Re: Dump aborted

2006-04-08 Thread Paul Bijnens
ystem. Tar has nothing to do with compression. That is a different option that can be applied to both dump or tar backups. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xpla

Re: Anyone got 2.5.0 running with Mac OS X 10.4.6 clients?

2006-04-07 Thread Paul Bijnens
ion? It does by default. In the AMANDA_DBG directory, usualy /tmp/amanda. Also see: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amcheck_issues and especially: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Argh%21_It_still_won%27t_work%21_I_have_a_%22host_down%22_error_and_can%27t_figure_out_why%21 -- Paul Bijne

Re: Tape AI T

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
itions (item 6) -- 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: Another setup question...

2006-04-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
find some form where you can add mac-adresses -> fixed-ip numbers. (I believe that such a box even runs a Linux kernel.) -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.x

Re: Experience with LTO2 media

2006-04-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
My LTO2 drive is pretty new (november last year), and never had any problem with Sony media (which is what happened to delivered with the tapedrive too). -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax

Re: /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts

2006-04-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
ick_start#Configure_.28x.29inetd_on_server Any suggestions? Thanks. -- Enrico Indiogine Parasol Laboratory Texas A&M University [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 979-845-3937 -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus

Re: Strugging with splits in 2.5.0

2006-04-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
RD_DISK { length 4000 mbytes } You can even put a little bit more on a DVD, see: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Tapetype_definitions#Virtual_tapes define tapetype DVD47 { comment "A 4.7 Gbyte DVD-sized vtape" length 4482 mbytes filemark 4 kbytes } -- Paul Bijnens,

Re: Strugging with splits in 2.5.0

2006-04-04 Thread Paul Bijnens
mental dump new disk] You probably have "runtapes 1" (the default if not specified). Amanda still has to be able to put all the (eventually split) dumps somewhere on (v)tape. And 4000 MB < 5089230 KB. Use a changer (chg-disk or chg-multi) and set runtapes > 1. -- Paul Bij

Re: Cannot seek to 0: Bad file descriptor

2006-04-04 Thread Paul Bijnens
://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154882 So this is not the cause of your trouble. What exactly is the error message that you get for those clients? -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32

Re: Cannot seek to 0: Bad file descriptor

2006-04-04 Thread Paul Bijnens
OK, as wel as Redhat 1.14 with backported patches e.g. "tar-1.14-9.RHEL4" rpm package.) -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanatio

Re: Amanda 2.5.0 - using multiple holding disks and spanning tapes

2006-04-04 Thread Paul Bijnens
special dumptype for those DLE's that you allow to split on tape, and set these three values: tapesplit_size split_diskbuffer fallback_splitsize http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda.conf#DUMPTYPE_SECTION -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Te

Re: amanda deleting files while restoring !

2006-04-04 Thread Paul Bijnens
t replace existing files that are newer than their archive copies -- 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 deleting files while restoring !

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
The net result is that I have LOST data ! Next time, I will recover "out of the DLE" and move recovered stuff after the recover. Is there a way to prevent this behavior ?? http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Why_does_amrecover_erase_files%3F -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanat

Re: A chg-multi question

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
anger "chg-multi" changerfile "chg-multi.conf" # name of the special configuration file # tapedev is ignored if present, to avoid confusion, just comment it out # changerdev is ignored too -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technolog

Re: how to split partitions

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-04-03 07:38, Josef Wolf wrote: On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 09:34:59PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: That would mean that the estimate phase should be smart enough (may be add an option "autosplit" for those DLE's where you want that) to pick a few large subdirectories out and

Re: how to split partitions

2006-04-02 Thread Paul Bijnens
Frank Smith schreef: Paul Bijnens wrote: Josef Wolf schreef: On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 07:31:59PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: As promised, I updated the wiki docs on this topic, see http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Backing_up_large_amounts_of_data. Am I the only one to find this setup

Re: how to split partitions

2006-04-02 Thread Paul Bijnens
DLE dynamically. We could change "calcsize" for this. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com

