Re: new problem, amrecover can't find disklist (continued)

2020-10-02 Thread Debra S Baddorf
> On Oct 2, 2020, at 2:26 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > (resent with correct subscriber email for the ML) > > Am 30.09.20 um 15:21 schrieb Gene Heskett: >> Sample: >> >> HOST lathe ERROR: security file '/etc/amanda-security.conf' do not allow >> to run '/usr/bin/tar' as root for

Re: new problem, amrecover can't find disklist (continued)

2020-10-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 02 October 2020 08:32:47 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 02.10.20 um 11:57 schrieb Gene Heskett: > > On Friday 02 October 2020 03:26:01 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> (resent with correct subscriber email for the ML) > >> > >> Am 30.09.20 um 15:21 schrieb Gene Heskett: > >>> Sample:

Re: new problem, amrecover can't find disklist (continued)

2020-10-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
(resent with correct subscriber email for the ML) Am 30.09.20 um 15:21 schrieb Gene Heskett: > Sample: > > HOST lathe ERROR: security file '/etc/amanda-security.conf' do not allow > to run '/usr/bin/tar' as root for 'amgtar:gnutar_path' > > How do I fix this? Its only been working fine for a

Re: new problem, amrecover can't find disklist (continued)

2020-09-30 Thread Gene Heskett
> > Rüdiger > > > > > > Am Mi., 30. Sept. 2020 um 13:11 Uhr schrieb Gene Heskett < > > > > ghesk...@shentel.net>: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > I haven't run amrecover for quite a while, and today it claims no > > > ho

Re: new problem, amrecover can't find disklist

2020-09-30 Thread Gene Heskett
ings all; > > > > I haven't run amrecover for quite a while, and today it claims no > > host I've named is in the disklist. The disklist is fine, all > > there. > > > > So obviously I didn't scratch this puppies ears recently enough. > > > > I did g

new problem, amrecover can't find disklist

2020-09-30 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I haven't run amrecover for quite a while, and today it claims no host I've named is in the disklist. The disklist is fine, all there. So obviously I didn't scratch this puppies ears recently enough. I did get the last level0 of the /home/gene for that machine out and written

Re: Now I'm confuzzled about disklist entry's for "./[a-g]*" types

2018-11-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 14 November 2018 15:30:11 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2018, at 2:18 PM, Gene Heskett > > wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 14 November 2018 15:11:33 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > >>> On Nov 14, 2018, at 2:04 PM, Gene Heskett > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> On Wednesday 14 November 2018

Re: Now I'm confuzzled about disklist entry's for "./[a-g]*" types

2018-11-14 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 3:34 PM Debra S Baddorf wrote: > > And I’m not certain that amcheck cares, I don’t think it’ll tell you if > the set is empty. > > It doesn't and it won't. Kind regards, Chris

Re: Now I'm confuzzled about disklist entry's for "./[a-g]*" types

2018-11-14 Thread Debra S Baddorf
> On Nov 14, 2018, at 2:18 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 November 2018 15:11:33 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > >>> On Nov 14, 2018, at 2:04 PM, Gene Heskett >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Wednesday 14 November 2018 14:03:56 Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 01:06:48PM -0500,

Re: Now I'm confuzzled about disklist entry's for "./[a-g]*" types

2018-11-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 14 November 2018 15:11:33 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2018, at 2:04 PM, Gene Heskett > > wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 14 November 2018 14:03:56 Jon LaBadie wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 01:06:48PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> First a snip/paste of my 3 new del's

Re: Now I'm confuzzled about disklist entry's for "./[a-g]*" types

2018-11-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 14 November 2018 15:04:25 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 14 November 2018 14:03:56 Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 01:06:48PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > First a snip/paste of my 3 new del's as I try to split a big one > > > up: line entry > > > 28 coyote

Re: Now I'm confuzzled about disklist entry's for "./[a-g]*" types

2018-11-14 Thread Debra S Baddorf
> On Nov 14, 2018, at 2:04 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 November 2018 14:03:56 Jon LaBadie wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 01:06:48PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> First a snip/paste of my 3 new del's as I try to split a big one up: >>> line entry >>> 28 coyote

