Re: help getting started

2004-06-30 Thread Max Waterman
Hi, I'm getting some errors in my amstatus output - can anyone enlighten me? # su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amstatus DailySet1 Using /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/amdump from Wed Jun 30 16:46:16 CST 2004 localhost:/etc 2 24k finished (16:46:53) Use of uninitialized value in

Re: help getting started

2004-06-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Max, on Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2004 at 13:06 you wrote to amanda-users: MW Hi, MW I'm getting some errors in my amstatus output - can anyone enlighten me? # su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amstatus DailySet1 Using /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/amdump from Wed Jun 30 16:46:16 CST 2004 localhost:/etc

Re: help getting started

2004-06-30 Thread Paul Bijnens
Max Waterman wrote: I'm getting some errors in my amstatus output - can anyone enlighten me? # su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amstatus DailySet1 Using /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/amdump from Wed Jun 30 16:46:16 CST 2004 localhost:/etc 2 24k finished (16:46:53) Use of

Re: help getting started

2004-06-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Max, on Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2004 at 14:01 you wrote to amanda-users: MW | Read docs/TOP-TEN-QUESTIONS for the explanation, if you want. MW Unfortunately, www.amanda.org is still not accessible from China :( MW I guess I can try one of the anonymous proxys, but they also, MW unsuprisingly,

Re: help getting started

2004-06-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 07:06, Max Waterman wrote: Hi, I'm getting some errors in my amstatus output - can anyone enlighten me? # su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amstatus DailySet1 Using /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/amdump from Wed Jun 30 16:46:16 CST 2004 localhost:/etc 2

Re: help getting started

2004-06-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 08:01, Max Waterman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: | Hi, Max, | | on Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2004 at 13:06 you wrote to amanda-users: | | MW Hi, | | MW I'm getting some errors in my amstatus output - can anyone enlighten me?

Re: help getting started

2004-06-28 Thread Max Waterman
Thanks everyone for helping. I got email working (albeit only locally since my isp is blocking my [chinese] IP address), so now I can get the reports. I bought some more tapes, and have used the amrmtape command to start from scratch. Seems to be working like a charm. Next step is 'day 4' :)

Re: help getting started

2004-06-24 Thread Max Waterman
Paul Bijnens wrote: You can generate the email by hand and safe it in a file instead: cd ~amanda/DailySet1 amreport DailySet1 -l log.X.X -f save-mail-file Ah, more interesting, but still difficult to figure out if anything has gone wrong. At least if you have file named

Re: help getting started

2004-06-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
Max Waterman wrote: I am not really sure. Maybe this : driver: result time 6.776 from taper: TAPE-ERROR [cannot overwrite active tape DailySet101] It seems that the very first time you ran the backup for '/etc' it worked fine. See: http://reality.sgiweb.org/maxw/tmp/amanda/log.20040623.0.mail )

help getting started

2004-06-23 Thread Max Waterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am located in China and, as far as I can tell, the amanda web site (http://www.amanda.org/) is not accessible from here. I am trying to get amanda running on a rh9 host, primarily using http://www.harkness.co.uk/services/backup.html as my guide.

Re: help getting started

2004-06-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
Max Waterman wrote: When I get to this part : su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amdump DailySet1 it seems to return quite quickly without any messages at all. The normal way is to run amcheck first, fix everything it complains about, before proceeding with a real amdump. The error messages of amcheck are

Re: help getting started

2004-06-23 Thread Max Waterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Bijnens wrote: | Max Waterman wrote: | | When I get to this part : | | su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amdump DailySet1 | | it seems to return quite quickly without any messages at all. | | | | The normal way is to run amcheck first, fix everything | it

Re: help getting started

2004-06-23 Thread Phil Homewood
Max Waterman wrote: Could it be that it's actually working, but doesn't give an output that I am expecting - ie a list of files, or something that says 'I backed up so many files' or even I'm done. amdump doesn't generally (ever?) give output on stdout -- it emails it. BTW, email isn't

Re: help getting started

2004-06-23 Thread Max Waterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phil Homewood wrote: | amdump doesn't generally (ever?) give output on stdout -- it | emails it. | | |BTW, email isn't configured on the host machine - perhaps it is telling |me it is working, but I can't read what it says. | | | That could well be the

Re: help getting started

2004-06-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
Max Waterman wrote: Phil Homewood wrote: | amdump doesn't generally (ever?) give output on stdout -- it | emails it. You can generate the email by hand and safe it in a file instead: cd ~amanda/DailySet1 amreport DailySet1 -l log.X.X -f save-mail-file At least if you have file named

Fwd: Re: Need help getting started.

2002-11-12 Thread Eric Webb
On Sunday 10 November 2002 07:32 pm, Galen Johnson wrote: Eric Webb wrote: On Sunday 10 November 2002 03:30 pm, Galen Johnson wrote: Still having the issue with the planner. amcheck claims it can't find the DUMP program, despite it being installed already and detected by amanda's configure

Re: Fwd: Re: Need help getting started.

2002-11-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:17:13AM +, Eric Webb wrote: On Sunday 10 November 2002 07:32 pm, Galen Johnson wrote: Eric Webb wrote: On Sunday 10 November 2002 03:30 pm, Galen Johnson wrote: Still having the issue with the planner. amcheck claims it can't find the DUMP program, despite

Re: Need help getting started.

2002-11-10 Thread Galen Johnson
Frank Smith wrote: --On Saturday, November 09, 2002 23:20:07 -0500 Eric Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) If I attempt what I believe to be labelling a tape, I get: labeling tape in slot 0 (/dev/nst0): rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape rewinding, writing label test00

Re: Need help getting started.

2002-11-10 Thread Eric Webb
Okay, tape labelling issues were related to device node permissions. Silly me. Still having the issue with the planner. amcheck claims it can't find the DUMP program, despite it being installed already and detected by amanda's configure (/usr/local/sbin/dump). amdump logs indicate problem

Re: Need help getting started.

2002-11-10 Thread Galen Johnson
Eric Webb wrote: Okay, tape labelling issues were related to device node permissions. Silly me. Still having the issue with the planner. amcheck claims it can't find the DUMP program, despite it being installed already and detected by amanda's configure (/usr/local/sbin/dump). amdump logs

Re: Need help getting started.

2002-11-10 Thread Eric Webb
On Sunday 10 November 2002 03:30 pm, Galen Johnson wrote: Still having the issue with the planner. amcheck claims it can't find the DUMP program, despite it being installed already and detected by amanda's configure (/usr/local/sbin/dump). amdump logs indicate problem getting results back

Re: Need help getting started.

2002-11-10 Thread Galen Johnson
Eric Webb wrote: On Sunday 10 November 2002 03:30 pm, Galen Johnson wrote: Still having the issue with the planner. amcheck claims it can't find the DUMP program, despite it being installed already and detected by amanda's configure (/usr/local/sbin/dump). amdump logs indicate problem

Need help getting started.

2002-11-09 Thread Eric Webb
Howdy folks. To keep it short: 1) Can someone point me to online docs that I have seen allusions to in the archives but haven't found online yet? 2) amcheck reports the messages below. Is there a requirement to label tapes prior to usage? The tapes in my changer are used:

Re: Need help getting started.

2002-11-09 Thread Frank Smith
--On Saturday, November 09, 2002 23:20:07 -0500 Eric Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy folks. To keep it short: 1) Can someone point me to online docs that I have seen allusions to in the archives but haven't found online yet? www.amanda.org Useful links near the bottom include the