Re: More questions anout a RAIT that has physical and vtapes

2006-04-02 Thread Paul Bijnens
mplement my tip about using 25 vtapes, and keeping only the *label* of those vtapes that take too much diskspace, and erase the rest of the files, then there is only one script. Or did I miss something? -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2

Re: More questions anout a RAIT that has physical and vtapes

2006-04-02 Thread Paul Bijnens
that the gain will sufficient, compared to the complexity of setup? I would keep a cycle worth of dumps in the vtapes to make it worthwile. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http

Re: More questions anout a RAIT that has physical and vtapes

2006-04-02 Thread Paul Bijnens
recover-only list will probably prevent that from being used accidently for flushing. Finally, what should I do about changerfile? I'm using chg-multi. To avoid messing with the "current" tape of the changer with vtape-only, make the changerfile different than the main. -- Paul Bijnens

Re: amdump/amcheck disconnect

2006-04-02 Thread Paul Bijnens
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Why_does_amcheck_fail_while_amdump_succeeds_%3F -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com

Re: how to split partitions

2006-03-31 Thread Paul Bijnens
n one include, but having a space in one arg. include "./My Documents" would fail too. And: include "./foo ./bar" is actually looking for a directory named: "bar" inside the directory "foo ." (with a trailing space and dot), at leastwhen that bug

Re: Extracting files error

2006-03-30 Thread Paul Bijnens
tar 1.14.X (or even may be 1.15?) Using tar 1.15.1 works fine to extract the file. (or tar 1.14.X with backported bugfixes, as RH provides). -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http

Re: A question about RAIT with mixed vtapes, and physical tapes

2006-03-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
stan schreef: On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:53:26PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-03-29 14:58, stan wrote: I'm setting up a new system using RAIT with one vtape, and one physical tape in each RAIT set. I only have room on my disks for 5 vtapes, but I have 25 tapes. I would like to just

Re: bandwidth limits

2006-03-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
becuase bandwidth limited"? -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A question about RAIT with mixed vtapes, and physical tapes

2006-03-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
rictly needed. (At least, a quick test here succeeds. I'm interested in the results.) -- 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: Strange amanda problem this morning

2006-03-28 Thread Paul Bijnens
klist entries for cahors. Or switch to the faster estimate options available in 2.4.5 for the DLE's of cahors: "estimate calcsize", or "estimate server" (see man amanda.conf). -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.5

Re: Has anyone suceded in configuring both virtual and physical tapes with RAIT?

2006-03-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
Paul Bijnens schreef: stan schreef: On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 11:28:20PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: stan schreef: I've heard rumors that some people may have been able to get Amanda to backup to both virtual tapes, and physical tapes in the same config (using RAIT I would assume). If a

Re: Has anyone suceded in configuring both virtual and physical tapes with RAIT?

2006-03-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
stan schreef: On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 11:28:20PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: stan schreef: I've heard rumors that some people may have been able to get Amanda to backup to both virtual tapes, and physical tapes in the same config (using RAIT I would assume). If anyone has this working

Re: Has anyone suceded in configuring both virtual and physical tapes with RAIT?

2006-03-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
ally don't want to reinvent the wheel here, if someone else has already got it working. My experiences are summarized here: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Rait -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM

Re: A question about chg-disk

2006-03-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
his to chg-disk? A full explanation: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/File_driver A quick, minimal setup: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Test_environment_with_virtual_tapes I;ve never used a changer before, so this is all new to me. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation

Re: Total tape usage in Amanda report

2006-03-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
e, I expect that tomorrow even more data will fit on tape, maybe even more than 36 images (while there are only 36 DLE's in that config). -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http:/

Re: Total tape usage in Amanda report

2006-03-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
ar the expected value, 3944576 kb (while writing file 36). The successful backups take 2648723 kb. (And yes, the failed backup was 1.5 Gbyte, too large for that gap.) -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax

Re: dumps always too big to dump

2006-03-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
of my disks at all, now. Any disk? Or this this disk only? -- 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: RES: dumper issue - timeout problem?

