Re: software compression disabled?

2000-12-06 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, this gzip processes are compressing the indizes, not the data. Christoph Olaf Seidel schrieb: Hi, now I run my first tests, Amanda backing up all the servers. I've used the two dumptypes "nocomp-user" and "nocomp-root" (I changed nothing in these dumptypes) with no compression. When

restore to empty harddisk

2000-12-06 Thread Olaf Seidel
Hi, sorry, if this is a little bit off-topic. I'd like to know a good strategy to restore from an amanda backup to an empty harddisk. Will the following strategy work? 1. Boot from rescue disk 2. Make partitions with fdisk (Do the partitions have to have the same size like they had before

amanda cron job doesn't start?

2000-12-06 Thread Rainer Hofmann
Hi, any explanations why that cron job for user amanda doesn't even start: PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/amanda/bin:/usr/local/sbin 0 18 * * 1-5 amcheck merten amdump merten I want to run backups at 6.00 pm on Mo-Fr as user amanda. settings in etc/passwd are as follows:

Hotbackup with

2000-12-06 Thread Mirko Schlottke
Hi there! We're doing a hot backup of our CMS-Server and I sometimes get a 'file changed as we read it: No such file or directory' error. Is there a way to do a tar hotbackup anyway without shutting down the service accessing this file ? Thanks... -- Mirko

Re: amanda cron job doesn't start?

2000-12-06 Thread Roshan Rogge
Hi, i think you must give the full path of the programs like: 0 18 * * 1-5 /usr/local/sbin/amcheck merten and make two entries one with amdump and another for amcheck. look for a mail from crontab, there must be the error Also viel spass noch/Good luck Roshan

Amanda and Macs

2000-12-06 Thread Christian Lox
Hello everyone! I am a bit confused about the usage of Amanda together with Macs. The archive say, it should work, but backupcentral.com/amanda says, there is no support for Macs. What is right and how to get it work? Thanks in advance, Christian P.S. I posted the output of tapetype to the

Re: amanda cron job doesn't start?

2000-12-06 Thread Chris Karakas
Rainer Hofmann wrote: Hi, any explanations why that cron job for user amanda doesn't even start: PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/amanda/bin:/usr/local/sbin 0 18 * * 1-5 amcheck merten amdump merten My first guess is that "amcheck merten" gives an error (the command after will be

Re: Amanda and Macs

2000-12-06 Thread Johannes Niess
Christian Lox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello everyone! I am a bit confused about the usage of Amanda together with Macs. The archive say, it should work, but backupcentral.com/amanda says, there is no support for Macs. What is right and how to get it work? Christian, I'll assume that

Re: EXB-8900 tapetype, please

2000-12-06 Thread Patrick LIN
Tony Ross a écrit : 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

Amanda question

2000-12-06 Thread Sandra Panesso
Hi everybody: could anybody tell me if amanda can backup a HFS+ hard drive? thanks Sandra

scsi-changer-driver.c

2000-12-06 Thread F.M. Taylor
I started out with: # START DecodeSense GenericSenseHandler : Sense Keys ErrorCode 00 Valid 0 ASC 46 ASCQ 00 Sense key 00

estimates failing

2000-12-06 Thread George Kelbley
Suddenly one (and only one) of my clients is failing, and only on the file systems that use tar. Amanda reports that /bin/tar returned 2. Since tar is working on this machine I am perplexed. Amanda never gets the estimate. This just happened in last 2 days with no changes being made so we're

Re: can not connect

2000-12-06 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Dec 6, 2000, "richard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your guide. Here is result for the RPM package in RH7.0. Which RPM packages did you install? AFAIK, it is amanda-client that will get you `amandad' and the corresponding xinetd file. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see

Re: restore to empty harddisk

2000-12-06 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Dec 6, 2000, "Olaf Seidel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. Install Amanda 5. amrestore Even though you *can* install Amanda for crash-recovery, if you wish, you don't *need* to do it, and that's one of the beauties of Amanda. Read docs/RESTORE for details on crash-recovery mechanisms. It