Re: Now I'm confuzzled about disklist entry's for "./[a-g]*" types

2018-11-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 14 November 2018 14:03:56 Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 01:06:48PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > First a snip/paste of my 3 new del's as I try to split a big one up: > > line entry > > 28 coyote /home/gene/PublicA/ Publicag { > > 29 comp-coyote-tar > > 30 include

Re: Now I'm confuzzled about disklist entry's for "./[a-g]*" types

2018-11-14 Thread Gene Heskett
ote/PublicAag' does not exist it will be created on the next run NOTE: index dir '/usr/local/var/amanda/Daily/index/coyote/PublicAag' does not exist it will be created on the next run Who knows, might have to adjust the split, but its got to be an improvement. Here all this time I thought

Re: Now I'm confuzzled about disklist entry's for "./[a-g]*" types

2018-11-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 01:06:48PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > First a snip/paste of my 3 new del's as I try to split a big one up: > line entry > 28 coyote /home/gene/PublicA/ Publicag { > 29comp-coyote-tar > 30include "./[a-g]*" > 31exclude "./[h-z]*" > 32} 1 local > 33

Re: Now I'm confuzzled about disklist entry's for "./[a-g]*" types

2018-11-14 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 1:10 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > First a snip/paste of my 3 new del's as I try to split a big one up: > line entry > 28 coyote /home/gene/PublicA/ Publicag { > 29 comp-coyote-tar > 30 include "./[a-g]*" > 31 exclude "./[h-z]*" > 32 } 1 local > > Try

Now I'm confuzzled about disklist entry's for "./[a-g]*" types

2018-11-14 Thread Gene Heskett
local 46 Then the amcheck output: amanda@coyote:/usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily$ /usr/local/sbin/amcheck Daily "/usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/disklist", line 34: duplicate disk record, previous on line 28 "/usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/disklist", line 34: read of custom dumptype failed

Re: Oddity with the disklist

2018-06-07 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> On 3 Jun 2018, at 01:12, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 13:05:16 +0200, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: >> On 1 Jun 2018, at 19:14, Chris Nighswonger >> wrote: >>> >>> Based on the example disklist file, it looks like whe

Re: Oddity with the disklist

2018-06-02 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 13:05:16 +0200, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > On 1 Jun 2018, at 19:14, Chris Nighswonger > wrote: > > > > Based on the example disklist file, it looks like when using the multi-line > > format, you need a leading slash before your diskname en

Re: Oddity with the disklist

2018-06-02 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On 1 Jun 2018, at 19:14, Chris Nighswonger wrote: > > Based on the example disklist file, it looks like when using the multi-line > format, you need a leading slash before your diskname entry: > > /tank/jail/webhost091 > > or some such. Unfortunately - the disk is a ZFS

Re: Oddity with the disklist

2018-06-01 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Based on the example disklist file, it looks like when using the multi-line format, you need a leading slash before your diskname entry: /tank/jail/webhost091 or some such. Kind regards, Chris On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 12:09 PM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > I’ve got a bit of an odd

Re: Oddity with the disklist

2018-06-01 Thread J Chapman Flack
Where did the 091 come from? I don't see it in the first (working) example. -Chap On 06/01/18 12:09, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > I’ve got a bit of an oddity with the disklist - suspect it is really trivial; > but am not seeing it. > > This works splendidly and

Re: Oddity with the disklist

2018-06-01 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On 1 Jun 2018, at 18:20, J Chapman Flack wrote: > > Where did the 091 come from? I don't see it in the first (working) example. Sorry - that is me badly anonymising on sent. Corrected below. — corrected -- I’ve got a bit of an oddity with the disklist - suspect it is really trivial;

Oddity with the disklist

2018-06-01 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
I’ve got a bit of an oddity with the disklist - suspect it is really trivial; but am not seeing it. This works splendidly and as expected: ... .webweaving.orgtank/jail/webhost openssl-client-encrypt-best-zfssnapshot-jail But this (with whitespace reduced