2006-03-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
val 24 (= 240 seconds, which is less than the 300 seconds on which your firewall times out idle tcp connections) http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amdump_fails_to_backup_large_DLEs Increase tcp keepalive probes: echo 90 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time --

Re: dumper issue - timeout problem?

2006-03-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
.php/Amdump_fails_to_backup_large_DLEs Increase tcp keepalive probes: echo 90 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanati

Re: reuse issue with hard disk as backup media

2006-03-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
t night to watch it -- and I do have enough diskspace for an extra vtape left too). Can you give more details how you diagnosed this? Is it only slot1 which is not erased or does the same thing happen with slot8 (the other sunday)? -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32

Re: Tape change is not sending notification

2006-03-20 Thread Paul Bijnens
t are they doing? (strace -p PID) If not, is there any core dump in /tmp/amanda ? Backtrace? Which version are you running? -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xpla

Re: External HD as backup yapes

2006-03-18 Thread Paul Bijnens
nting to the current slot too. So this means that amanda follows two symlinks now to get to the external disk. When using chg-multi, you can set up the /media/amandavtapes/slotX immediately in the chg-multi.conf file. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Te

Re: One DLE too many!

2006-03-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
??? group "uucp"??? Weird... OK, I believe you. You could add amanda to the "uucp" group. (and in xinetd.conf also set the "groups = yes" parameter to the amandad service to load additional groups) And maybe change the permissions of "Imagery"

Re: One DLE too many!

2006-03-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
ta06/Deforest3_REST. amrecover> ls 2006-03-16 . 2006-03-16 NAPL/ 2006-03-16 NS_Oblique_Aerials/ 2006-03-16 Quality_Control/ 2006-03-16 Received/ 2006-03-16 readme.txt -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leu

Re: how to split partitions

2006-03-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
ile_driver#Holdingdisk_and_vtapes). If you did forget to configure a holdingdisk (or created it too small), better do something about it. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xpla

Re: how to split partitions

2006-03-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
have stopped using wildcards on /share because I'm getting dumper: FATAL error [dumper PORT-DUMP: too many args: 19 != 12] That is not because of the wildcards, but because of the space in the string argument. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology Services

Re: If most recent backup is not level 0, recovery fails to bring back all files when directories have been renamed

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
its own numbering scheme found by "rpm -q tar", resulting in "tar-1.14-9.RHEL4", on my machine. And that version has all the known critical bugs fixed, included the one above. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21

Re: Installation Configuration: disk definitions & general questions

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
predifined index server. Thanks for the tip... I compile with "--with-indexserver=amandahost", and then set up a DNS alias for "amandahost", pointing to whatever is the current host that does amanda indexing services. Let's me migrate amanda to another server without recom

Re: how to split partitions

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
p://www.gormand.com.au/peters/tools/graft/graft.html And of course, the man-pages appear in the normal MANPATH 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: how to split partitions

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-03-16 14:55, listrcv wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man amanda.conf No manual entry for amanda.conf The whole doc is online too: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda#DISKLIST_FILE -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2

Re: how to split partitions

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
} 1 prometheus /home/REST/home { tar-dfault-no-x exclude append "./[a-z]*" } 1 See "man amanda.conf" for the syntax of a disklist entry. -

Re: Sizes don't fit?

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-03-16 13:48, listrcv wrote: prometheus:/tmp/xxx# tar -cf test.tar -T include . When using -T you should not specify a list of things to backup on the command line as well, i.e. omit the final dot. Maybe I just have to try it out ... :/ Yes, indeed! -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation

Re: Sizes don't fit?

