Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

On Thursday 08 March 2007, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >FL schrieb: >> Maybe I can add to it -- when I have a break. > >Yeah ;) I know that definition of a date. > >> I've just >> gone through the same exercise on a CentOS 4 system (I intend to >> upgrade it to RHEL 4); on that system it was necess

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

On 3/8/07, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FL schrieb: > Maybe I can add to it -- when I have a break. Yeah ;) I know that definition of a date. Well, it's more reliable and precise than setting a time subject to last minute confirmation (that translates in practice to "nev

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

FL schrieb: > Maybe I can add to it -- when I have a break. Yeah ;) I know that definition of a date. > I've just > gone through the same exercise on a CentOS 4 system (I intend to upgrade > it to RHEL 4); on that system it was necessary to run modprobe sg to see > the devices, and the udev sy

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

On 3/7/07, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FL schrieb: > > > On 3/6/07, *Stefan G. Weichinger* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > Glad that thinks worked out. Might be a nice thing to write as small udev-related subsection for the HOWTOs ... Greets, Stefan

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

FL schrieb: > > > On 3/6/07, *Stefan G. Weichinger* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > FL schrieb: > > Thanks for getting back to me so quickly! > > Why should I sleep at midnight? ;-) > > > You too? :) > This is what I settled on as a first guess > # my

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

> Unfortunately, my system doesn't have sg_scan (perhaps I could install > this). There is another script you can use for rescanning devices on a SCSI interface that works quite well. The output looks quite similar to that the sg_scan script does. You can find it here: http://www.garloff.de/kurt

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

On 3/6/07, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FL schrieb: > Thanks for getting back to me so quickly! Why should I sleep at midnight? ;-) You too? And in my startup script, I have: > > modprobe sg > chown root.tape /dev/sg0 > chown root.tape /dev/sg1 # moved from sg2 to sg1!!

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

Unfortunately, my system doesn't have sg_scan (perhaps I could install this). If my first reckless attempt to create a fixed device node for the changer isn't wrong, I'm trying this, based on the output from udevinfo: ID=="2:0:0:0", BUS=="scsi", SYSFS{vendor}=="EXABYTE ", NAME="changer", OWNER=

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

FL schrieb: > Thanks for getting back to me so quickly! Why should I sleep at midnight? ;-) > And in my startup script, I have: > > modprobe sg > chown root.tape /dev/sg0 > chown root.tape /dev/sg1 # moved from sg2 to sg1!!! > chown root.tape /dev/sg2 > chown root.tape /dev/sg3 > if [ ! -h /de

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly! Here's the relevant data: OS is debian linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux Wilf 2.6.17 #4 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 10 13:53:45 CEST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux Amanda version: amadmin Daily version build: VERSION="Amanda-2.5.1p1" BUILT_DATE="Wed Nov 29 02

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:09:42PM -0500, FL wrote: > On 2/22/07, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > After watching the trouble recur, I see that the device associated with the > changer SCSI device ID moved: it was /dev/sg2, today it is /dev/sg1. No > changes were made to the Ex

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

FL schrieb: > After watching the trouble recur, I see that the device associated with > the changer SCSI device ID moved: it was /dev/sg2, today it is /dev/sg1. > No changes were made to the Exabyte LTO-2 tape library or to the SCSI > card (or anything else). So there is something I'm failing to

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

On 2/22/07, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FL schrieb: > Now that this problem is overcome, What did now solve it? chgrp'ing again? After watching the trouble recur, I see that the device associated with the changer SCSI device ID moved: it was /dev/sg2, today it is /dev/sg

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

On 2007-02-22 14:28, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: > > We have a home directory with about 500GB of user data. I tried using > the multiple tapes setting but found that this was a hassle. > > To get around the tape limit, I wrote a perl script that went thought > the /home directory and create files u

RE: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

it. Restore are also quick. Robert _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FL Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 9:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots! Now that this probl

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

On 2007-02-22 03:22, FL wrote: > Now that this problem is overcome, have I run out of tape? Perhaps I > need to split directiories up (200 GB tape_ > > These dumps were to tape Daily-12. > *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No more writable valid tape found]. > Some dumps may have been left in the holdi

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

On 2007-02-22 00:01, FL wrote: > > On 2/21/07, *Stefan G. Weichinger* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > FL schrieb: > > A host check reports no slots available, when there are slots > available. > > What causes this, and what is the remedy? Thanks. >

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

FL schrieb: > Now that this problem is overcome, What did now solve it? chgrp'ing again? > have I run out of tape? Perhaps I > need to split directiories up (200 GB tape_ > > These dumps were to tape Daily-12. > *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No more writable valid tape found]. > Some dumps may ha

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

Now that this problem is overcome, have I run out of tape? Perhaps I need to split directiories up (200 GB tape_ These dumps were to tape Daily-12. *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No more writable valid tape found]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape.

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

On 2/21/07, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FL schrieb: > A host check reports no slots available, when there are slots available. > What causes this, and what is the remedy? Thanks. > > Changer problem: no slots available In my case it helped to change the group of the used cha

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

FL schrieb: > A host check reports no slots available, when there are slots available. > What causes this, and what is the remedy? Thanks. > > Changer problem: no slots available In my case it helped to change the group of the used changer-device: # chgrp tape /dev/sg2 when the amanda-user is m

AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

A host check reports no slots available, when there are slots available. What causes this, and what is the remedy? Thanks. Changer problem: no slots available Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /home/amanda: 63135968 KB disk space available, using 62111968 KB