Re: Backup of NT share

2001-10-10 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 at 1:30pm, Michael P. Blinn wrote 'backup' is the tape server, running samba. I configured amanda --with-smbclient=/path/to/smbclient amandapass: //ntserver/businesswork ntusername%ntpassword WORKGROUP //ntserver/sys/ppidocs ntusername%ntpassword WORKGROUP amcheck

Finding tape changers

2001-10-10 Thread Terri Eads
Hello, I'm new to this list, but didn't find much in the archives about this subject. I've recently inherited an Overland MiniLibrary Xpress from a company that went out of business. I've been using amanda in a very simple configuration. My question now is this: how do I go about finding the

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2001-10-10 Thread Monserrat Seisdedos Nuñez
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Amandaidx-amrecover

2001-10-10 Thread X X
Amandaidx-amrecover I'm having some trouble with amrecover: When amandaidx is listening on the right port and I run amrecover with the right parameters I get the following error message on the client: amrecover: Error reading line from server: Connection reset by peer. And if I try it again

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2001-10-10 Thread Hsu George-CGH039
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File too large?

2001-10-10 Thread Dave Brooks
What does file to large mean? Example (from the email report:) FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: localhost /hermes lev 0 FAILED [data write: File too large] I cant figure out whats up with that... my spooling disk is 40GB (and its empty), and my tapes are 40GB compressed. Any ideas as to

Re: File too large?

2001-10-10 Thread Maarten Vink
Maybe you are using an OS (linux for example) that has a filesize-limit of 2 Gb? There's an option to limit filesizes in amanda.conf. Maarten Vink - Original Message - From: Dave Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 6:47 PM Subject: File too

Re: Netware

2001-10-10 Thread Johannes Niess
Felipe de Jes·s Molina Bravo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My name is Felipe and y tried to back up my information from netware 5 with amanda. Can I do it? how? Felipe, AFIK there is no native netware client for Amanda. I'd use ncpfs on a linux client to have the data seen as belonging to the

Amanda 2.4.2p2 on Solaris 8 - amanda user account

2001-10-10 Thread Brian Cuttler
Hello all, Have built a new tar-ball for a new secure system and wanted to introduce a non-root non-bin account for amanda to run under. Build (gcc on Solaris 2.8) seems to have gone well and the make install ran cleanly. Amended /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf, placed both .rhosts and

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2001-10-10 Thread Stephen Carville
I have amanda working with hand changing of tapes. I will soon get a tape changer woth an AIT2 drive. Here is my proposed cycle: 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.

Re: Netware

2001-10-10 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi Felipe! On 10 Oct 01 at 8:32 you wrote: My name is Felipe and y tried to back up my information from netware 5 with amanda. Can I do it? how? I think you can't, currently. Some months ago the people from MurkWorks (www.murkworks.com) were thinking of writing Amanda dumper NLM for

Re: File too large?

2001-10-10 Thread Dave Brooks
I've got my chunksize set to 2Gb as it is, right now. I'm using linux with a 2.2.14-5 kernel. Would it cause problems if the chunksize was right at 2Gb? Perhaps I should lower it. -Dave Maarten Vink writes: Maybe you are using an OS (linux for example) that has a filesize-limit of 2 Gb?

Re: File too large?

2001-10-10 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 at 3:20pm, Dave Brooks wrote I've got my chunksize set to 2Gb as it is, right now. I'm using linux with a 2.2.14-5 kernel. Would it cause problems if the chunksize was right at 2Gb? Perhaps I should lower it. Yep, that's an issue. Amanda adds on a 32KB for the header.

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

Memory And Amrecover

2001-10-10 Thread Byron Schlemmer
Hi folks, I get the following error when running amrecover : amrecover add filetorecover Added /filetorecover amrecover extract Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nsa0 on host backup.server The following tapes are needed: BKP-001 Restoring files into directory /tmp Continue? [Y/n]: Y

Re: Change dc=xxxxx

2001-10-10 Thread John Dalbec
Pierangelo Masarati wrote: Carlos Eduardo Gomes Marins wrote: Hi, I want to know if thereis any way to change the name of a dc entry. The structure of my Ldap Server is similar to this: dn: dc=arbi, dc=rsfn, dc=net, dc=br objectClass: inetOrgPerson This looks like a

Re: selfcheck timeout - host down

2001-10-10 Thread Lee Fedor
I was sighupping xinetd instead of stop/starting it. Once I did that, it worked great. Thanks everyone, Lee On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:13:17AM -0500, Lee Fedor wrote: service amanda { disable = no socket_type = dgram protocol

How can I verify that Indexing is working?