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
nonetheless. Yes: http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html#id2553034 -- 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: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
and doing 4 things in parallel instead of letting Amanda worrying about doing as much as possible in parallel? -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
eserves 12 Gbyte for the incrementals, and again may use 28 Gbyte for full dumps. And so on. So I still believe this is not a real solution. The solution is probably to divide the enormous DLE into smaller, manageable pieces. And use real vtapes instead of dumping to holdingdisk with a mi

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Paul Bijnens
with that. As I see, record is set to yes. And, actually, we did not yet see how many times this DLE was dumped with level 0. Can you post the output of "amadmin config balance" and "amoverview config" (or mail it to me if it contains too much private infor

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Paul Bijnens
r, resulting in always level 0 for those filesystems missing in the file. I have to time to try to this out, but I'm interested if this theory is correct. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM

Re: Please advice

2006-03-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
re in that file to find out if the creation of the .new file had trouble or to spot anything else suspicious. When the backup is running for a level 0, you probably have plenty of time to verify manually if that "*.new" is there, and then see if it disappears suddenly (and when --

Re: Please advice

2006-03-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
/amanda, unless changed during compile time. Permission problems? Was amandad started with the correct user? Has "runtar" (in libexec) the correct permissions? -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMF

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
ts of level 0 backups. Some filesystems have level 0 just every day! Is there a way to make level incemental backups more often? Making more fulls throughout the backup cycle is ok since we got enough space, but not that many! Thanks, Thomas -- Paul Bijnens, Xplan

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
a full backup to tape, and thus creates a level 0 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: One DLE too many!

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-03-13 12:53, Alexander Jolk wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: BTW, 240 DLE's is in danger to bump into the max UDP packet size for estimates, which currently is 64K / 2 or about 32Kbytes... Not on Linux though. I have currently 2200 DLEs approximately split 1:1 over two servers, and

Re: FreeBSD mt versus Linux mt

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
d, and have only access to some old version, which does not know about compression settings. -- 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: hardware gzip accelerator cards

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
ress on the Amanda server and avoid load on the clients. - a very large fileserver does not need a strong CPU, but can use such a card to help gzip during backup and lower bandwith use. - you can use "compress best" too. Test results appreciated! -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation T

Re: One DLE too many!

2006-03-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
P packet size for estimates, which currently is 64K / 2 or about 32Kbytes... -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http:

Re: Sizes don't fit?

2006-03-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
indeed. What is the output "amadmin config balance"? -- 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: request failed: timeout waiting for ACK

2006-03-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
s suspicious too. Are these dumpers special (e.g. bypassing holdingdisk, search "PORT-WRITE" in the amdump.X file). Any other useful info in amdump.X file on the server about this problem (Out of swapspace on server? etc.) Are it always the same DLE that are failing? -- Paul Bijnens, xpl

Re: Wrong amadmin reports and missing data

2006-03-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-03-09 18:14, Iulian Topliceanu wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: Do you have runtapes > 1 ? Or do you run amdump multiple times a day? Amanda uses sometime more than 1 tape per run. That's why vtape-7 was again next. So even if I would have defined runtapes 1, Amanda would have u

Re: Wrong amadmin reports and missing data

2006-03-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-03-09 17:19, Iulian Topliceanu wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-03-09 13:25, Iulian Topliceanu wrote: The dump definition looks like this: dumpcycle 10 day# the number of days in the normal dump cycle runspercycle 8 day# the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days

Re: Which is the correct way to backup windows servers using amanda? Is there one?

2006-03-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
servers (and even was able to restore files too), but my main method of handling it is moving the data to a linux server instead. That works pretty good in our case. Many of my users aren't even aware that the fileserver is actually Linux and not some MS Windows version. YMMV... -- Paul Bi

Re: Wrong amadmin reports and missing data

2006-03-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
el 0 dump of /var/spool/mail/p was missing, the incremental backup of /var/spool/mail/p should have had included all the new mails between 24.02 - 27.02. How is is possible for GNUtar to skip files that have a ctime newer than the last level 0 dump? Do you mean that the level 1 dump did not contain

Re: LTO.ps anyone ?

