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2005-07-19 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:48:23AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us: Well. I have checked the docs and faq. I'm running the command as root as specified by the faq http://amanda.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/fom?_recurse=1file=5 You see, I had 127.0.0.1 configured for user amanda for

Re: your mail

2005-05-22 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 09:53:14AM -0300, vlpg enlightened us: I would like to know what port the client is listening for the server amanda. Because I have open the firewall for the client at the port 10080, but it isn't working. Initially it does listen on 10080, but then opens up other

Re: your mail

2005-05-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 09:53:14AM -0300, vlpg wrote: Hi all, I would like to know what port the client is listening for the server amanda. Because I have open the firewall for the client at the port 10080, but it isn't working. This is described in a document PORTS.USAGE in the amanda

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2005-04-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 06:38:51PM -0400, McDonagh, Joe wrote: Hi, I am trying to get Amanda going on a RedHat ES 3 box, but I am having this same issue addressed on a message board when trying to back up a directory that is remote via NFS: ...I was then able to do an amcheck, and it

Re: your mail

2005-04-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 01:44:20AM -0500, Andrés Fernando Argüelles Delgado wrote: I finally made my amanda configuration work, The amcheck results are fine, but when I run amdump for a test it sends to /var/lib/amanda/dead.letter a error report: From amanda Mon Apr 4 01:36:18 2005

Re: your mail

2005-04-04 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 at 3:15pm, Andrés Fernando Argüelles Delgado wrote | DUMP: You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory | DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. sendbackup: error [/sbin/dump returned 1] \ I do not know why amanda returns that RTFEM. You're

Re: your mail

2005-03-31 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 06:43:58PM -0500, Andrs Fernando Argelles Delgado wrote: I followeb the configuration for making backups on disk instead on tape described in the Amanda-Tape-dirves file but I get the next error when I run amlabel. Couldn´t load tapelist from

Re: your mail

2005-03-31 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 06:43:58PM -0500, Andrés Fernando Argüelles Delgado enlightened us: I followeb the configuration for making backups on disk instead on tape described in the Amanda-Tape-dirves file but I get the next error when I run amlabel. Couldn´t load tapelist from

Re: your mail

2004-05-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 11 May 2004 at 8:44am, Gavin Henry wrote Anyone know where I can get an RPM with ufsrestore/ufsdump in it, so I can search through a tape as per the RESTORE file in the Amanda docs? Err, by RPM I'm assuming you mean for a Linux system, and by ufsrestore/ufsdump I'm assuming you mean

RE: your mail

2004-05-11 Thread Gavin Henry
Sorry, forgot to put in a subject. Yes, Fedora. Is there anything else like it for Linux? -Original Message- From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 May 2004 11:29 AM To: Gavin Henry Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: your mail On Tue, 11 May 2004 at 8:44am, Gavin

RE: your mail

2004-05-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
Please put responses below quoted text -- it makes the conversation much easier to follow. Fixed below. On Tue, 11 May 2004 at 11:36am, Gavin Henry wrote From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Err, by RPM I'm assuming you mean for a Linux system, and by ufsrestore/ufsdump

RE: your mail

2004-05-11 Thread Gavin Henry
If you need cross-platform capabilities, then use tar for your backups rather than dump. oh, I do use gnutar for my backups. I should just replace ufsrestores with tar then. Silly me. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

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2004-05-11 Thread Jonathan Dill
Gavin Henry wrote: Sorry, forgot to put in a subject. Yes, Fedora. Is there anything else like it for Linux? I have periodically searched for ufsrestore-compatible software for Linux, but have been unable to find any yet. In my case, I wanted to be able to index dumps from a Solaris amanda

Re: your mail

2004-05-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 08:50:53AM -0400, Jonathan Dill wrote: Gavin Henry wrote: I have periodically searched for ufsrestore-compatible software for Linux, but have been unable to find any yet. In my case, I wanted to be able to index dumps from a Solaris amanda client on a Linux amanda

Re: your mail

2004-02-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 at 1:31pm, Arif Ali wrote I am sorry about that, I was in a quite of a rush last night. amrecover for some reason is looking for hostname linux instead of backup-server. Is there an underlying program that amrecover uses from which it gets it's configuration

Re: your mail

2003-07-08 Thread Paul Bijnens
Brian Cuttler wrote: I know you can use wrappers for doing similar things on the amanda client (when the client != server) but I've never quite gotten that down correctly and I'm looking to start/stop a database on an amanda client so the files are quiessed during the dump. What is the right way