2001-10-10 Thread Stephen Carville
I am trying to get the indexing working with amanda and I cannot figure out to verify if I have it right yet. If I log onto the client (euphrates) and try: # sudo amrecover oracle-a I get: 220 nile AMANDA index server (2.4.2p2) ready. 200 Access OK Setting restore date to today (2001-10-10)

RE: Amanda 2.4.2p2 on Solaris 8 - amanda user account

2001-10-10 Thread Eva Freer
We had similar problems with BSM enabled. John Jackson gave me the info on making amanda run as root in inetd.conf. The problem is really with Solaris. John's info is attached. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Cuttler Sent:

Re: Netware

2001-10-10 Thread Jeff Pratt
You may also want to check out mars_nwe. It does for netware what samba does for windows. so you might be able to hack up the samba support to add netware. Jeff Toomas Aas wrote: Hi Felipe! On 10 Oct 01 at 8:32 you wrote: My name is Felipe and y tried to back up my information from

Re: exclude directories

2001-10-10 Thread John W. Price
Alan Pham wrote: Hi, How can I exclude a directory (or directories) in a diskdev? For example, in disk list I have the following entry: foohost c0t0d0s7 which is mounted on /export. I have the following directories under /export:

Re: selfcheck timeout - host down

2001-10-10 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
IIRC, a SIGHUP isn't enough to restart xinetd. You actually have to do '/etc/init.d/xinetd restart'. Yes, it's annoying. xinetd wants SIGUSR1 to reread the configuration files

Re: File too large?

2001-10-10 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
I've got my chunksize set to 2Gb as it is, right now. I'm using linux with a 2.2.14-5 kernel. Would it cause problems if the chunksize was right at 2Gb? Perhaps I should lower it. Oh yes, put it something below 2GB-32KB: a good value is 2000 MB

Re:Amrecover and Amndaidx looping

2001-10-10 Thread Mark Holm
I am having exactly the same problem and cannot find an answer. The really annoying part is that this was working just fine last week when I recovered some files for the same server that is now complaining. My fails all look similar to Mr. Smith. There have been two changes since last week. We

Re: Amrecover - Amandaidx Looping?

2001-10-10 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
I have read extensively and have failed to find a solution to my problem. I am hoping someone will know what I have done wrong. I can't seem to get amrecover to work for me. Check using netstat if the following port are bound: $ netstat -an|grep :1008. tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:10082

Re: How can I verify that Indexing is working?

2001-10-10 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
I am trying to get the indexing working with amanda and I cannot figure out to verify if I have it right yet. Did you set index yes in amanda.conf? Any idea what I am doing wrong? Like Preston says in his book, nobody cares about backups, only restores! Yeah, restoring rules!

Re: How can I verify that Indexing is working?

2001-10-10 Thread Stephen Carville
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote: - I am trying to get the indexing working with amanda and I cannot - figure out to verify if I have it right yet. - - Did you set index yes in amanda.conf? Yes. I set it in the global section: define dumptype global { index yes #

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

How do i extract from a specific tape?

2001-10-10 Thread Rivera, Edwin
hello, a superblock on the hard drive of my nfs exported /home filesystem went bad this evening, and i couldn't recover from it, so i lost my /home filesystem today. i turned to amanda to get me out of this jam... 1) i ran amrecover (as root) from the host where i lost my data 2) amanda ran

Re: selfcheck timeout - host down

2001-10-10 Thread Dietmar Goldbeck
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:13:17AM -0500, Lee Fedor wrote: service amanda { disable = no socket_type = dgram protocol= udp wait= yes user= dump group

RE: Amrecover - Amandaidx Looping?

2001-10-10 Thread Mark Holm
In my case they are bound until you attempt to run amrecover. As soon as it attempts to access the index server then you get the following in the messages log: Oct 10 15:23:11 blight xinetd[1255]: warning: can't get client address: Transport endpoint is not connected Oct 10 15:23:11 blight