2006-03-07 Thread Paul Bijnens
(paperwise)? -- 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: amrecover says "Host is not in your disklist"

2006-02-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
iles are gone! Did you remove them? Certain files have "log" in their name, but actually Amanda uses those as the information source to locate tapes etc. See: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/AMANDA_DBGDIR -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Tec

Re: Still: Problems with amrestore - please HELP - stderr output

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
both systems are at least the same size, and moreover the same md5 checksum. On these servers I have installed Suse 9.0 and amanda from rpm package. Is the other server a different OS version? -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2,

Re: Still: Problems with amrestore - please HELP - stderr output

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
! ? Please advice ... I'm loosing faith in my self and open source ;-) There is no substitute for learning. But for Open Source software at least you're not bound by the details that the vendor publishes. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaa

Re: request failed: timeout waiting for ACK

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
verify if the client receives what the server sends. tcpdump -X -s 1500 udp and port 10080 should work. -- 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: request failed: timeout waiting for ACK

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-02-23 14:24, Stefan Herrmann wrote: Am 23.02.2006 um 11:17 schrieb Paul Bijnens: I would take a look in the debug files on the client, usually in the dir /tmp/amanda/. There you can see files "amandad.datetime.debug" which contain the packet received, and the replies. If

Re: Intelegence of amflush

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
e a nice addition. -) Is there any way to tell amanda that this image does not exist, or that its' backed up (by hand to tapes not labeled by amanda in my case) ? no. but would be nice. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Techno

Re: Intelegence of amflush

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-02-23 14:03, Peter Mueller wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: When there is only one image to choose from, Amanda will take that one, even if it will probably not fit. Changing that will make many other users of Amanda unhappy, e.g. those using hardware compression because their tape length is

Re: Amdump utility still hasn't run across the firewall amcheck reports no errors.

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
ing good delivery over there. amandad: time 0.068: pid 4211 finish time Thu Feb 23 10:35:42 2006 And all this took only 0.068 seconds. Now find the amanda.*.debug file for the "SERVICE sendsize", and look for the timestamps. Find out where the connection is lost. -- Paul Bijnens,

Re: Intelegence of amflush

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
st a wild guess of the truth, or even me, because I underestimate the tape length a bit, so that amanda has a few percent margin with estimates being smaller than real dumps (that's why I get tapes filled with 106%). -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Tec

Re: request failed: timeout waiting for ACK

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
. I would take a look in the debug files on the client, usually in the dir /tmp/amanda/. There you can see files "amandad.datetime.debug" which contain the packet received, and the replies. If there are no debug files, than amandad isn't even started. Does amcheck pass all tests?

Re: amcheck loocup problems

2006-02-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
file, but you find a range for dhcp, and you find some string like that in /var/wherever/dhcp/keeps/state . Together with dynamic DNS updates, that could hijack ip numbers/names if you do not take care... -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan

Re: HP-DAT72 USB definition

2006-02-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
yte. Note that the prefixes in Amanda (K, M, G) are multiples of 1024, and not 1000, in ISO notation that should have been Ki, Mi and Gi. That is why a 36 Gbyte tape holds actually 33.5 Gibyte. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix . -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesT

Re: Still get ERROR [host fw.my.co.uk: port 62679 not secure]

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
t use ipchains since more than 4 or 5 years now, so take care and read the man page again 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: Problems with amrecover in 2.4.5p1

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
permissions of /dev/ait2 are group readable, maybe you need to add "groups = yes" in xinetd.conf to enable the additional groups that user amanda is in. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 39

Re: amrecover doesn't prompt for tape change?

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-02-20 18:26, Ross Vandegrift wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:42:09PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: In that case, you have already set the tape device, and you just have to physically insert the tape in that device before pressing "Y". Or what is exactly the problem here? We u

Re: Still get ERROR [host fw.my.co.uk: port 62679 not secure] after I added my ipchain rule:

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Bijnens
manda localhost root server.my.co.uk amanda server.my.co.uk root tape-server.myl.co.uk amanda tape-server.my.co.uk root See also: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amcheck:_access_as_localuser_not_allowed_from_remoteuser%40remotehost -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +

Re: amrecover doesn't prompt for tape change?

