worked many times since the last time I saw a bash update go by. its enough to make a fellow wish it was beer-thirty and I haven't even finished my first cup of tea! -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.525

Re: mailing list issues (and OpenBSD clients)

2009-08-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
-- made a typo in your name when subscribing to the list :-) /offtopic -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.525 Interleuvenlaan 86, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.552 *** * I think

Re: OpenBSD issues

2009-08-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
others from trying some more anagrams) I would greatly appreciate anyone that might have any ideas as to how to go foward on debuging this taking a minute, and looking at this. Thanks! -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.525 Interleuvenlaan 86, B-3001

Re: filesys for tape?

2009-07-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 07/21/2009 06:11 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:52 AM, rirvze34...@verizon.net wrote: What filesystem and mount options are recommended for a tapetype harddisk? Details: The amanda-server is a Debian 5 (lenny) host. The tape size is 40 gigs. The filesystems are

Re: Amanda, separable but related problems, cross architecture.

2009-07-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 07/03/2009 05:49 PM, Brian Cuttler wrote: I am perfroming dump from Solaris 10 x86, using amanda 2.6.1 to an SL24/LTO4. The following is cronological, some of the issues are separable. The particular client with the issue is a MAC server with over 250Gig of data. The dumps where taking a

Re: Amanda's planning for use of holding disk space

2009-07-01 Thread Paul Bijnens
filesystems instead of one large logical volume makes future adding/removing/swapping disks easier as well. And having a disk error on one of the disks in raid0 lvm's is much worse than on independent filesystems. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.525 Interleuvenlaan

Re: exclude lists

2009-05-19 Thread Paul Bijnens
(only for the root DLE) /var/.exclude-list (only for the /var DLE) /space/.exclude-list (only for the /space DLE) Have a look in the man page for the exact meaning of optional and append. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.525 Interleuvenlaan 86, B

Re: restore over multiple tape

2009-05-19 Thread Paul Bijnens
about a mechanism to upgrade the diskset list automaticaly. Try to do it like this: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Split_DLEs_With_Exclude_Lists And your last problem is solved (and probably your first as well reducing 150 disksets to a little less). -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation

Re: support for tape library sun sl24 or sun sl48

2009-05-18 Thread Paul Bijnens
not even read the data from disk. To be able to read the data at at least 60Mbyte/sec from disk, you'll need a holdingdisk with a striped raid setup. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.525 Interleuvenlaan 86, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.552

Re: strange twist on FAILED [data timeout] -- compress none not working correctly

2009-05-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
can strace the process as well. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.525 Interleuvenlaan 86, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.552 *** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D

Re: newbie question about xinetd need restart all the time

2009-05-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
, for the time that my crystal ball is in the repair shop. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.525 Interleuvenlaan 86, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.552 *** * I think I've got the hang

Re: amanda wiki confusing me

2009-03-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
page from the source man page generated it in ISO-8859-1 codepage (char 0xD7) , while the webserver advertises it as UTF-8 encoded. Because these pages are generated by a program, you can't edit them in the wiki either. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.525

Re: best amanda tutorial/quickstart ?

2009-03-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2009-03-05 17:29, John G. Heim wrote: Any recommendations for the best amanda tutorial or quick start guide? Have already seen: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Main_Page and especially: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Quick_start -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Technology Services

Re: incremental backup

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Bijnens
. Did you ever read the wiki pages like: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Quick_start http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Dumpcycle and even: http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda.conf.5.html (which is also available as man amanda.conf on your host) -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Technology Services

Re: [Amanda-users] Scheduling backups

2008-12-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
shantanu uab wrote: In summary: - Crontab will invoke amdump config-name - Amanda knows min. frequency of full backups needed and how many times amdump will be run from amanda.conf file - The clients/files to be backed up are specified in disklist (could be more than one) - Amanda ensures

Re: Holding Disk Size

2008-12-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
Matt Burkhardt wrote: I'm running out of holding disk space during the backup and I was wondering what I can do. Here's my scenario I've got a directory called Music that has 54GB on it. My disk has 36GB free. I have a second disk with 34GB free on it. Can I have multiple holding disks?

