Re: Encrypted backups on FreeBSD ?

2008-04-04 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 03.04.2008 at 09:29 -0400, Matthew Moffitt wrote: I've been through this but still don't have it working. On the particular disk entry (backing up with gtar) encryption doesn't run during amdump. amcheck reports the error: WARNING: testhost:/disk1/user/srl does not support

[Amanda-users] Amanda hangs on Getting Estimate

2008-04-04 Thread ddelcoco
Hi All, this is what I see when I type amstatus DailySet1 isisrv1:/ getting estimate isisrv1:/boot getting estimate isisrv1:/data0 getting estimate isisrv1:/var/loggetting estimate isisrv2:/ getting

[Amanda-users] Split dumps across tapes (Amanda 2.4.4p3)

2008-04-04 Thread ddelcoco
Hi All, I receive the following message from amreport. Everyday! FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: server5/data lev 7 FAILED [dumps way too big, 88524660 KB, must skip incremental dumps] server3/data0/data lev 5 FAILED [dumps way too big, 70851612 KB, must skip incremental dumps]

Re: Encrypted backups on FreeBSD ?

2008-04-04 Thread Matthew Moffitt
On 4/4/2008 4:00 AM, Dave Ewart wrote: On Thursday, 03.04.2008 at 09:29 -0400, Matthew Moffitt wrote: I've been through this but still don't have it working. On the particular disk entry (backing up with gtar) encryption doesn't run during amdump. amcheck reports the error: WARNING:

Re: Encrypted backups on FreeBSD ?

2008-04-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Matthew Moffitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think an alternate informational message would help, or at least better documentation on the requirement for using encryption. I wonder what the client requirement check is for, perhaps it's a vestige of a previous

Linx host unreachable

2008-04-04 Thread Seth Rothenberg
Greetings. We have been running Amanda on Solaris for about 4 years. About 3 months ago, we added a Linux system to the disklist. Last week, there was a power outage and that host has not been backed up since. It is the only host that is not (or WAS not at the time :-) on a UPS. (All my other

small, almost insignificant type in amanda.conf man page

2008-04-04 Thread Oscar Ricardo Silva
Since I've been this deep (holds hand above head) in trying to get encryption to work, I've been reading and re-reading documentation and man pages. I noticed a small typo in the amanda.conf page for the section detailing encryption in dumptypes. Basically, for encrypt client it says to look

Re: Encrypted backups on FreeBSD ?

2008-04-04 Thread Oscar Ricardo Silva
With all the problems I've had doing client side encryption on FreeBSD I wanted to make sure amanda worked without any fancy options. I tried two variations on backups: 1. No compression, no encryption, ssh authentication 2. No compression, SERVER-side encryption, ssh authentication I'm

Re: amreport cannot send mail

2008-04-04 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
I've solved the problem, and I'd like to answer myself in case someone in the future comes across the same problem. The solution was to add the LANG=en_US env variable in the crontab before running amdump. Although LANG=en_US in the user shell, it is not so in the crontab environment.

Re: small, almost insignificant type in amanda.conf man page

2008-04-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Thanks -- I fixed it on the wiki, and I'll patch the codebase in a bit. Dustin On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Oscar Ricardo Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I've been this deep (holds hand above head) in trying to get encryption to work, I've been reading and re-reading documentation and