RE: Need help figuring out why these don't complete

2001-09-14 Thread Mark Holm
can see for it to do that. The ONLY backup that was defined to go direct to tape is localhost:/data1. markh -Original Message- From: John R. Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 5:16 PM To: Mark Holm Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Need help

Re: Need help figuring out why these don't complete

2001-09-13 Thread John R. Jackson
index tee cannot write [Broken pipe] ... Where does the tee come into play so I can tell what application failed? ... The tee is caused by having indexing turned on. The dumper terminated for some reason and there was nothing on the other end of that file descriptor to write to any more, which

RE: Need help figuring out why these don't complete

2001-09-13 Thread Mark Holm
:16 PM To: Mark Holm Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Need help figuring out why these don't complete index tee cannot write [Broken pipe] ... Where does the tee come into play so I can tell what application failed? ... The tee is caused by having indexing turned on. The dumper terminated

Re: Need help figuring out why these don't complete

2001-09-12 Thread John R. Jackson
... I'll go fight the amandad busy and dumper died messages later, but why am I getting all the dump to tape failed ... You'll need to fight the dumper died messages first. They triggered the dump to tape failed. The place to start is the amdump.1 file (or whichever one matches this run). You

Re: Need help figuring out why these don't complete

2001-09-12 Thread John R. Jackson
I have not reset the chunksize from it's default so it is still at whatever the default is. I'll explicitly set it to 1Gb and try again. ... The default is already 1 GByte, so that's not it (and you don't need to change it). And I can see in the log you sent that it's still using that value.

RE: Need help figuring out why these don't complete

2001-09-12 Thread Mark Holm
. Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 3:16 PM To: Mark Holm Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Need help figuring out why these don't complete I have not reset the chunksize from it's default so it is still at whatever the default is. I'll explicitly set

Need help figuring out why these don't complete

2001-09-11 Thread Mark Holm
Attached is the Amanda report from the backup that I just completed, which should have been a Full Backup forced by a dumpcycle of 0 and runspercycle of 1. I'll go fight the amandad busy and dumper died messages later, but why am I getting all the dump to tape failed which pair up with the No

i need help

2001-06-12 Thread Sandra Panesso
Hi everybody: I start to use the tape cleaner but I have had some problems. When i run amcheck all the time I got the error amcheck-server: slot 5: rewinding tape: No medium found amcheck-server: fatal slot 6: mtx: Cleaning Cartridge Installed and Ejected ERROR: label miro_daily-5 or new tape

AW: Need help on recover

2001-04-09 Thread christian . weiss
--- Von: Radu Filip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Samstag, 7. April 2001 15:14 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Need help on recover Wichtigkeit: Hoch Hi! First at all, I'm not in situation of need for real to restore from tapes, but I'm the stage where I want to verify that I can

Re: AW: AW: Need help on recover

2001-04-09 Thread Radu Filip
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I don't solve the problem, yet. - I slow down the Bus-Speed in the Controller-BIOS for the LVD-Connector from 40 to 20MB/sec. - With this change, the write-process (backup) now works - but restoring fails... Oh, I see. For me there was no

Re: Need help on recover

2001-04-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 04:13:32PM +0300, Radu Filip wrote: amrestore: 0: skipping start of tape: date 20010407 label bak_tape_3 amrestore: fast-forward: Input/output error this was the error I was searched for on this list archive amidxtaped: amrestore terminated

Re: Need help on recover

2001-04-07 Thread Radu Filip
Thank you, Jean-Loius. Your answer leads me to a succesfull restore of an entire subirectory. Anyway, driver hang out several times and also I had to manually rewind the tape before running amrecover. Mersi, Radu Filip P.S. Based on my experience until now, *don't* buy OnStream tape drives!

Re: Need help understaning dump output

2001-03-15 Thread ahall
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, John R. Jackson wrote: ... I am encrypting the backups with gnupg and using tar. ... Huh? How are you doing the encryption? Amanda doesn't support that. Check out this url: http://security.uchicago.edu/tools/gpg-amanda Pretty easy to get going. Just uses a wraper

Re: Need help understaning dump output

2001-03-15 Thread John R. Jackson
So what I am hearing is that amanda can backup no partition larger then the size of the tape drive + whatever compression is in use. Correct, for the moment. I'm trying to fix that (literally) as I'm writing this. OK. One last question how do you specify to use hardware or sofware

Need help understaning dump output

2001-03-14 Thread ahall
Hello, I am new to amanda so please excuse the lay questions. I have searched the archives but did not find what I was looking for. I have two servers. The backup server has a SONY SDT 7000 4/8gig drive. I have everything setup, labeled the tapes and ran amcheck with no errors. I am

Re: Need help understaning dump output

2001-03-14 Thread John R. Jackson
... I am encrypting the backups with gnupg and using tar. ... Huh? How are you doing the encryption? Amanda doesn't support that. When I run amdump I get the error "dump larger then tape, but cannot incremental dump new disk" This says the estimated dump size Amanda got is larger than

Re: Need help...

2001-02-22 Thread Ben Elliston
"John" == John R Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John You must have some kind of hostname lookup problem, which is unrelated John to Amanda. Amanda tried to look up "master" and "localhost" and got John an error. Start checking your DNS configuration, /etc/resolv.conf, John

Re: Need help...

2001-02-22 Thread John R. Jackson
I wonder if Amanada needs a ``TROUBLESHOOTING'' file like that which appears in the Samba distribtion? ... How about we call it FAQ? And then we could put a link to it on the web page. Oh, wait. Never mind. :-) Not that I have time to volunteer, unfortunately. And I should get into the

Re: AMRECOVER: NEED HELP!!!

2001-02-15 Thread John R. Jackson
amrestore: fast-forward: Errore di input/output Assuming I can translate this properly :-), this means the drive reported an I/O error to the OS (who reported it to Amanda who logged it). In other words, the tape could not be read. But all may not be lost. Here are some things to try: *

AMRECOVER: NEED HELP!!!

2001-02-12 Thread Carlo Alberto Degli Atti
Hi all.. I'm having a lot of troubles in restoring amanda backups... I have an HP's T20i Travan Tape in a Linux 2.2.14-5.0 kernel box... When I run: /usr/sbin/amrecover -C DailyBack -d /dev/nst0 I select the file I want to restore, I start the 'extract' command and I obtain: " ...

need help: selfcheck not working on tapehost

2000-12-22 Thread Eric A. Sproul
Hi, I'd *really* like to fix this before the holidays... ;) My tapehost can't seem to back itself up. Last night's report indicates "request timed out", as does a subsequent amcheck. I've consulted the FAQ for amcheck, and since /tmp/amanda/amandad.debug had not been rewritten since the

Re: need help: selfcheck not working on tapehost

2000-12-22 Thread Eric A. Sproul
Hi, Nevermind folks, I figured it out. Guess I just panicked because it was the Friday before Christmas... ;) The problem was large filesystems that were all scheduled for level 0 dumps. Amanda was timing out before dump was finished estimating the sizes. Increasing "etimeout" in amanda.conf

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