Re: [Amanda-users] Restoring amanda tapes without amanda

2008-11-28 Thread Paul Bijnens
this works properly. Nothing is wrong with my amanda configuration, but It's something i want to document for my own reference :) For a lot of different scenario's, including how to restore without amanda software: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Restoring_files -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation

Re: Huge file number in one directory makes problems while recovering

2008-11-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
amrestore -p /dev/nst0 hostname '^/disk/name$' | tar --numeric-owner -xpGvf - ./your/lost/subfolder (from: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Restoring_files#Using_amrestore ) And see the above page for e.g. the meaning of tar option G, possibly slowing down your process... -- Paul Bijnens

Re: performance of backup process

2008-11-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
: - use a separate controller for disk and tape. - use a raid striped over several disks as holdingdisk.M - use large buffers (tapebufs or device_output_buffer_size) - avoid reading from and writing to the holdingdisk at the same time (flush-threshold-dumped) (other tips are welcome) -- Paul

Re: [Amanda-users] amcheckdump output - questions :)

2008-11-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2008-11-04 17:45, rory_f wrote: Hi guys, any ideas?? My crystal ball is broken currently. It would help to spell out the question. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http

Re: [Amanda-users] amcheckdump output - questions :)

2008-11-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
. +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B

Re: [Amanda-users] amcheckdump output - questions :)

2008-11-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
, as explained here: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Fill_tapes_to_100%25 -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: amfetchdump: running as user root instead of amanda ??

2008-11-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20081104 13:46]: Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Is this a new feature? I've done restore as root in the past I'm sure and never seen this before. Have been living blind all this time? :) So I guess I was lucky enough to do

Re: [Amanda-users] amcheckdump output - questions :)

2008-11-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
rory_f wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: These two concepts are orthogonal: - Amanda can use multiple tapes for one backup run. - Amanda can split one backup image over multiple tapes. It is only the second feature using the tape_splitsize parameter that makes restores more difficult. See: http

Re: [Amanda-users] Amrecover is not starting

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Bijnens
amrecover Can I expect some help over here PLEASE You can expect anything you like, but one fool can ask more questions than seven wise man can answer or something like that is probably also a good answer. (Not implying that I'm one of those seven.) -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology Services

Re: could not find a tape to use

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Bijnens
guess you followed: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Backup_to_Amazon_S3 -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Amanda-users] Amrecover is not starting

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Bijnens
was edited to obscure the real names? What if you temporarily comment it out, restart xinetd, and try again? -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email

Re: [Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
as installed by the RPM, then those do not refer to that pathname at all. Did you change config files? Were you mixing up -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com

Re: [Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
the program amdump in /usr/local/sbin ??? I was under the impression that that RPM installed it in /usr/sbin/amdump. Or do you still need to be enlightened on RPM's and program paths as well? Where do we need to start with the Idiot Guide :-) ? ls, find, rpm -ql, ./configure, patch ??? -- Paul

Re: [Amanda-users]

2008-10-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
myself. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I

Re: Tape drives -- Recommendations?

2008-10-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
on friday each week, and stored offsite. Using the USB subsystem makes the server (also small) rather unresponsive. Only workable in the weekends and nights. I hope eSATA will make better use of system resources. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511

Re: `include list' question

2008-10-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
will glob correctly, there is no problem. This dark corner of Amanda will probably change in future releases, so it's best to not rely on this too much. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16

Re: Availability of Amanda Solaris10/Open Solaris package

2008-09-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
of the http://www.gormand.com.au/peters/tools/graft/graft.html (there is also a description of similar systems in section, research) -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http

Re: Is there a log that tells me the block size of a Backup Job

2008-07-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
Doyle Collings wrote: [..] I have tarred to that drive at speeds of 5.5 gigabtyes a minute. A good method to find out how fast your tapedrive could work in your current environment is to write a scratch tape with the amtapetype command like: amtapetype -e 800g /dev/nst0 Takes a few

Re: dumporder parameter

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
Johan Booysen wrote: Another question: How can I verify that those DLE entries were in fact only dumped after 05:00? In the Amanda email report I can see when the backups completed, and can more or less work out from that when writing to tape started for them. But I'd like to check when they

Re: dumporder parameter

2008-07-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
time starttime 0700 } Server3 /dir5/backups/backup2 { comp-user-tar dumpcycle 0 starttime 0705 } -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology Services

Re: Another dumporder parameter question.

