can not connect

2000-12-05 Thread richard
Dear all, When I use the amcheck, I have the following errors. I use the RPMs by Redhat 7.0. In my /etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda.conf, I use tapedev "/dev/nst0" my tape drive is HP DAT 3. Can anyone tell me what is wrong? Yours, Richard Ao [root@ns31 sbin]# ./amcheck DailySet1Amanda Tape

Re: problem with amdump

2000-12-05 Thread Chris Karakas
Vinche wrote: fatboy /lib lev 0 FAILED [Request to fatboy timed out.] I suspect the estimates took too long. Increase etimeout in amanda.conf. planner: Last full dump of fatboy:/usr/apache/archive on tape DailySet107 overwritten on this run. Either you demand full backups too

Re: amanda to blame for NT crashes?

2000-12-05 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Any more ideas now? How can this "ATTR_ARCH" flag be reasonably used here? The ATTR_ARCH flag doesn't get mapped to any standard Unix flag. Mapping it to the executable flag would be very strange. ext2 provides an ioctl() call which lsattr uses to get/set extended

Re: amanda to blame for NT crashes?

2000-12-05 Thread Harri Haataja
Have you tried fiddling with the tcp flags in /etc/smb.conf? Perhaps some settings cause odd behaviour more than some.

Re: can not connect

2000-12-05 Thread Casile Antonino
Hi, did you read the message I posted yesterday regarding installing amanda on RH7.0 machines If not send me and E-mail and I will forward it to you!!! Bye, Antonino Casile richard wrote: Dear all, When I use the amcheck, I have the

missing file header

2000-12-05 Thread Roshan Rogge
^/usr$ 20001205 Ready to execv amrestore with: path = /usr/local/sbin/amrestore argv[0] = "amrestore" argv[1] = "-h" argv[2] = "-p" argv[3] = "/dev/nst0" argv[4] = "amanda1" argv[5] = "^/usr$" argv[6] = "20001205" amrestore:

Re: 'exclude' with samba-backups

2000-12-05 Thread Roland E. Lipovits
Eric Wadsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just starting out, but I understood that excludes didn't work with samba shares when using GNUTAR. I've been working around that limitation, AFAIK exclude works with samba in 2.4.2 but didn't work in 2.4.1p1. The results of my backups verify this.

Re: Why no reports? (fwd)

2000-12-05 Thread Eric Wadsworth
This was it! This installs the patch! Thanks so much. Tomorrow we'll see if this patch solved the huge report problem. My latest report was 24 megs in size! The emailer doesn't handle it very well. :) Eric Eric Wadsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using samba version 2.0.6 on a FreeBSD

Re: 'exclude' with samba-backups

2000-12-05 Thread Eric Wadsworth
On 5 Dec 2000, Roland E. Lipovits wrote: Eric Wadsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just starting out, but I understood that excludes didn't work with samba shares when using GNUTAR. I've been working around that limitation, AFAIK exclude works with samba in 2.4.2 but didn't work in

Re: amanda to blame for NT crashes?

2000-12-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Dec 5, 2000, Chris Karakas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: according to David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the linux-kernel mailing list: Hi, David! :-) ---snip We do, however, correctly set the archive bit whenever we modify or create a file on a FAT filesystem, so it should be usable

Re: Huge incrementals on all samba shares?

2000-12-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Dec 5, 2000, Eric Wadsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amanda has now run 4 times on my network. The past three times it has included samba shares for various NT workstations. Why are the incrementals so huge on these? One of the possible reasons: if the username with which you access the

Re: Huge incrementals on all samba shares?