Re: disklist problem

2017-08-05 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
ll see that each of these items refers to a mount point for a separate filesystem -- otherwise they would't need to be listed separately in the disklist file) > > Part of my disklist is: > > ## sbox > sbox.slsware.net / high-tar 40 > sbox.slsware.net /boot

Re: disklist problem

2017-08-05 Thread ghe
On 08/05/2017 03:35 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: Gnutar writes on the standard error stream both error messages and informational messages. You are seeing the latter type for your "/" DLE. Typically, gnutar is called by amgtar. Amgtar includes lists of gnutar messages it can ignore and should not

Re: disklist problem

2017-08-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
938880 (2.9MiB, 6.6MiB/s) > sendbackup: size 2870 > sendbackup: end > > The directory may be on a different partition, but it's not on a different > filesystem. They're all on /, and right at the top. They're all RAID 1 too, > if that makes any difference. > > Part of my di

disklist problem

2017-08-04 Thread ghe
filesystem. They're all on /, and right at the top. They're all RAID 1 too, if that makes any difference. Part of my disklist is: ## sbox sbox.slsware.net/ high-tar 40 sbox.slsware.net/boot high-tar 40 sbox.slsware.net/home high-tar 40

Re: disklist

2016-03-24 Thread John Aguilar
eat...@carbonite.com> wrote: > I don't know that it can be done with the amaddclient command but it may > be faster to just edit the disklist file directly. I believe that is all > amaddclient is doing: adding entries to the disklist file. > > Paul > > >

disklist

2016-03-24 Thread John Aguilar
to back up. i.e.* $amaddclient --config DailySet1 --client host. example.com <http://example.com> --diskdev /home --dumptype comp-user-tar* backing up my home directories is one path, but I would like to add others. i.e. /etc/, /var/www/htl..etc.. on the same disklist. Is there a way to do that w

Re: perl code snippet to process Amanda's disklist

2016-03-22 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
else. I don't really want to formalize it by putting it in the wiki or git or anywhere else. If someone does find it useful and wants to adapt it, make changes in it, or put it up somewhere, you are welcome to. Note that changes in the format of disklist will break this. Of course, the "p

Re: perl code snippet to process Amanda's disklist

2016-03-11 Thread Uwe Menges
On 03/09/16 23:07, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > Does anyone have a perl code snippet to process Amanda's disklist? [...] > What I would like to do is have a script on cron that would check the > size of each DLE and send me an email alert if any one of them goes > above some threshold. Th

Re: includefile in disklist

2016-03-10 Thread Mikalai Krot
version first. In addition, recommend consulting man pages for amanda on your installed system, these will cover your specific version. The website covers latest. For example, my 3.3.1 install man page for disklist shows no mention of includefile. -- Mikalai Krot Sprachwissenschaftliches

Re: includefile in disklist

2016-03-10 Thread Bill Carlson
on your installed system, these will cover your specific version. The website covers latest. For example, my 3.3.1 install man page for disklist shows no mention of includefile. -- Bill Carlson Anything is possible, given Time and Money. On 03/10/2016 05:36 AM, Nuno Dias wrote: Hi

Re: includefile in disklist

2016-03-10 Thread Nuno Dias
gt; > > Thanks in advance, > > Nikolai Krot > > > > On 03/09/2016 04:06 PM, Bill Carlson wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > What version of amanda are you using? > > > > > > Is the combined disklist composed of only unique entrie

perl code snippet to process Amanda's disklist

2016-03-09 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Does anyone have a perl code snippet to process Amanda's disklist? I found http://wiki.zmanda.com/pod/3.1/Amanda/Disklist.html, but it explicitly says that additional parameters (such as include and exclude) are not reproduced by this package. Why I am interested in this -- I'm managing four

Re: includefile in disklist

2016-03-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 07:30:56PM +0100, Mikalai Krot wrote: > Hi all, > ... > Anyway, the issue is solved. I know that multiple includefile stanzas are > not possible with amanda-3.3.3 in rhel7. > > Thank you for your help, > Nikolai Is there a second observation of that defect in 3.3.3? jl