2008-07-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
McGraw, Robert P wrote: 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. Yes, it does. If large size files are dumped last

Re: software compression

2008-07-18 Thread Paul Bijnens
McGraw, Robert P wrote: 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.

Re: How can I find what tapes are actually active?

2008-07-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
it for that. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've got

Re: Index files and no-reuse

2008-07-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Hi, I have two sets. The first is for daily backup and the second is a level 0 dump that runs every first saturday of a month. The tapes of this set we store for one year offsite. After that time the tapes are overwritten. But the tapes from January and July were set to

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
/Log_Files -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
authorization protocol you configured the server and client need to connect to each other... More info, like version, protocol, and config is needed to help (and of course any firewall on the server or client). -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511

Re: amanda windows client times out

2008-07-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
that does not work? On the client, in the client debug files, (wherever those may be located in cygwin) do you see an error message when gnutar does it's estimates on the different drives? Or do they just take too long, and the amanda server has given up waiting for those numbers? -- Paul Bijnens

Re: Amanda 2.6.0 spanning

2008-06-25 Thread Paul Bijnens
config for this purpose so I don't mess with the production set of tapes. I must have missed something out regarding the existing tapes from the old server - will double-check it all again. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 June 2008 13:27

Re: Amanda 2.6.0 spanning

2008-06-25 Thread Paul Bijnens
inform amrecover that it can't find the requested volume. So I'd recommend the first option. Dustin -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email

Re: Amanda 2.6.0 spanning

2008-06-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
repair. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think

Re: Amanda 2.6.0 spanning

2008-06-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
the drive comes back from repair ... # slot 1 /dev/nst0 # slot 2 /dev/nst1 slot 1 /dev/nst1 # drive nst0 is broken Thank you. Johan -Original Message- From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 June 2008 13:21 To: Johan Booysen Subject: Re: Amanda 2.6.0 spanning

Re: Amanda 2.6.0 spanning

2008-06-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
Following up on myself... On 2008-06-23 16:33, Paul Bijnens wrote: The file chg-multi.conf, in the same directory as amanda.conf contains: multieject 0 firstslot 1 lastslot 2 gravity Add a zero: gravity 0 But I guess you could find out that yourself... needeject 0

Re: lots of log files

2008-06-20 Thread Paul Bijnens
://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda_log_files/Trace_Logs -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: amdump freezes

2008-05-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
exemple of big partition helios /home4 bi-comp-user-size Thanks . -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

what is /etc/.gnupg ?

2008-05-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
/lib/amanda/.gnupg' are correct after installing, AFAIK. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Amanda-users] Need help setting up Amanda on Sles10

2008-05-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
/Quick_start Then ask more detailed questions on the list if anything is unclear. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists : huge !

2008-05-07 Thread Paul Bijnens
. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've

Re: Out of space problem

2008-05-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
/How_To:Split_DLEs_With_Exclude_Lists -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Can't seem to disable software compression.

2008-04-30 Thread Paul Bijnens
see: netusage 600 Kbps I would eliminate it, as well as the limits on each interface you specified. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email

Re: disk /, all estimate failed

2008-04-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
[...] These are the server logs, but I want the client logs under the AMANDA_DBG directory See: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda_log_files/Debug_Logs -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http

Re: disk /, all estimate failed

2008-04-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
terry schreef: I followed this howto here http://www.howtoforge.com/disk_based_backups_amanda_debian_etch and of course adjusted for my os but when I run a backup I get an email containing These dumps were to tape DailySet1-2. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet1-3. FAILURE AND

Re: amtapetype_problem

2008-03-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
it to install on his OS? If SLES9, is anyone else seeing that problem (easy to test with amtapetype)? (Joseph had the problem on an Alpha system). IMHO I think the driver is broken, not Amanda. Rewind should return only when the tape *was* rewound... -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology Services

