Re: amanda having trouble choosing next tape

2003-03-03 Thread Simon Young
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:20:22AM -0800, John Oliver wrote: > The dumps were flushed to tape Indyme014. > The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /etc/amanda/DailySet1/tapelist > 20030303 Indyme014 reuse > 20030228 Indyme013 reuse > 20030227 Indyme012

Re: Make amanda unload tape drive?

2003-01-28 Thread Simon Young
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:34:47PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote: > > The standard "trick" is to call either "amtape eject" or > (what I do) "amtape slot advance" after the amdump run. For > instance: > > amdump ; amtape slot advance So I did this last night, and today all tapes are still i

Re: Make amanda unload tape drive?

2003-01-27 Thread Simon Young
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:34:47PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote: > >Can amanda send a signal to my DLT IV to unload the tape after > >backups are finished, so whoever goes back to swap tapes can > >just do it without waiting to manually unload? > > The standard "trick" is to call either "amtape e

Re: GNUTAR

2003-01-24 Thread Simon Young
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:20:04PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Simon Young wrote: > > > The question is, should I be refering to paths rather than devices when > > using tar? Like this: > > > > henry / root-tar > > henry /usruser-tar > >

GNUTAR

2003-01-24 Thread Simon Young
Hi, I'm using tar for backup, but my DLEs refer to device names. For example, henry /dev/sda1 root-tar henry /dev/sda2 user-tar I'm also trying to use exclude lists, but these don't seem to be working as I would expect them to (it looks like they're being ignored). The question

Re: amandahostsauth failed

2003-01-23 Thread Simon Young
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:17:43AM -0700, Santiago wrote: > Thanks so much to everyone responding to my first question. I got that > fixed right away. However, I am still running into the following issue. > Possibly my configuration is poor . .. > > the error is: > > Amanda Backup Client Hosts

Re: Make amanda unload tape drive?

2003-01-22 Thread Simon Young
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:04:33PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > >If you follow amdump with an amtape eject command, will you not be > >ejecting the tape in the 'current' slot? > > Thats how it would work here at any rate. Amanda does not change her > notion of "slot" until the next invocation o

Re: Make amanda unload tape drive?

2003-01-22 Thread Simon Young
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:48:09AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:12:07PM +0000, Simon Young wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:28:12AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > > > > Your experience may differ, if so I'd like to know for futur

Re: Amanda correct hostname resolution

2003-01-22 Thread Simon Young
Hi Santiago, On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:03:43AM -0700, Santiago wrote: > > Hello. I am new to amanda, so please forgive any newbie questions. I > have done my best to RTFM for all of the docs I can find googling > amanda. My question relates to the hostname lookup performed by amanda > - I have

Re: Make amanda unload tape drive?

2003-01-22 Thread Simon Young
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:28:12AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > The original OP did not specify a changer and I, perhaps incorrectly > formed my answer based on a single drive with no changer. That's what I thought, but I was hoping it would be just as easy :-) > My experience with changers is

Re: Make amanda unload tape drive?

2003-01-22 Thread Simon Young
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 01:13:14AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:14:55AM +, Pavel Rabel wrote: > > > > > > >Can amanda send a signal to my DLT IV to unload the tape after > > > > >backups are finished, so whoever goes back to swap tapes can > > > > >just do it witho

DLT8000 Strangeness

2003-01-17 Thread Simon Young
Hi, I'm setting up amanda on a Compaq Proliant DL380 with three Compaq DLT8000 tape drives. Having run tapetype a few times (using DLT IV tapes), I'm getting the following: define tapetype unknown-tapetype { comment "just produced by tapetype program" length 38301 mbytes filemark 23

Re: Problems with labelstr

2003-01-16 Thread Simon Young
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:50:35AM -0600, Dan Spray wrote: > Hello all, > > I am new to Amanda and have been following > http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html to the "T" to get Amanda > setup and working. In chapter 12 it says to run "# su amanda - c > "amlabel Daily Daily-123 slot 123"" wh