Re: includefile in disklist

2016-03-09 Thread Mikalai Krot
Hi all, I have a similar goal in mind. I am backing up mailboxes and want to avoid manually adding a DLE for any newly added mail account. I rely on cron more than on my memory. My intent was also to keep things modular. I would like to have a dedicated disklist for every possible

Re: includefile in disklist

2016-03-09 Thread Mikalai Krot
to help you but my tests with amanda-3.3.5 show that multiple "includefile" stanzas work, along with or without inline DLEs. My "test" uses the command "/opt/amanda/sbin/amadmin disklist" and checks that its output corresponds to the content of the disklist and the inclu

Re: includefile in disklist

2016-03-09 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hi, Not sure if this is going to help you but my tests with amanda-3.3.5 show that multiple "includefile" stanzas work, along with or without inline DLEs. My "test" uses the command "/opt/amanda/sbin/amadmin disklist" and checks that its output corresponds

Re: includefile in disklist

2016-03-09 Thread Mikalai Krot
Hi Debra, thanks for the suggestion! In the end, this is what I did. ( cat disklist.manual generator_of_other_DLEs ) > disklist Not a big issue, it is the same script as before with a slight modification. I am happy amanda now works, though knowing the limitati

Re: includefile in disklist

2016-03-09 Thread Debra S Baddorf
anks in advance, >> Nikolai Krot >> >> On 03/09/2016 04:06 PM, Bill Carlson wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> What version of amanda are you using? >>> >>> Is the combined disklist composed of only unique entries? >>> >>>

Re: includefile in disklist

2016-03-09 Thread Mikalai Krot
Carlson wrote: Hello, What version of amanda are you using? Is the combined disklist composed of only unique entries? Thanks, -- Bill Carlson Anything is possible, given Time and Money. On 03/08/2016 03:48 PM, Mikalai Krot wrote: Hi list members, My question is how to combine in a single

Re: includefile in disklist

2016-03-09 Thread Mikalai Krot
, Bill Carlson wrote: Hello, What version of amanda are you using? Is the combined disklist composed of only unique entries? Thanks, -- Bill Carlson Anything is possible, given Time and Money. On 03/08/2016 03:48 PM, Mikalai Krot wrote: Hi list members, My question is how to combine in a single

Re: includefile in disklist

2016-03-09 Thread Bill Carlson
Hello, What version of amanda are you using? Is the combined disklist composed of only unique entries? Thanks, -- Bill Carlson Anything is possible, given Time and Money. On 03/08/2016 03:48 PM, Mikalai Krot wrote: Hi list members, My question is how to combine in a single disklist file

includefile in disklist

2016-03-08 Thread Mikalai Krot
Hi list members, My question is how to combine in a single disklist file definitions of DLE and includefile directives. Seems that this is impossible. I tried the following cases: ### case 1 that worked disklist contains only DLE entries of the form server.domain.com /etccomp

amanda: empty disklist

2014-09-29 Thread Michael Stauffer
Amanda 3.3.4 Hi, I've got another strange problem. It's probably user-error again, but I can't figure it out. I added another disklist file to my disklist (see below), and now amcheck and amdump don't seem to read anything. amcheck reports 0 hosts checked. When I run amdump, I get

Re: amanda: empty disklist

2014-09-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's in disklist.picsl-cluster-home? do 'amadmin CONF disklist' report all Dles? Jean-Louis On 09/29/2014 05:23 PM, Michael Stauffer wrote: Amanda 3.3.4 Hi, I've got another strange problem. It's probably user-error again, but I can't figure it out. I added another disklist file to my

Re: disklist and glob patterns

2014-03-18 Thread Michael Stauffer
For the sake of anyone following this thread in the future, some replies to my last post: On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Michael Stauffer mgsta...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks Jean-Lous. In my dumptype I have program GNUTAR but I don't know if this always means 'gtar' or if it's

disklist and glob patterns

2014-03-11 Thread Michael Stauffer
Amanda 3.3.4 Hi, I'm confused about using glob patterns in disklist. Am I right that if I use dumptype include and exclude directives, I can use shell globbing? This is part of my disklist: cfile.uphs.upenn.edu jet-grosspeople-0-g /jet { gui-base #Get everything ^[0-9] and ^[a-zA-Z