Re: Amanda and Macs

2000-12-06 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Dec 6, 2000, Christian Lox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a bit confused about the usage of Amanda together with Macs. It works with MacOS X (but people have reported it as *slooow* :-), or if you manage to get an NFS or SMB server running on old MacOSs and back them up remotely. May

Re: Amanda question

2000-12-06 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Dec 6, 2000, Sandra Panesso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could anybody tell me if amanda can backup a HFS+ hard drive? Can GNU tar tar it up? If it can, then Amanda can certainly use GNU tar to back it up. If there's some special dump program to back it up, it shouldn't be too hard to get

Re: estimates failing

2000-12-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:24:56AM -0700, George Kelbley wrote: Suddenly one (and only one) of my clients is failing, and only on the file systems that use tar. Amanda reports that /bin/tar returned 2. Since tar is working on this machine I am perplexed. Amanda never gets the estimate.

RE: Amanda 2.4.2 and HP-UX 11.00

2000-12-06 Thread Terry Rossi
On Dec 6, 2000, "Terry Rossi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did `make all' create common-src/libamanda.la? Yes it did. And how about common-src/.libs/libamanda.lai? Yes it did.

Re: Amanda 2.4.2 and HP-UX 11.00

2000-12-06 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Dec 6, 2000, "Terry Rossi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 6, 2000, "Terry Rossi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did `make all' create common-src/libamanda.la? Yes it did. And how about common-src/.libs/libamanda.lai? Yes it did. And then `make install' complained about its

Re: software compression disabled?

2000-12-06 Thread Josh Huston
amdump is using gzip to compress the index files if you had your dumptype with index on. It is not compressing the actual dump files. Josh Olaf Seidel wrote: Hi, now I run my first tests, Amanda backing up all the servers. I've used the two dumptypes "nocomp-user" and "nocomp-root" (I

Re: Hotbackup with

2000-12-06 Thread John R. Jackson
We're doing a hot backup of our CMS-Server and I sometimes get a 'file changed as we read it: No such file or directory' error. Is there a way to do a tar hotbackup anyway without shutting down the service accessing this file ? How about making a copy of the file(s) to a temp area (possibly

Re: restore to empty harddisk

2000-12-06 Thread John R. Jackson
sorry, if this is a little bit off-topic. ... As other have said, this is very much on-topic. I'd like to know a good strategy to restore from an amanda backup to an empty harddisk. ... The only thing I'd add to what you listed and others have expounded upon is that you need to know what

Oracle Backup Strategies

2000-12-06 Thread Tuthill, Ed
To those who have been waiting on my Oracle backup perl script, I just wanted to let you know I haven't forgotten about you. My supervisor insisted on bringing our legal department into the loop since the script was created on Sprint's dime. I'm pushing to get this declared freely distributable

RE: Oracle Backup Strategies

2000-12-06 Thread Martin Brown
I'm a client of sprint, can you send it to me? ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tuthill, Ed Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 11:13 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Oracle Backup Strategies To those who have been waiting on my

Re: selfcheck fails (incorrectly) on 2.4.1p1

2000-12-06 Thread John R. Jackson
... Why can't the selfcheck/amcheck run as setuid root as well? Can I switch it to setuid root? No, don't do that. It will completely defeat the tests. I'll see if I can get a patch together for you to try. Edwin John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2000-12-06 Thread Rolf Olsen
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Re: amanda cron job doesn't start?

2000-12-06 Thread Eric Wadsworth
Just a thought, you modified the contab using the command 'crontab -e' right? Otherwise it won't actually install the change. On 6 Dec 2000, Rainer Hofmann wrote: Hi, any explanations why that cron job for user amanda doesn't even start:

Re: software compression disabled?

2000-12-06 Thread Dietmar Goldbeck
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 07:59:51AM +0100, Olaf Seidel wrote: Hi, now I run my first tests, Amanda backing up all the servers. I've used the two dumptypes "nocomp-user" and "nocomp-root" (I changed nothing in these dumptypes) with no compression. When I watch the processes on the

Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: missing file header

2000-12-06 Thread Roshan Rogge
It's looking like that tape is bad. Does this happen on all your tapes or just this one? If it's all the tapes, I'd start worrying about the drive or controller. Can the error appear through a bad termination of the scsi bus??? Here's another sequence to try: $ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind $