Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-09 Thread Stephen D. Lane
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:10:19PM -0500, Mike Eldridge wrote: all, i'm having serious problems getting amanda to function on a server running xinetd. the amanda setup on this particular box runs fine with inetd, but i cannot get xinetd to cooperate with me. the skinny: upon

Re: newbie having trouble with tape labels

2003-03-31 Thread Stephen D. Lane
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:51:55AM -0500, Bill wrote: I recently installed amanda on my network to backup a couple of my dev boxes. I understand that a tape must be labelled by amanda to be used with the appropriate dump set, but when I follow the instructions in the doc, amdump errors out

Re: Who uses amanda? -- RFC

2003-03-15 Thread Stephen D. Lane
- Forwarded message from Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This regular query never made it to the FAQ-O-Matic I see. A proposal, I'll put together a survey form (sample follows) and ask the list for submissions. After a period I'll summarize the data, hopefully in a table of some

drive compression discovery - I like dump :)

2003-03-12 Thread Stephen D. Lane
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:34:13PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: ---cut--- Current command is # dump 0udsf 49125 67854 /dev/nst0 /iarcvol (I'm not primary on that system, I'm not really sure where these values originated but have been involved in testing tweeking them). Hoo boy, a dump

raw device ownership permissions on SGI machine

2003-03-11 Thread Stephen D. Lane
Greetings. I am using amanda to back up several clients, one of which is an SGI Origin workstation. This client was recently rebuilt from scratch to IRIX 6.5.19m (yesterday, as a matter of fact :), and I don't know if the following problem was present prior to the rebuild (it was at 6.5.18m,

Re: raw device ownership permissions on SGI machine

2003-03-11 Thread Stephen D. Lane
/ \ On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 05:04:46PM -0800, Jay Lessert wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 03:35:44PM -0800, Stephen D. Lane wrote: If I reboot the machine, however, the device goes back to: 0 crw---1 root sys 0,125 Mar 11 15:26 /hw/rdisk/root

Re: problem with amrecover

2003-03-11 Thread Stephen D. Lane
I'm guessing here, but it looks like the file name doesn't have a leading slash in the archive, so you shouldn't put one in your 'add' command. Try amrecover add lib ^ no slash here and see what happens. Good luck! --Steve Lane /\ Doudna Lab \

Amanda

2003-03-06 Thread Stephen D. Lane
Check out http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html for a pretty good how-to on getting amanda up running. --Steve Lane /\ Doudna Lab \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign U. C. BerkeleyX Against HTML Email / \ -

[ragnar@sysabend.org: Recent upgrade issue.]

2003-03-04 Thread Stephen D. Lane
Don't know if this is useful to you or not, but I just (two days ago) downloaded installed 2.4.2p2 from freeware.sgi.com with no problems under 6.5.18m it works great! If you do this, you'll at least need (based on the conflicts I had): fw_amanda-2.4.2p2.tardist

Re: AIT-3

2003-02-28 Thread Stephen D. Lane
Here's one for an AIT-2 drive - hope that helps... define tapetype AIT-2 { comment SDX-500C length 54538 mbytes filemark 1541 kbytes speed 2920 kps } --Steve Lane /\ Doudna Lab \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign U. C. BerkeleyX Against