2000-12-05 Thread Eric Wadsworth
Wow, I think that's it. I made a backup user with "Read-only" permissions on all of the NT machines. Yay! I'm off to change a bunch of backup user setting on a bunch of people's NT boxes now Thanks! --- Eric Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Dec 5, 2000, Eric Wadsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: 'exclude' with samba-backups

2000-12-05 Thread Eric Wadsworth
I'm just starting out, but I understood that excludes didn't work with samba shares when using GNUTAR. I've been working around that limitation, when possible, by sharing only the directories that need to be backed up. This has obvious flaws, of course. For example, most of the NT

Re: 'exclude' with samba-backups

2000-12-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:08:03AM +0100, Roland E. Lipovits wrote: I'm using samba-backups with an exclude-statement (specified in the disklist-file). As far as I read from the files in /tmp/amanda the exlusion is only used when backuping, not when estimating. Bug or feature? (BTW:

Frusturating problem with amcheck

2000-12-05 Thread backup
I've been playing with this for over a day now and still havent got it so that it's working all the time.. I dont even know where to go from here... except using this tape backup server for target practice... if anybody could give me a hand, even just a hint as to why this isnt working, i would

GDB of chg-scsi

2000-12-05 Thread F.M. Taylor
OK, all you C gurus out there... This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.8"... (gdb) set args -info (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/src/amanda-2.4.2/changer-src/chg-scsi -info warning: Lowest section in /usr/lib/libintl.so.1 is .hash at 0x74 Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation

Re: problem with amdump

2000-12-05 Thread John R. Jackson
I suspect the estimates took too long. ... Take a look at the first and last lines of sendsize*debug on fatboy. They will tell you how long the estimate took. Amanda defaults to five minutes per disk. Do the math and see if that is long enough. I'm doing full backups every day since I

Re: missing file header

2000-12-05 Thread John R. Jackson
... When I want to restore my backup to the harddisk, i get the message: missing file header. ... What happens if you do this: $ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind $ amrestore no-such-host What about this: $ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind $ mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1 $ amrestore no-such-host What

Rebuilt Tape Server

2000-12-05 Thread Justin
Hello, We recently had a hard-disk failure on our tape backup server. And while I was rebuilding the system I decided to upgrade the OS from RedHat 5, to RedHat 7.0. And it has version 2.4.1p1 of Amanda installed. I copied all the configuration files over from the old install. And when I run

Re: CHG-SCSI

2000-12-05 Thread John R. Jackson
This is all on a Sun E3500 with Solaris 8. devfsadm: driver failed to attach: sst Warning: Driver (sst) successfully added to system but failed to attach Are you running a 64 bit kernel? Did you compile sst for 64 bit? I don't know that that's the problem, it's just the only thing I can think

Re: GNU tar estimates for vfat filesystems (Was: How do I check level 1 sizes?)

2000-12-05 Thread Chris Karakas
Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Dec 1, 2000, Chris Karakas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean that just by undefining GNUTAR_LISTED_INCREMENTAL_DIR, AMANDA is going to call tar using --incremental, instead of --listed-incremental? That's right. ... However, you'll still be missing the

Re: GNU tar estimates for vfat filesystems (Was: How do I check level 1 sizes?)

2000-12-05 Thread John R. Jackson
I am in the process of undefining GNUTAR_LISTED_INCREMENTAL_DIR and recompiling. ... I think (but am not 100% certain) you can do this when you ./configure by adding --without-gnutar-listdir. Make sure you do a "make distclean" before re-running ./configure. Check config/config.h for

Re: GDB of chg-scsi

2000-12-05 Thread F.M. Taylor
Thanks, I have moved on from there. When I saw the strlen I decided it was probably haveing problems with the chg-scsi.conf. Now I am up to: flash:/amanda# /usr/src/amanda-2.4.2/changer-src/chg-scsi -info none drive number error (0 -1) chg-scsi: requested drive number (0) greater than number

Re: GNU tar estimates for vfat filesystems (Was: How do I check level 1 sizes?)

2000-12-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Dec 5, 2000, Chris Karakas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Dec 1, 2000, Chris Karakas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean that just by undefining GNUTAR_LISTED_INCREMENTAL_DIR, AMANDA is going to call tar using --incremental, instead of --listed-incremental?

Re: Amanda 2.4.2 and HP-UX 11.00

2000-12-05 Thread John R. Jackson
I see from the readme file that amanda was not tested on HP-UX 11.00. That file probably has not been updated for ages. Don't take the lack of a reference to mean it hasn't been done. Has anyone ever gotten this to work under 11.00 or should I give up? Do I take it from this you're having

No-rewind tape device on Linux Redhat...?