Re: disklist and glob patterns

2014-03-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
expressions with only one slash. The expressions must still begin with ./, so this effectively only allows expressions like ./[abc]* or ./*.txt. Jean-Louis On 03/11/2014 01:53 PM, Michael Stauffer wrote: Amanda 3.3.4 Hi, I'm confused about using glob patterns in disklist. Am I

Re: disklist and glob patterns

2014-03-11 Thread Michael Stauffer
. Jean-Louis On 03/11/2014 01:53 PM, Michael Stauffer wrote: Amanda 3.3.4 Hi, I'm confused about using glob patterns in disklist. Am I right that if I use dumptype include and exclude directives, I can use shell globbing? This is part of my disklist: cfile.uphs.upenn.edu jet

Re: Understanding disklist format

2014-02-18 Thread Charles Stroom
Thanks, it worked, multiple includes are possible with the append. I have not tried systematically without append, although I BELIEVE that in that case only the last include entry is taken into account and the others silently ignored. Regards, Charles p.s. I noticed some strange error messages,

Re: Understanding disklist format

2014-02-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:39:33AM +0100, Charles Stroom wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:00:01 -0500 Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: ... You said that an include implies exclude all else, this clarifies some behaviour. But I have 1 DLE with multiple includes: fiume.localnet Vbox

Re: Understanding disklist format

2014-02-16 Thread Gerrit A. Smit - TI
Charles Stroom schreef op 16-02-14 15:29: include ./* exclude ./Canon_800IS/* exclude ./Canon_G2/* Maybe you need to exclude first? Met vriendelijke groeten, AT COMPUTING Gerrit A. Smit Beheer Technische Infrastructuur -- AT Computing Telefoon: +31 24 352 72 22

Re: Understanding disklist format

2014-02-16 Thread Charles Stroom
and have reformatted my disklist. I have difficulties to understand what will be, or what will be not included. To take an example, i have a directory /home/charles/pictures. It contains sub-directories for a few cameras I have/had and a miscellany of smaller directories and files. charles

Re: Understanding disklist format

2014-02-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 03:29:03PM +0100, Charles Stroom wrote: I am now running my compiled 3.3.5 amanda on opensuse 13.1 and have reformatted my disklist. I have difficulties to understand what will be, or what will be not included. To take an example, i have a directory /home/charles

Re: Understanding disklist format

2014-02-16 Thread Charles Stroom
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:00:01 -0500 Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 03:29:03PM +0100, Charles Stroom wrote: I am now running my compiled 3.3.5 amanda on opensuse 13.1 and have reformatted my disklist. I have difficulties to understand what will be, or what

Re: Newbie disklist question.

2013-04-13 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 12/04/13 23:31, Erik P. Olsen wrote: It looks like you only specify partitions (or entire disk devices) in a disklist for data to be backed up. How should I specify discrete files to be backed up? Never mind. Found some info buried in the gigantic manpage for amanda.conf which I hope I can

Newbie disklist question.

2013-04-12 Thread Erik P. Olsen
It looks like you only specify partitions (or entire disk devices) in a disklist for data to be backed up. How should I specify discrete files to be backed up? -- Erik Concordia parvæ res crescunt discordia maximæ dilabuntur

includefile in disklist

2013-02-25 Thread Nuno Dias
Hi, In amanda-3.3.2 if I use includefile directive in disklist, that directive must be the first thing in the file, and only one includefile is allowed, this is a feature or a bug? Cheers, Nuno -- Nuno Dias nd...@lip.pt LIP

Re: includefile in disklist

2013-02-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 02/25/2013 06:55 AM, Nuno Dias wrote: Hi, In amanda-3.3.2 if I use includefile directive in disklist, that directive must be the first thing in the file, and only one includefile is allowed, this is a feature or a bug? Cheers, Nuno It is a bug, the attached patch fix it. Jean-Louis

