Migrating to Amanda, question 2

2006-02-10 Thread Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
At this point my situation is pretty hopeless and I need to accellerate the BRU - Amanda migration, so question 2: CentOS 4.2 or Fedora4? Kernel: CentOS 2.6.9-22 FC4 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 tar: CentSO tar-1.14-8.RHEL4 FC4 tar-1.15.1-11.FC4 Amanda: CentOS

Re: Migrating to Amanda, question 2

2006-02-10 Thread Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
2006/2/10, Ian Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I recommend Fedora for Amanda, and Debian in general, but you're opening a can of worms by asking people's opinion on the best distro. :-) Thanks for the advise. I was leaning towards FC4 myself because of the latest tar version. I read that tar 1.14

Re: Migrating to Amanda, question 2

2006-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 10 February 2006 11:42, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: At this point my situation is pretty hopeless and I need to accellerate the BRU - Amanda migration, so question 2: CentOS 4.2 or Fedora4? Essentially this doesn't matter, but see below. Kernel: CentOS 2.6.9-22

Re: Migrating to Amanda, question 2

2006-02-10 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 at 1:22pm, Gene Heskett wrote On Friday 10 February 2006 11:42, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: tar: CentSO tar-1.14-8.RHEL4 FC4 tar-1.15.1-11.FC4 CentOS tar-1.14.* is known bad, I'm using 1.15-1 myself, with 1.13-25 installed as a fallback available with a

Re: Migrating to Amanda, question 2

2006-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 10 February 2006 13:40, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 at 1:22pm, Gene Heskett wrote On Friday 10 February 2006 11:42, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: tar: CentSO tar-1.14-8.RHEL4 FC4 tar-1.15.1-11.FC4 CentOS tar-1.14.* is known bad, I'm using 1.15-1

Re: Migrating to Amanda, question 2

2006-02-10 Thread Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
Thanks for all the good feedback. I just remembered reading that the 2.6.9 Linux kernel provided by CentOS/RHEL4 has problems with SCSI. That was on a communication from BRU: http://www.bru.com/Server-Linux-Require.html So, it is Fedora4 after all. Enrico

RE: Migrating to Amanda, question 2

2006-02-10 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: Migrating to Amanda, question 2 Yes, it seems to have difficulty recognizing the second SCSI tape drive if you have two. So one of my Spectralogic 2K tape drives is languishing, while the other has all the fun. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf

Re: Migrating to Amanda, question 2

2006-02-10 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:40:38PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain enlightened us: On Friday 10 February 2006 11:42, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: tar: CentSO tar-1.14-8.RHEL4 FC4 tar-1.15.1-11.FC4 CentOS tar-1.14.* is known bad, I'm using 1.15-1 myself, with 1.13-25 installed as

Re: Migrating to Amanda, question 2

2006-02-10 Thread Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
2006/2/10, Lengyel, Florian [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes, it seems to have difficulty recognizing the second SCSI tape drive if you have two. So one of my Spectralogic 2K tape drives is languishing, while the other has all the fun. I have 1 tape drive + 6 tape slots, but they still advised me to

RE: Migrating to Amanda, question 2

2006-02-10 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: Migrating to Amanda, question 2 CentOS does work for me, but I had to add the following to /etc/rc.d/rc.local # create sg devices and turn hardware spectralogic hardware compression off modprobe sg ln -s /dev/sg0 /dev/changer mt -f /dev/nst0 compression 0 mt -f /dev/nst1

Re: Migrating to Amanda, question 2

2006-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 10 February 2006 15:16, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: 2006/2/10, Lengyel, Florian [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes, it seems to have difficulty recognizing the second SCSI tape drive if you have two. So one of my Spectralogic 2K tape drives is languishing, while the other has all the fun.

RE: Migrating to Amanda, question 2

2006-02-10 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 at 2:56pm, Lengyel, Florian wrote Yes, it seems to have difficulty recognizing the second SCSI tape drive if you have two. So one of my Spectralogic 2K tape drives is languishing, while the other has all the fun. Err, I have a 2 drive library on centos-4 with no problems.