Re: Backing up VMware-VMs

2008-02-27 Thread Steve Newcomb
Does anyone know the reason why you cannot snapshot powered off machines? I have learned that backups of VMware Windows-XP guests under Linux are easy, and seem reliable, without starting or restarting VMware or the VM. The method we use requires that the Windows NTFS filesystem be set up

Re: Can't open tapedev

2008-01-28 Thread Steve Newcomb
How do I get off this list? Dustin J. Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jan 28, 2008 10:58 AM, Tony van der Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems like everyone here is equally baffled :( In the interests of getting to the bottom of this, do you think you could run an 'strace' the

Re: Can't open tapedev

2008-01-28 Thread Steve Newcomb
How do I get off this list? Tony van der Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 28 Jan at 14:35 Nick Brockner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, I've been using amanda for some years, but have just moved from Mandriva to Debian Etch. I

Re: Can't open tapedev

2008-01-28 Thread Steve Newcomb
How do I get off this list? Nick Brockner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do a #modprobe ide-scsi And see if that loads the kernel module. -Nick Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, I've been using amanda for some years, but have just moved from Mandriva to Debian Etch. I have a Seagate

Re: List unsubscription

2008-01-28 Thread Steve Newcomb
I regret my behavior and I most sincerely and abjectly apologize. My head certainly should have been cooler. (Sometimes mere baldness isn't quite enough.) I wish nothing but the best for Amanda and her excellent crew, you included, Dustin. -- Steve Steven R. Newcomb, Consultant Coolheads

I want to stop receiving this mail

2008-01-25 Thread Steve Newcomb
How do I get off this list? I used to use Amanda, and I'm grateful for many (!) years of good service from it, but I finally got tired of changing tapes and worrying about them, and I didn't want to buy expensive new tape equipment and even-more-expensive tapes just to keep using Amanda. (Unlike

Re: ssh tunneling from wherever

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Newcomb
Mitch Collinsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: All in all, it sounds like a lot of work, unless this is a months-long conference :) I agree. Changing a working backup configuration in order to handle a temporarily out-of-town condition is just

Re: Amanda 2.5.1.p1 ssh-auth

2007-08-04 Thread Steve Newcomb
I've been using ssh-auth since the earliest days of 2.5. Yes, the dumps themselves go through the ssh tunnel. I have not noticed any appreciable increase in backup time, at least on our system, which has over 400 DLEs. (I'm not sure why the number of DLEs would be relevant, really.) Ralf Auer

Re: SSH problems

2007-02-04 Thread Steve Newcomb
I had some headaches switching to SSH. The good news is that I succeeded eventually and that it was well worth the trouble. When amdump fails, it is remarkably unhelpful, and as far as can be told, it's a timeout problem. But it's *not* a timeout problem. If you really want to know what's

upgrade issue, 2.5.1 to 2.5.1p2: things are worse than I thought

2006-11-25 Thread Steve Newcomb
As a temporary measure, I have re-installed 2.5.1 on my server and it's working again, but I'd prefer to be running the same version everywhere. Well, I lied. amcheck worked OK, but amflush 2.5.1 refuses to flush the dumps made with 2.5.1p2 on the holding disk, saying: [EMAIL

upgrade issue, 2.5.1 to 2.5.1p2

2006-11-25 Thread Steve Newcomb
I'm using chg-multi. It works under 2.5.1. When I upgraded to 2.5.1p2, it stopped working, even with no changes to any configuration file. With 2.5.1p2, the backups are made to the holding disk, but nothing gets written to tape. There's a warning: WARNING: No tapedev specified It's true

Re: Exclude Lists - Amanda 2.5.0

2006-11-15 Thread Steve Newcomb
If your situation permits, you could use an administrator-friendly, rational operating system, such as Linux or Mach, that permits you to backup a working system comprehensively, and, after a disk crash, fire, or other mishap, to quickly restore a *working* system from a *comprehensive* backup

Re: bizarre bug fixed but not explained

2006-10-01 Thread Steve Newcomb
Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Your bug is also with: chmod -R 6770 /home/amanda/libexec/* /home/amanda/sbin/* Setting all binary to suid and sgid is a bad idea, especially since you set their owner to root. From my script, with added comments: chown -R amanda.disk

2.5.1 tape spanning not actually working for me.