Re: Report complaining about host which is not in disklist

2012-09-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
this client in disklist, and it was dumped successfully for a couple of days. Then I decided to temporarily stop dumping this client, and commented out these entries in disklist. After that, Amanda sends me mail every morning about RESULTS MISSING for *one* of these two DLEs: FAILURE DUMP

Report complaining about host which is not in disklist

2012-09-26 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! This may be something that is fixed in most recent version (I'm running 3.2.2), but I still decided to mention it, since initially I was quite baffled by the error message. I recently added a new client to my Amanda setup. I had two DLEs from this client in disklist

Amanda 3.1.0beta1 dies if disklist includes multihomed/private vlan clients

2010-04-27 Thread Matthew Marlowe
Hi, Under amanda 3.1.0beta1 with a server multihomed to two networks, when disklist only contains entries for clients multihomed to networks 1 and 2 - all backups succeed. When disklist contains any entries connected to only network 2 - all backups fail. The amanda disklist and amanda

Re: Amanda 3.1.0beta1 dies if disklist includes multihomed/private vlan clients

2010-04-27 Thread Matthew Marlowe
, Under amanda 3.1.0beta1 with a server multihomed to two networks, when disklist only contains entries for clients multihomed to networks 1 and 2 - all backups succeed. When disklist contains any entries connected to only network 2 - all backups fail. The amanda disklist and amanda-client.conf

Re: Finally restored a machne to life that is in the disklist, but now level 0's every run?

2010-02-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Since putting a fresher psu in it, I am seeing amanda do nothing but level 0's on it now, for 3 nights running.  I don't recall it doing that before the extended outage. I suppose it could be a version miss-match,

Finally restored a machne to life that is in the disklist, but now level 0's every run?

2010-02-06 Thread Gene Heskett
Greets all; My milling machine computer had been offline for about a month, failed PSU. My disklist norrmally gets the home dir tree where all the emc stuff lives, a total of 5 entries. Since putting a fresher psu in it, I am seeing amanda do nothing but level 0's on it now, for 3 nights

disklist dumptype changes

2009-11-25 Thread rir
In an active amanda system, how do I change a disk from using dump to tar? I have /etc/amanda/daily/disklist entries of the form: bootmd0 comp-root # dumptypes are per vers X examples and this should be: bootmd0 comp-root-tar Thanks, rir

adding a ubuntu-6.06 LTS machine to the disklist

2009-09-26 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I am attempting to add another machine to my disklist, and I have installed the amanda-client-2.4.5p1 on that machine, but I can't find where it might be started, no can I find any configs. Can I even use that old a client with 2.6.1alpha-20090831 here on this box? -- Cheers

ghost disklist entries

2009-05-11 Thread Johan Booysen
(Amanda-2.6.0p1) I've just noticed something peculiar while doing a test restore. While using amrecover to set a host and a disk, then for two hosts I've got disklist entries being displayed which don't exist anymore (in fact, they haven't existed since January 09). When doing a setdisk

Re: ghost disklist entries

2009-05-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 11 May 2009, Johan Booysen wrote: (Amanda-2.6.0p1) I've just noticed something peculiar while doing a test restore. While using amrecover to set a host and a disk, then for two hosts I've got disklist entries being displayed which don't exist anymore (in fact, they haven't existed

Re: Disklist question

2008-10-06 Thread Brian Cuttler
Robert, On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 10:16:29AM -0400, McGraw, Robert P wrote: I want to be able to use a different disklist for different runs. Other than use shell scripting to mv disklista to disklist is there a way to tell amanda what disklist to use during a run. What needs to remain the same

Re: Disklist question

2008-10-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
man amanda.conf: diskfile string Default: disklist. The file name for the disklist file holding client hosts, disks and other client dumping information. You can use: amdump -odiskfile=disklista Why do you want to do use different disklist file? You could have one

variable in disklist file?

2008-09-24 Thread Yu Chen
Can you put variable in disklist file? Like: set disk=/computer/home/mydir/ host.mydomain ${disk}/backup1 comp-server-tar -1 eth2 Chen

Re: variable in disklist file?