Re: amtapetype_problem

2008-03-12 Thread Paul Bijnens
(except by modifying the code and waiting longer after the rewind). -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Tapelist

2008-03-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
. My 0.02€ advice. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Backing up VMware-VMs

2008-03-07 Thread Paul Bijnens
due to LVM2 snapshots -- I do not use snapshots anymore on that machine since last time it crashed about 3 weeks ago. Most of my other servers take snapshots twice a day (as cheap backup during noon, and as quiet filesystem for nightly Amanda backups), and have no problems with it. -- Paul

Re: tar returned 2

2008-02-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
with a '?': those are the ones that Amanda did not expect, or that are error messages. If there is no information, then you better go to the client itself and look in the /tmp/amanda (AND subdirectories) to find out what went wrong. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32

Re: Best Amanda Setup for Restores

2008-02-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
drive which does have enough free space. To further clarify, I am running Debian and using the packages in the debian archive for Amanda. I am using vtapes also. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax

Re: Tape Length Problems

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
with: amadmin DailySet1 info somehost /some/disk -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: amreport takes long to complete - BogusMonth

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
? -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've got

Re: mixing revs

2008-02-02 Thread Paul Bijnens
amanda on this one client? Some stuff has changed in the 2.5.1 setup, especially in the (x)inetd configuration. http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Configuring_bsd/bsdudp/bsdtcp_authentication Notice the server_args. Without it, it will not work. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology Services

Re: NFS mount tar incremental problem

2008-01-25 Thread Paul Bijnens
for your help :-) Jordan On Jan 23, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Paul Bijnens wrote: Jordan Desroches wrote: Hello all, I've been having a problem with incremental dumps on a NFS mounted Netapp. AMANDA runs great until I reboot the client (or remount the NFS shares on the client). At that point, while

Re: selfcheck request timeout

2008-01-25 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2008-01-25 12:05, Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Paul Bijnens schrieb: I would expect to see amandad listen on ALL interfaces, especially including localhost!! I meant loopback instead of localhost... but you got the idea. Verify xinetd configuration for amandad. I think it should

Re: selfcheck request timeout

2008-01-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
/amanda? If there are no files at all, then maybe the directory /tmp/amanda itself is not writeable by the backupuser, e.g. because you once have run some program as root (and then /tmp/amanda gets created as user root, making it unwritable for the real backup user). -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation

Re: Why amanda creates incremental dumps to holding disk?

2008-01-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
(amanda2.5.0p2-4) that the bundle was done with RHEL5. Why amanda-2.5.0p2 isn't creates incremental dumps to holding disk? I'm not sure I understand the question... -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32

Re: selfcheck request timeout

2008-01-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
. With no helpful logs or other output, I can't tell where things are failing, so if anyone has any gotchas, I'd love to hear about it! Thanks for the help Paul! -Kermit Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2008-01-23 04:40, Kermit Short wrote: Hey gurus! I've checked many many resources about this error

Re: selfcheck request timeout

2008-01-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
expect to see amandad listen on ALL interfaces, especially including localhost!! Verify xinetd configuration for amandad. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com

Re: NFS mount tar incremental problem

2008-01-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
This is actually a gnutar problem... -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: missing size line from sendbackup and PARTIAL

2008-01-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
Sorry, for replying late -- very very busy here... See below On 2008-01-10 16:54, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080110 04:40]: On 2008-01-09 22:55, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hi, Amanda-2.5.2p1 on both the server (Debian/Etch) and client (irix-6.5.x

Re: missing size line from sendbackup and PARTIAL

2008-01-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
. Look on the client in the sendbackup.DATETIME.debug file -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: can't make on Solaris 10: Failed make install!

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
the wrong compiler. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: can't make on Solaris 10: Failed make install!