2000-12-05 Thread isaac flemming
Hello all, I am fairly new to Linux Administration, new enough to not know very much about tape drives at all. I have a Sony DAT SCSI tape drive that uses 4 GIG/8 GIG with hardware compression tapes. I am trying to set it up with AMANDA but I have no idea which device is the no-rewind tape

Re: Frusturating problem with amcheck

2000-12-05 Thread John R. Jackson
amandad: error receiving message: Connection refused This message happens two places in amandad, both right after doing a dgram_recv. That function, in turn, calls select() and recvfrom(), and those are the **only** two things it calls. According to my Solaris man pages, ECONNREFUSED is not

Re: Frusturating problem with amcheck

2000-12-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Dec 5, 2000, "John R. Jackson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: amandad: error receiving message: Connection refused This message happens two places in amandad, both right after doing a dgram_recv. The second is, in the man pages you have for select (the system call) and recvfrom, what can

RE: Amanda 2.4.2 and HP-UX 11.00

2000-12-05 Thread Terry Rossi
John and the list, sorry for the HTML. The current problem I am having is with the "make install" as follows: creating libamanda.la (cd .libs rm -f libamanda.la ln -s ../libamanda.la libamanda.la) /usr/bin/sh ../config/mkinstalldirs /usr/local/lib /usr/bin/sh ../libtool

Re: Amanda 2.4.2 and HP-UX 11.00

2000-12-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Dec 5, 2000, "Terry Rossi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John and the list, sorry for the HTML. The current problem I am having is with the "make install" as follows: Did `make all' create common-src/libamanda.la? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/

Re: Frusturating problem with amcheck

2000-12-05 Thread Tyler 'Crackerjack' MacDonald
Hmmm well the OS in question is Linux 2.2.17... I don't know how much that helps though it sounds like the UDP packets arent being fired off right once in awhile... I know UDP is non-error-correcting is there any way to ask amanda to do this via tcp? On Dec 5, 2000, "John R. Jackson"

Re: Frusturating problem with amcheck

2000-12-05 Thread John R. Jackson
Hmmm well the OS in question is Linux 2.2.17... On the client and the server? Any nasty icky firewall things in between? is there any way to ask amanda to do this via tcp? Sure. Just write the code and put it in :-). It's on the (very long) list of things to do. John R. Jackson, Technical

SCSI Changers and amlabel

2000-12-05 Thread Clement Kumah
Hi, I have installed amanda 2.4.2-19991216-beta1 installed on FreeBsd 4.2 My tape robot is a BreeceHill Qt2.15, which has 15 slots and one DLT 4000 drive. I have configured amanda to use the chg-multi script. My tape device is /dev/nrsa0 and my changer is /dev/ch0. My quiestions is this: Do I

Re: No-rewind tape device on Linux Redhat...?

2000-12-05 Thread Pierre Volcke
hello Isaac, this is an example, but if your auto-rewind device is /dev/st0, the non-rewind device is /dev/nst0. If you want to crontol hardware compression on/off , you may use the "mt" command (have a look at the man page) for example: mt -f /dev/st0 datcompression off .. but

Re: SCSI Changers and amlabel

2000-12-05 Thread John R. Jackson
My tape robot is a BreeceHill Qt2.15, which has 15 slots and one DLT 4000 driv e. I have configured amanda to use the chg-multi script. ... The chg-multi changer is meant to emulate a changer using multiple tape drives. That's not what you have. My guess is you want chg-scsi or chg-chio

EXB-8900 tapetype, please

2000-12-05 Thread Tony Ross
Greetings; Does anyone have the tapetype definiton for the Exabyte 8900 drive? We are using a Mammoth-LT and 125m tapes in an Exabyte EZ-17 autoloader; nothing was found in the online archives. Thanks, tony --== Sent via

Re: Amanda 2.4.2 and HP-UX 11.00

2000-12-05 Thread Terry Rossi
Yes it did. Permissions are wide open, the make was done as root. Did `make all' create common-src/libamanda.la?

Re: amanda to blame for NT crashes?

2000-12-05 Thread Chris Karakas
(Joi and David, please just read on) Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Dec 4, 2000, Chris Karakas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when you use SAMBA for the vfat partitions of your dual boot system, it does not work. What do you mean? It works for me. Or are you talking about backing up vfat