2008-09-24 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Yu Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you put variable in disklist file? Like: set disk=/computer/home/mydir/ host.mydomain ${disk}/backup1 comp-server-tar -1 eth2 No -- the configuration syntax does not support that. You would have to use some

Re: Lost disklist

2008-09-22 Thread Nigel Allen
On 23/09/2008 10:35 AM, Nigel Allen wrote: Greetings I am trying to restore an accidentally deleted disklist from a level 0 backup using amrecover. Of course, when I try to start amrecover using amrecover DailySet1 -s sydsrv08 -t sydsrv08 I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp

FQDN's in disklist?

2008-08-08 Thread stan
in the disklist. I'd really rather not have to put FQDN's in the disklist. Can anyone suggest what I might have configured incorrectly that would be cause this behavior? -- One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful

Re: FQDN's in disklist?

2008-08-08 Thread Gene Heskett
in one domain, and I have the short names in the disklist. I'd really rather not have to put FQDN's in the disklist. Can anyone suggest what I might have configured incorrectly that would be cause this behavior? But do you have all those aliases in each machines /etc/hosts file? ISTR that's all I had

disklist, regular expressions

2007-07-26 Thread Brian Cuttler
I'm runing amanda on solaris 9 and fairly recently ran into a situation where the drive (RAID array) was too large to fit on a single volume of tape. We resolved this by dividing the partition into segments and using gtar for backups. (for /maildb2/one through /maildb2/five) wcnotes

Large number of entries in the disklist file?

2007-06-26 Thread Jordan Desroches
Fellow AMANDA users, In the past, I remember seeing something about AMANDA having trouble when there are a large number of disklist entries. First, am I remembering correctly, and second what constitutes a large number of entries? My current backup plan is to have about 1500-2000 entries

Re: Update - Strange problem with 2nd disklist on host

2007-02-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Alan, Could you send the amandad.timestamps.debug file? You said all other client works, are they using the same amanda version? Do they have one or more DLE? Jean-Louis Alan Pearson wrote: Ok, I've managed to get more info on this. If I run amdump with the failing entry in the disklist

Re: Update - Strange problem with 2nd disklist on host

2007-02-05 Thread Alan Pearson
? Jean-Louis Alan Pearson wrote: Ok, I've managed to get more info on this. If I run amdump with the failing entry in the disklist on it's own, all is fine. If put another entry from the same machine, the other entry backups up fine, but the second will fail. So it sounds like some sort

Update 3 - Strange problem with 2nd disklist on host

2007-02-05 Thread Alan Pearson
they have one or more DLE? Jean-Louis Alan Pearson wrote: Ok, I've managed to get more info on this. If I run amdump with the failing entry in the disklist on it's own, all is fine. If put another entry from the same machine, the other entry backups up fine, but the second will fail. So

Update - Strange problem with 2nd disklist on host

2007-02-03 Thread Alan Pearson
Ok, I've managed to get more info on this. If I run amdump with the failing entry in the disklist on it's own, all is fine. If put another entry from the same machine, the other entry backups up fine, but the second will fail. So it sounds like some sort of timing issue ? Here's

Strange problem with 2nd disklist on host

2007-02-02 Thread Alan Pearson
Hi List I'm having a really strange problem with one of my amanda clients (that also happens to be the server). It's got 2 disklists (separate filesystems), / and /usr amcheck reports all ok estimates come back fine. / backs up fine /usr aborts as soon as it comes time to dump the

Re: Wildcards in disklist--revisited, only using exclusions:

2006-11-15 Thread Ian R. Justman
shows the following when I do a gtar --version: tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1 Anything I need to be aware of with this version of GNU tar? Thanks. Perhaps I should clarify this message: I tried to use wildcards both in the exclude and include contexts in disklist stanzas, both with and without

Re: Wildcards in disklist--revisited, only using exclusions:

2006-11-15 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
in the exclude and include contexts in disklist stanzas, both with and without trailing slashes. I seem to be running into the same result each time. If I use the include statement, nothing gets backed up with each stanza I use those wildcards in. If I use excludes, everything gets backed up

Re: Wildcards in disklist--revisited, only using exclusions:

2006-11-14 Thread Ian R. Justman
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi Ian, Remove the trailling '/' from your include/exclude. Jean-Louis Hello. Tried using includes again, and still I'm having the same problem. It's backing up nothing. In fact, one item was still using the exclude method and it still backed up everything.