2006-10-01 Thread Steve Newcomb
I'm using chg-multi with two identical Exabyte drives. The capacity of each tape is slightly less than 5 Gb. I have a DLE that, at level 0, creates a dump of 22 Gb. I haven't found any way to flush the dump from the holding disk onto tape. I have specified for the dumptype:

bizarre bug fixed but not explained

2006-09-29 Thread Steve Newcomb
Dear Kevin, et al., My bug in which Amanda created its dump-holding directory with permissions that made it impossible for it to write on that directory --- it's fixed. The fix was to change the ownership of one or more of the files in /home/amanda. I'm not sure which file ownerships made the

Re: amanda over ssh

2006-09-27 Thread Steve Newcomb
get this thing stabilized before going to Leipzig for the Topic Maps -- Research Applications conference on October 11-12 (www.tmra.de).) Josef Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 05:41:09PM -0400, Steve Newcomb wrote: Fabio Corazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lee, Raymond

still no backups due to permissions problem in 2.5.1

2006-09-26 Thread Steve Newcomb
Dear Amanda maintainers... As already noted, my ssh problems are all solved, BUT... I still have no backups at all, since upgrading to 2.5.1. The server creates the directory on the holdingdisk (that directory has a timestamp as its name), and then Amanda complains that it can't write anything

Re: amanda over ssh : eureka!

2006-09-24 Thread Steve Newcomb
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check Host key verification failed. WARNING: dimanche.coolheads.com: selfcheck request failed: EOF on read from dimanche.coolheads.com Client check: 1 host checked in 0.137 seconds, 1 problem found does

permissions bugs on holdingdisk run directory and on tapelist?

2006-09-24 Thread Steve Newcomb
Well, we're getting there, but 2.5.1 still doesn't quite work for me, this time because of what looks like an Amanda permissions bug. The only work-around I can see is to have Amanda be super-user. Here's what happens... Nothing gets written to the holdingdisk. Amdump complains that it's not

Re: amanda over ssh

2006-09-22 Thread Steve Newcomb
Kevin Till [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the Amanda client .ssh/authorized_keys file, try to use ip address instead of fqdn name in the from field, e.g: from=192.26.10.10,no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,command=/usr/lib/amanda/amandad -auth=ssh amdump ssh-rsa

amanda over ssh

2006-09-20 Thread Steve Newcomb
We've been using Amanda continuously since 1999. Amanda has minimized our backup effort and headaches and it has saved us from serious data losses on several occasions. Brava! I was delighted to see that 2.5.1 now supports ssh, and if I could just get it to work, it would be a godsend to us. I

Re: amanda over ssh

2006-09-20 Thread Steve Newcomb
In answer to my request for suggestions as to why Amanda 2.5.1 doesn't seem to work with auth=ssh on our network, Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anything about ssh in your system log? Nothing in /var/log/syslog of the client. However, in /var/log/auth.log, the following is the

Re: amanda over ssh

2006-09-20 Thread Steve Newcomb
BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hope this helps. Ray -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Newcomb Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 12:23 PM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: amanda over ssh We've been using Amanda

Re: amanda over ssh

2006-09-20 Thread Steve Newcomb
Fabio Corazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lee, Raymond wrote: Steve, [cut] I'm interested on this as well. Just a little question before starting the new configuration by myself: is ssh used just for the *authentication* or for the dumps as well? I asked that in my first e-mail, and

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.1

2006-09-20 Thread Steve Newcomb
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384508 tar: -l option changed meaning, without any warning! I've been on this list for only a few hours, and it has already solved a baffling and annoying mystery for me. I have been using tar for at least 20 years and I would never have