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Bijnens
nd you just have to physically insert the tape in that device before pressing "Y". Or what is exactly the problem here? -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanatio

Re: Still get ERROR [host fw.my.co.uk: port 62679 not secure] after I added my ipchain rule:

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-02-20 12:29, Paul Bijnens wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 17:52 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: You find this section: 229 230 /* next, make sure the remote port is a "reserved" one */ 231 232 if(ntohs(addr->sin_port) >= IPPORT_RESERVED) { 233 ap

Re: Still get ERROR [host fw.my.co.uk: port 62679 not secure] after I added my ipchain rule:

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Bijnens
iling that client software. Any other suggestions other than migrating the firewall to iptable which I will don eventually after a lot of other things on my to do list. Cheers On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 13:26 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-02-17 13:23, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote:

Re: Still get ERROR [host fw.my.co.uk: port 62679 not secure] after I added my ipchain rule:

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
e request coming from the NAT-firewall itself, but is that a problem? Cheers for your help On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 17:52 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 02/16/2006 05:02 PM, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Hi List sorry for the continuous cries for help. Regarding Amanda and ipch

Re: Still get ERROR [host fw.my.co.uk: port 62679 not secure] after I added my ipchain rule:

2006-02-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
, ": ", 236 "port ", number, " not secure", 237 "]", NULL); 238 amfree(remotehost); 239 return 0; 240 } and make test test succeed always, by changing line 232: 232 if(1 ||

Re: AW: Question: does this DLT Drive work?

2006-02-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
ed to load the st-kernel module too (manual command: "modprobe st"). The middle line above also show that "st0" (that means /dev/st0) is the tape drive device. A good introduction is found here: http://www.chongluo.com/books/rute/node45.html#SECTION004569

Re: Still get ERROR [host fw.my.co.uk: port 62679 not secure] after I added my ipchain rule:

2006-02-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
a NAT problem on the firewall, which cannot be solved by recompiling with a stricter udp range. -- 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: [EM

Re: Still get ERROR [host fw.my.co.uk: port 62679 not secure] after I added my ipchain rule:

2006-02-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
do not remember anymore, but maybe there is a possibility to not do NAT for a certain portrange/host ? I re compiled amanda client as below: ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk --with-configdir=/etc/amanda --with-udpportrange=1001, 1009 --with-tcpportrange=11000, 11300 -- Paul Bijn

Re: [Fwd: Re: WARNING: server.my.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? this is a private IP address.]

2006-02-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
at is doing a backup in parallel. -- 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: [EM

Re: WARNING: server.my.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? this is a private IP address.

2006-02-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
amrecover to work, you need to open up: backup server: 10082(udp), 10083(udp), a small range of tcp ports for data transfer e.g. 11000:11030 (recompile amanda with --with-tcpportrange=11000,11030) I believe 10082 and 10083 are tcp, not udp. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology Services

Re: amanda, samba and exclude

2006-02-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
didn't try that yet, curious for result however...) Or: put that path in a file local on the workstation-millerlu (and avoid having a space in the path of that file :-) ), and set exclude list "/path/to/file/containing/excludepatterns" -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation

Re: migrating to amanda questions 3, 4 & 5

2006-02-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
ngdisk will fill a tape, insert a tape, and during the next run, Amanda will autoflush the collected images, together with the backup of that night to tape. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.5

Re: LTO2 Drive / Linux anyone ?

2006-02-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
sing. I am since 3 months now the lucky user of an HP448 (LTO Ultrium2). -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ emai

Re: data timeout error

2006-02-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
ust a little around the limit. Heavy load on the amanda server makes it flip over, and when you do in the morning again, it is the only backup, so it is much faster. Certainly take a look on the /tmp/amanda/*.debug files too. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397

Re: out of tape with vtapes

2006-02-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
be put on tape again on the next tape. It would be better if Amanda put the larger dumps not at the end of the tape, if possible. Just add the amanda.conf parameter "taperalgo largestfit" to the setup. For a complete explanation, also read: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Filling_a_t

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