[Amanda-users] Bare metal restore problem

2009-08-31 Thread khalil_noura
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > What program do you use to do the backup? dump or tar? > > Jean-Louis > > khalil_noura wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am trying to do a bare metal restore. After I partionsed the disk and > > restored

[Amanda-users] Bare metal restore problem

2009-08-28 Thread khalil_noura
khalil_noura wrote: > Hi all, > > > I am trying to do a bare metal restore. After I partitioned the disk and > restored the client to holding. I rebooted to rescue mode created a > /mnt/sysimage directory mounted /dev/sda1 to /mnt/sysimage then cd > /mnt/sysimage. &g

[Amanda-users] Bare metal restore problem

2009-08-28 Thread khalil_noura
Hi all, I am trying to do a bare metal restore. After I partionsed the disk and restored the client to holding. I rebooted to rescue mode created a /mnt/sysimage directory mounted /dev/sda1 to /mnt/sysimage then cd /mnt/sysimage. run this command: ssh amandaserver cat /holdingdisk/hostname._.

[Amanda-users] Baremetal restore using Amanda

2009-07-23 Thread khalil_noura
Hi All, I have an LDAP server that I need to duplicate. Can Amanda be used to do a baremetal restore? Hardware is identical Thanks +-- |This was sent by adaro...@curry.edu via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupc

[Amanda-users] Amanda Configuration

2009-07-23 Thread khalil_noura
This is a strange problem. The client I am trying to backup in an NFS client server that mounts about 30 Windows shares. When the shares are mounted amcheck fails with " selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for REP " when I dismount the shares amcheck works fine and backup runs with no

[Amanda-users] Amanda Configuration

2009-06-19 Thread khalil_noura
Thanks to everyone for the help. I got the backups to work and I am backing up 4 servers one of them gives me an error message when I run amcheck : selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for REP. - I checked firewall ( Ports 10080-10083 are open) - I checked xinetd ( bsdtcp is there) -I c

[Amanda-users] Amanda Configuration

2009-06-18 Thread khalil_noura
Thanks for the help. I got the backup to copy to tape after I changed the holding disk to a SAN with more disk space. the problem having now is I have to label the tape every time I run a test backup. is there a way to label all the tapes. So the help desk only have to put the next tape in the

[Amanda-users] Amanda Configuration

2009-06-16 Thread khalil_noura
I do have the leading slash in the config file +-- |This was sent by adaro...@curry.edu via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +--

[Amanda-users] Amanda Configuration

2009-06-16 Thread khalil_noura
mt -f /dev/nst0 output: SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=-1, block number=-1, partition=0. Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (5): DR_OPEN IM_REP_EN and when I run #cat proc/scsi/scsi I get the following; cat /pr

[Amanda-users] Amanda Configuration

2009-06-16 Thread khalil_noura
Hi, thanks again. I just commented tpchanger but i get the error in the email A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [Could not find a tape to use]. There are 240592K of dumps left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. is it ok if I send you a copy of my amanda.conf file? I am not sure if I

[Amanda-users] Amanda Configuration

2009-06-16 Thread khalil_noura
Thanks for the reply. I labeled the tapes when I created a vtape test envirement. when I run amlabel I get the message : amlabel: label Backup-012 already on a tape. my amanda.conf file is configured as this : tpchanger "chg-disk"# the tape-changer glue script tapedev "file://space

[Amanda-users] Amanda Configuration

2009-06-15 Thread khalil_noura
Hi, I am new to Amanda, I installed it on a RHEL 5.0 that has a HP LTO3 storage works. I am trying to backup several Linux Severs to a 800GB tapes. when I rum amdump I get the following error in the email : *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [Could not find a tape to use]. There are 122058K of dumps lef