Re: Wildcards in disklist--revisited, only using exclusions:

2006-11-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
looked at the /tmp/amanda/sendbackup.*.exclude files and the exclusions are getting in as they should. However, they're not being PARSED as they should be. For each stanza, it backs up ALL five hundred directories. For the entire disklist file, it would back up the hierarchy a complete five

Wildcards in disklist--revisited, only using exclusions:

2006-11-09 Thread Ian R. Justman
in as they should. However, they're not being PARSED as they should be. For each stanza, it backs up ALL five hundred directories. For the entire disklist file, it would back up the hierarchy a complete five times. Apparently because it can't find the specified pathname component(s) I'm specifying

Prefere a dump from the disklist and do several dumpes to holding disk?

2006-09-11 Thread Dominik Schips
Hello, I am new to AMANDA but I like it very much but I didn't get a good answer from all the documentation I read already and hope to get answers from the mailing list now. I use a Overland PowerLoader with a Ultrium LTO (400GB tape) device which change the tapes automatically. The clients

Re: Prefere a dump from the disklist and do several dumpes to holding disk?

2006-09-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 at 4:27pm, Dominik Schips wrote 1. How can I tell AMANDA to start with the big directories first and then the small directories? As I have seen AMANDA allways starts with the smallest and then the next biggest and so on. 'man amanda.conf' and look for the 'dumporder' and

Re: Prefere a dump from the disklist and do several dumpes to holding disk?

2006-09-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 at 11:23am, Jon LaBadie wrote On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 11:08:56AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Tape Time (hrs:min)        3:35       3:35       0:00 Tape Size (meg)        374733.9   374733.9        0.0 Tape Used (%)             194.1      194.1        0.0

Re: Prefere a dump from the disklist and do several dumpes to holding disk?

2006-09-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 04:27:08PM +0200, Dominik Schips wrote: Hello, I am new to AMANDA but I like it very much but I didn't get a good answer from all the documentation I read already and hope to get answers from the mailing list now. I use a Overland PowerLoader with a Ultrium LTO

Re: Prefere a dump from the disklist and do several dumpes to holding disk?

2006-09-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 at 11:41am, Jon LaBadie wrote On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 11:28:29AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 at 11:23am, Jon LaBadie wrote That tape write rate is too slow. Native speed for an LTO3 drive is rated at ~80MB/s. I think it is really an LTO2. The

Re: Prefere a dump from the disklist and do several dumpes to holding disk?

2006-09-11 Thread Dominik Schips
Hello all, thank you Joshua, Cyrille and Jon for your very good and fast replies. With this information I can have a closer look why everythink is so slow. I'll send a message again if I tried some of your advices. I try the dumporder as Joshua mentioned and the taperalgo that I found at

Re: Prefere a dump from the disklist and do several dumpes to holding disk?

2006-09-11 Thread Dominik Schips
: Prefere a dump from the disklist and do several dumpes to holding disk? Hello, I am new to AMANDA but I like it very much but I didn't get a good answer from all the documentation I read already and hope to get answers from the mailing list now. I use a Overland PowerLoader

Re: Prefere a dump from the disklist and do several dumpes to holding disk?

2006-09-11 Thread Dominik Schips
On Monday 11 September 2006 17:32, you wrote: On 2006-09-11 16:27, Dominik Schips wrote: Hello, I am new to AMANDA but I like it very much but I didn't get a good answer from all the documentation I read already and hope to get answers from the mailing list now. I use a Overland

Re: Prefere a dump from the disklist and do several dumpes to holding disk?

2006-09-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 07:14:45PM +0200, Dominik Schips wrote: For your information. The holding disk is on another harddisk as the data harddisk to back up. So the holding disk dumps are from a RAID5 (S-ATA) were the backup files are to another harddisk. I have to check them with bonnie

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