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 150K Jan 5 2005 /opt/sfw/bin/gmake I use the slightly more recent one in sfw, I assume. And although /usr/sfw/bin is in my $PATH, I cannot just gmake. I have to type /usr/sfw/bin/gmake. Is this a problem? Yes, due to the missing slash. -- Paul Bijnens

Re: Asking for new tapes when an old tape should be available

2007-12-28 Thread Paul Bijnens
are allowed to have more tapes in the cycle than the tapecycle parameter, so just lower the that parameter in the amanda.conf I have the amanda.conf tapecycle set to 20, but there are 30 real tapes in the cycle. That way amanda always accepts one of the oldest 10 tapes. -- Paul Bijnens

Re: 2.4 vs 2.5

2007-12-20 Thread Paul Bijnens
versions after 2.4.2 will interoperate. (Of course, to use the newer features, the client or server must be newer too.) -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com

Re: amreport analysis

2007-12-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Dec 14, 2007 11:11 AM, Tom Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ? gtar: ./mnt/cdrom: Cannot savedir: Input/output error ? gtar: ./mnt/cdrom: Warning: Cannot savedir: Input/output error These are a problem. You should add an exclude for /mnt to your DLE: brain.milw

Re: [Fwd: UB DRD AMANDA VERIFY REPORT FOR DRD021]

2007-12-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
Lawrence McMahon wrote: Michael; I should also have included that when I did the amverify, I got the following in /var/adm/messages: Dec 14 13:39:13 apocalypse.acsu.buffalo.edu scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNI NG: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL

Re: [Fwd: UB DRD AMANDA VERIFY REPORT FOR DRD021]

2007-12-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
Lawrence McMahon wrote: FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: /-- ubcard.car /opt lev 1 STRANGE sendbackup: start [ubcard.card.buffalo.edu:/opt level 1] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/sbin/ufsdump sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/sbin/ufsrestore -f... - sendbackup: info end ? Unable to create

Re: Fw: Intermittent timeouts

2007-12-12 Thread Paul Bijnens
I've increased etimeout from 1800 to 3600 but there's been no improvement. I'm looking for any ideas to either resolve this problem or to gather more information to find the cause. Thanks, Keith -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology Services

Re: Reusing a tape

2007-12-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Yogesh Hasabnis schrieb: I would like to use the same tape again. What do I need to do to get this done (ie to use the same tape again)? Did I understand you right: You backuped your clients and one DLE failed. And now you want to rerun the complete set on the same

Re: how to recover the whole month backups

2007-11-30 Thread Paul Bijnens
and watch growing older. But you cannot look at 1 picture where all your ages are on the same picture (unless you use gimp and copy/paste each face next too the previous one -- just as you can restore each backup in a different directory, and indeed have a whole month restored). -- Paul Bijnens

Re: planner timeout

2007-11-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
the wrong timeout? So it seems you can't even get a reply back. Firewall issues? -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: planner timeout

2007-11-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
crashing client programs, firewalls, routing problems etc. Cheers, René On Nov 29, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2007-11-27 18:13, René Kanters wrote: Hi, I have been running into problems that some of my systems are heavily used for long computations making them somewhat less

Re: [Mtx-general] mtx error, used with amanda

2007-11-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
should not need cleaning too frequently. I never had to clean my LTO-tape drives up to now, 3 years age, no premature write error encountered yet; they just work, as you would expect from decent hardware. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21

add option --occurrence to gnutar amrecover command [Was: Re: Problems accessing my new autoloader]

2007-11-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
); restore_args[j++] = stralloc(-xpGvf); restore_args[j++] = stralloc(-); /* data on stdin */ -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email

Re: Problems accessing my new autoloader

2007-11-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Francis Galiegue schrieb: And what if you try to read the label by hand? Ie, try at the command line: dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1 Does anything appear or do you have an error? # dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1 AEAFDA: TAPESTART DATE P TAPE KAS001 AEAFDA ?? that

Re: could not connect DATA stream

2007-11-19 Thread Paul Bijnens
and pfsense/sever. I had tried to route my server to use another server as a gateway instead of using pfsense. I can backup successfully. I will try on bsdtcp if that is alternative solutions. Thanks in advanced. ok, try that first. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32

Re: can't repeat Mesg read: Connection reset by peer

2007-11-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
a firewall between the server and client. Your prompt reply would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com

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