Re: amanda installer dups libraries

2003-11-16 Thread Stephen Walton
use checkinstall to build an RPM on the fly, which I can then easily erase/update. Search at Google for checkinstall home page. -- Stephen Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics Astronomy, CSU Northridge

Re: Network recovery with changer

2003-11-12 Thread Stephen Walton
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 15:46, Paul Bijnens wrote: Stephen Walton wrote: amanda.conf has the lines: tpchanger chg-scsi# the tape-changer glue script tapedev 0 changerfile /etc/opt/amanda/daily/chg-scsi-compaq.conf amrecover_changer /dev/nst0 That should be: amrecover_changer

Re: Network recovery with changer

2003-11-12 Thread Stephen Walton
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 09:13, Stephen Walton wrote: Thanks so much, Paul. I've installed the 2003-11-07 snapshot and made the above change to my amanda.conf, and amrecover now uses the changer! Should the amanda man page be changed to specifically state that amrecover_changer should

Re: Network recovery with changer

2003-11-10 Thread Stephen Walton
the appropriate tape? I suppose if you have multiple changer cartridges this is a low priority item, since you probably have to swap cartridges to do a restore anyway. But what about those of you with robots? -- Stephen Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics Astronomy, Cal State Northridge

Re: Network recovery with changer

2003-11-10 Thread Stephen Walton
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 09:44, Paul Bijnens wrote: Stephen Walton wrote: I'm guessing from the responses I'm getting that no one else on the list is even trying to use a changer directly from amrecover? Which version are you using? I was using 2.4.4p1 but after your message I gave

Network recovery with changer

2003-11-07 Thread Stephen Walton
I put in amanda.conf to have amrecover automatically change to the correct tape? -- Stephen Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics Astronomy, Cal State Northridge

Re: Network recovery with changer

2003-11-07 Thread Stephen Walton
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:33, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 09:22:49AM -0800, Stephen Walton wrote: what exactly do I put in amanda.conf to have amrecover automatically change to the correct tape? Did you check the amanda man page? amrecover_changer string Thanks

/dev/sg numbering (was: Re: Problem with chg-scsi on linux)

2003-09-25 Thread Stephen Walton
is that devices don't shift from D: to E: to F: as you add disks, so scripts and software still work. -- Stephen Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics Astronomy, Cal State Northridge

Re: Problem with chg-scsi on linux

2003-09-24 Thread Stephen Walton
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 10:30, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Actually, you do (it just isn't noted in the message log. Look at the output of 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi'. The first device in there corresponds to sg0, the next to sg1, etc. This brings up a question I've been meaning to ask, though it

Bad? noises from tape drive

2003-09-24 Thread Stephen Walton
We just swapped a worn-out 6-tape DDS-3 changer for a new 8-tape DDS-4 changer, specifically the Compaq StorageWorks part number 166505-001. When I tested this new drive with chg-scsi -slot 0, I find that it makes quite a few clicking noises, as if a tape is being loaded/unloaded or searched for

amrecover problem with changer

2003-03-20 Thread Stephen Walton
, when used, exec's amrestore -h -p 0 followed by the usual remaining arguments. Of course this fails, since there is no file or device named 0 which amrestore can get at. So, what's wrong? I've checked the mail archive as carefully as I can and cannot find a similar question. -- Stephen Walton

Re: blackmusic.ch mailing list memberships reminder

2002-11-01 Thread Stephen Walton
-users from this list. I'm surprised no one else did it before me. -- Stephen Walton, Professor, Dept. of Physics Astronomy, Cal State Northridge [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie: Tape doesn't eject?

2001-12-12 Thread Stephen Walton
. Of course, nothing much went on from incrementals of the partitions/disks which had just had a full backup. -- Stephen Walton, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, Northridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: I'm still left with one question

Re: help: problems building Amanda 2.4.2p2 on HP-UX v10.20

2001-07-06 Thread Stephen Walton
search path which is getting picked up before the one in the current directory? -- Stephen Walton, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, Northridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Rivera, Edwin wrote: hello all, i'm trying to build amanda on an HP A180 box running

Intermittent 'out of tape' errors

2001-03-01 Thread Stephen Walton
? -- Stephen Walton, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, Northridge [EMAIL PROTECTED]

HP-UX compiles

2000-11-28 Thread Stephen Walton
is: ./configure: sh internal 2K buffer overflow As of HP-UX 10.20, no such message is printed; instead you get an error about sed's failure to parse a pattern. The workaround is to use ksh: change the first line in the configure script from "#! /bin/sh" to "#! /usr/bin/ksh". Stephen Walton

mt status work-alike for HP-UX?

2000-11-28 Thread Stephen Walton
I've checked the FAQ and searched the list archives for this too: chg-manual locally fails because "status" is not a valid argument for the HP-UX 10.20 "mt" command. Is there a workaround? I'm willing to sit and change tapes for the occasional archival full backup. -- Steph

new user config problem

2000-11-25 Thread Stephen Walton
\ --with-libraries="/opt/readline/lib" \ --with-includes="/opt/readline/include" I get a lot of messages about failed string substitutions reading: "sed: Function s%@ACLOCAL@%/home/swalton/src/amanda-2.4.1p1/config cannot be parsed". Why? -- Stephen Walton, Prof