Re: your mail

2003-07-08 Thread Paul Bijnens
Paul Bijnens wrote: An example of a wrapper on the client... Set the exitcodes correct too! Here is an untested example. #!/usr/bin/perl use Getopt::Long qw(:config pass_through); $result = GetOptions ( 'directory=s' = \$dir, 'file=s' = \$file, );

Re: your mail

2003-07-07 Thread Brian Cuttler
Toomas, Thanks, I'd seen similar for doing things like putting the tape offline after the amdump completed. I know you can use wrappers for doing similar things on the amanda client (when the client != server) but I've never quite gotten that down correctly and I'm looking to start/stop a

Re: your mail

2003-06-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:29:15AM -0300, Roberto Samarone Araujo (RSA) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /sisges]# amrecover Mensal1 -s server1 -t server1 Added /linux.apps/test1.sh amrecover extract Extracting files using tape drive /dev/null on host server1.

Re: your mail

2003-03-24 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 at 5:41pm, anne wrote # amrecover edge AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server on localhost ... 220 helium AMANDA index server (2.4.2p2) ready. 200 Access OK Setting restore date to today (2003-03-24) 200 Working date set to 2003-03-24. 200 Config set to edge. 501

Re: your mail

2003-02-24 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 at 1:52pm, Karl Hudnut wrote Has anyone seen a situation in which amcheck succeeds yet amdump fails with the following: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: mail /home lev 2 FAILED [could not connect to mail] mail /var/spool/mail lev 2 FAILED [could not

Re: your mail

2003-02-24 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
CCed back to the list for the archives... On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 at 3:01pm, Karl Hudnut wrote Thanks for your help. I don't seem to have that documentation in any of the rpms I have here. It doesn's seem to be in the tarballs from amanda.org either. Can you help me find it? ?? I just

Re: your mail

2003-02-24 Thread Karl Hudnut
Joshua: You are correct, there is a docs directory in the 2.4.3 tarball and it has the PORTS.USAGE document. Thanks again. And sorry for disseminating missinformation. -- Dr. Karl Hudnut System Administrator UCAR - COSMIC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu303 497

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2002-11-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 08:02:37AM +0100, Nicolas Cartron wrote: I want to install Amanda on a production environment, backup server on FreeBSD and clients running Linux, Solaris or FreeBSD. I suspect you really mean you are considering installing amanda. I read in the section dedicated to

Re: your mail

2002-03-20 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Eric Zylstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20020320 14:00] thus spake: I'm running into an old problem--this is in the archives from a few years back. I have done `rm config.*` and rerun configure with the same result. Compiling amanda-2.4.2 (client only) on Irix 6.5.x, with gcc 3.0.3 and

Re: your mail

2002-02-19 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 at 10:08am, Monserrat Seisdedos Nuñez wrote two questions: * i have a linux box doing amanda backups (amanda:as user bin) to an aix box (amandad:as user root), when linux does the backup in aix, which user run the program in aix machine?. It runs as whatever

Re: your mail

2001-10-10 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 at 11:38am, Stephen Carville wrote dumpcycle 7 days runspercycle 10 tapecycle 12 tapes Backups are run Monday thru Friday. I figure this setup will give me a full backup every Monday. Is that right? If backups are only run Mon-Fri (5 days), and your dumpcycle

Re: your mail

2001-10-10 Thread Stephen Carville
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: - On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 at 11:38am, Stephen Carville wrote - - dumpcycle 7 days - runspercycle10 - tapecycle 12 tapes - - Backups are run Monday thru Friday. I figure this setup will give me a - full backup every Monday. Is that

Re: your mail

2001-08-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 at 4:53pm, chandra wrote I have progressed from tape labeling to amcheck. At the moment I am using root as a backup user for testing just to get it right. I have done the entries for services and xinetd.conf and restart xinetd. Now when I run amcheck I get the following

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2000-12-21 Thread Bill Carlson
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Mark Berger wrote: Hi, I was inspired to mess with the Amanda program for the nth time recently. It seem to have the feature that I want - some that I do not want as well! What I cannot seem to figure out is supposing I have 8 machines ( 1 main server 7

Re: your mail

2000-11-16 Thread Joi Ellis
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Matt Glaves wrote: Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:37:08 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Glaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have just inherited a system running Amanda. I have performed a few test restores and it appears that the system is only backing up files which are

Re: your mail

2000-11-16 Thread David Lloyd
Joi et al: (I'm not positive about the read-write, but it definately needs read.) It appears that AMANDA must write to: * its config directories * /etc/dumpdates (if you're using dump) * /etc/amandates * /usr/adm/amanda or wherever you've set the log directories to * /tmp If it can't write

Re: your mail

2000-11-09 Thread Rob Simmons
doh. I'm sorry about that. -- Robert Simmons Systems Administrator http://www.wlcg.com/