Re: Compression Ratio misprinting on labels

2004-08-26 Thread Phil Homewood
Phil Homewood wrote: Inconclusive. The email reported an 81.5% ratio where the printout claimed 81.7. Close, but no cigar... I think I'll wait and see what tonight's run does... The compression ratio on my 2.4.4p2 box printed correctly. I think this was purely coincidental. The 2.4.4p3 box

Re: Compression Ratio misprinting on labels

2004-08-25 Thread Phil Homewood
Paul Bijnens wrote: Upgraded one box to 2.4.4p3. amreport still shows the bogus labels when run against a log generated under 2.4.4p2. Tonight I'll see what it does when it creates the log itself. :-) Do you mean you upgraded a client? Just the amanda server is fine. The 2.4.4p3 server is

Re: Compression Ratio misprinting on labels

2004-08-24 Thread Phil Homewood
the bogus labels when run against a log generated under 2.4.4p2. Tonight I'll see what it does when it creates the log itself. :-) (Does amreport pull its stats from anywhere but the logfile?) -- Phil Homewood, Systems Janitor, http://www.SnapGear.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: +61 7 3435 2810 Fx: +61

Compression Ratio misprinting on labels

2004-08-23 Thread Phil Homewood
to have started occurring sometime since 2.4.4 (not sure now whether 2.4.4p1 behaved, but I know 2.4.4 was good.) Anyone? -- Phil Homewood, Systems Janitor, http://www.SnapGear.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: +61 7 3435 2810 Fx: +61 7 3891 3630 SnapGear - A CyberGuard Company

Re: Three tape set backup policy

2004-06-23 Thread Phil Homewood
is relative to the level 0 on the daily that came before it, for instance I posted about #2 some months ago, and suggested that I might come up with a fix for it. Unfortunately I never did; we ended up rearranging things rather creatively to get around the problem here. -- Phil Homewood, Systems

Re: help getting started

2004-06-23 Thread Phil Homewood
configured on the host machine - perhaps it is telling me it is working, but I can't read what it says. That could well be the case. :-) Though it should spend a noticeable amount of time telling you nothing before it emails you. Does amadmin config info tell you anything useful? -- Phil Homewood

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

2004-05-11 Thread Phil Homewood
Dave Ewart wrote: [...] kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x8000, Deferred st09:00: sns = f1 4 [...] kernel: ASC=15 ASCQ= 1 [...] kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x1, Current st09:00: sns = f0 3 [...] kernel: ASC=15 ASCQ= 2 [repeated] What looks like the problem

Re: lots of virus e-mails spam

2003-11-16 Thread Phil Homewood
Autoresponder Notification Dumping Archive. I made the same mistake. :-/ (Seriously, though: can we shoot the people who send this virus responder junk here? Or at least reject their mail at amanda.org before it gets to the lists? Please?) -- Phil Homewood, Systems Janitor, http://www.SnapGear.com

Re: y didn't amanda report this as an error?

2003-09-26 Thread Phil Homewood
Phil Homewood wrote: Now that you mention it, I have had this, a couple of times in the last week. Am still trying to debug it, but: ??error [/bin/tar got signal 13, compress got signal 11]? dumper: strange [missing size line from sendbackup] Turns out this also appears to be bad hardware

Re: y didn't amanda report this as an error?

2003-09-24 Thread Phil Homewood
configuration working fine. -- Phil Homewood, Systems Janitor, http://www.SnapGear.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: +61 7 3435 2810 Fx: +61 7 3891 3630 SnapGear - Custom Embedded Solutions and Security Appliances

Re: Multiple sets/cycles, same filesystems

2003-09-10 Thread Phil Homewood
a chance of being accepted into the amanda codebase? -- Phil Homewood, Systems Janitor, http://www.SnapGear.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: +61 7 3435 2810 Fx: +61 7 3891 3630 SnapGear - Custom Embedded Solutions and Security Appliances

Multiple sets/cycles, same filesystems

2003-09-05 Thread Phil Homewood
anyone attempted anything like this before? It doesn't seem that unusual, does it? Finally, is there any reason *why* GNUTAR_LISTED_INCREMENTAL_DIR isn't configurable in amanda.conf? Any suggestions/advice/heckling appreciated... -- Phil Homewood, Systems Janitor, http://www.SnapGear.com [EMAIL

Re: Multiple sets/cycles, same filesystems

2003-09-05 Thread Phil Homewood
data. What's worse -- crippling the functionality, or being inconsistent?) Cheers... -- Phil Homewood, Systems Janitor, http://www.SnapGear.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: +61 7 3435 2810 Fx: +61 7 3891 3630 SnapGear - Custom Embedded Solutions and Security Appliances

Re: Multiple sets/cycles, same filesystems

2003-09-05 Thread Phil Homewood
Paul Bijnens wrote: This directive would be needed by a client, and currently a client does not need a configuration file. Could it not be supplied from the server to the client, as I believe the exclude list option is? The other reason is that no-one submitted a patch (for a seperate